Hey all!
Since Lemmy is a new platform with new communities. We as the c/Games community have to decide what we want to be.
The last days I saw several posts with (low) effort memes. Some seem to enjoy it, some report it because they want a more serious discussion on here.
Therefore, I would like to ask you for your opinion: What should happen to memes on this community?
Please take a moment to fill in the poll. It will close on Monday.
https://strawpoll.com/jVyG8VzOGn7
Also feel free to discuss it in the comments!
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No. R/gaming was a clownshow of the same low effort garbage posts. Have a day of the week or push it to another sub.
Look at this hidden gem! -posts picture of Witcher 3-
I’d rather this sub be more like r/games than r/gaming. News and discussion.
I voted no. I would prefer this community to be more like r/Games than r/gaming. I would rather the community be about game news, reviews, and discussions.
Allowing a single day of the week will lead to more work on the moderators than a general ban. It also makes the community less usable on those days. I also worry that it will destroy viewing the community by top posts.
I wanted to write a whole paragraph but you summed it up nicely. I’d also add that I’m afraid allowing memes, even on a single day, could be a slippery slope, and that I’d rather keep them on another community.
So with a little under 3 hours to go it looks like the community has done the right thing and picked no memes at all (by around 120 votes as it currently stands).
Now let’s see about blocking photo posts and other low-effort garbage, too, while we’re at it.
It’s pretty clear from the vote and the comments that we want this to be the equivalent of /r/games - text posts and links only. If someone needs to show off their hall effect stick mod or a photo of some dude flipping the bird, they can do it in a hardware-dedicated or circlejerk community where that kind of thing belongs (respectively).
The issue I have with memes is that you end up with the same low effort meme posts:
“does anyone remember this forgotten gem? (image of best selling game)”
“When your custom character is in a cutscene”
“You’re 12 again, school is over and you’re about to play (massively popular game)”
Etc
I feel like maybe there should just be a gaming memes community. For that sort of content.
no thank you, Reddit already became bloated to hell and back via memes being allowed on a lot of forums, let’s keep it sanitized and have another community for that.
I love me a good gaming meme, but I would rather this community to stay focused on discussion. There could be a separate community dedicated to gaming related memes so people could have another place to get their fix instead.
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