More Sections?

Elphrihaim·10/2/2014, 5:21:00 AM·1 votes·610 views

So you make a new board.

You still have Skin and Champion concepts as one board. Why not separate them? It'd let the people who want to see skins see skins and who want to see concepts see concepts; it would reduce the competition (I don't know about you, but I've yet to see a concept garner anywhere near the amount of support a skin gets, so for anybody not viewing in chronological it's not going to be all well and good.

And what's the difference between a 'skin concept' and a 'community creation'? A 'champion concept' and a 'community creation'? A piece of art and a 'community creation'? How about a fanfiction and a 'community creation'? Those are all things that a member of the community thought up, so don't they all belong in the same section?

[Also why does the Boards keep logging me out? ._.]

4 Comments

Bornblue10/2/2014, 11:05:29 PM2 votes

I think we need some new sections as well. We need a section for recruiting teams & mentoring under-section. It would make it easier to find others who wanna play for fun or competitive. And provide a fast place to look for a mentor / student to help with the game itself.

Recruiting teams section: Have the rank as a image, so you know there rank before clicking. And a place where unranked players can find others to play with as well.

Mentor section: Have 2 options; mentor / student. Display the lane that type specialize in as an image before you click. Where you can volunteer to help newer players & teach them more about the game. Or find someone to teach you how to play the game the right way. So you have good habits early on from someone willing to help newbies.

Hyrum Graff10/2/2014, 5:25:19 AM1 votes

Paraphrased: Why not make more boards?

Two things:

Historically, Boards hasn't gotten that much traffic, and the boards team has been trying to avoid fracturing the community. They're creating boards as more people post in those areas. So, the best way to get boards created is to post the type of content that would belong in that board! Don't quote me on this, but I think a rioter said a couple weeks ago that the threshold for creating a new board was currently around 50 posts/day in a given area.
There's also a long-term vision that the team has for Boards, that I'm not entirely privy to, but I know it includes things like community-created boards. So eventually, the pre-set categories may not mean as much.

[Also why does the Boards keep logging me out? ._.]

Dunno about this one

ParinoidPanda10/2/2014, 6:15:02 AM1 votes

[Also why does the Boards keep logging me out? ._.]

You didn't click the check box when you logged in. Might be your browser settings too, but unlikely. Worth a check though (cookies).

Elphrihaim10/2/2014, 7:01:41 AM1 votes

The reason why the boards didn't get a lot of traffic was because people prefer the other ones. In forcing the switch, there are going to be a lot of people that either a) stop coming to the forums at all or b) come to the Boards (group b has subdivisions too, like those who will stay and those who shall not).

long-term vision

What does this even MEAN? While I understand that nobody knows, how does one have 'community-created boards' without them existing in the first place?

Because from what I can tell, plenty of people are getting their threads deleted for being posted in the wrong section because there's too much sectional overlap and thus they cannot tell. Which means that there's a demand for clear segregation... that isn't being given, because threads keep getting deleted because they're 'off-topic', which means that they don't stay around to be counted towards that "50 posts/day". But since those are TOPICS, then people don't have things to bounce off of, which further decreases the amount of posts being given towards a topic.

On an unrelated note I bloody hate formatting things on the boards. Why can't I just use standard [b][/b] tags like on literally everywhere else I've been? Why can't I create extra space between points without using real separation characters by just giving a few newlines?

It's so... annoying. ,_, And why have a character limit since you can't do string posts like you could on the other forums? I'm sure that a lot of people want to make much larger posts than they are able to... I guess I have to go make a post somewhere else. Wait, but they're not responding on the good forums. Siiigh. Yay, I get to be forced to do something that feels like spamming.

You didn't click the check box when you logged in. Might be your browser settings too, but unlikely. Worth a check though (cookies).

Oh, no. I did.

Even more than that, my browser is specifically set to keep me logged in.

In fact, whenever I open the other boards, and then come back to these ones, it relogs me into these ones automatically. >_>