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12 Jun

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Originally posted by bz6

For me in the past couple of years there has been huge inconsistencies with League content within Riot. Like the team "starts" a content series and just never continues.

Things like:

1) the VGU BTS pieces of content done for Mord, Irelia, and Panth. those were insanely cool and gave us a lot of insight.

2) champion teasers/announcements . this is pretty much self-explanatory, but there has to be a standard when it comes to announcing or teasing new champs. I understand every project gets its own resources, but shit the difference between Senna cinematic and Nilah's is kinda cringe.

4) Life of patch. This was so dope.

5) most recently you guys started with "Devs Spill The Beans" and just... stopped?

I am sure there are plenty more examples, but yeah, that's some feedback. /u/Cashmiir

I can speak to 1, 4, and 5 since those are things I specifically work on/around:

  1. The BTSes are things of opportunity. The main thing for us is: Is there a good story that we can tell on video? We had the challenge during the pandemic where we couldn't film people on campus since COVID was a problem. :D That said, we are currently working on a dev diary for League that we finished filming last week!
  2. (this is 4 but the formatting changes it to 2). Life of a patch is something we're not sure if we'd want to bring back 1:1 because it would just be the same content. That said, we've been talking about other areas where we could do this outside of balance/patch.
  3. (again, this is 5 lmao) We are still doing Beans! But as I said, our team works on every game. We've done Beans for Wild Rift and are doing them for other games as well! We also do the Dev Updates, which have taken a lot of our bandwidth. Like the dev diary BTS videos, these also require opportunit...
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Hey OP,

I'm the Senior Community Manager of League. This is essentially one of my jobs. To make sure we're finding ways to communicate to you all, in both new and tried and true methods. Truthfully we actually communicate to you all a lot, like A LOT. I've worked at a handful of other studios and projects at this point and I've never seen so many things constantly going on like this before. It's great and I love it. We have a lot of people that care about staying in touch with you.

One thing you're absolutely right on is more of the "higher profile things" especially on Reddit. As you may have noticed lately we've shifted a bit more into blogs and the dev update video series, which so far seem to be going great, but they do lack some of that 1 to 1 feel you get in places like Reddit. We actually do plan out time to be on here after those release, but we aren't doing things specifically for Reddit at the moment. So maybe that's why it "feels" like its been miss...

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Originally posted by MuggyTheMugMan

Hey, hope you're having a nice day. I have a question too, riot made a dev blog recently talking about the improvements the new behavioural systems brought, with no mention of false positives. Is this being measured? If so, how would it even be measurable?

The primary way we measure false positives is via overturn rates from our friends at Player Support.

When players get bans they don't think they deserve they can make a ticket asking Player Support to take a look. If the rate of overturns starts spiking, we know we made a change that's causing more false positives.

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Originally posted by AggressiveTitle9

Can you talk at all about how toxicity detection works (technically), while (I assume) maintaining an extremely low false positive rate? I work in a very slightly related space and keeping the FP rate as low as possible while still being useful has definitely been tricky in the past.

Anything particularly cool that you're enjoying working on right now?

Huge fan of the notification you guys send when someone in a recent game was punished for toxicity

Can you talk at all about how toxicity detection works (technically), while (I assume) maintaining an extremely low false positive rate?

Specifics of how our systems work is one of those touchy issues where I can never divulge too much. But one thing we do to build confidence is 'dark launching' new features, where we run it against past and current league data to check and make sure it's working as intended.

Anything particularly cool that you're enjoying working on right now?

Seeing everyones positive reactions to the upcoming ranked restrictions has me hyped to be working on it.

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Originally posted by Freezman13

Hi ^_^

Hello!

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Originally posted by PureImbalance

Hi :)

Hi :)

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Originally posted by ReganDryke

Wait there is people from the Behavioral System on the sub?

O.O

I've been hoping you guys would do an AMA one day because of all the weird belief that float around the different systems.

We haven't got a public speaking figure for Behavioral since Lyte left years ago.

We haven't got a public speaking figure for Behavioral since Lyte left years ago.

Maybe not on reddit, but I was a fan of TimTamMonster even before I joined the team.

I've been hoping you guys would do an AMA one day because of all the weird belief that float around the different systems.

Most of the team doesn't use reddit very much, I'll be watching this thread for the rest of the day though.

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Originally posted by Tirriss

So if I write a fanficton with Singed and Heimerdinger you would read it?

I write my own fanfiction so I'd be taking notes

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Originally posted by ADistantFallenStar

I can't tell you the number of times I've been typing up a comment and seen someone post exactly what I'm trying to say.

