More Diversity, Less Generalize
Good day Riot and any community member who passes by.
I have a urgent plea for the league of legends forum, because many forum users are getting heavy penalty with the voting-system, because there is too much diversity in one sub-forum here: Fan Creations.
Since the start of League of Legends, the old forum had a Fan Fiction place, a Fan Art place and a Champion & Item Concept place. Now that those are together, people who like more Fan Art, are generally pushing down the work of others with no respect of the work done.
What I mean:
You love art and artists, so you go to Fan Creations.
You see a thread about art and you think its beautiful, so you vote up and share a comment.
Now you see a thread about a Champion Concept, but its so long, its boring for you (Because you're not part of the target audience) and you just downvote it, so there is more place for the favorite fan arts of yours.
The people in Fan Creations take no responsibility. Take a look at the Fan Creation = http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/fancreations
OVER 34 THREADS which everyone (almost everyone) is a topic FOR Fan Creations and many of them are made with a lot of work (time spent, thinking, ecetera).
My Suggestion:
Please divorce Fan Arts, Fan Fiction and Champion & Item Concept in each seperate sub-forum.
I'm a passionate League of Legends player and I'm creating since last year march Custom Champions (Over 40+) but currently this is a very disgusting place right now. After some of my Champions (which had a expensive load of work behind) were downvoted, I lost my desire to create again. Whenever I try to push myself, I'm getting back at the Fan Creations sub-forum and see that nothing changed and my mood drops down.
I know you might argument with "There isn't much of people who could use each sub-forum enough to be worth seperated". My answer: What do you think why people continously post 10-20 Champion Concepts each day in the old forum? Exactly because of this Fan Creations. Every guy who creates Champion Concepts says that the new Fan Creations sucks and "their" community is worse than the one in the old forum.
Thanks for reading. I hope everything's clear.
