I only came to lihl last season basically, so I can only speak of the last few months. But my impression considering behaviour and manners is just awesome. People are friendly, wait for others, give advice, I rarely see flaming or raging in games. No comparison to any pub game. I can imagine it has been much worse so if someone quits because of this, maybe you should relax a little bit.
Then I think some people take things too seriously and feel personally offended from bagatelles. How often do I see people being angry about others because they reported their dc pen (ingame)... this is imo just plain stupid to blame someone for reporting this. And if you don't like it, don't play here, everybody knows there are dc pens and if you can't fix your internet get Gproxy and if you still drop out don't play if you have problems with getting DC pens.
This then goes on with taking ingame issues too serious as well. How much drama was there in the forum in the last months because in one game someone didn't heal or didn't see someone was afk or whatever? This happens, it sucks, but pls don't make huge drama out of it and go on. The next day you already forgot about it and it's rarely happening. It's not like someone does this on purpose and if so, also in a repeating way, there would be consequences.
Considering quality in lihl, well, I dunno how it was before, so I cannot really talk about it, but this came up multipled times now.
From what my impression is, there are two ways:
1. More quality --> less players --> less games and activity
2. Broader spectrum of players --> More games and activity
And I think lately lihl suffered from inactivity a bit (from what I heard) so maybe one had to open up a bit and let more players in. Lihl doesn't work with 20 elite players in it...
But, I think if you want to improve the quality, then the communication has to be increased! The mods don't observe all games so their feedback has to come from the players, otherwise they cannot get the full picture imo. I have never seen a single serious thread (Not a thread where an unvouched is asked because someone didn't heal for ONCE...) here from anyone saying that someone should be unvouched because he is not good enough. And now, people complain and it sounds like the whole league plays like shit except 5 players. How are the mods supposed to know? Certainly not from the 3 games you post in the application, which are probably good games anyhow... So, if you want to increase quality, I would make trial periods longer, and don't let a mod decide alone whether he/she gets fully vouched or no. Always ask for feedback and impressions (by PM is fine I think, so people are more honest) and then make a decision based on what the community thinks. This happens from time to time, but not always.
Summarized: Talk! if no one complains or says a word, nothing will change, like aRt)Y already said. Don't just ask for unvouch and leave and nobody knows why, this doesn't help anyone.
One thing I cannot understand for example, is the handling of obvious disrespectful behaviour. Sorry to bring this up here Tin, but since it just recently happened it came to my mind, but similar cases happened in the past as well. What you did with your going on mumble, turning bluetooth off although you know it very likely crashed your wc3, is just like shitting on everybody's head. Then you report your DC pen and think this case is done but imo you purely don't get the point. Because I'm pretty sure none of your ingame mates cares about the 3 elo they get now, but more about how you disrespect their time and this would totally piss me off if I was ingame and should result in a short ban imo. The fact that it doesn't, goes back to the Mods, which often don't blame such obvious disrespectful behaviour "because there is no rule for this"(?). (to the Mods: Don't feel offended, I think you do a great job here doing all this in your spare time etc pp, I highly appreciate that. Doesn't mean I cannot criticize something
)Okay, those were my pretty long 2cents... I hope all the recent unvouched players come back, because they surely are important for the league and I always liked playing with you
Jamo
edit: okay, Diably just made a post which pretty much sums up my feeling
