@Tamat/Boards Team: Plans for Upvote/Downvote Culture?
As it stands, the criteria most use for upvoting/downvoting is the opposite of what Riot has intended to happen from what I've seen/read. I support the idea that quality content to be upvoted, whereas negative content (derailing, toxic, meaningful, misinforming) should be downvoted. That's not generally what you see. People upvote what they agree with, and downvote things they disagree with regardless of the actual content value.
- People asking simple questions will get downvoted, while the answer is upvoted (You can visit the questions in the Pool Party Team Up thread in Announcements for plenty of examples of this particular case), and that's actually counter-productive. If you downvote legitimate questions that much, it becomes harder for players with the same concerns to see that it was asked and answered leading them to ask themselves.
- Players expressing the unpopular side of an argument will get downvoted by the opposing side regardless of how constructive their post/comment was or how much it added to the conversation. Rather than encouraging a "I see your point, here's mine so we can talk about it", the model as it stands is feeding a "I'm right and you're wrong, the upvotes/downvotes prove it" mentality where only the majority rises to the top and any other opinions sink to the bottom never to be considered again.
- New or lower level players seeking help or advice will often have their entire threads downvoted. This is when you see the "git gud skrub" mentality kicking in. Pretty self-explanatory.
Obviously, these trends are pretty unhealthy for the boards. So I'm wondering if there's any plans on dealing with this cultural aspect, or if Riot is okay with how the upvote/downvote system is functioning despite it steering so far from their initial intentions with it (Tamat in particular I remember speaking on this quite a bit before).
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