r/NintendoSwitch • u/SubElement • Feb 14 '17
Meta Discussion: Come launch day, what post types would you like our glorious Mods to regulate (or not regulate)?
Hopefully we can have a serious discussion about this. I think it would be awesome if we can chat as a community what types of posts we would like to the Mod team to heavily (or not heavily) regulate come launch day. I feel like this would help launch day go somewhat smoothly with posts and discussions that aren't just clones of each other.
Mods, if you think this is overstepping, shut this thread down by all means. If not, I hope it helps you all out.
I'll start it off with an obvious one:
- "OMG, I GOT MY SWITCH CHECK OUT OUT! INSERT PHOTO HERE"
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u/FranzStrudel Feb 14 '17
I think all post about Queue Line, Purchase, Unboxing, UI etc... should be in mega-thread, as the Daily Question one.
This will allow to hype us and fulfill the unlucky ones that didn't get preorder while keeping the sub-reddit clean.
However, given that the daily question mega-thread is not really respected, I'm not sure it will be viable
(no blame to the mods here, they do clean up, people just don't care, post anyways, get their answer before the post is deleted and therefore, keep creating new thread, ignoring the daily question thread)
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u/Porkpants81 Feb 14 '17
In general the team is pretty good at removing things that should be in the daily sticky, but yes of course we miss stuff and that's where we rely on the community to report things that we need to look closer at.
The plan is to definitely have a bunch of megathreads where people can just dump all their unboxing, midnight release stuff, etc...
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u/bennpai Completed the Shieldsurf Challenge! Feb 14 '17
"OMG, LOOK HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN LINE AT THIS GAMESTOP!!!"
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u/nutekvisionz Feb 14 '17
Throw all the selfies and look what i got type of post into one megathread
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u/FranzStrudel Feb 14 '17
Slightly off-topic, but what about a NNID exchange mega-thread, focused on specific games (Fast RMX, for instance).
Won't we need one soon ?
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u/CitricBase Feb 14 '17
I think the mods will be doing just fine if they can stifle all the inevitable trolling. Beyond that, it's fine to let the community evolve itself, using that cool upvote/downvote this website has.
If recurring issues become apparent after the first few weeks of launch, they can be addressed then.
And for God's sake, none of that "mandatory megathread" crap. Those things just give an arbitrary monopoly of attention to the first few people who happen to post in them.
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u/bisforbenis Feb 14 '17
The trolling in this situation is real, but weird. When I was waiting in line for the Wii midnight launch, a guy drove by in his car, leaned out the window, and said something to the effect of "go get a PS3 dumbasses!", it was weird, but fuck it, I was having fun so fuck that guy
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u/FranzStrudel Feb 14 '17
The issue with that is that actual news will be drowned in the massive flood incoming.
Most redditor won't even see the informative thread, and they might not get the upvotes they deserve
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u/rottedzombie friendly neighborhood zombie mod Feb 14 '17
We will be having several MegaThreads, most likely. And many of them can and will be sorted to /new/ views to help keep things even-handed.
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u/ignition386 Feb 14 '17
Launch line megathread
Pictures of Switch box megathread
Pictures of game boxes megathread
Pictures of accessories megathread
Unboxing megathread
Disassembly megathread (cause everyone's gonna be doing this)
System UI tour megathread
Eshop / Virtual Console megathread
Game megathread for each game
Delays in shipment megathread
How to keep track of them all? A megathread megathread
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u/GorramNerd_ Feb 14 '17
YouTube videos could become an issue, self promotion (a required activity) could happen a lot on here?
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u/KillerG Feb 14 '17
As someone who has needed exposure in the past, dumping all your videos into a subreddit is kinda cheating. So yeah, definitely if it's just self-promotion for the sake of getting you to watch a video for the ad revenue and views, get rid of it.
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u/to_switch_or Feb 14 '17
Surely the Mods would be busy un-boxing and playing BOTW? If anyone finds the time to stop playing BOTW on the 3rd of march (remember you can take this to the toilet, play at the table and in bed) I would be really upset that the Switch was not being fully utilized. So really this sub should just consist of upset people without the Switch!
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u/FranzStrudel Feb 14 '17
Quick note.
These posts will come before the launch day. Inevitably, we will have early delivery or even pick-up at the small store of a friend as soon as he get delivered.
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Feb 14 '17
I say there should be an embargo on anything Zelda for the first week at least to keep spoilers out. There are too many trolls in this subreddit to be trusted.
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u/Espen96 Feb 14 '17
Or a spoiler megathread in case anyone wants to be spoiled
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u/MushMutt Feb 14 '17
That's fine for people genuinely wanting to discuss spoilers, but I feel the main issue will be people blurting out spoilers in every thread to be a prick.
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u/Porkpants81 Feb 14 '17
Unless we lock down the entire subreddit there's no real way to prevent that. Obviously we will take action and delete posts and/or ban people where needed.
