Rioter Titles in Boards

Daen·Jul 21, 2014·15 votes·2,147 views

Hi,

So as we know, when Rioters post on the Boards they don't have their unique GD icon nor is their position in the company immediately displayed (yes I know, there's mouseover text for it). In the Red Tracker, where you can see Rioter posts on both GD and the Boards, this is the difference between a post made on GD (top) and a post made on the Boards (bottom).

Is it possible for this to be how Rioters are displayed when they post on the Boards as well? It looks much cleaner and is completely unique. IronStylus actually looks like...IronStylus when he posts on General Discussion, but he looks rather un-birdlike when he posts on the Boards!

TL:DR - Rioters lose a lot of their identity when posting on the Boards that they have on the current (non-beta) forums.

10 Comments

Ikura GunkanJul 21, 20143 votes

I agree to some extent, though these boards' features with the nice Red Tracker in the left sidebar and the clear in-context design (http://puu.sh/aluk1/f053357bc3.png) help me have less issues tracking down their posts. But yes, it was so cute being able to see the unique portraits that each Rioter picked for themselves!

DaenJul 22, 20141 votes

The screenshots I linked are from the Red Tracker. Adding identity wouldn't change the Red Tracker in the sidebar and the clear in-context design.

Ikura GunkanJul 22, 20142 votes

Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with you at all - I'd love to have the individual Rioter icons back! I was just trying to communicate that even without it, the new features have enough to tide me over that I'd be okay without the unique icons ;)

RiotIronStylusJul 22, 20143 votes

Hm. Neat.

TheVoiceofExileJul 22, 20142 votes

Yes I like this

PendragonJul 22, 20142 votes

We're going to have some internal conversations about this soon and we should be able to have a stronger opinion in a few weeks one way or another. It's not technically difficult to do some of this it's a bigger question and there are strong arguments for and against special visual treatment for Rioters

DaenJul 22, 20143 votes

Out of curiosity, what are some of the arguments against Rioters retaining their visual individuality?

For me personally, I find it's much more interesting to see the personal icon a Rioter has chosen for himself/herself and his or her job focus when interacting on the forums. It screams personality, and I just wonder what the argument is against that. Is one of the concerns that it might make Rioters seem like they are better than the average player in some way?

PendragonJul 23, 20141 votes

Yes - it's mostly that we want to be careful not to elevate ourselves to a status that could be viewed as "above" players which special access, features, etc can tend to do.

DaenJul 23, 20143 votes

The changes I'm proposing (just carried over from GD) are essentially a way for Rioters to be visually distinct from each other rather than from the general player-base. Rioters are already very visually distinct from the players as a group, what with the bright red borders, unique icon (the Riot fist), and titles in the mouseover.

On the Boards it feels as though all of the Rioters are the same; obviously the names are different, but on the current forums (a la GD) people have become accustomed to knowing who a Rioter is and how he or she thinks purely based on the image he or she has chosen to represent him or her self. It seems like a bit of a lost opportunity to lose that in the transition from the current forums to the Boards.

TahaldenJul 22, 20142 votes

To add my two and a half cents:

Having a clear indication next to the Rioter about what role he or she plays at Riot in relation to League does help for clarity. Too often Rioters who visit a thread get asked questions about League aspects they are not involved with. That was the case on GD (where the Rioter's role is indicated), and will get even worse when their role is not clearly visible in the Boards. The mouse-over is nice, but not directly visible.

As a player/forum poster I generally like knowing what department a given Rioter is part of, in case I think of specific questions that may be close to what the Rioter works on.