EQUAL we mentioned, things are not going well on Reddit at the moment, with the site’s ownership currently engaged in an ongoing battle with readers and moderators.. Users are so frustrated with the site’s efforts to monetize that they’re facing a lot of resistance, but one of the larger game subreddits—r/steam, with 1.9 million subscribers— is currently my favorite.
we have seen power-offwe have seen the site switch their settings to NSFW (thus cutting ad revenue), but r/steam—whose mods were threatened with removal if they didn’t reopen the subreddit after the first outage—decided as a community that if they had to reopen, they will reopen with a purpose.
And for that purpose, EQUAL computer gamer shown, has become the Internet’s premier destination for all things steam-related. And I don’t mean the fancy store and launcher of the PC, but the steam engine. Steam clouds. Steam tractors, steam cars, and steam textbooks.
For example, here is a classic “review my setup” post, with emphasis on classic:
In this post, one user has an important technical question that they hope the community can answer:
Just because there’s a protest going on doesn’t mean there’s nothing to celebrate:
Like most game subreddits, users sometimes get over nostalgia and enjoy reminiscing about the good old days:
Here’s a reminder that Reddit only exists today because it’s a place where users can teach, learn, and hang out with others for free:
While this may not be the best effective form of protest—with users still creating content, anyone viewing r/steam on the company’s official mobile app will still be served ads, that’s the whole reason they are trying to get rid of third party apps in the first place—if you’re going to be in a rally for a long time, you might as well have fun with it.
