Seems to me like half of the people use default sorting, the other half use something else, and since nobody seems to know where the quote button is, every thread more than a couple of pages long is FULL TO THE BRIM with out of context posts and the conversation quickly becomes nonsensical.
It's what happens when you combine the shitty reddit format and the forums format, you get some retarded mish mash of shit that gets all the downsides of both and none of the benefits.
Oh cool, you can follow a discussion, but it's not chronological, so you won't know what's really going on.
Oh cool, you can follow it chronologically but there's a lot of posts that are replying to people without quoting them.
And no, downvoting isn't the real solution, riot needs to put the context in to these posts with like an auto generated quote you can open up to see what they're responding to in chronological view. Maybe then these boards wouldn't be absolute garbage.
If it has no context, downvote it. That way, it won't clog up other people's view (or your own).
Preferred the forums compared to these boards. Awful boards tsk tsk!
Right below DISCUSS there's a "Switch to Discussion View" button. I think most people are using that, as it gives both a Quote and Reply option.
What we really need is instead of "Sort comments by: Best / New" some option for chronology, where the oldest original reply is how things are sorted.
Seems to me like half of the people use default sorting, the other half use something else,
Technically, this shouldn't be a problem. How the user chooses to sort their content really shouldn't affect discussion in a negative way; if it does, it seems like there's a design concern.
since nobody seems to know where the quote button is
As with above, I have to wonder if this is a design thing or just a communication issue in general. I do see people replying to thin air a lot, and I doubt everyone that makes that mistake is incapable of basic logic.
every thread more than a couple of pages long is FULL TO THE BRIM with out of context posts and the conversation quickly becomes nonsensical.
This gets really bad in huge threads while in Discussion View. My personal (biased, admittedly) opinion is that view options would help a lot, since you could set comments so they are automatically all minimized or intelligently hidden based on what is considered to be important by the community. I made a thread on this a week or two ago, if you're interested.
