Edit: the results are in!
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-
OMG, this game is so buggy, when are they going to fix it?! GIF of Skyrim being Skyrim
I’d rather this sub be more like r/games than r/gaming. News and discussion.
No memes, allowing memes usually ends up in it being the only thing posted instead of discussions.
Plus once you open up that door, it’s hard to close it.
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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.
c/game_memes_shitpost
Ought to do it.
aye, sounds good to me (b˙◁˙ )b
It’s better to have a separate
subredditcommunity for memes. Allowing memes will results in this being the only content here.I like the choice for a single day of the week - seems a good happy medium.
I’m not even sold on the one day a week option. Maybe the mods can do a stickied megathread one day a week and all the memesters can just pile in there and have at it. If the community itself is just going to be flooded with memes one day a week, though, that essentially makes it unusable that day and reduces the overall value of the entire community.
Keep them out altogether or keep them severely constrained so those who don’t want anything to do with them can easily ignore them are the only two viable options.
I like this the most. Plus, then we can search for the stickies threads to browse for memes when we’re in the mood, instead of having them all loose everywhere
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.
I’m afraid allowing memes, even on a single day, could be a slippery slope,
yeah, I think trying to make everyone happy with forced coexistence (instead of just having two distinct areas) might actually be likely to only create more friction
Absolutely not. Games on Reddit was a serious news and discussion forum. That’s what I’d like to see here. Meme communities can name themselves just that, but this is c/Games, not c/Gaming or c/GameMemes
Old Reddit user turned Lemmy here. Memes are fun and all, but they also get out of hand very quickly and we’re stuck with a sub with low-effort memes instead of actual discussion/news. Once a month meme day could work though.
Exactly. A space for serious discussion and analysis of games and gaming on Lemmy could have so much potential, and allowing low-effort memes here would undermine 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.
Absolutely no memes please. Right now, r/games is easily the subreddit that I miss the most, and it’s because it was entirely news and discussion focused. I sincerely hope I can turn to this community for most of my gaming news, and don’t want to see an influx of memes.
100% agreed. There was r/gaming for the memes side of things and that place was usually a pretty terrible community (partially because it was a main subreddit). I’d rather have a discussion focused place here.
No memes here, please. I actually enjoy them but we can have a separate option elsewhere on lemmy for that.
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.
The pathofexipe sub has a “lazy Sunday” where memes are allowed. I kind of like that solution
I voted for this as a compromise, but would be happiest if it were just like r/Games
I liked what /r/hockey did: there was a different forum for memes, and then the “winner” (top-voted meme at midnight Monday UTC) would get its own thread in the main forum.
As a convert from reddit, definitely no memes
