I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed to keep this sub going?

    • NeatoEnglish
      14•7 months ago

      Yeah. Commenting is important. I look at my feed under Hot and I see a bunch of new posts over the last few hours and they all have 0 comments. Lemmy w/o comments is just a community-driven RSS feed. I comment first when I actually have something to add but it’s just as important as posting new links.

      • @[email protected]
        2•7 months ago

        A new post with a single comment gets more weight than an day old post with 10. So sort by new and comment so more people see it.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•7 months ago

      So, just looking at the top 15 items of what’s presently on /r/patientgamers:

      https://old.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/

      • A daily stickied post for small, general conversation where people don’t want to do a full submission.

      • People talking about their impressions on games that they’ve just finished or played: 10

      • Broader discussion items (“Did anyone else like Skyrim, but wasn’t able to get into Fallout 4?”, “The Borderlands Movie Should Have Adapted Telltale’s Tales from the Borderlands”, “Help Me Remember - Gaming’s Keepsakes”): 3

      • Talking about a series overall (“I’m glad Need for Speed games are still focussing on the story”): 1

      In my own Reddit experience, the stickied regular post has mostly been useful for when there’s too much traffic on a particular topic. /r/europe did megathreads to keep Ukraine war traffic from overwhelming the sub. However, there are some subs that do daily posts for small conversation items, maybe to lower the bar for people to comment. /r/cataclysmdda does this. @[email protected] commented in this thread and said that the bar to creating a new post was substantial for him:

      Maybe I‘m just jaded by Reddit‘s „ackshually“ culture that jumps on you if a post‘s not a well thought out thesis, but I feel pressured to deliver substantial quality when posting (not commenting) on boards and I‘m too tired from the day for that.

      …so maybe that’s applicable here.

      The lion’s share of the posts, though, is just people posting about some game that they played and their impressions. So maybe that?