"Reds Don't Post" --> We need a Better Red Tracker

Hyrum Graff·1/1/2015, 7:28:51 PM·7 votes·1,136 views

One thing I've noticed is that people often complain about Reds not commenting on things that Reds have actually commented on. The issue is that Reds don't -- and can't, and shouldn't -- post in every Lee Sin thread, for example. They should post in one Lee thread, and not have to copy-paste the same response into every single other Lee post; that's just a waste of their time, and I'd rather see them spend that same time responding to a Zed or Fizz thread.

I'm NOT saying that Rioters are doing this right now (they're not, they only responded to one Lee thread), but there WERE still Lee threads popping up after that response.

One area that this would be particularly nice in is Boards Feedback.

I've inhabited this board for a LONG time. Back in the day (before the old forums were closed), everybody who posted, had been a community member for a long time. So, we all knew what had been discussed and what hadn't. This meant that there was only a new thread every couple days, but each new thread was discussing something really new, that we hadn't thought of before. And we had Riot replies in probably 1/2 to 2/3 of our posts.

Nowadays, we're lucky to see Rioter replies in 1/10 posts. But what isn't obvious, is that 9/10 of the topics have already been discussed. That's part of the reason there are fewer Riot posts -- there's not much new feedback. But newcomers don't know this. How could they? We can't reasonably expect them to go back and read posts that are months old.

If we had a Red Tracker that was better-organized and more easily search-able, people could find responses that have already been given to posts they want to write.


Edit: just wanted to add that I know Red tracker improvements are on the radar. Reds: think of this as a 'Please consider this in the scope of your improvements' -type post.

5 Comments

Zielmann1/1/2015, 7:47:08 PM1 votes

This is a problem on any high-traffic forum. And it definitely existed on the old forums, too. People are too lazy to search around to see if their question has been answered. It's faster and easier to just post the same thing over again and hope it gets a reply this time. To get to what would be truly ideal, it would require a large turnaround in behaviors of everybody in the community. I think it would also help if people would actually change the sorting they look at now and again. Many threads with Riot participation grow to be popular threads, and will last on the Hot list for a while.

That's not to say a few new or changed features on the boards wouldn't possibly work to help that along. Letting people search Red posts only could help. Perhaps having a filter available for any of the sub-boards to show only threads containing a Red post in that section would be nice. It would make it pretty easy to, say, look through the last month of Red posts in Gameplay and Balance to see if there has been any somewhat recent discussion on the issue you were wanting to bring up.

Get Rekkkt1/3/2015, 5:43:27 AM1 votes

so your telling me, the state of "leesin", or w/e champ is, outmatched by look at my teemo drawing?

please tell me more on how riot should work