/r/truegaming casual talk

[u/AutoModerator]

Hey, all!

In this thread, the rules are more relaxed. The idea is that this megathread will provide a space for otherwise rule-breaking content, as well as allowing for a slightly more conversational tone rather than every post and comment needing to be an essay.

Top-level comments on this post should aim to follow the rules for submitting threads. However, the following rules are relaxed:

• 3. Specificity, Clarity, and Detail
• 4. No Advice
• 5. No List Posts
• 8. No topics that belong in other subreddits
• 9. No Retired Topics
• 11. Reviews must follow these guidelines

So feel free to talk about what you've been playing lately or ask for suggestions. Feel free to discuss gaming fatigue, FOMO, backlogs, etc, from the retired topics list. Feel free to take your half-baked idea for a post to the subreddit and discuss it here (you can still post it as its own thread later on if you want). Just keep things civil!

Also, as a reminder, we have a Discord server where you can have much more casual, free-form conversations! https://discord.gg/truegaming

[u/KualaDreams]

Not really an expert on using Reddit, felt like it was pretty harsh to delete my post instead of telling me to just correct it

I dunno man, just discourages new people from being involved, ppl just wanna use Reddit to have less reactionary conversations on topics of interest

Harsh rule inforcement and for what too?

[u/VFiddly → u/KualaDreams]

Unfortunately the mods on this sub seem to think that the sub will only be perfect when literally nothing ever gets posted to it. Posts get removed for no reason whatsoever. A post can have hundreds of comments and users already engaged in thoughtful discussion and some mod will still delete it because they've decided it broke some silly rule they invented years ago.

And then the only thing that ever gets done about this is "We've noticed this sub doesn't get a lot of posts these days. We have decided to fix this by banning even more posts."

I rarely reply to anything anymore because at least half of the time when I do, the post will get deleted before I've finished typing my comment.

This used to be a good and reasonably active sub, but then the mods just murdered it stone dead for some reason.

[u/FunCancel → u/VFiddly]

Nah, this sub benefits from quality over quantity in every case imo. Everything that has been removed is a pretty blatant rule violation that the poster didn't take the time to familiarize themselves with. If you want to write an open journal entry or not actually take a meaningful stance about whatever topic you posted, then look to r/gaming, r/games, or the hundreds of game, game-genre, or game platform specific subs where you can post rants, list posts, and DAE posts as much as you desire.  

This sub having low activity says more about the lack of interest in more substantial discussion around games than the rules being too strict. Blame the posters; not the mods. 

[u/abir_valg2718 → u/FunCancel]

It used to be a pretty active sub way back. Then it slowly started to get more and more of these... I dunno how to call them, "nebulous posts", let's say. It stopped being a place for more in-depth game discussion and got a more of a "I'm a first year English major and this is deep" kind of vibe.

I keep checking on this sub every couple of months and by this point it's down to 10 posts a week. Used to be a dozen a day or more when it was fresh, iirc.

Sad, patientgamers also dropped massively in engagement and also developed a certain... meta its posts, I'd guess as a result of overmoderation. /r/games used to a good sub, but it became what /r/gaming used to be when it was new.

Can't wait for the day when reddit shuts down. Although looking at modern web, we'd probably get some kind of tiktok/reddit abomination, there's no money in a quality discussion platform, it's all in silly memes and dumb imageboards.