Hello!

I am the lead for the community team, and unfortunately the only active moderator for this community went a bit bonkers and removed a bunch of posts and changed the name and stuff. We are now trying to rebuild this community, and have appointed two new mods Stamets and JonsJava, who will together try to get this community back on track.

If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free to put them down in the comments here, and we’ll get back to you as soon as we read them.

Thank you for being here (:

  • TheBananaKingEnglish
    133·
    2 years ago

    That was certainly entertaining to watch :D

    I guess my ideal gaming community would be a good balance of Srs Gaming Industry News and silly memes/idle chatter, without veering too hard in either direction. /r/games and /r/gaming are neither of them much fun, precisely because of the split.

    I vote to keep the leftwing propaganda as a regular feature, so long as it’s gaming-themed. It’d irritate the crap out of that one guy, while also helping ward off the whole toxic-gamer-community thing a bit, and give this place its own unique vibe.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    That was fast lol. Thanks for taking quick action, I was about to shoot a message to the admins about it. That guy was acting out for no reason.

    While we’re at it, can we allow meme posts again? Feels like [email protected] already has its place as the ‘serious’ gaming discussion.

    Thanks!

    • ThekingoflordaOPEnglish
      81·
      2 years ago

      Oh absolutely, this whole mess started I believe because Stamets dared to disagree with the active mod about meme posts being allowed. So since he’s now the mod, let the memes flow!

    • Stametsdeleted by creatorEnglish
      71·
      6 months ago

      deleted by creator

    • ThekingoflordaOPEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      I would say this is the separate meme community, !games is the more serious version.

      • PrettyLightsEnglish
        62·
        2 years ago

        The description of this community mentions gaming discussion and news here, and doesn’t mention anything about memes or being “less serious”.

        Sounds like the community is being taken in a new direction than people signed up for.

        • ThekingoflordaOPEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          I quickly wrote down that description a few seconds after noticing the rogue mod, so it shouldn’t be used as guide.

          • PrettyLightsEnglish
            31·
            2 years ago

            Is there any form of changelog for sidebars or community info?

            How can I be sure rogue mods aren’t changing other community rules without notice?

            • ThekingoflordaOPEnglish
              5·
              2 years ago

              I don’t think that exists no, but if you see any malicious behavior, feel free to message me or any other admin.

    • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      Not a great idea to fracture a community that’s already small imo.

      • PrettyLightsEnglish
        51·
        2 years ago

        The alternative seems to be flooding out discussion and news with low effort meme reposts.

  • HaruEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Interesting, I wondered why I’ve had messages from automod about removing old posts of mine, and why I’ve seen some recent ones I’ve contributed to suddenly disappearing.

    Was this the new team or the previous mod who has done this?

    Anyway, good luck and have fun with running the community. Hope to see more from you folks.

    • ThekingoflordaOPEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      The previous mod, we’ve been trying to restore everything, sorry for the inconvenience!

      • HaruEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        No problem, it’s not your fault the previous mod did this. Thanks for the clarification and quick reply.

    • ThekingoflordaOPEnglish
      51·
      2 years ago

      The communities he moderates combined would still be a very small subreddit on reddit.

      And I can vouch for Stamets in the sense that I am 100% sure that he has no intentions of hogging communities.