It has been a while since last community update, as the old moderation team mostly vanished, and I was for a while the only moderator still active. A lot happened since then, and it is time to get the community back running at optimal pace.
New moderators
First, I’d like to welcome two new (temporary) moderator, that will help me moderating while we reform the community and examine permanent moderator applications.
u/JonsJava : You may already know him as the moderator of [email protected], a video game focused community
If you wish to help moderate this community, feel free to PM me in order to candidate to be a moderator for this community.
Sidebar rewrite
I took some time to rewrite the sidebar to better reflect the community evolution.
I added two new section:
“Authorized Regular Threads”, which are allowed to be post on a regular basis as long as they respect the rules
“Related communities”, which contains links to other games related communities. Feel free to PM me to add more of them
I also added links to a git repo to each rule, which point to the current ruleset. Currently all of them points to the same root anchor, but in the near future, every rule will point to their specific section. This will allow to give a lot more detail, as well as examples, without polluting the sidebar.
Community contribution
As a community, I’d like to encourage users to participate in the community. We are not meant to be monolithic, like Reddit was, and we’d like to offer the community the way to better itself, according to its own rules, not some corporate greedy interest.
As such, I’d like to offer you all way to make it your own, with a more democratic approach to moderation. In the following weeks, I’ll post multiple topics about it, from which we will collectively amend our rules to better fit its collectively defined purpose.
This will be done in multiple steps :
First, we will open a discutions on current rules, in which we will be able to discuss about them, suggest improvements, and maybe create new rules
The rules will be then internally rewritten in order to respect the community wish while still following LW rules
The new rules will be individually put to vote. If the total is positive, the rule is adopted, if not, the rule will be bought back in a new discussions/amendment topic, until it reach consensus
Best regards,
u/Dremor
Edit 1 : I continued my work on the sidebar, feel free to give me your feedback on it.
If we’re adding gaming communities to the sidebar, my list here of gaming genre-specific communities could be helpful.
Can testify to activity of [email protected] and [email protected] as their mod, to [email protected] as someone with an account there (even if you do not see it from this side, federation issues…), and to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] someone subbed to them. The others might also have activity, including ones I listed as inactive at the time of that post. I sometimes post to the others on the list I am not subbed to if I come across a game in their genre, but I don’t remember off the top of my head.
They write a great deal, show how the game feels, express how they’ve enjoyed the games and if they’d recommend them. I consider these posts one of the more valuable we have here in this community. It’s not just a link and a one-liner, they’re writing and sharing their experiences and creativity. Formatted and so well made.
Its insane to me that you’d think this is shit. What would you prefer be posted here?
The screenshots frustrated me too, because I’ve seen that done before where it’s a daily screenshot and nothing else, feels low-effort and annoying and somehow spammy even if it’s still on topic. Although my approach was to just scroll on, especially since it was just another spam post and not outrage-inducing. If it got truly bothersome I could always click the user and block.
Then I actually clicked one and saw the thoughts. They belong here. Wish there was a simple way for the poster to communicate to people like me, who got tired of seeing low-effort “screenshot a day” stuff and will make assumptions, that their posts are more than those and have actual words and effort with them.
@[email protected] needs to change the title to “Daily thoughts: game X, game Y, game Z.” Continually saying “screenshot” each time is misleading and does legitimately sound spammy and annoying. A simple title change would be so much better.
I have actually thought about this! I’ve changed the name a couple times before. Usually I have people asking about it the name change though. I’m considering doing it after I reach a year, I might do it sooner though after seeing someone else now after seeing someone else say the same thing.
I realize hitting all the game-related communities might expand the sidebar too much. Spoilers are also useful for condensing lots of content to one dropdown. If that is still too much, you could make a whole post that lists video game communities and link to it on the sidebar. I know I collected a big mega list way back when, not the genre one I linked below, but one full of basically everything I could find video-game related… that is probably full of dead communities now because I think I made this list around 2 years ago when Kbin was still a thing with my now-dead account. So everything might fit on one separate post for now. But I definitely think having a sort of directory for video game communities might be useful and helpful.
Nice to see so much care and effort being put in here, Dremor!
I love the thought, and it makes me feel super happy to see this place getting some more focus. Having well and truly burned my bridges (and enjoyed watching the napalm) on my ‘regular’ social media, having this place as my focus on long-form posts just makes me happy. Makes me even more so to see making this place even better is your plan!
I’m happy to raise my hand to moderate, if you still need extra help. I’d guess not since Lemmy’s workload on a modqueue is a small one. But do feel free to reach out to me via DM if you’d like suggestions/recommendations! Having moderated on Reddit (from giant 10m+ subs to the tiny community-focused ones) I’ve got plenty of ideas to encourage more community involvement?!
