Hi all!
From now on, memes are forbidden on c/Games.
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!
And thank you guys for asking us
This is good. I knew what both r/games (more serious) and r/gaming (mostly memes) had and liked the separation.
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.
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 !games@lemmy.world at least once, so there can be no confusion for other active and growing communities dedicated to the same topic.
Thanks.
Glad to hear. I think there’s obviously a place for memes, but I value discussion a lot more than image posts.
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 😅)
