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[Meta] Should we lock this community and redirect to !askgaming@piefed.social </c/askgaming@piefed.social>, which is actively moderated? Last post was 26 days ago (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk
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!askgaming@piefed.social seems more active

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Why lock it? Seems unnecessary. The mission statement of this sub doesn't lend itself to daily posting - at least without significant effort - but I still like that it exists. 26 days ago isn't even that bad, there are other niche subs that see even more infrequent activity. Should we lock them too? There's been multiple posts here over the last few months that have actually gotten replies and traction.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    there are other niche subs that see even more infrequent activity. Should we lock them too?

    It depends how niche they are, but redirecting to active subs allow to reduce https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/ for people, and create more activity in sustainable communities

    What would be the inactivity time a community should have before getting locked?

    !oldgamers@lemmy.world only has one post 6 months ago, beyond that it's an 8 months old post by me, than 10 months old posts. If we suggested to lock that one down, would that be okay?

    Same for !timberborn@feddit.org and !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works. The first one hasn't had a post in 26 days, the other one gets a few posts per week. It would probably be better to lock the first down and redirect to the more active generalist community.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I don't really see the reason to preemptively lock communities in that manner, is there really much harm in letting them exist? I get consolidating communities that are literally clones of each other but none of your examples fall under that for me.

    I personally wouldn't lock subs out of only inactivity at all. What if someone tries the Fediverse for the first time, sees that their niche sub exists and is faced with a "SUB LOCKED" message? Is that a better situation than them just seeing a long time having passed since last activity?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    I get consolidating communities that are literally clones of each other but none of your examples fall under that for me.

    What is the different between "let's talk about games" and "askgaming"?

    What if someone tries the Fediverse for the first time, sees that their niche sub exists and is faced with a “SUB LOCKED” message?

    They wouldn't only see a "sub locked", they would see "go to !othercommunity!"

    Examples:

    This shows new joiners where the active community is, which seems better than having them conclude that the communities (and thus the platform as a whole) is inactive

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What is the different between "let's talk about games" and "askgaming"?

    I guess the difference is up for interpretation. I always saw "Let's Talk About Games" as a successor to r/truegaming, which ideally should be a place for more high effort posts and in-depth discussions about games and gaming. Askgaming is just whatever you're wondering about, like "which controller should I buy for my PC?" or "Which version of each Ninja Gaiden should I play?" or whatever.

    They wouldn't only see a "sub locked", they would see "go to !othercommunity!"

    Does this even work well? It feels like c/football has seen reduced activity with every move but maybe that's just me. Hell, we don't even have a match threader bot anymore.

    Also isn't it cumbersome to have to unlock the community again when/if interest in the niche subject grows enough?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Askgaming is just whatever you’re wondering about, like “which controller should I buy for my PC?” or “Which version of each Ninja Gaiden should I play?” or whatever.

    Looking at that community homepage right now

    • What is your most wished for sequel?
    • What game does everyone seem to love, but you just don’t get the hype at all?
    • How do you feel about turn-based combat? Should more modern games adopt it, or is it best left as a thing of the past?
    • Which video game ideas do you wish existed but don't? What's your most out-there concept that doesn't fit any current genre?

    Seems pretty good ground for in-depth discussion.

    /r/TrueGaming emerged when /r/Gaming was too busy, and had enough of an audience to create that community. Lemmy's userbase is much smaller, so the audience isn't there yet. If people want in depth discussion, they can post in on !askgaming@piefed.social, it's not like that community is that active in the first place.

    Hell, we don’t even have a match threader bot anymore.

    We... do?

    Does this even work well?

    !television@piefed.social has 4.99k monthly active users, probably because it's the only community in that space.

    !movies@piefed.social has 2.54k MAU, probably because the activity is split with !movies@lemmy.world and its 2K MAU

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    If people want in depth discussion, they can post in on !askgaming@piefed.social, it's not like that community is that active in the first place.

    I mean askgaming is very new so it doesn't surprise me it has only modest activity. But I don't know, I'm much less involved in these matters than you are so I'll defer to your expertise. You probably know what's best more than I do.

    Hell, we don’t even have a match threader bot anymore.

    We... do?

    Oh huh. I guess I don't know where to comment to request match threads since I haven't seen a weekly discussion thread in a bit. I went to the sub ahead of the first PL match day and didn't find one.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    I went to the sub ahead of the first PL match day and didn’t find one.

    I guess we don't have that many PL followers, or that nobody was invested enough to send a request? The other mod posted the BBC live thread for West Ham vs Chelsea, so there was at least that.

    https://lemmy.zip/post/46931521/20984401

    I sent a request for the Barcelona game today, so there will at least be that one.

    I'll add the way to request a game in the body of the next weekly thread.

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