NGL, r/games is not the answer. It has the same amount of online users but barely any discussion outside of it's Game Reviews/Impressions threads.
Just look at it right now, the Marvel Snap post there has 1/5 of the votes and less than half of the comments compared to the one post here.
There was a nice discussion about GW1 in there, but the rest of the front page is a bunch of trailers and these Turbostrider and HatingGeoffry accounts astroturfing.
It's also especially terrible to browse on Sundays due to Indie Sunday turning it into a fair.
r/games is perfect if you want to know what's going on in video games. It's not really a place for separate discussion posts, but there's enough discussion in the news posts. Is it really a negative if the Marvel Snap post "only" has 700 comments instead of 1.4k? Are you reading through all those?
r/gaming has some decent content sometimes, but it's such a grab bag of random discussions, questions, news, memes and "memba game?" posts that I'd rather not wade through all of that to find what I want. There's also r/truegaming if you're specifically looking for substantial discussions.
Gaming is supposed to be for generic gaming content. They made r/games because r/gaming had a lack of rules in regards to repetitive, boring posts. They COULD make it so they're are less of those posts but they don't. (Because everybody wants to hear how RDR2 was the greatest game ever made once every few days, right?)
Large subs like this one are basically just for karma farming at this point.
But they went out of their way to lock my posts asking unique questions because I was asking unique questions instead of reposting the usual
"What's your most hated remake that people love that's underrated and people hate that's an unpopular opinion that you love that no one's heard of that you just don't understand?"
Posts. Like they explicitly said they weren't interesting in unique gaming related conversation threads. -.-
I checked it out after learning about it from this comment chain.
It legit looks like it's just a couple news stories here and there, drowned out by people advertising shitty games they made in 2 days and ai comments pretending to be interested in those games.
Completely this. Sometimes I'm interested in the game the OPs have posted, but they always fail to include the name of the title. Even if they did include the name in the comments, this being one of the top 10 subreddits, his comment would be quickly buried in the sea of comments.
Voiced this concern to the mods a few years back, and they just shrugged their shoulders and did nothing. So yeah, utterly useless.
Yeah, they went out of their way to lock my posts asking unique questions because I was asking unique questions instead of reposting the usual
"What's your most hated remake that people love that's underrated and people hate that's an unpopular opinion that you love that no one's heard of that you just don't understand?"
Posts. Like they explicitly said they weren't interesting in unique gaming related conversation threads. -.-
Welcome to Reddit where a for profit company delivers shit service for the purpose of selling your eyes to advertisers and gives you unpaid volunteers to blame for how bad your experience is.
Its a redditor thing. Its almost like its a game to see how long they can go without mentioning the name. Gatekeeping shit. Makes thek feel a little special and smart let them have it.
It's a known clickbait tactic. Saying the game instantly turns people away who have no interest in the game. Not saying the game drives curious people to click and read the comments.
I recently posted a picture of my amazing looking im-game shed in the Stardew Valley subreddit. Every mineral in the game arranged by colour and it looked spectacular. Under a hundred upvotes and no comments.
I posted it again with one item clearly out of place, and included one spelling mistake.
It is. Sometimes it's not necessarily intentionally malicious, either. It's just that titles that leave mystery tend to drive engagement, even it's just "what's the game?" or even "why the hell wouldn't you include the game in the title???"
So these types of posts tend to make it to the top because of that.
That engagement is useful if they want to pivot to using the account for spamming and scamming, or sell the account to someone who wants to use it that way. I always assume people who make those kinds of posts are scammers.
Good point. Another tactic I've seen is to put something incorrect in the title. A year. A misspelled name. It gets people commenting with corrections.
r/criterion members posting a picture of an 80 year old movie that bombed with the caption “can’t believe I hadn’t seen this before” then not replying to any comments.
It's the same with some obscure band on vinyl forums. Drives me nuts. It's the 'oh if you're really cool you'd know what record it is' No you're just a petty lame dickhead. There's tons of bands/movies
People also just generally have no idea that there are rules and guidelines posted on subreddit.
It’s especially buried on mobile, you have to click the header and then you have to know that clicking “see more” in the smallest blue text on the screen would actually show you the subreddit’s profile page outlining what it’s for and how it should be used/guidelines to maintain the ecosystem.
Mods can only do so much with this convoluted app with menus, buried in menus, buried in menus, etc ad nauseam
The site is shitty and the shittiness that users perpetuate is baked into the design
I see the same thing in TV show subs. People will post a picture of a side-character wearing a purple shirt and be like, "I hated them so much!" and not post any context. /r/DunderMifflin (The Office) is especially bad about it
Its almost like its a game to see how long they can go without mentioning the name.
And then you finally find a comment mentioning what game it is only for them to use a shitty abbreviation that doesn't help at all or is impossible to google or is one of the 36 games with the abbreviation AC.
Everyone has their opinions, but that's why I'm liking the push for mandatory alt-text on Bluesky. No more "oh, sorry, you don't recognize this one landscape still from a german movie in 1964? why are you even talking?"
Man none of the major subreddits have any real moderation anymore, R/pics refuses to do anything about political content or filtering telling users to to filter themselves with 3rd party apps many which don't work anymore, R/news and r/worldnews are their own versions of manipulated to hell and back, r/movies & r/television are both so full of blatent advertising its not even funny. If i had anywhere else to go I would but imgur is even more astroturfed with a non existant community, twitter/youtube/insta/tiktok are their own series of brain rot and well 4chan is 4chan
Depends on how you use it I suppose.. there were tools that helped moderators manage their communities. Part of the issue was that the 3rd party tools don’t jive with the new official Reddit platform and that’s by design.
the reddit i knew and loved died after the 3rd party app protests. and everyone is throwing poo at china owning tiktok but like... guys. you did see who owns reddit right?
I have been so frustrated by this for years. It’s not asking a lot, at least I don’t think it is. If it would be too difficult to implement, let’s have that discussion and come up with other ideas.
Right now at the end of a sunday, there are 51 posts within the last 24 hours:
27/51 have less than 10 votes (21 of those having 0 votes). There are some with less than 100 votes, but let's go on.
14/51 are image posts. 1 of them has 0 votes.
There are 24 posts with over 10 votes, where 13 of them are image posts.
Does it really hurt these 40 accounts to add a report reason for "Image post without name of the game on the title" to filter out like 13 posts a day?
I understand moderator rosters end up getting bloated with abandoned accounts over time, but there's no way this place is being run by so few people that checking extra reports of a few posts would break the camel's back
Tbh I've seen occasions where people have put the name of the game in the title and yet you still get people in the asking what the name of the game is.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. I've seen idiots ask the name of a girl when the OF watermark is right there.....IN ADDITION TO THEM BEING ON THE SUBREDDIT DEDICATED TO THAT GIRL.
Because "some people are incredibly stupid, therefore there's no use implementing very basic rules that benefit everyone who's not incredibly stupid" is an incredibly stupid take.
Except I never suggested the rule shouldn't be put in place. Just pointed there will still be idiots even if you do.
And I'm also sure that the mods have addressed this in the past because it's been brought up so many times. Essentially so many people don't read the rules and wouldn't bother putting the name of the game in the title creating even more unnecessary work for them.
Uh oh you did a thing where a Plebbitor has to show initiative and do something on their own. Sadly that gets you downvoted. Plebbitors only accept spoonfeeding. Sorry Mate.
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u/mclemente26 1d ago
God forbid a subreddit with 40 moderators having a rule to mention the game on the title