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!

  • Melonpoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

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

  • Purrens@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    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.worldEnglish
    12·
    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.

  • theyseemeroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    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

  • 😌😌😌stressvana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    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.

  • blunderworld@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

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

  • Brudder Aaron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    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.

    • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      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.orgEnglish
    6·
    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.

  • SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    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).

  • Voytrekk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    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.worldEnglish
      0·
      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.worldEnglish
        1·
        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

  • swan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    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.

    • Tortheldri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      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.

    • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      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 .

  • Brawler Yukon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    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).