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!

  • MrModule@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Brawler Yukon@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Carnelian@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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

    • Baaron87@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I agree with this. I’m not opposed to memes here, but it’s probably best in limited quantities. Would keep good discussion threads from getting buried

    • rookie@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I voted for that, but almost immediately regretted not going for the “none at all” option.

      The people that want a gaming meme community want that. They don’t want a 2000 word eurogamer deep dive or the Verge breaking down some publisher deal, they just want a meme page. The people that want a nice hub for gaming headlines of the day aren’t generally looking for that to be replaced 15% of the time with image macros of Geralt making a funny face in a cutscene.

      Splitting that into two communities (like /c/Games and c/gamingmemes or something) seems like the best way to allow for both spaces to exist for people who want that environment, when they want it, without the additional friction of them trying to coexist and appeal to different groups of people. I can understand why that compromise feels like a good way to make everyone happy (and it’s why I voted for it initially!) but I’m just not convinced that it’s a better solution than two distinct spaces with their own distinct approaches.

  • Voytrekk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Hydroel@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • rookie@lemmy.world
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        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

  • Melonpoly@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No memes, allowing memes usually ends up in it being the only thing posted instead of discussions.

  • 😌😌😌@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Purrens@lemmy.world
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    It’s better to have a separate subreddit community for memes. Allowing memes will results in this being the only content here.

  • VIV_ID@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • theyseemeroland@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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

  • blunderworld@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    No memes here, please. I actually enjoy them but we can have a separate option elsewhere on lemmy for that.

  • swan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Tortheldri@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • Rakonat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Pretty much this, I want a concentrated source of gaming news and relevant media, at worst having one day a week set aside for jokes or less relevant content. But even that begs why not just make another sub like gamingmemes. Keep each c/ focused and on topic, people can join/make subs that fall outside the scope .

  • GitProphet@lemmy.sdf.org
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    No, I’d rather have a separate community for game memes (which I myself might also join) and keep things clean here.

  • DarkWasp@lemmy.world
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    No, don’t want to see it turn into the equivalent of the Gaming sub on Reddit which is full of low effort, low quality content. I’d much rather it be like r/Games.

  • yads@lemmy.world
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    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.