Considering how much time and effort you put on your posts, I’m sure you’d make a good moderator. I’d sure need help in the future, as both moderator are temporary (unless they chose otherwhise), and as such I’d use all the help I can to moderate.
At least for me, they shove me over to lemmy.world. I suspect you may have clicked the autofill suggestion, which includes the instance in the link and thus forces all users who click onto your instance. If you don’t do that and just write !communityname@instancename, it will let people click the link and go to the community on their instance, so they can interact instead of just browsing. I see you’re from Emmy.world.
[email protected] should let you see from lemmy.world and interact and comment and vote and the like. [email protected] (I clicked the autofill this time, it produced [[email protected]](https://lemmy.zip/c/videogamesuggestions)) will just toss you onto my instance, lemmy.zip.
I’ve seen that there are posts of game trailers polluting the posts feed on this community. Can some action be taken on that or have them moved to their own community?
Are you high? I’m posting trailers to trailers that just launched, there have been massive shows the past few days, and I’m very active in the comments. How are you in the games community and don’t know this?
There are multiple event right now, showing a lot of new games. So it was kinda expected. I’m considering new rules about that, should be part of the new rules proposed in the community overhaul.
In the meantime, I’ll ask him to consolidate such event in a single megathread.
Edit: after a quick discussion with simple, he/she/they will consider a megathread for the next big event. The current posts will stay up.
have to dominate the community in order to validate their existence
It’s fine to not like their posts and how it’s a good fraction of what is posted here, goodness knows I could do with less Game Company Does Bad Thing news, but that is an awfully nasty assumption of someone whose posts do generate discussion. Speaking as someone who does not click on most of their posts anymore.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.
Rules
1. Submissions have to be related to games
Video games, tabletop, or otherwise. Posts not related to games will be deleted.
This community is focused on games, of all kinds. Any news item or discussion should be related to gaming in some way.
2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil
No bigotry, hardline stance. Try not to get too heated when entering into a discussion or debate.
We are here to talk and discuss about one of our passions, not fight or be exposed to hate. Posts or responses that are hateful will be deleted to keep the atmosphere good. If repeatedly violated, not only will the comment be deleted but a ban will be handed out as well. We judge each case individually.
3. No excessive self-promotion
Try to keep it to 10% self-promotion / 90% other stuff in your post history.
This is to prevent people from posting for the sole purpose of promoting their own website or social media account.
4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts
This community is mostly for discussion and news. Remember to search for the thing you’re submitting before posting to see if it’s already been posted.
We want to keep the quality of posts high. Therefore, memes, funny videos, low-effort posts and reposts are not allowed. We prohibit giveaways because we cannot be sure that the person holding the giveaway will actually do what they promise.
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Make sure to mark your stuff or it may be removed.
No one wants to be spoiled. Therefore, always mark spoilers. Similarly mark NSFW, in case anyone is browsing in a public space or at work.
6. No linking to piracy
Don’t share it here, there are other places to find it. Discussion of piracy is fine.
We don’t want us moderators or the admins of lemmy.world to get in trouble for linking to piracy. Therefore, any link to piracy will be removed. Discussion of it is of course allowed.
Thank you for doing this. I’m sure it’s taken a decent amount of time, but it seems like you’re headed in the right direction.
Cool stuff! Curious about how voting on new rules is going to work out.
I would like to request the following communities to be added to the sidebar:
Disclaimer: I mod/curate two of these communities and contribute a lot to citybuilders.
That being said, I contribute to [email protected] as well. :)
Will add them after my nap. Allergies hit me like a truck today 😅
Edit : tomorrow, probably. Damn those allergies 😅
If we’re adding gaming communities to the sidebar, my list here of gaming genre-specific communities could be helpful.
Can testify to activity of [email protected] and [email protected] as their mod, to [email protected] as someone with an account there (even if you do not see it from this side, federation issues…), and to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] someone subbed to them. The others might also have activity, including ones I listed as inactive at the time of that post. I sometimes post to the others on the list I am not subbed to if I come across a game in their genre, but I don’t remember off the top of my head.
Please, no more “I’m posting screenshots every day because I need attention”
Take your fking screenshots and go to hell already.
Yeah, great, what a super constructive and positive outlook to have. If you mean these kinds of posts where the they share screenshots and the thoughts they’ve had on how the game plays, each day then I’m not sure how you consider that low effort.
I’m guessing you haven’t even clicked on them?
They write a great deal, show how the game feels, express how they’ve enjoyed the games and if they’d recommend them. I consider these posts one of the more valuable we have here in this community. It’s not just a link and a one-liner, they’re writing and sharing their experiences and creativity. Formatted and so well made.
Its insane to me that you’d think this is shit. What would you prefer be posted here?
