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 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.

I second this notion. Memes are fun on occasion, but not all the time.

I’d rather the community grow to be a place to hear about good gaming news and opinions, and not just crammed full of memes.

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