And thank you guys for asking us

This is good. I knew what both r/games (more serious) and r/gaming (mostly memes) had and liked the separation.

This is a bit of an off-topic nit pick, but for the sake of user clarity, especially as lemmy is still growing, I would like to ask you to refrain from referring to this community solely as c/games. This is because there are communities on other instances named games, and I've already seen a lot of recent refugees from reddit be confused about the nomenclature involved.

I understand lemmy.world is one of if not the largest instance, and I don't expect people to be this precise in their casual conversation. But it would go a long way for clarity if official communications explicitly used the fediverse format of !games@lemmy.world at least once, so there can be no confusion for other active and growing communities dedicated to the same topic.

Thanks.

Glad to hear. I think there's obviously a place for memes, but I value discussion a lot more than image posts.

I voted for no memes, and I'm really glad we got that, but one thing I want to mention is that it'd be good to have a /c/gamingmemes or something to redirect people to, rather than just a closed "no memes here". There's definitely an appetite for that content, and it seems gentler if there's another community they can be directed to.

(I thought about creating it myself but I've never really liked gaming meme pages, so I don't think I'd be good at hosting one 😅)

Now let's see about blocking photo posts and other low-effort garbage, too, while we're at it.

It's pretty clear from the vote and the comments on the poll post that we want this to be the equivalent of /r/games - text posts and links only. If someone needs to show off their hall effect stick mod or a photo of some dude flipping the bird, they can do it in a hardware-dedicated or circlejerk community where that kind of thing belongs (respectively).

I personally voted to allow memes for the sake of growing this place quickly but I’m happy with the result. The number of votes shows that we probably already have enough active users to create meaningful discussions.

Does anyone know another community that may focus on giveaways?

Much appreciated

Good stuff, I enjoy a good meme every once n a while but if lemmyshitpost is anything to go by, can completely overwhelm a feed with stupid stuff.

So where do we go for gaming related memes?