The screenshots frustrated me too, because I’ve seen that done before where it’s a daily screenshot and nothing else, feels low-effort and annoying and somehow spammy even if it’s still on topic. Although my approach was to just scroll on, especially since it was just another spam post and not outrage-inducing. If it got truly bothersome I could always click the user and block.
Then I actually clicked one and saw the thoughts. They belong here. Wish there was a simple way for the poster to communicate to people like me, who got tired of seeing low-effort “screenshot a day” stuff and will make assumptions, that their posts are more than those and have actual words and effort with them.
@[email protected] needs to change the title to “Daily thoughts: game X, game Y, game Z.” Continually saying “screenshot” each time is misleading and does legitimately sound spammy and annoying. A simple title change would be so much better.
I have actually thought about this! I’ve changed the name a couple times before. Usually I have people asking about it the name change though. I’m considering doing it after I reach a year, I might do it sooner though after seeing someone else now after seeing someone else say the same thing.
I like them…
You know you just have to block one user to stop seeing them. 😅
I like the daily screen posts even though I don’t play console at all.
It adds a positive vibe to the community.
Add links to [email protected] and [email protected] too.
If we’re doing individual games, there are so many but off the top of my head [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and I guess [email protected] even though that is mostly just reposts of other peoples’ art of the characters and nothing else because in the end, it is a video game series.
I realize hitting all the game-related communities might expand the sidebar too much. Spoilers are also useful for condensing lots of content to one dropdown. If that is still too much, you could make a whole post that lists video game communities and link to it on the sidebar. I know I collected a big mega list way back when, not the genre one I linked below, but one full of basically everything I could find video-game related… that is probably full of dead communities now because I think I made this list around 2 years ago when Kbin was still a thing with my now-dead account. So everything might fit on one separate post for now. But I definitely think having a sort of directory for video game communities might be useful and helpful.
What about links for the top few, pastebin/similar list for the rest?
I think I will put like
105everything, then link to a dedicated page on the git repo (I’ll try to make it a wiki so everyone can add its own)Edit : Reduced to 5 to keep it concise as a start. I’ll put the others in a dedicated topicEdit 2 : Fuck it, let’s put everything
Thanks! also, [email protected]
Nice to see so much care and effort being put in here, Dremor!
I love the thought, and it makes me feel super happy to see this place getting some more focus. Having well and truly burned my bridges (and enjoyed watching the napalm) on my ‘regular’ social media, having this place as my focus on long-form posts just makes me happy. Makes me even more so to see making this place even better is your plan!
I’m happy to raise my hand to moderate, if you still need extra help. I’d guess not since Lemmy’s workload on a modqueue is a small one. But do feel free to reach out to me via DM if you’d like suggestions/recommendations! Having moderated on Reddit (from giant 10m+ subs to the tiny community-focused ones) I’ve got plenty of ideas to encourage more community involvement?!
Considering how much time and effort you put on your posts, I’m sure you’d make a good moderator. I’d sure need help in the future, as both moderator are temporary (unless they chose otherwhise), and as such I’d use all the help I can to moderate.
I’ll DM you to discuss about the details.
Thanks for adding community links!
At least for me, they shove me over to lemmy.world. I suspect you may have clicked the autofill suggestion, which includes the instance in the link and thus forces all users who click onto your instance. If you don’t do that and just write
!communityname@instancename, it will let people click the link and go to the community on their instance, so they can interact instead of just browsing. I see you’re from Emmy.world.[email protected] should let you see from lemmy.world and interact and comment and vote and the like. [email protected] (I clicked the autofill this time, it produced
[[email protected]](https://lemmy.zip/c/videogamesuggestions)) will just toss you onto my instance, lemmy.zip.Will do
Edit : Actually the second link worked and sent me on LW.
That’s interesting! What are you on? I use Lemmy from the browser only.
Lemmy-UI, directly on the browser. Works on Voyager too.
But I believe that LW has a couple of patches over the official release, that may be why.
Thank you for your effort, and nice work on the sidebar!
I’d suggest !turnbasedstrategy[email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] for inclusion as well.
I’ve seen that there are posts of game trailers polluting the posts feed on this community. Can some action be taken on that or have them moved to their own community?
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Are you high? I’m posting trailers to trailers that just launched, there have been massive shows the past few days, and I’m very active in the comments. How are you in the games community and don’t know this?
There are multiple event right now, showing a lot of new games. So it was kinda expected. I’m considering new rules about that, should be part of the new rules proposed in the community overhaul.
In the meantime, I’ll ask him to consolidate such event in a single megathread.
Edit: after a quick discussion with simple, he/she/they will consider a megathread for the next big event. The current posts will stay up.
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Oof.
It’s fine to not like their posts and how it’s a good fraction of what is posted here, goodness knows I could do with less Game Company Does Bad Thing news, but that is an awfully nasty assumption of someone whose posts do generate discussion. Speaking as someone who does not click on most of their posts anymore.
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