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Is listing everything by most upvotes really the best solution?

1 Wing·9/17/2014, 2:04:15 PM·5 votes·1,320 views

I'm concerned that this new forum's. . form, of having the most well liked posts and comments be the most seen, may ultimately stifle communication. Especially new conversation. Take this Azir thing: I can see that Azir is unavailable because of a bug. However, if I want to find out if there is an update to that. . it's very difficult, because only a few comments which were posted early on and then upvoted, will be easy to find. Would new information be in an entirely new post? I don't even know where to look to find information about the game anymore.

Additionally, I feel that If, say, three people say no to a post, then the likely hood of more people looking at it declines. It's already somewhat rare for people to see posts that are anything less than very popular. I don't know what a better answer is, but I feel it's a bad choice to allow potential topics to go undiscussed because the topic is not generally very popular.

12 Comments

Kowlin9/18/2014, 12:08:04 PM3 votes

I feel like Riot should not chase the Reddit style of forums. (I lost the official term) I'm fine with upvotting topics since that can be adjusted by changing the filters. But I don't like comment upvoting, from what I seen. This isn't an environment Reddit runs under. People will downvote good points based upon personal opinion, And I feel that this will become a problem later down the line when an unpopular opinion will get downvoted to the ground.

SerBlaise9/17/2014, 2:18:39 PM2 votes

organize the posts by most recent. that's how i found yours.

1 Wing9/17/2014, 3:40:10 PM1 votes

yah, sure, but you have to do that all the time, so only certain people are likely to see any message I write.

Daen9/17/2014, 3:53:56 PM1 votes

To an extent I agree, but I also understand why it exists the way it does.

A quick question: How would you organize threads/comments so that the most important things organically bubble to the top without incentivizing bumping or utilizing upvotes?

What I'm getting at here is that this is essentially the holy grail of long-form communication. No one has really figured it out yet, because every system so far has significant downsides. I personally prefer the voting system to bumping, but it does still have its issues.

Lumus Avatar9/17/2014, 2:43:04 PM1 votes

I organize mine by most recent, so I see all posts, even if they're at -5.

FadedCamo9/19/2014, 2:39:00 PM1 votes

I really never liked the reddit style of "most popularity wins". Just seems like a dumb system for reading new information. Most recent posts up top seems better to me.

RiotCaptain Gameplay9/20/2014, 1:46:17 AM1 votes

A mixture of Views/Minute and Votes/Minute, as well as some key-word algorithm that finds posts that mention phrases such as "game-breaking", on a per-category/sub-board basis would probably work out.

To further that design, also take into account the age of the post, so super young posts would be give a slight edge vs older posts that have same views/minute + votes/minute etc.

Budupops9/22/2014, 2:00:37 AM1 votes

Riot should not downgrade the forums