from PerfectDark@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 12 Sep 23:01
https://lemmy.world/post/35832831
Hi everyone! You might recognize my name in here by now, but now you’ll see a tiny little ‘m’ next to it!
Dremor (head mod here in c/Games) recently asked me if I could step into moderating here, and I have accepted.
I’ve done a lot of moderating on Reddit, from super-large places with 10s of millions subscribed to it (in the fields of tech and programming, gaming and so on), to extra small ones (the last I grew from nothing to 35K when I left the site), so I do know how to not only moderate, but to foster a community and help it feel fun. Though, to be totally fair…it’s been a good while since I left Reddit - I’ll be rusty!
And what I haven’t done is moderate her on Lemmy, so I hope you’ll give me a little time to not only learn the ropes…but find them first.
I’m lucky in that a lot of my good friends are developers of games, projects, programs, operating systems and apps to do with gaming (and so on), so maybe in time I’ll be able to convince some to do some things here in this community (giveaways, AMAs, chats, something-like-that), but we’ll see!
If you’ve got anything you’d like to see in c/Games, then by all means leave a comment so we can see what we can do.
That’s all, I think!
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I don’t know how you have time for a day job.
Its easy, I just never sleep!
…help me
Do you actually play games with your free time? Haha
Yes!
Okay so before 2 or so months back, I worked as a pen-tester (red team), so when I wasn’t breaking in to facilities, or convincing security guards that I was the CEO’s daughter or a worker who forgot their pass, I was typically on my desktop. Which left me some time to spend contributing to spaces like this community on Lemmy!
Since then though I had a bit of a health hiccup, and took time off. I’m still taking time off, and while I’m being as active as I can, I’m now with quite a bit of time to spend doing things like this, or writing the odd feat. article/interview and sharing it on my friend’s site - so maybe I’m lucky, in one regard?!
Right now I’m playing Red Dead on my Switch OLED, and Deus Ex Mankind Divided on my Steam Deck :)
Make sure you play the Mankind Divided DLCs after! A Criminal Past in particular is probably the best “new Deus Ex” content they ever put out.
Also, congrats on being made a mod! I literally cannot think of a better person for the role.
Hell yeah! Couldn’t ask for a better mod!
Congrats!!!
Pretty sweet for a modding gig coming your way, I’d say.
Trailer dumping: useful content, or ad spam?
To me if it’s a new release of a game…of course it should be shared! The first person to post it (preferably with their own views on the game coming written underneath) keeps the community up-to-date with what games look like. Trailer ‘dumping’ really only happens when there’s a big event, and the point of that event is seeing trailers for games. It makes sense to have them shared here.
But posts sharing the same trailer after that first? Removed.
I don’t think of it as ad spam, because it’s not like Rockstar is making a Lemmy account to make sure we see the GTA VI trailer. If we denied trailers being posted, there’d be some very angry Silksong people when that one got the trailer!
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Should they be consolidated into one post then? It’s just bothersome to see a bunch of ads (because let’s be real, trailers are ad material) dumped in quick succession. The only ones I’d watch are for games I’m interested in playing, but for the ones I really want to play, I’d rather go in mostly blind so I won’t watch those either.
It’s not just one trailer, either, it’s announcement, release date, “now on steam”, cinematic trailer, gameplay trailer, release announcement trailer.
That’s indeed what we asked to do next time for big events. But when no such big event occurs, it’s OK.
In my opinion, the following trailers are acceptable :
Globally, that’s also a way to advertise dedicated communities for that specific game, so I think that’s alright.
We’ll discuss all of this with the incoming community rules update.
Your username checks out. A Rare choice, one even might say.
Congrats and welcome to the mod team!
Thanks, Agent Karyo!
Excellent news! Good to see you onboard 🫶
👍
Awesome!
Welcome! I never know which community will end up being my main gaming one on the Fediverse, but I'll probably spend more time around here.
Congrats! Glad to have you. Moderating is not easy and mostly you never get any thanks for volunteering. We appreciate it.