r/steam (maliciously) complies with the call to open again

The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide.

The mods followed suit posting the following automod message under every new post:

As ya'll likely know, we've been dark to support the blackout against reddit's antagonistic behavior towards its own userbase. The admins sent us a message today saying we must open or get removed, so here we are.

For those of you browsing this subreddit on non-official apps (Reddit is Fun, Apollo, Sync, Boost, etc), they will break on July 1st due to reddit's new policies. We're opening back up but will leave permanent stickies in the subreddit and threads to keep folks in the know.

Our Discord [contains link to https://discord.gg/steam] server is active, don't forget to check it out.

Good luck and god speed.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

On visit, you quickly notice there is a community wide effort to focus on the literal topic of the given name and post about vapors, steam trains, and kitchen appliances. While posts about the gaming platform get downvoted.

root,
@root@lemmy.world avatar

From an ad revenue point of view, does this matter? Posts/ views/ clicks are all the same to them, no?

SomethingBurger,

People will eventually stop visiting if a subreddit no longer contains content that is interesting for them.

_Hyperion,

Why funny, this just gives Reddit noise and numbers regarding blackout and numbers

c2h6,

Any noise the users can make is good.

whyNotSquirrel,
@whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works avatar

well, people tend to make weird faces when my noises hit their noses

Aurix,

u/spez tries to paint it was just mods trying to be powertripping and not standing for the communities. This refutes the sentiment along with the reactions of /r/pics and the likely coming r/aww action.

LittlePrimate,
@LittlePrimate@feddit.de avatar

That though process won't even cross their mind. More like "See? The reopened communities are very active and actually generate MORE clicks now. We were right to force them open!". Only if the new direction would produce less clicks or advertisers are bothered by it ("I wanted to advertise my camera in r/pics but the new direction makes it unprofitable") they might look into where that "sabotage" is coming from and care about it.

pruwybn,
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

"It's an Albany expression" - so good :D

Aurix,

I didn't know the reference, it was to this: https://youtu.be/4jXEuIHY9ic

hoshikarakitaridia,
@hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.fmhy.ml avatar

It's brilliant.

FizzlePopBerryTwist,

Uh

c/steam ?

fsk,

I was surprised that r/godot didn't turn into a discussion devoted to Samuel Beckett.

Dogbane,

People can complain all they want about reddit, as long as it's on reddit, reddit is fine with it. People do the same about twitter, youtube, facebook all the time and it doesn't hurt shareholders.

bill_1992,

Would be nice if along with that link to Discord, they had a link to an alternative! I'll try not to spoil a good thing though.

Mishmash2000,
@Mishmash2000@lemmy.nz avatar

This is terrible! I went to /r/steam to learn about steamed hams but they were clearly grilled! I'm not even sure they were hams?!? 1 star, would not visit again!!

jaydev,
@jaydev@lemmy.world avatar

Loving this age of anti-Reddit malicious compliance creating content for Lemmy!

Orez66,

It’s a great way to kickstart this place! I found my way to malicious compliance solely because I wanted to see what the subreddits were getting up to without opening the official reddit app.

Haan,

Love it

Landrin201,
@Landrin201@lemmy.ml avatar

I wish some of these subs would stand their ground and make the admin replace them. That would cause the admin seven bigger headaches down the line, because a lot of the mods they impose would likely not be as good, not be as committed, and would be less strict in moderation, leading to a big pain for advertisers who suddenly would see lots of content next to their ads that is very not good.

limeaide,

I kinda like the idea of no moderation at all

Quiet quitting the mod position lol

Faresh,

Reminds me of what lemmy did to !redpill and !flatearth (the top posts on this one), but with a different goal.

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