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!

    • Brawler Yukon
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      61 year ago

      I’m not even sold on the one day a week option. Maybe the mods can do a stickied megathread one day a week and all the memesters can just pile in there and have at it. If the community itself is just going to be flooded with memes one day a week, though, that essentially makes it unuseable that day and reduces the overall value of the entire community.

      Keep them out altogether or keep them severely constrained so those who don’t want anything to do with them can easily ignore them are the only two viable options.

      • @Carnelian@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        I like this the most. Plus, then we can search for the stickies threads to browse for memes when we’re in the mood, instead of having them all loose everywhere

    • @rookie@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I voted for that, but almost immediately regretted not going for the “none at all” option.

      The people that want a gaming meme community want that. They don’t want a 2000 word eurogamer deep dive or the Verge breaking down some publisher deal, they just want a meme page. The people that want a nice hub for gaming headlines of the day aren’t generally looking for that to be replaced 15% of the time with image macros of Geralt making a funny face in a cutscene.

      Splitting that into two communities (like /c/Games and c/gamingmemes or something) seems like the best way to allow for both spaces to exist for people who want that environment, when they want it, without the additional friction of them trying to coexist and appeal to different groups of people. I can understand why that compromise feels like a good way to make everyone happy (and it’s why I voted for it initially!) but I’m just not convinced that it’s a better solution than two distinct spaces with their own distinct approaches.