A few days ago, we asked you what you like: memes or no memes. From this, the vast majority voted for a ban on posting memes. The most common argument was to guard the quality of the posts. This will therefore be enforced from now on. Are memes being posted? Please report them to the mods.

The memes currently posted on the community will remain.

From today, we are also introducing an additional rule: It is forbidden to hold give-aways. We as a mod team cannot verify if the give-away is real or if it is a scam. To ensure everyone's safety, we have decided not to allow these posts either. If there is a need for this, we recommend creating a separate community for this.

We would like to thank everyone for the many votes and well-founded arguments in the discussion topic.

Cheers!

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[–] Zwabber 43 points 1 year ago

And thank you guys for asking us

[–] Birchoff 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is good. I knew what both r/games (more serious) and r/gaming (mostly memes) had and liked the separation.

[–] Tevoul 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This actually wasn't always the case. /r/games split off from /r/gaming when a few mods (including myself) got tired of discussion getting choked out my memes.

There was a mix of people being pissed, excited, and not caring, but I think it ended up for the best. Was a shit ton of work while we were modding both at the same time, but eventually all of us that created /r/games stepped away from /r/gaming and left that sub to its own devices.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

games was so indescribably superior to gaming, it was incredible. Gaming was a flanderized parody of a circlejerk, with the stuff that as posted there. I saw a lot of great discussions on games, and patientgamers.

[–] Birchoff 2 points 1 year ago

All respect to the change you guys made

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a bit of an off-topic nit pick, but for the sake of user clarity, especially as lemmy is still growing, I would like to ask you to refrain from referring to this community solely as c/games. This is because there are communities on other instances named games, and I've already seen a lot of recent refugees from reddit be confused about the nomenclature involved.

I understand lemmy.world is one of if not the largest instance, and I don't expect people to be this precise in their casual conversation. But it would go a long way for clarity if official communications explicitly used the fediverse format of [email protected] at least once, so there can be no confusion for other active and growing communities dedicated to the same topic.

Thanks.

[–] quinten 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good point!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for hearing me out!

[–] DestinyGrey 14 points 1 year ago

Glad to hear. I think there's obviously a place for memes, but I value discussion a lot more than image posts.

[–] rookie 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I voted for no memes, and I'm really glad we got that, but one thing I want to mention is that it'd be good to have a /c/gamingmemes or something to redirect people to, rather than just a closed "no memes here". There's definitely an appetite for that content, and it seems gentler if there's another community they can be directed to.

(I thought about creating it myself but I've never really liked gaming meme pages, so I don't think I'd be good at hosting one 😅)

[–] NotAGuyInAHat 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. The games sub was awesome at the old place but gaming one was a cesspit with occasional gems. We'll need that cesspit back in some regard. Casual and stupid content. "EA bad" etc

[–] brawleryukon 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 on the poll post 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).

[–] quinten 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pictures are allowed as long as it starts a useful discussion. This is because a picture can be helpful in supporting the question or statement.

And beyond that. For moderators on Lemmy, there's pretty little that can be done. We can delete comments and posts, ban someone and lock a post to the community page. That is all there is to it.

[–] brawleryukon 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pictures are allowed as long as it starts a useful discussion

Are we pretending that this sort of garbage is going to start a useful discussion? It's 100% circlejerk material.

[–] trifictional 7 points 1 year ago

I think that would qualify as a meme though ;).

[–] quinten 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As stated in the post. Memes posted before the new rules will remain.

[–] quinten 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Edit: Lemmy bugs today... double reply.

[–] SweetTooth 4 points 1 year ago

Much appreciated

[–] trifictional 4 points 1 year ago

I personally voted to allow memes for the sake of growing this place quickly but I’m happy with the result. The number of votes shows that we probably already have enough active users to create meaningful discussions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does anyone know another community that may focus on giveaways?

[–] quinten 3 points 1 year ago

There is one, but not much activity over there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good stuff, I enjoy a good meme every once n a while but if lemmyshitpost is anything to go by, can completely overwhelm a feed with stupid stuff.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

So where do we go for gaming related memes?