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In the Statikk AMA, legitimate questions are being silenced by downvotes

mi ramfan·7/20/2014, 12:30:07 PM·3 votes·192 views

All these posts have something in common.

They talk about different champions, but in the end they're all putting forth legitimate questions in the AMA. All of them have been buried deep in the AMA by single, random downvotes, making them much less likely to be answered then other questions.

I'm sure that someone is going to come here and say "You don't have a right to have your question answered, votes are meant to show the community's interest in having a question answered, some of those questions have already been posted, etc.". How is any community member supposed to know they're interested in having another poster's question answered if one guy drives through, says "I hate playing against Viktor, he doesn't need buffs", and then buries the question with a single downvote? Do we expect everyone who posts in every one of these AMAs to read every single previous post in the AMA to make sure that they're not repeating the question?

Riot, in the future, please disable downvoting in your official AMAs. If you won't protect minority opinions in your own AMAs, how can we trust you to do it on the entire forum?

4 Comments

Hyrum Graff7/20/2014, 3:53:06 PM3 votes

Imo, AMAs are just a case that makes it obvious that downtrend are oppressive; if you want to foster discussion on the boards, people should have to explain why they disagree in a comment that can be upvoted separately if it is popular opinion.

Tl dr foreboding are just a way of telling someone they're wrong, but not why, and they don't really have a place on a constrictive forum.

Rhlax7/20/2014, 7:07:54 PM1 votes

The first sentence is very important, it has to be interesting and to the point. This is a common trait of all top voted comments.

People lose interest if a comment is a) too long b) doesn't get to the point quickly enough (look at your examples).

TheDjinni7/24/2014, 10:45:13 AM1 votes

The reddit style system does more than simply fail because of lone downvote burying. The two types of views are actually wholly incompatible because they affect how your posts are viewed, not just how you view posts.

See, right now I'm in chronological view because I want an actual forum, not a reddit clone. Because of this, it looks like I'm posting after all the others who posted before me, and in context it looks like I'm continuing the discussion. But, once I've posted, if I switch back to "lack of discussion" view, I'll find my posts in the middle somewhere and above everyone else with 1 vote who posted before me. So if I want people who only read in lack of discussion view to make sense of my post, I need to first write my reply to the TC in chronological view, then find some post to connect it to, click "quote", delete the quoted text, and paste my reply. What are the odds that everyone in chronological view is going to do that?

What if I want to multi-quote a conversation? Can't do that, gotta post individual replies to each and every post and fill up the board with pointless two-line posts where half my reply is going to be missed by the guy since its fragmented and scattered all over the place and half of it is hidden thanks to one-vote burying.