As we’ve been overlaying, issues usually are not going effectively over on Reddit for the time being, with the location’s possession at present engaged in a operating battle with readers and moderators. Customers are so aggravated at makes an attempt to monetise the location 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 slicing off advert income), however r/steam—whose mods had been threatened with removing in the event that they didn’t reopen the subreddit after an preliminary blackout—has determined as a group that in the event that they needed to reopen, they had been going to reopen with a function.
And that function, as PC Gamer level out, was to grow 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 automobiles and educational books about steam.
Right here, for instance, is a traditional “fee my setup” publish, emphasis on traditional:
On this publish, a person has an necessary technical query they’re hoping the group can reply:
Simply because there’s a protest occurring doesn’t imply there isn’t something to have fun:
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most gaming subreddits, customers are typically overcome with nostalgia, and prefer to reminisce in regards to the good outdated days: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 educate, be taught and hang around with different human beings without spending a dime:
Whereas this perhaps isn’t probably the most efficient type of protest—with customers nonetheless producing content material, anybody viewing r/steam on the corporate’s official cellular app will nonetheless be served advertisements, which is the entire cause they’re making an attempt to squeeze third-party functions out within the first place—should you’re going to settle right into a protest for the long-run, it’s possible you’ll as effectively have some enjoyable with it.