Talk:VPBE/@comment-1920550-20160410020819/@comment-1330314-20160417000124

I feel you, and I think the main problem comes from the Reddit-style voting system. Riot expected players to vote rationally, and thereby upvote quality posts while downvoting unproductive comments and threads, but the Boards, especially Gameplay, ended up turning into a giant echo chamber. On one hand, there's a huge amount of people who rehash hot-button issues or make two-sentence snide jokes to farm upvotes, and on the other people tend far too often to downvote posts they disagree with, which silences intelligent discussion instead of promoting it. We probably need a different voting system, and an added emphasis on flagging and removing low-quality posts, though that would require a lot more resources to be sunk into the Boards.