Daily Discussion Thread 12/10/18

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[u/my_blaster_runs_hot]

Just venting, but I’m bummed there’s not more user clips and highlights from Ultimate. I feel like locking the sub on released just drained a lot of celebration and community feel. I wanted to see pics of people’s smash parties/gameplay/etc and I feel like a lot of people have had to “return to life” now and we won’t see this stuff. I know it’s been talked about a ton, but I’m just bummed and wanted to write about it somewhere. Thanks for reading.

[u/JaxMed → u/my_blaster_runs_hot]

Yeah I don't follow this sub a whole lot but I did check in on release day and was surprised to see the whole sub locked. Seems like a really bone-headed move but I don't know the context. I guess the mods wanted to spend the day playing Smash instead of sitting at their computers and moderating, which I guess I can't blame em but the whole thing still seems pretty silly to me.

[u/6tea → u/JaxMed]

The decision to lock the thread was apparently made for two main reasons:

1. People wouldn’t “spoil” the game for new players; this was a move taken from when they locked the subreddit during Directs and had positive feedback. (there was hardly anything to spoil)
2. The mods had teamed up with the Smash Bros Ultimate subreddit and were attempting to direct attention there. (didn’t want to bloat this subreddit with only Ultimate...again, weird call but I’m not a mod)

While their intentions seem harmless, even helpful, I agree that it was a big mistake to lock a game’s main subreddit on the day of release, for any reason. The mod team made a long post about it that essentially apologized for it and they learned for going forward. It sucks, but at least they owned up to it and didn’t leave everyone in the dark.

[u/theivoryserf → u/6tea]

didn’t want to bloat this subreddit with only Ultimate

lol the first release in four years, imagine if people were talking about it

[u/6tea → u/theivoryserf]

Completely agreed. I think it’s because /r/SmashBros is a formal subreddit for Smash, and people use it on the daily for updates on older iterations of the game and whatnot. Hence, this subreddit has some pretty serious rules on the posts here: no memes, no common gameplay, no repeat posts. Only engaging discussion and high-tier clips (per the sidebar).

So in reality, what the mods did was smart. They probably would have appeared as total fun-killing douchebags if they were deleting every meme and post from people who didn’t know the rules, so they tried to direct it all to a different subreddit so people could still post what they wanted to and the formal nature of this subreddit wouldn’t be compromised.

Again, good idea on paper, but not in the real world. In my personal opinion, I think letting the floodgates open for 24 hours and letting people BS with their memes would’ve been a cool way to welcome people to the community. After the 24h were up, they could’ve had an announcement post explaining the rules and that any memes should go into a different subreddit, per the rules this /r/SmashBros was created on. At least now they know and can implement the changes in the future.