As we’ve been overlaying, issues are usually not going nicely over on Reddit in the intervening time, with the positioning’s possession at the moment engaged in a working battle with readers and moderators. Customers are so irritated at makes an attempt to monetise the positioning that they’re working by means of quite a lot of protests, however one of many bigger gaming subreddits—r/steam, with 1.9 million subscribers—is now my favorite.
We’ve seen blackouts, we’ve seen websites toggle their settings to NSFW (thus reducing off advert income), however r/steam—whose mods have been threatened with elimination in the event that they didn’t reopen the subreddit after an preliminary blackout—has determined as a neighborhood that in the event that they needed to reopen, they have been going to reopen with a objective.
And that objective, as PC Gamer level out, was to turn out to be the web’s prime vacation spot for all issues steam-related. And by that I don’t imply the PC’s most popular shopfront and launcher, however steam engines. Steam clouds. Steam tractors, steam-driven vehicles and educational books about steam.
Right here, for instance, is a basic “price my setup” put up, emphasis on basic:
On this put up, a consumer has an essential technical query they’re hoping the neighborhood can reply:
Simply because there’s a protest happening doesn’t imply there isn’t something to have a good time:
Like most gaming subreddits, customers are typically overcome with nostalgia, and prefer to reminisce in regards to the good outdated days:
Right here’s a reminder that Reddit solely exists because it does right now as a result of it’s a spot the place customers can train, be taught and hang around with different human beings free of charge:
Whereas this perhaps isn’t essentially the most efficient type of protest—with customers nonetheless producing content material, anybody viewing r/steam on the corporate’s official cell app will nonetheless be served adverts, which is the entire purpose they’re attempting to squeeze third-party purposes out within the first place—if you happen to’re going to settle right into a protest for the long-run, it’s possible you’ll as nicely have some enjoyable with it.