I mean endorsing a comment goes a long way. Any random reddit comment has to be taken with a large grain of salt. Riot might entirely agree with any one comment, but until they acknowledge that agreement it's the just take of some rando on the internet.

You know what, great point. I'll start doing this.

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Originally posted by GalleGutsito

I work as a video game journalist and Nexus has been one of the coolest sources of stories I've ever had - it's only been a few days since I posted the Rammus thing! Admittedly, for that part, my opinion is pretty biased.
However, I do feel a little sorry for this part of Riot Games' growth. Even before it was part of my job, it was one of the things I enjoyed most as a player. I think that in this somewhat more serious part of communication, surely necessary after the start of the year, that somewhat more fun and lighthearted approach is lost.
Still, I have only good words for how you are doing things right now. It can't be easy to be in that situation and this is just the cry of someone who misses that perhaps more curious but less important part of Riot Games contents.

We still do some stuff that lived on Nexus like Champion Insights and ORIGINS! We're just spread a little more thin and we don't have a website that ONLY hosts that kind of content anymore.

Appreciate to hear all of the feedback though! <3

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Originally posted by HuntedFork

We're still around :)

I'm kinda new to posting around here, but Riots engagement with the community was one of the reasons I wanted to join up; so now that I'm here I'll try and do my part to keep the tradition going.

Here are some of the reasons I don't comment more often:

  • Like Brightmoon said, you guys often beat me to it. I can't tell you the number of times I've been typing up a comment and seen someone post exactly what I'm trying to say.
  • Reddit's really only good for reaching a small but highly engaged portion of the English speaking world. If something's important to say, then it's better to put it in patch notes or a dev blog so everyone can read it.
  • It's intimidating! I'm happy most of my comments have been positively received so far, but it's definitely scary every time I hit the 'comment' button.

And since this is as good a place as any to make my official introduction:

Hi everyone!
I'm Riot Hu...

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This. :D

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Originally posted by PhreakRiot

OMG is that legendary Viper main Altombre in my subreddit?

Who are you

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Originally posted by GalleGutsito

HuntedFork

You are right about reddit, you will only reach high engaged engish speakers in a direct way. But "direct" is the word here.

There are plenty of game journalist or content creators interested in telling to the people what you say here. Its a bit sad that we are losing contents like the old Riot Nexus ones that explained why rammus only know six words or how jinx born from a Katie De Sousa's draw. I dont mind if it's in reddit, lol page or whatever but i think that Riot should bring back that kind of contents that, even if not giving a lot of "direct" return, helped a lot for us the folks around the world that spread the League word.

PS: Not native english, hope it can be understood.

Damn a mention of Nexus. That's a throwback.

I am one of the people on the team who used to publish primarily on Nexus. We still do this type of content, but our team is still small and we work on every game at Riot. So we try to find a balance. You also see a lot of our work without realizing it (we work on the Dev Update videos with Brightmoon and Meddler alongside the dev blogs that come out on League).

I'd love to do more standalone content and things like Ask Riot and deeper dive articles. But the content hasn't been performing as well since Nexus died, and video tends to do better so we've been focusing more there.

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Originally posted by Makozak

If a Rioter make a shitpost, will it be considered canon in the Lore ?

Coming from a professional sh*tposter, no lol. As much as I love Shaco x Fiora, it is not canon.

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Originally posted by GreaterBelugaWhale

why hello there

THIS MAN MADE CHEM TERRAIN (both of them) GET HIM!!!!!

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Originally posted by GalaxySmash

Aside from AMAs, I feel like we do comment here and there. Its purely voluntary to engage on social media so you'll probably only see a select few people (especially the ones that engage often), but they are definitely there. One thing I will say is that we read EVERYTHING here, even if we don't comment on it.

OMG is that legendary Viper main Altombre in my subreddit?

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I mostly just comment in the LOR subreddit since that’s the game of ours I play most often. But if me bringing my memes and sh*tposts here would spark joy, I suppose I can make a point of responding “OK” to anything involving Rammus.

Originally posted by Ok-Connection-2442

Hello Mr riot, which team do you work in?

So we can properly assault you with a barrage of aggressive criticism 🫡

everything league game design except ranked queues/player behavior/skins

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Originally posted by Tirriss

So if I write a fanficton with Singed and Heimerdinger you would read it?

I did say everything...

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Originally posted by aglimmerof

Oh hey you’re on the Behavior team! Can I ask a question?

Do streamers get special treatment? Recently SoloRenektonOnly has been a real swell human being in his games :)

Streamers don't get special treatment. Most of our bans are automated and the rest come from ticket reports. Neither system cares how many followers someone has.

The only exception are the creators in the League Partner Program. But that special treatment is more like extra scrutiny and isn't a hall pass or anything like that.