With the migration, a lot of niche communities haven’t fully migrated over, if at all. For example, I wrote a few guides for the games Control, Vindictus, and Outriders (usually for like farming tips, bug fixes, etc). They helped a ton of people, but I haven’t updated them so I’m not 100% sure if they’re still up to date and noted someone could take over
What is the correct move? Should I just be transferring them to google docs, link that in the reddit post after removing its content, and then also redirect the user to the fediverse? I thought the move was to post the guide on Lemmy and link the new guide there, in the old reddit post, with more information about the fediverse
I have evidently assumed wrong because 4/5 of my guides have been deleted from c/gaming. I spent a lot of time re-writing them for Lemmy format, which is now probably lost, and thought that was acceptable; I also looked through the rules first. Like I understand in normal circumstances, for example on reddit, I shouldn’t post a guide for Control in r/gaming, but I don’t know where else to put them in the fediverse since those game-specific communities don’t exist yet
Thanks for any clarification on this. I want them to still be available to help people and then bring them here, so that I can go rewrite all my reddit comments and eventually delete the account
Edit: This might help with advice: The posts in c/gaming that were deleted were one for Outriders, and 3 for Control. They were all written out + the backup in google docs was linked. Perhaps I should have combined the Control guides all in one? The guide that stayed was the one for Vindictus, which was just an description and then link to the guide in google docs since it’s so large. The only common denominator was that the one that stayed was the one that wasn’t re-written in Lemmy, but they were all potentially not accurate anymore (patched/changes)
One thing Lemmy won’t have for a while but does need is a wiki setup. It’d be great if Lemmy paired with another open source provider to integrate a wiki setup
If you search the modlog of lemmy.world with your name, you can see what the mod of /c/games said, what I can see is that it was taken as spam of old guides and/or not original content on that community, and they allow only a certain type of posts on that specific community.
There is no general modmail, so any mod can respond on Lemmy (at least yet), but you could DM the mods of the community individually to talk to them and see what is acceptable or not.
Remember that as it was the case on Reddit, there is the site rules and the community rules, sometimes some communities don’t allow certain things, or maybe they can think content can be spam or not original content.
Here you have multiple /c/games (or different names) communities on different instances, so if one doesn’t allow some types of post, another existing one can, or a new one can be created, or even you can create another /c/games.
It is true that here there are a lot of specific game communities that don’t exist yet but there is always the chance someone or yourself can create a community to fill what is missing (for example a /c/gameguides could be a new community for that type of content and be a hub for guides, specially for those games that doesn’t have a community yet).
Another thing, remember that the fact that you migrated from Reddit doesn’t mean that people will follow if you link to Lemmy even if you clarify that there is an updated version here, and content could be deleted from either Reddit or Lemmy side at any time, so even if it is as an alternative/backup I would consider having those guides on a third place (like docs that you mentioned, and link them somewhere on your posts).
Thank you for sharing! Now I will know where to look for something like this. I thought that if I had written it, it would be valid given that I am actually trying to inform or discuss (whether they’re still accurate). I can see how it’s kind of a weird line, but then again I didn’t know what else to do as I explained in this post and it was only like 4 or 5 posts. I probably could’ve gotten away with it if I didn’t post them the same day, but maybe not
Related - I hope that’s just a 3d ban, not permanent, right? If I read that correctly
A gameguides community is a good idea, someone else mentioned that. I just don’t want to create that if I can’t commit to maintaining it :/
I’m considering throwing them into !archive@lemmyworld like someone suggested. Should I xpost into c/games or is that a bad idea? (due to 1. my first reposts being deleted then banned for 3d, and 2. the guides being not necessarily still accurate). I also might condense the 3 Control guides into 1 post, since I’d be linking them to google docs, there will be a lot more space to work with
It seems to be a 3-day thing from the information on the modlog, but I would first try to talk to the moderators before trying to post on the same community again, maybe clarifying that you are the original author, and you plan to maintain/update them, or that maybe the title should not include [old guide] or something like that, and that the purpose of these post is to share information, get feedback and generate discussion on these games, as you do play them.
Makes sense, thanks for the advice!
If it were me, I would move them all over to google docs/your own weebly site/something where you control the formatting and it won’t be taken down, and then link them here. Maybe you should start a Game Guides community. You could post links to them in the new community and crosspost to other gaming communities.
I like the idea of a Game Guides community, but then that would overlap once the individual games have their own communities. Man I just wish everyone migrated off reddit, it would make this so much easier. I don’t want to have to moderate a Game Guides community though, because I can’t commit to that :( I’m considering throw it into !archive@lemmy.world like someone said
but then that would overlap once the individual games have their own communities
You can always cross-post or tell people where to find the guides later.
Let’s say I xpost from !archive@lemmy.world - where should I xpost to? Should I not xpost back to c/gaming or would that actually be allowed? I’m just worried about the guides no longer being accessible by new users, that’s my main goal. Even if they might not be checked if they’re still accurate, if I used reddit, someone might comment like “thanks this helped” or “this was actually patched” and then I’d update the post
Maybe I’d just post in an archives community, update the original reddit post, and just call it a day. I’m probably overthinking this, I just want to be helpful
If new users (not from the original reddit post) try to find this information, will it be just as easy in c/archive compared to c/gaming?
I know right now, googling isn’t as easy as “Lemmy control collectibles guide” vs before “reddit control collectibles guide”
Edit: Looks like I can’t post yet in !archive@lemmy.world yet. In the sidebar, I still see it as a WIP. Hopefully it doesn’t take too long before it opens up. I don’t want to create my own gameguides community, because I can’t commit to moderating it properly
Why they have been removed?
There was no reason given,or at least I don’t know where to look - there doesn’t seem to be like a reddit modmail thing. I had received a notification that someone replied and I went to reply back, but I kept getting errors, and that’s how I found out they were removed
Maybe I’m over thinking it and they thought it was spam. But idk how they can think that when they didn’t delete the Vindictus guide, and my profile clearly shows me as not a spammer
maybe you could create a community and post guides there.
