This was really hard to read as someone who reads almost every post on this subreddit. We've all been led by this mob mentality that Link was a huge reason that CLG failed to reach their full potential every split for the past year or so. Although it wasn't a a huge part in the reason why Link decided to step down, I hope at least some of you take this opportunity to see that we as redditors, fans, critics, and esports followers never know the full story. As much as we'd like to think we are knowledgeable on how the scene works and how good players are, we will never know the full story. As Link said, this is a team game and blaming one person for the downfall of an entire team is never the right answer. Of course, this probably will be hidden beneath all the other comments and reddit will always be reddit. But hopefully next time we judge someone for their performance, it will be taken with a grain of salt.

EDIT: Some of you are saying that there is irony since this is purely Link's point of view and that this could potentially be extremely biased. Many other pros have tweeted their support so we can assume that at least some, if not most of it is true, and admittedly, there are points in his writing where it seems slightly biased. But that's not my point. My point is that we as spectators often abuse the fact that LCS/League of Legends pro-scene is quite responsive to the fans and community. We often have AMA's from the pros, in-depth interviews from Travis, expository articles from various e-sports news websites. It gives us a false idea that we know everything about teams: how they play/prep/plan the game, who are the shot callers for the team, and even to an extent, how the back-end works with how effective analysts/coaches are. However, with this "expose" by Link, it reveals that most of what the community believed and witch-hunted about may not have been valid.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, everyone should take what is posted and what is speculated with a grain of salt. But please remember that what is great about this community is the fact that we ARE able to see the inner-workings of how the league works, the ability to interact with pros with AMA's, know that they read what we say and maybe even reply to us through comments or tweets. If we keep promoting this type of attitude of rude, ignorant comments, we will devolve into a community where the open lines of communication between us and the professional players/coaches/analysts/writers is frowned upon and less likely to occur.

EDIT #2: I am not an e-sports writer, nor do I claim to be someone with a lot of knowledge on how the scene works, but I have followed this the professional league since its culmination when we would have awfully positioned player cams and when "Silver Scrapes" was probably still a few beats in a computer program. But seeing how tunnel visioned we can get on one action a player does, or what an organization decided to do without knowing both sides to a story is really frustrating because the community I love is growing to a hateful and spiteful group of gamers who think they can say anything they want because they read a couple articles, know how to rotato potato in midgame, and are behind a computer screen where there are no repercussions to their words.