The subreddit has weeks where all non-esports news is drowned out by dozens of threads discussing individual matches.
I know from discussions that there are also many Redditors who hate anything esports related and would prefer a cleaner subreddit, and I’ll assume that can be extrapolated to Lemmy.
What should be a good compromise? Is a weekly pinned esports megathread useful? Do you prefer to have all the match discussion posts so there is at least some activity?
I don’t think Lemmy supports polls yet, so let me know in the comments what you think.
I think that, at least for now, is good to have posts for every match so that we can have some kind of activity
I agree with this. Esports is probably the only real activity this sub will have for a while. Maybe change it in the future but for now this is probably best
The eSports side basically keeps the subreddit (on Reddit) alive. Looking at the subreddit now there’s a bunch of eSports related stuff, patch notes, and subpar fluff/whining.
The League subreddit seems to have better content than pretty much any other game sub, which just gets drowned out by clips of someone’s play. I think we’d do well to largely copy what they’re doing here.
Hopefully we just get more people posting content and the PMTs scroll off during the week. If the content isn’t fresh enough, people won’t come here anyway. I think the PMTs drive that in the right direction. I will grant that the PMTs are all about the comments, and we don’t have much of that yet. It’s definitely an “if you build it” and hope they come type of thing. But I think that’s the case either way here.
Personally I only plan to post NA and international content. But even so, more posters wouldn’t be a bad thing. I say let’s make this feed scroll.
I think it’s a tough choice. Personally, I would love to have match threads for everything, but I also understand that with the current, low activity here, this would currently completely overshadow any other discussion that might be happening. It would be awful if any newcomer who wasn’t too interested in the esports side of things opens this community and just sees 30 PMTs and nothing else. No way they’re gonna sub.
My suggestion for a compromise, at least for now, would be to consolidate each region and week into one thread. Potentially, for each match, we could have a top level comment akin to the Reddit r/league PMTs. Discussion for that match could then be consolidated under that top level comment.
I’ve seen similar things done for MTG card release threads (with a link to each top level comment for each card in the OP even), but obviously I don’t know how well it would be suited for this.
Edit: I suppose until we get a decent amount of discussion in them, even a single thread per week could be enough.
Personally, I would prefer if there were individual posts for each game, similar to how it’s done on the League of Legends subreddit.
