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Hi all!

From now on, memes are forbidden on c/Games.

A few days ago, we asked you what you like: memes or no memes. From this, the vast majority voted for a ban on posting memes. The most common argument was to guard the quality of the posts. This will therefore be enforced from now on. Are memes being posted? Please report them to the mods.

The memes currently posted on the community will remain.

From today, we are also introducing an additional rule: It is forbidden to hold give-aways. We as a mod team cannot verify if the give-away is real or if it is a scam. To ensure everyone's safety, we have decided not to allow these posts either. If there is a need for this, we recommend creating a separate community for this.

We would like to thank everyone for the many votes and well-founded arguments in the discussion topic.

Cheers!

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[–] Birchoff@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is good. I knew what both r/games (more serious) and r/gaming (mostly memes) had and liked the separation.

[–] Tevoul@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This actually wasn't always the case. /r/games split off from /r/gaming when a few mods (including myself) got tired of discussion getting choked out my memes.

There was a mix of people being pissed, excited, and not caring, but I think it ended up for the best. Was a shit ton of work while we were modding both at the same time, but eventually all of us that created /r/games stepped away from /r/gaming and left that sub to its own devices.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

games was so indescribably superior to gaming, it was incredible. Gaming was a flanderized parody of a circlejerk, with the stuff that as posted there. I saw a lot of great discussions on games, and patientgamers.

[–] Birchoff@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

All respect to the change you guys made