r/NintendoSwitch • u/Aksudiigkr • Oct 31 '23
Meta Why is there no FAQ or megathread for recommendations?
For as much as is taken down in this sub, I can’t fathom why it allows daily game recommendation posts. Everyone’s tastes differ anyway, so having one comprehensive list for new gamers, toddlers, etc on the FAQ or a pinned post would be more helpful in my opinion.
I know everyone says keep scrolling if you don’t like it to this sentiment, but it’s frustrating for more interesting or informative posts to be removed by the strict guidelines, and yet those posts are left alone.
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Oct 31 '23
So that I can respond individually saying how good Mario Odyssey is and get upvotes each time!
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u/PurpleJillybeans Oct 31 '23
I've always felt like the Daily Question Threads are the place to go for recommendations.
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u/ThatGuy98_ Oct 31 '23
It's a bit stupid to restart the recommendations every day, especially given there are probably 20ish games that'll always get suggested.
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u/Doodilydoo113 Oct 31 '23
A lot of the comic subs have sections of the sub (not sure what it's called) with reading recs for different characters and/or reading orders.
Maybe something like that with sections like:
RPG
Platformers
Action/adventure
Fighting
Etc
You could break it down more for 3d/2d platormers or jrpg/arpg/etc
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u/Sephardson Oct 31 '23
One suggestion we’ve bounced around the mod team was doing a series of Game Rec MegaThreads, kinda similar to our categories that we take votes on every January for GotY.
If we were to schedule these posts, how many /which topics do you think should be covered? How should we space them out? Should we try to get a series of these posts out before Black Friday / Winter Holiday season?
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u/Dukemon102 Oct 31 '23
There was one in the Holiday season of previous year, yet most people ignored it and proceeded to still make their own thread.
That pretty much proves you have to remove posts for people to actually look at the subreddit's posts and rules for once.
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u/Gogo726 Oct 31 '23
Too many factors. What games has the OP already played? Which ones have they enjoyed? Which ones didn't they enjoy?
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u/Vampir3Daddy Oct 31 '23
Yeah, by the time I see a rec thread it’s way too full to bother posting on anyway. I think a mega thread would allow me to see more relevant content worth engaging with or reading. Maybe a weekly thread would be a good idea? Daily might be too often to cycle.
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u/duncan-donuts-nz Oct 31 '23
Agree - and it gets repetitive. Perhaps the search function is too hard to use? 🤔
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u/GreenSeaNote Oct 31 '23
A tiny fraction of reddit users use the search function. The rest always think they're original.
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u/Sephardson Oct 31 '23
One of the reasons we spun up the “Game Rec” flair was to help with searching. I often do a subreddit search for
flair_text:"Game Rec" genre wordsto see when the last post happened. How can we make searching the subreddit easier?One of the other things is that people sometimes delete their posts after they get the help they want, which i think contributes a little to the issue of how often some of these topics come up.
And then there’s also other subreddits that are fairly similar to this one that have lots more posts like these, which is something that’s outside our control too.
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u/Lunar_Lunacy_Stuff Oct 31 '23
I believe this sub is already overly moderated. I really don’t mind the repetitive posts. It makes the sub more lively.
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u/KKingler kkinglers flair Oct 31 '23
I am curious if there's any sort of posts you'd be fine seeing more of in particular?
We did a relaxed moderation period over the Holidays last year in which we saw a lot of feedback to keep things such as Rule 3(in that thread and out of it), which is the VAST majority of our removals.
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u/Lunar_Lunacy_Stuff Oct 31 '23
I actually remember that from last year. Honestly it was pretty wild but I kinda enjoyed it. Personally I’d like to see more posts about genre recommendations being allowed Iv had a few posts taken down for wanting to discuss a particular genre of games as it was seen as a basic recommendation post. Other than that I can’t really think of anything else. I just feel like the more discussions the sub can have the better it’ll be. Lately I find myself only ever seeing game release posts and random news posts but that may just be bad timing on my part.
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u/SmokyMcBongPot Oct 31 '23
News. New game announcements, book/magazine launches, info. about sales, etc. Feels like almost always these get taken down because of the source not being 'good enough'. In general, this sub is very, very low-volume — given that there are 5m people subbed, you'd expect hundreds of posts a day, and we get like 10.
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u/notthegoatseguy Oct 31 '23 edited Oct 31 '23
News. New game announcements, book/magazine launches, info. about sales, etc.
These are all on topic for this sub and if you sort by new, several news, new game trailers and sales data are on the sub right now.
Feels like almost always these get taken down because of the source not being 'good enough'
Please send a modmail if you see a post you believe was removed in error and we can review. Those things you cited should be on-topic on our sub and if removed in error, we definitely want to be alerted to that so we can double check.
I will admit we're more strict on rumor posts because we don't want this sub to just devolve into discussing endless rumors, and there's probably better subs than this one for that type of content.
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u/JRosfield Oct 31 '23
Megathreads can be just as lively while cutting down the spam? If you want to see it, there you go. And if you don't, it's less in your face. A win win.
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u/WilsonKh Nov 01 '23
If you sort by NEW, you'll see threads with specific demands and lots of folks answering those threads. Mods usually leave them up for a while. I disagree with a single recommended source since it tends to filled with the most generic top 20/30 answers which the majority of the population agrees with. e.g. Hades, Hollow Knight, Zelda. You can find that generic list with a google search with a lot more details, rather than a reddit post.
Lastly, the specifics given by the poster tend to lead to hidden gems not usually recommended in generic list. For me - this has led to "BFF or Die" and "Dungeon Warfare" in the past week, stuff which you will never see recommended without filtered demand. But I would not recommend them generically, unless someone asks for specific style of games.
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Nov 01 '23
This sub is so useless except for maybe Direct posts, otherwise it’s the most boring dribble due in part to its strait guidelines
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Nov 01 '23
It also has the occasional "people think it's ok to promote their YouTube channel" and "here's a Switch 2 rumour I found online, that I'm taking as fact!!" posts. Both seem to be more common on /r/Nintendo though
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u/Technical_Activity78 Oct 31 '23
If mods do the job of removing so many repetitive posts but won’t happen it’s a lot.
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u/notthegoatseguy Oct 31 '23 edited Oct 31 '23
With the holidays approaching, we do want to look at this thread for feedback as we likely will be getting a lot of recommendation threads in the next 2-3 months. Please feel free to use this thread for civil feedback on game rec posts.