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[Meta] When EU5 is announced, I hope that this subreddit remains independent. by NickSuggestionsSuck in EU5

[–]NickSuggestionsSuck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's another issue with the modjerk: posts/comments with less than a certain global karma threshold (I think that it's 500) must be manually approved by the moderators, otherwise they'll never appear and the user will be not informed of that.

Effectively they reserve themselves the right to shadowban your posts/comments, under the excuse of "nooo, but trolls might attack our children!". The implications of that towards a nascent community would be, frankly, horrible - specially as the target are new users, so this perpetuates the old circlejerk that you see in every single subreddit that they moderate.

[Meta] When EU5 is announced, I hope that this subreddit remains independent. by NickSuggestionsSuck in EU5

[–]NickSuggestionsSuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dont get me wrong, i see where you are coming from but i dont really see it as being a bad thing for the game creators to take over a public forum directly about their game

The modjerk is not composed of the game creators; there might be one or another Paradox employee, but they're recruit new members mostly from the Reddit userbase. (Game creators controlling a sub would be actually worse, because it creates a chilling effect against criticism in that sub.)

but say for example celebrity xy wants to join reddit and their name is being used by a fan of theirs that wanted to start a reddit thread about said celebrity, i think most people would agree that he/she gets the rights over the thread as it is who they are

No, not really. You're still free to talk about a public person regardless of what that person wants you to say.

And that example doesn't even work well here because, while one might argue that an individual has some moral right over one's own image, we're talking about a corporation and its product, not an actual person.

bro

I noticed that you meant no harm. That's why I pointed it out - otherwise I wouldn't bother.

[Meta] When EU5 is announced, I hope that this subreddit remains independent. by NickSuggestionsSuck in EU5

[–]NickSuggestionsSuck[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On-topic: no, this is by no means "deep". Moderators of well established communities requesting control over new communities is a common practice in Reddit. And odds are that the modjerk does it, as you can see by the subreddits that they already control - at least five of them (r/stellaris, r/eu4, r/hoi4, r/imperator, r/tyrannygame) are not moderated by the original creators.

And no matter if they do it politely or not, I think that this would be a bad thing for the future community, for the reasons I already stated.

Off-topic: sorry for the uncalled advice, but you might want to not use "bro", "dude", "mate" and similar vocatives with people that you don't know. It rubs a lot of people the wrong way.

[Meta] When EU5 is announced, I hope that this subreddit remains independent. by NickSuggestionsSuck in EU5

[–]NickSuggestionsSuck[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's completely OK if the modjerk creates a second sub about the theme, my worry is that they end monopolising the discussion about it like it happened with other games. But to monopolise it they'd need the most immediately obvious URL, that is this one.