[Meta] Esports content in the main League community
[Meta] Esports content in the main League community
A concern that would get brought up very often on the main LoL subreddit is the inclusion of Esports/pro-player content, with no simple way to filter it out for users that aren't interested in that side of LoL. The moderators never budged on this.
Ideally Esports/pro-player content would have its own community to live in, but a good middle-ground would be to require posts to be labelled with a relevant prefix, like [Esports], [Pro], [Art], [Discussion], as examples.
I think a decision on this should be made sooner rather than later!
Thank you
I don't think we have enough content yet to already be splitting up posts into different Lol esports communities. Maybe one day if this community gets way more popular. For now, I think flairing the posts is a good idea, though. I know it does bother some people.
Definitely agree that the community is far too small and content too limited at the moment to justify maintaining two separate communities.
I haven’t been an extremely active user of /r/leagueoflegends recently, but I always preferred one large community as opposed to a bunch of League “micro”-communities.
I made exactly this post a while back and the replies I got were interesting to say the least. But in essence people loved eSport content but didn't want to go to their own eSports subreddit because it wouldn't have any visibility.
Interesting, filterable flairs are probably the best solution then to give everyone what they want. I'm not sure if filters are available yet on fediverse sites (I'm new like almost everyone!) but it would be good to be prepared for them.
I personally would not like to see esports content removed, and as others have already said, splitting up such a small community won’t do much good
I'm not a fan of the esports posts, specifically game threads. I'd like to make a suggestion for the game threads, which tend to clog up the entire front-page (of the community).
Can we instead create a pinned post that contains all of the game threads for the the day? Or maybe a 3 day window game posts. Yesterday, today, tomorrow?
At the very least, yes, we need to create tags to allow users to filter out esports posts. I actually think just [Esports] is too vague. There needs to be two levels, [EsportsMatch] and [EsportsNews] because I think those are different classifications. My biggest issue is with game day threads that I care zero about clogging up this communities homepage.
I'll echo the sentiment of others here: we don't have enough posts/activity here yet to worry about this. Having said that, i do prefer having everything in one sub/community much like the league subreddit.
When there's a lot more traffic to this community (... it feels really weird not talking about subreddits), I think there's merit to tagging being the bare minimum here. But we are a long way from that, so I think whatever ends up drawing people here and starting conversations is a good thing.
The only reason to force the tagging is if it can be filtered out. Would be better to just send those posts to a lolesports community. I hated the way r/leagueoflegends handled this issue
A league of legends sub without esports content will be filled with bitching about champions and skins just like the redidt sub is during off season. It's garbage content that is a waste of everyone's time.
Communities like this always trend to the lowest common denominator, which is usually bitching, clips and memes. I'd definitely prefer it being broken up with frequent esports content than that.
I usually like to watch worlds but I must admit I wouldn't miss the esports posts. However, for the time being I agree that we should try to keep the community closer and not disperse further.
So I'll happily ignore the esports stuff for now :) I'd love that in the future it got split though.