As we’ve been overlaying, issues usually are not going nicely over on Reddit in the meanwhile, with the positioning’s possession at present engaged in a working battle with readers and moderators. Customers are so aggravated at makes an attempt to monetise the positioning that they’re working by a wide range of protests, however one of many bigger gaming subreddits—r/steam, with 1.9 million subscribers—is now my favorite.
We’ve seen blackouts, we’ve seen websites toggle their settings to NSFW (thus reducing off advert income), however r/steam—whose mods had been threatened with removing in the event that they didn’t reopen the subreddit after an preliminary blackout—has determined as a group that in the event that they needed to reopen, they had been going to reopen with a goal.
And that goal, as PC Gamer level out, was to turn out to be the web’s high vacation spot for all issues steam-related. And by that I don’t imply the PC’s most well-liked shopfront and launcher, however steam engines. Steam clouds. Steam tractors, steam-driven vehicles and educational books about steam.
Right here, for instance, is a basic “price my setup” publish, emphasis on basic:
On this publish, a person has an vital technical query they’re hoping the group can reply:
Simply because there’s a protest happening doesn’t imply there isn’t something to rejoice:
Like most gaming subreddits, customers are typically overcome with nostalgia, and prefer to reminisce in regards to the good outdated days:
Right here’s a reminder that Reddit solely exists because it does at the moment as a result of it’s a spot the place customers can educate, study and hang around with different human beings without cost:
Whereas this perhaps isn’t essentially the most efficient type of protest—with customers nonetheless producing content material, anybody viewing r/steam on the corporate’s official cell app will nonetheless be served adverts, which is the entire cause they’re attempting to squeeze third-party functions out within the first place—when you’re going to settle right into a protest for the long-run, you might as nicely have some enjoyable with it.
