Even if they need MASSIVE rebalancing, write your criticisms in the comments section and help the OP improve. Theres no point in downvoting just to make people feel bad about their work, its pretty rude.
Edit: Unless ofc their champion concept is stupid with little or no work put into it/clearly a troll post.
This forum community as a whole needs some tweaking. Yeah this community has downvote fairies like any other community, but we also seem to have people throwing about upvotes unnecessarily to replies that already have plenty. In a thread forever ago when a Rioter asked in so many words, "Why do you as a forum-goer upvote or downvote posts?" The most upvoted response was more or less, "I upvote things that promote discussion, not necessarily whether or not I agree with it. I downvote things that don't promote discussion, not necessarily whether I disagree with it." Yeah... sure.
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On paper, that's a great view to have. In reality, the top discussion in any given thread is people dogpiling downvotes on someone (and all of their subsequent posts on that thread unless they include the word "sorry") and upvoting everyone that responds to the person saying otherwise. I don't want to have to click "show comment" on something that apparently sparked a ton of discussion on half the posts I visit. I don't want people upvoting replies like "You call him bronze but you're just silver 5", because that adds nothing to the discussion of the topic. If you want to downvote somebody that has both an incorrect view and genuinely deserves to be downvoted, then do that without upvoting the other replies so much and making that discussion chain the top one. If they genuinely aren't promoting discussion, stop moving their voice to the top of the thread.
Usually within 3 replies to the main discussion there will be an upvoted overused joke that, once again, adds nothing to the discussion. If it were in the Memes and Games section that'd be fine, but saying "How can Lee Sin be OP if he's always cc'd by a blind?" adds nothing to the discussion and should be downvoted (or at most stay at the default 1 point mark). There's usually a reply somewhere in popular threads that says "I agree", "^", "You're so right", or "*You're", none of those add to the discussion and do nothing productive unless you're a heavily influential figure in the League community adding your ethos to the discussion, and even then you should use your reputation to be a positive influence by explaining why you agree.
While feedback is nice, a person shouldn't post their ideas with the intention of having others comment on it. This board already gets a significant amount of fodder, (which is fine), but posting your own with high hopes of getting recognized by Riot/the community will almost always leave you disappointed.
I mean, just look at the quality of the champion concepts we get regularly. They're terrible, (but that's okay).
Champion Concepts will be spared a lot of downvotes when Riot makes a way for players to hide them from view. Let those who want to see them see them.
My only 2 champion concepts I made were downvoted RIP
lol I don't mind, I just feel that people don't even realize how much work goes into a champion concept
As someone who has posted several concepts with quality feedback being rare, I wish I could upvote this more.
In what is totally not a shameless promotion of my work only vaguely related to this thread, I'm gonna link to the concept I dub my Magnum Opus, or somewhere close to that. http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/0ENEjahe-champion-concept-titanon-the-eternal-bastion
Mine arent even read, so I have no issues with downvoting
One of my works just got downvoted and no one even said anything about it and I thought I worked hard on the character too
why doesn't riot just do away with downvotes in general i cant deal with others opinions
I'd put my own if I actually understood how to tune it. Plus they'd just scream it's a male Annie so...
I haven't gotten downvotes for my concepts for skins, they just sort of sit at no upvotes or comments and get forgotten ;__;
The Edit made me upvote your post, and was going to be my original comment to it xD
I sure do love seeing my own concepts getting downvoted despite the obvious non-zero effort I put into them.
Oh no wait that was sarcasm.
Maybe I should go make a bunch of accounts to spam upvotes on these downvoted concepts to get them the start they need.
THANK YOU!
Where's the link for the next contest? I got bored and decided to quickly write out lore for one of my concepts so it could qualify.
Yeah, I agree with the downvote part, it should stay neutral or upvoted if it's a legit work.
It's what make me feels sad when i see a downvote on my concepts that I tried to mesh something up to bring something new to the table for LoL.
Honestly I just don't notice that many of them- I used to leave feedback but I rarely see them on the boards anymore.
I think I've only seen once concept that I regarded as totally asinine, and that was the one with a Karthus ult that hit champions AND tower, for BOTH sides- enemy and ally.
http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/4F8Eyc9m-champion-conceptzelexthe-earth-bender 4 downvotes for no reason and everyone in the comments said it was fine,Why? IDK.
I don't know why this thread got 47 upvotes meanwhile all of new champion concept threads are get 0 upvotes. I have fixed some of them though. But guys, if you can upvote a thread like this, you can also upvote new threads that downvoted.
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