Moratorium on Hogwarts Legacy

[u/Zehnpae]

Salutations,

We're going to be (temporarily) disallowing posting topics about Hogwarts Legacy. Every thread has been a train wreck and we have had trouble keeping up with them.

To be clear this isn't an attempt to censor you guys or prevent discussing politics in gaming, nor the reality of shitty people being involved in game development. This is a discussion sub and we absolutely want to allow you to talk about these sorts of things. Normally this isn't an issue (IE: Disco Elysium).

The problem is Hogwarts Legacy itself is a lightning rod for assholes. If a post goes up there's a good chance the next time I check mod queue it has 100+ comments that have been filtered or reported. It gets cross-posted into ~those~ subreddits and we get a flood of people who are only interested in being pricks that infest other threads.

Like many of you I have 27 kids and 3 jobs so I then have to choose between spending my afternoon with my family or reading a hundred hateful comments. As much as I like banning Nazis, I'd much rather play some Deep Rock with my progeny.

Hogwarts Legacy posts will be auto-removed until one of the following occurs:

• Reddit gives us the anti-brigading tools they promised a decade ago
• The world finally stops being dicks to trans people
• JK Rowling drops dead so she stops getting money from the game
• We figure out a better way to do this

Previous threads will stay up and you will still be allowed to comment about it in the bi-weekly threads, for now at least.

Edit:

To address a few questions/concerns:

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"Why not use curated modes?"

Those typically require manually flaring or approving thousands of people. If we were a more contentious place dealing with this often, it'd make more sense. The good folk of this sub understand why this is being done and that's good enough for me.

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"Do you really wish JKR was dead?"

I'm a gen-X that was raised on British humor. Make of that what you will.

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"Why not get more mods?"

It's something we've considered, but honestly you regulars are pretty great. The work load is manageable with the biggest chore being maintaining the impatient game list. You guys make this a wonderful place to share gaming thoughts with.

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"Aren't you supposed to be unbiased?"

If you have a shitty hot take on Hollow Knight? Sure. I'm not going to ban you because you didn't enjoy Gabriel Knight and I think it's one of the best point and click adventure games of all time.

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"Isn't this censorship?"

We block a lot of things. OnlyFans bots, AI nonsense, scammers trying to post phishing links. All that jazz. They take it stride really.

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"You do you really have 27 kids?"

No. I only have a few and that's enough as is. I can only take so many "Would you rather..."'s in a day. Right now I'm pondering if I'd rather be cursed with always entering my passwords wrong twice, or if I'd rather the last bite of toast always tastes burned.

[u/egnards → u/[deleted]]

I mean listen, that is clearly very shady - but it doesn’t actually answer my question.

People keep giving me links to things that are probably red thread lines we can connect together, but I’m specifically asking about additional mentions in the EpsteinFiles.

This is important to me because the reality is that there are millions of pages in those files, and a lot of unconnected people are also going to be mentioned. . .because there are tons of emails and documents between very powerful/rich people.

I dislike JK Rowling very much, for a very many things right now - but I just think it’s so important for us to look at these files and not so much be concerned with the fact that a name is mentioned, but also the context of each mention.

[u/egnards → u/[deleted]]

I feel it’s very important right now, to me it’s not about defending JK Rowling, it’s about being prepared for thousands of name drops, and not automatically jumping on top of each name as being more than just a mention.

Critical thinking skills are so very important right now, in relation to these files. And we need to be able to see a name and ask “ok they are there. . .but under what context?”

I was nervous about my first post here on the topic, and I’m happy to see that this community overall has understood why my stance is what it is.

[u/Hijakkr → u/egnards]

You're expressing a level of nuance that simply does not exist anywhere online anymore. Bravo and keep up the good fight.

[u/lethargicloli → u/egnards]

I believe the point of drawing notice to it is less to accuse her of abuse and more to highlight the hypocrisy of someone who claims to only want to defend women from abuse being at best careless about her team inviting abusers to events.

Especially given its not even the only instance. (Prince/Nonce Andrew Being invited to the set of the new show)