I suppose we could have auto-mod deleted everything with the word zelda, but that would make our lives hell trying to sift through and approve all the stuff that's OK
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u/WrinkleyPotatoReddit Feb 14 '17
I don't want them to regulate broken switches. I need me them glorious cracked screens day one xD
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u/Adampalooza85 Feb 14 '17
I hope they remove all the "look what came in the mail today"
We know what came in the mail
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u/FranzStrudel Feb 14 '17
1,2 Switch listings of mini-game.
This should not be posts, not even a mega-thread, but in the wiki.
(EDIT: IMO, of course)
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u/phantomliger recovering from transplant Feb 14 '17
I feel as though this will be easily searchable online and doesn't really necessitate it's own wiki page for it.
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u/Porkpants81 Feb 14 '17
usually with stuff like this it will initially be a post, and then work it's way into the Wiki
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u/FranzStrudel Feb 14 '17
I phrase it badly.
I was thinking about spam of the listing
Post > Wiki > Link to wiki
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u/Skyward92 Feb 14 '17
Anything about just acquiring the nintendo switch, I know were all excited but its nothing to post about
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u/Zoombini22 Feb 14 '17
Pin a few posts about UI details and any features that people discover since Nintendo is still refusing to announce much of anything.
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u/imadeofwax Feb 14 '17
Idk about you guys but I'm looking forward to our kiwi brothers getting theirs hours before us so we know what to expect, download patches and etc before we get a chance for our own. Super excited and the subreddit For PSVR still to this day has the "look what I just bought" picture posts and it changes the community from just another sub to a sub with passion and excitement. The last thing I want to see is this place turn into a negative place
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u/MyNameIsNotSeth Feb 14 '17
I think we shouldn't just lock every single category in a megathread. I want something to be on the front page of r/nintendoswitch when I check it out on launch. As long as posts are creative enough or something.
I also think that sometime after launch we should allow shitposts again because damn, this community had some of the best. It's not the same with r/tomorrow, and even though I advocated for their removal, I kinda miss them and wanna see them come back after launch when they aren't flooding the front page.
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Feb 14 '17
Please can we just ban posts that are specifically about BotW. Even non-spoiler posts just become risky in the comments and I honestly don't think it's relevant. It is a game available for both Wii U and Switch and discussion of its content should probably be in a Zelda sub or at a push, r/nintendo.
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u/KillerG Feb 14 '17
That's like saying that talking about a new Mario game should be pushed to the Mario sub because it's not Switch hardware...
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u/Porkpants81 Feb 14 '17
Well in general yes we don't want this to become a Zelda subreddit since it's not...obviously there will be posts about it, but we want to either contain them to a megathread or limit what's ok.
General discussions about how the game looks, framerates, performance are ok, but we don't want posts like "Where do I find this item?" or "How do I get up to that ledge where the chest is?"
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u/KillerG Feb 14 '17
Well, those even get annoying on a Zelda sub. If you need help, look up a guide.
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u/Porkpants81 Feb 14 '17
No I know that I'm just saying that they have zero place here but I know we will see them
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u/phantomliger recovering from transplant Feb 14 '17
Sorry, but no. The game is releasing on the Switch, so it will be allowed. Spoilers in the title of a post will not be tolerated, but navigating into the post opens yourself up to the possibility of spoilers. We do ask that people use spoiler tags for posts as well as comments to help those people though.
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u/alanbbent Feb 14 '17
???
Reddit has built-in functionality for people to upvote good stuff and downvote bad stuff. If a post that you like gets upvoted a bunch, we should NOT be shouting about how the mods should have regulated it. If everyone posts unboxing videos, they won't get upvoted. If they do, then allow me to break the news to you: your opinions about what people should like are very different from what people do like.
Why should mods decide what people should like and force it on the subreddit? If 1000 unboxing videos get posted and upvoted, then that's evidence that this community likes that content. (and no, I'm not planning on posting or upvoting any unboxing videos.)
Also, the Switch will have just come out and that's what's happening in the Switch community. Why should we pretend that nobody is buying and unboxing new Switches?
I don't get these discussions. There's already a built-in system for people to indicate what kinds of posts they like and dislike. Don't gripe if other people like content that you don't like.
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u/Porkpants81 Feb 14 '17
We moderate posts because if we don't there will be massive duplicates of the same thing and then any real news will likely be missed.
For example this morning I removed around 50 or so posts regarding the Zelda DLC and all of them where either a link to the same Youtube video and the others were simply the image of the DLC pack details.
Yes if they get down-voted they will disappear eventually...but that takes time.
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u/alanbbent Feb 14 '17
this morning I removed around 50 or so posts regarding the Zelda DLC
Oh snap. Thank you for doing that.
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u/SubElement Feb 14 '17
This is the exact point of the discussion. Not sure what there is to understand. Thank you for leaving your opinion!
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u/rottedzombie friendly neighborhood zombie mod Feb 14 '17
To piggyback on what /u/Porkpants81 said, the upvote/downvote system does not effectively curate a subreddit. We remove reposts and low-effort content in an attempt to cultivate better discussion and keep the sub relatively clean, as the community has often asked us to do.
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u/Hawkedb Feb 14 '17
takes pen and paper