[2023] Why is is diamond considered low elo to so many players?

Originally posted by Boyahda

And he fined himself ten grand for account sharing and elo boosting and then gave it all to a charity that he was on the board of. Which, of course, turned out to be some kind of weird ass cult.

Riot Games is a whimsical place.

Originally posted by Jozoz

Whatever the punishment is, Tryndamere's account should have gotten it.

Then if he wanted, he could choose to donate to charity as well on the side to show good faith and it would be very commendable.

Originally posted by Jozoz

I perma-banned my own account and paid voluntarily paid the “fine” on top for letting some friends play on my account - to a charity that does great work in the inner city. That’s why I don’t even use my original League account.

I was not aware. Then I retract my statement.

The whole “omg you’re on the board” thing is like… so? I volunteer time and give money to a charity and yet people position that like somehow it’s self-dealing.

I agree with this. I never thought that was the problem at all.

Btw, cheeky question since I know you also appreciate the video game designs of the 00s, any chance that Riot is considering a game mode or something for League that is more in the sense of old school MOBA game design? :)

Originally posted by Liclown

I'm hesitant to get involved in this conversation, but whatever.
Did you permaban "Tryndamere"? cause I just op.gg'd it and it was played on two months ago, unless someone else got that name in S6.
I think it's great that you apologized, and I think it's great you paid a fine; I hope it wasn't just a tax write-off, but again it's whatever.
All this stuff has already been discussed at great length years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/533ak3/competitive_ruling_marc_tryndamere_merrill_s2_elo/

My problem with this whole debacle is just as stories evolve, grow (and in this case get stinkier and more negative) so has the boosting/account sharing scene. It used to be, from my limited understanding, stuff done in the wild west days of League by pros eking out a living helping out poor Riot Founders who just needed that rank and didn't want to git gud or eh... arbitrarily set their own ELO (which is a whole 'nother issue). Now there are innumerable businesses operating in broad daylight, flaunting their services (https://youtu.be/7\_LbtCzckA0u/donghuap).
And my question is this: How many individual data points (accounts that don't accurately reflect the user's skill) does it take before the whole system is inaccurate? 1 account? Probably not. 1000? Hopefully not. 10+ years of increasing businesses flooding the ladder?
I heard somewhere that League was intended to be a sport, I played baseball, football, basketball, etc growing up and I don't remember pro players showing up to flex on kids. I don't remember seeing people buy their way to playing in pro level matches either. So what gives?