Community Vote - Remove the "Recommend me games/Can I run thread" and let them post individually. 7 days to vote, majority wins regardless of vote count.

[u/iamneck]

The sub has largely become parts shopping and used hardware questions, which is not the original intent. Evolution happens, but the community should be polled for opinions. :)

Polling the community to possibly remove the stickied thread for game recs to have them post normally so that there is more gaming content intermixed with the constant shopping and pc building questions.

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79 votes, 20d ago

45 Yes, remove the thread and rule. Allow game recommendation posts.

34 No, keep the thread and rule. Remain the same.

[u/Synaps4]

I voted yes but thought about it a little more and wish I voted no.

In most subreddits, weekly stickies are not as much used as they should be and many people ignore them.

However, searching for "can I run" on this sub shows our weekly threads commonly get 50 to even upwards of 100 comments.

That makes them a great resource for people searching, and far more manageable than searching for the titles of a ton of individual games and getting a bunch of mixed results.

I suspect that the definition of low end is going to be broad enough that generally posting "hey my low end machine can run this game" is not going to be that useful to a lot of others when they find out the machine isn't as low end as their own.

Bottom line I'm happy relaxing the rules about posting about games for more gaming content...but I think these weekly threads are working and we don't need to fix what isn't broken with them.

[u/iamneck → u/Synaps4]

Appreciate the feedback and thoughts.

There used to be a core group of 10 or so people, including me, who used to answer every question in the weekly thread. It's not being done now, however, occasionally when a "recommend me games" thread does get posted during off hours and gets past the automoderator, they get dozens of replies within an hour or so.

In my opinion, we are not serving our core sub purpose, low-end gaming discussions, and are becoming another used PC hardware builder sub.

Just my opinion, that's why I always post and get votes before we change anything for the last 10 years or so. 🙂

[u/Synaps4 → u/iamneck]

That's a good perspective. If you think not enough attention is getting to the posts in those threads then you are right to consider removing them.

I'm definitely guilty of forgetting to look in there when I wouldn't miss a new thread.

[u/subtra3t → u/iamneck]

are becoming another used PC hardware builder sub.

I agree, the subreddit's primary focus should remain on gaming. There are more than enough subreddits for computer parts and hardware recommendations.

[u/iamneck → u/Synaps4]

And I will adjust your vote based on the comment

[u/terkke]

I'm biased because I'm not planning on upgrade soon and I follow the sub for games recommendations, so I agree with u/Synaps4 comment. The threds are nice, but we could have more of them.