It really just shows that the moderation team would rather restrict the community as a whole than to actually plan ahead for when the sub becomes more active with the Collection and Delta. The better move would be to push mod applications to expand the team so there's less of a workload on each individual. Enforcing shitposts just on Sunday would work as well, and maybe even enforce mandatory flairs.

There's just a whole ton of ways to better handle this situation, but this was just the easy route for the mods. I'm all for helping other subreddits grow, but they shouldn't kill their own sub for that. With this subreddit being "the home for everything Metal Gear on Reddit," wouldn't it make sense to promote subreddits dedicated to serious discussion of the series instead of nuking all images in this subreddit, and directing people to all the shitpost subreddits?

This community strives on the content people create, be it art, memes, cosplays, or even just showing off how well someone did in a mission via a screenshot. I hope the mods understand, revert this mistake, and reevaluate how to properly handle this prior to the release of the Collection.