richard lewis often posts things in which he is not supportive of riot
therefore he is riot unapproved
and therefore his content is not allowed on the superior subreddit

that's really it - what else do you expect from a company that literally unapproved the use of the word dota from their forums and replaced it with ****

Shaella

United States14828 Posts

April 23 2015 05:22 GMT

#28775

Richard lewis is an esports journalist that writes about lol/csgo mostly

/r/LoL mods are heavily influenced by Riot, surprising absolutely nobody.

Now, ongoing thing, Richard likes to call people retards on leddit when they say stupid shit about his articles, not a huge deal, but whatever. Well eventually he gets a story from a former /r/LoL mod, proving that they sign NDA's with riot, that they've gotten gifts before, mods suddenly go bezerk, shit gets weird, Richard deletes his leddit account, and days later finds he is site banned from making an account (/r/lol mods state at this time he would be welcome to come back with a new account), shit goes on, and on, and on.

Twitter fighting happens, R.Lewis linking posts on the lol reddit, mods accusing him of brigading, MEANWHILE, all daily dot articles and R.Lewis videos are being auto detained because the mods have some vague fear of being 'doxxed'. Daily dot shit, anything relating to R.lewis, people working w/ richard lewis are all getting their shit removed from the subreddit for 'not being related to LoL', this is at the same time as there's articles about some pros twitter followers on top of the subreddit. Kek. Eventually today they have banned all r.Lewis content from their subreddit, twitter drama ensues.

eieio

United States14512 Posts

April 23 2015 05:29 GMT

#28776

On April 23 2015 14:12 Comeh wrote:
ok so like someone explain to me this richard lewis guy and the situation cause i imagine its funny

richard lewis is a hard-hitting ESPORTS journalist. He puts out some pretty good content but regularly gets (got) into petty and extremely rude arguments on reddit in response to criticism about his articles. He's also the guy that wrote the expose about how ESEX was actually a shady branch of TL

richard has an extremely contentious relationship with Riot, who he hates. He has a similarly contentious relationship with the moderators on /r/leagueoflegends (maybe because they are the same people hoho haha). /r/lol mods have repeatedly warned him for 'toxicity' on the league sub, ie his habit of insulting people who disagreed with him. A few weeks ago, he apparently made a comment about suicide to someone who had posted on reddit about suicidal thoughts (or something) which was the last straw and got him banned from the subreddit. Then he either deleted his account or was banned site-wide, I'm not sure.

After getting banned, Richard went on a crusade against the league of legends mods. He posted articles about how many of the mods sign an NDA in order to receive privileged information from Riot about events, server status, etc. The fact that he brought up some good points was lost in a swirl of his hyperbole and the fact that this was pretty clearly payback for being banned. Richard continued to release critical articles about the r/lol mods although I stopped paying attention because good GOD this shit is silly

Since then, Richard has repeatedly attacked the mods on twitter, often linking to specific reddit comments in disapproval. This, unsurprisingly, has led his followers (of which he has many) downvoting these linked comments. He has also continued to fuel the conflict with articles, videos, and angry tweets.

Yesterday, the mods responded to this by issuing a subreddit-wide ban on *all* of Richard's content, regardless of who posts it. Many of the top posts on the subreddit are now either ESEX articles making fun of the situation or serious articles writing about the situation (the articles contain unsurprisingly similar content). Richard has reacted with the anger one would expect from someone who has potentially screwed himself out of one of the primary drivers of traffic to his articles.