I visit the subreddit for this game quite often and usually enjoy the content on there. Recently a friend of mine posted a spotify playlist related to the game which was quickly removed by a moderator. It was later restored and told this was an error to prevent spam. Yesterday he created an original meme and also posted it to the sub, it too was removed and when he asked why he was told that there were "excessive memes" currently posted so his was removed. When he tried to further clarify what that meant the moderator muted him from contacting the moderators.
A second friend then posted the same meme, it got numerous upvotes and even received 2 awards. It too was removed. A third friend then posted it again just because of this and it too received upvotes but was removed later in the day, Every time it was removed by the same moderator.
The original "memer" then posted a discussion thread about Rule #1 on the subreddit which covers "Low Effort Content". Numerous people replied to the thread including a Forgotten Empires Dev who agreed that limiting the front page of the sub to "10% memes" is detrimental to the community. The same moderator then removed that post as well. Upon complaining about this in a few community discords that I am in, I found several others with similar experiences on the sub reddit. I personally find the 10% rule just ridiculous as sorting top posts for any time period shows a vast majority of them to be memes. In fact if you took away memes all together the subreddit would be a ghost town.
Naturally I would air these grievances on the sub reddit but at this point we all know what would happen if I posted this there. I know this probably seems silly to get this fired up about memes but I cannot help but wonder why the power to filter the content to 100k users on the sub is put into one person's hands who needs not justify anything he does.
There is a rather clever meme maker who is currently posting a meme every day for HC, he's on somethng like 14 straight posts. They are funny posts and I appreciate them but when one other person posts a single meme it gets insta-deleted "cuz 10%" just seems outrageous. Curious if anyone else has ran into this gate keeping moderation on a 10 year old sub reddit for a 20 year old game. Thanks for letting me vent
A second friend then posted the same meme, it got numerous upvotes and even received 2 awards. It too was removed. A third friend then posted it again just because of this and it too received upvotes but was removed later in the day, Every time it was removed by the same moderator.
The original "memer" then posted a discussion thread about Rule #1 on the subreddit which covers "Low Effort Content". Numerous people replied to the thread including a Forgotten Empires Dev who agreed that limiting the front page of the sub to "10% memes" is detrimental to the community. The same moderator then removed that post as well. Upon complaining about this in a few community discords that I am in, I found several others with similar experiences on the sub reddit. I personally find the 10% rule just ridiculous as sorting top posts for any time period shows a vast majority of them to be memes. In fact if you took away memes all together the subreddit would be a ghost town.
Naturally I would air these grievances on the sub reddit but at this point we all know what would happen if I posted this there. I know this probably seems silly to get this fired up about memes but I cannot help but wonder why the power to filter the content to 100k users on the sub is put into one person's hands who needs not justify anything he does.
There is a rather clever meme maker who is currently posting a meme every day for HC, he's on somethng like 14 straight posts. They are funny posts and I appreciate them but when one other person posts a single meme it gets insta-deleted "cuz 10%" just seems outrageous. Curious if anyone else has ran into this gate keeping moderation on a 10 year old sub reddit for a 20 year old game. Thanks for letting me vent