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Threads being deleted without a reason given

4srvRY7uFW··3 votes·713 views

I've posted a thread in the bugs forum about the 5 AI players in a 3's game. It got deleted. So apparently, that's not a bug. So I posted it in general. And it got deleted. Apparently, it's not allowed? I don't see what rule I'm violating, and I'd like to know why neither time the mod deigned to give a reason as to why the thread was deleted.

When are you going to fix the bots problem? Or is this just your way of hiding it by deleting every reference to the problem?

I posted a link to the game in question so it could be investigated, along with compelling evidence (every fight was in bot lane as no one left it all game except me).

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Orbv2 votes

Can you post that information here?

4srvRY7uFW1 votes

I could, but the thread would probably be deleted again, so I didn't. I still have the screenshot and the link to the game summary.

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

Even if they are a scripted bot, Name & Shame is explicitly against forum rules. If you read them you'd know. Also why would you put that in a bug report? Clearly not a bug.

4srvRY7uFW1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Valkyrie Witch,realm=NA,application-id=bzRrPGQO,discussion-id=jJuqAtH8,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2015-01-12T21:13:29.066+0000)

Even if they are a scripted bot, Name & Shame is explicitly against forum rules. If you read them you'd know. Also why would you put that in a bug report? Clearly not a bug.

A) I read the part about "severe" or "baseless" and didn't realize that they had a second section covering exactly the same ground after a stretch on unrelated material. My bad. B) However, if that were the sole reason, the post could have been edited to remove the offending link without destroying it entirely and deleting the pick that simply showed the bottom lane being the only place anything happened (since I was the only player that ever left it). C) It's general practice on boards and other moderated forums to provide a note to a user telling them why an action was taken. I speak from experience as a CM lead at two different companies, having handled both boards moderation and live chat moderation. D) It's a bug if the system allows scripts to play and does nothing to prevent it. At the very least it's a design flaw. It was also deleted from "General", so that isn't the sole reason E) THIS thread was about the thread being deleted without reason given specifically, not about the issue it covered. Specifically, to repeat: Mods should not why an action is being taken and deleting a thread is not the only way to fix the problem. Removing the offending material is the usual trick.

Lumus Avatar1 votes

kudos on your use of the word deign.

Riot is constantly working on ways to reduce the appearance of bots. The latest and greatest strike against them was removing all the bonuses users who benefited from referring bots received and changing the system so that referring multiple bots would no longer provide a large benefit.

4srvRY7uFW1 votes

While browsing the boards, I finally noticed a ! icon with a 2 next to it. So apparently, when you get notifications, they're hidden away somewhere. They should also be posted in the deleted thread so they're easy to find.

What's worse is the response says to report the players to "Player Support", but there's no indication of how to do that. I've looked through the Support link and there's no link for "report player behavior", so that's kind of misleading to direct me to a nonexistent option. I already know that using tribunal reporting (which I did) is useless since it's just automated and IP farmers don't care about chat restriction anyways.

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