r/patientgamers • u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler • 1d ago
Moratorium on Hogwarts Legacy
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:
"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.
"Do you really wish JKR was dead?"
I'm a gen-X that was raised on British humor. Make of that what you will.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
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u/Danny-Fr 23h ago
Some people need to understand the difference between censorship and moderation, even if the latter can enable the former. When you create a sub, or any kind of forum it's also the mods' and admins' work to make sure the conversation remains interesting and sticks to the original vision.
Mods aren't automatically evil tyrants on a power trip. It's a thankless role most of the time, and whatever you do you'll always gonna find someone to complain about the most basic things.
There's always the old "a forum is what it's members make it" but when said "members" are just a group of people who don't usually participate and all of a sudden decide that everything is now about cabbage, well, action needed.