This is good. I knew what both r/games (more serious) and r/gaming (mostly memes) had and liked the separation.
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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.
And thank you guys for asking us
Good stuff, I enjoy a good meme every once n a while but if lemmyshitpost is anything to go by, can completely overwhelm a feed with stupid stuff.
I voted for no memes, and I'm really glad we got that, but one thing I want to mention is that it'd be good to have a /c/gamingmemes or something to redirect people to, rather than just a closed "no memes here". There's definitely an appetite for that content, and it seems gentler if there's another community they can be directed to.
(I thought about creating it myself but I've never really liked gaming meme pages, so I don't think I'd be good at hosting one 😅)
So where do we go for gaming related memes?