Disappearing Comments

Nimmer··2 votes·601 views

Anyone else notice their critical (but not offensive, toxic, or profane) comments getting deleted over the past few months? I thought I was crazy at first but I realized that when I post positively about something and return to check on whatever it was I posted to see if it got attention/replies I never have a problem. It's always there. However, whenever I post critically (but NOT offensive, toxic, or profane) my post will disappear entirely. Not always, but often. For example, today when the preseason introduction post on the main League page had been up for about two hours I posted a comment with a negative/critical comment (although it was more of a warning or prediction). Something along the lines of comparing the changes coming up in the preseason to how WoW died (more aptly described, fell from the most popular game in the world spot) when Cata was launched and introduced too many changes to the game. It was critical and negative but I wasn't rude, profane, or really toxic at all in my post. I'm now 100% sure it's gone and this isn't the first time this has happened to me. Agree or disagree with my points; I don't care. I just want to know if anyone else is noticing anything like this. Anyone?

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Daen1 votes

I haven't noticed this, and like 95% of my posts are critical in some way. :P

Nimmer1 votes

I haven't noticed this, and like 95% of my posts are critical in some way. :P

Ugh. Maybe I really am just crazy.

Daen1 votes

Possibly! :)

By disappearing entirely, do you mean there is no record of your post at all? If moderator action were being taken it would be a deleted comment and you would have an inbox message. The most likely thing here is that either you're projecting or you're finding some coincidental things with posts not fully posting (e.g. internet issues).

It's also of course possible that you're running into bugs on the Boards, but let's be real; the Boards has no bugs at all. (k)

Nimmer2 votes

Possibly! :)

By disappearing entirely, do you mean there is no record of your post at all? If moderator action were being taken it would be a deleted comment and you would have an inbox message. The most likely thing here is that either you're projecting or you're finding some coincidental things with posts not fully posting (e.g. internet issues).

It's also of course possible that you're running into bugs on the Boards, but let's be real; the Boards has no bugs at all. (k)

Lol. They're soooo buggy. But this stretches even further back than the new boards. I'd wager that if someone was deleting my posts for reasons that aren't valid they would have the capability to remove them without notifying me though. And yeah, no record of my post. I want to think it's just internet problems (I spend most of my time posting here while I'm at university) but it's ONLY negative comments. I'm kinda testing the theory now while I'm home so we'll see. But it's just the strangest thing.

Daen1 votes

If there's no record and/or no notification, it's not moderation action. Maybe the Boards platform just hates you. :D

Hyrum Graff1 votes

You can look through here (get to it by clicking on your name, or on your summoner icon) to see if you can find old comments (maybe they haven't actually disappeared, they're just hard to find).

If they actually are gone, and it was happening on the old forums, too, I'd guess it's an internet access problem.

Hyrum Graff1 votes

Your comment comparing how WoW "died" to LoL is here.

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