Memes on c/Games - yes or no? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by quinten@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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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!

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[-] thattysonguy@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

I'd rather this sub be more like r/games than r/gaming. News and discussion.

[-] Melonpoly@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dq9@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Plus once you open up that door, it's hard to close it.

[-] Purr@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It's better to have a separate ~~subreddit~~ community for memes. Allowing memes will results in this being the only content here.

[-] MrModule@lemmy.world 12 points 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.

[-] SmarfDurden@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Look at this hidden gem! -posts picture of Witcher 3-

[-] miraclerandy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

OMG, this game is so buggy, when are they going to fix it?! GIF of Skyrim being Skyrim

[-] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Hot take: GTA IV on PC is a badly optimized port

[-] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

DAE think Cyberpunk is the worst thing ever?!?!?!

[-] BiggestBulb@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Why is this game always so blue?

Anyway, Battlefield 3 is pretty good so far

[-] theyseemeroland@lemmy.world 12 points 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

[-] Alice@lemmy.world 11 points 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.

[-] Thunder_Caulk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

c/game_memes_shitpost

Ought to do it.

[-] Alice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

aye, sounds good to me (b˙◁˙ )b

[-] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] BrudderAaron@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Old Reddit user turned Lemmy here. Memes are fun and all, but they also get out of hand very quickly and we're stuck with a sub with low-effort memes instead of actual discussion/news. Once a month meme day could work though.

[-] ricdeh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. A space for serious discussion and analysis of games and gaming on Lemmy could have so much potential, and allowing low-effort memes here would undermine that.

[-] GitProphet@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

No, I'd rather have a separate community for game memes (which I myself might also join) and keep things clean here.

[-] MadTitan86@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

As a convert from reddit, definitely no memes

[-] SGG@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My first opinion on my not even 2 day old account would be no.

But I'd be OK with a MemeDay as well if the "no meme"s result isn't over 50% in the poll. It can bring a nice bit of variety (even if that same content is available elsewhere).

[-] swancheez@lemmy.world 5 points 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.

[-] Rakonat@lemmy.world 1 points 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 .

[-] HollowNotion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, 100%. I want that one-stop shop for game news and discussion. I don’t need meme reposts here.

[-] Tortheldri@lemmy.world 1 points 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.

[-] Voytrekk@lemmy.world 5 points 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 0 points 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 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TheMagicalTimonini@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Either no memes (rather a separate community for that) or something like memes only allowed on one specific day of the week.

[-] brawleryukon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So with a little under 3 hours to go it looks like the community has done the right thing and picked no memes at all (by around 120 votes as it currently stands).

Now let's see about blocking photo posts and other low-effort garbage, too, while we're at it.

It's pretty clear from the vote and the comments that we want this to be the equivalent of /r/games - text posts and links only. If someone needs to show off their hall effect stick mod or a photo of some dude flipping the bird, they can do it in a hardware-dedicated or circlejerk community where that kind of thing belongs (respectively).

[-] BlackDeath3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Memes are kind of everywhere, and seem to take over everything else around them. They're like an invasive species, really. They're the invasive content of the Internet world.

I say we go meme-less!

[-] bighi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. The problem is that if memes are allowed, any community becomes 90% memes or more.

[-] arakash@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The pathofexipe sub has a "lazy Sunday" where memes are allowed. I kind of like that solution

[-] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I voted for this as a compromise, but would be happiest if it were just like r/Games

[-] ascagnel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I liked what /r/hockey did: there was a different forum for memes, and then the “winner” (top-voted meme at midnight Monday UTC) would get its own thread in the main forum.

[-] DelvianSeek@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I like the choice for a single day of the week - seems a good happy medium.

[-] hardypart@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I actually loved how it was split between /r/gaming as a place for memes and (really, like really really) low effort posts and /r/games for actual news and discussions around games. I would not combine both.

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No. Go to C/gamingmemes or something.

[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I absolutely despised the low effort shit in rgaming.

But please please please, if you’re going to accept low effort crap, make people post the title of the game in the post.

[-] rookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

oh man, I'm glad I'm not the only one that's always been annoyed by that on reddit.

So many times, you'd just get a post like "man you know this guys a real one" with a picture of some pixelated lifeguard, 30 comments of people like "yeah thats my boy 🙌🙌🙌", and then one poor guy at the bottom sitting at -30 just trying to find out what's going on.

[-] trifictional@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

To encourage growth, I say yes.

Once we have a ton of users that can keep a discussion going drop the memes and let this become like the Reddit games sub.

[-] GlitchSir@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

What would a gaming community be without memes

[-] brawleryukon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Worth being a part of?

Memes are low-effort garbage. If you want gaming memes, go start up c/GameMemes or something. Leave the main community to discuss the topic instead of clogging it up with this stuff.

Using reddit as the example, /r/games was waaaay better than /r/gaming, because you could actually have a halfway decent conversation about games rather than having to scroll past endless page after page of the stupidest useless crap.