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.

  • Purrens@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • Brawler Yukon@lemmy.world
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    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).

  • 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.

  • 😌😌😌stressvana@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.

  • 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.

  • GitProphet@lemmy.sdf.org
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    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.

  • Brudder Aaron@lemmy.world
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    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.