about 11 hours ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link

Hey y'all!

We’ve put together a community poll to re-evaluate most of our subreddit rules - what’s working, what’s not, and what could use a bit of tweaking. Whether you’re a lurker, poster, or just here for the occasional memes, we want to hear from you.

🔗 Click here to take the poll

🕒 The poll will be open for 1 week, until the 23rd of March

This is your chance to have a say in how the sub is run going forward - we’ll review the results and use your feedback to make any rule changes or updates.

Thanks in advance for helping make /r/Smite a better place for everyone. ❤️

If you’ve got questions, thoughts, or other discussion points, feel free to post them below!

-- Mod Team

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about 10 hours ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link

Originally posted by trxxv

Appreciate this.

<3

about 10 hours ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link

Originally posted by TheMadolche

Thank you for this. 

<3

about 10 hours ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link

Originally posted by TheToastyToast

r/smite mods are so cool 

We just want the game to succeed and for the community to thrive as much as anyone else!

about 9 hours ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link

Just wanna say since there's a lot of feedback on this - doomposting is very annoying and we do remove 99% of it - it's just that some of them slip through the cracks.

Please do report any you see, they will be looked on a case by case basis!

about 8 hours ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link

Originally posted by Baecchus

Voted for allowing memes and less moderation in general. The sentiment is dreary enough as it is. I think feedback/criticism can be discussed in a more civil and constructive manner if people have something to cheer them up here as well.

Letting people post whatever they want would be a good way for Hi-Rez to get a feel for how the community as a whole feels too. Smite is at a point where any type of feedback is desperately needed.

edit: to add, what does censoring negative sentiment or "doomposting" as people call it achieve? I don't want to get myself nuked from the subreddit since anything that's remotely negative gets removed here but why is someone asking if the game is doing poorly getting removed while all those posts of people telling this subreddit to brigade the steam page with positive reviews were allowed to stay up during Vegas?

Not to mention there were fake "smite 2 is amazing" posts from brand new accounts here during that time. Reddit itself removed a post from one of those users along with the account itself while the post from the brand new shill account was allowed to stay up in r/smite until then. How are those any better than someone asking if the game is dying? People wouldn't feel the need to keep asking the same question if the posts asking it weren't getting instantly nuked.

In the very early days of Smite 2 I was OVERWHELMINGLY optimistic on it. In some of the earliest posts about Smite 2's announcement and playtests I probably have comments there saying Smite 2 will be amazing because Hi-Rez can't afford to make it anything less than incredible. I was also one of the people who actually had a good first impression of it. I still thought people should be allowed to express negative feelings freely despite my own excitement towards my favorite game's sequel. I still think that way even though my sentiment towards the game changed.

Negative posts about smite are allowed, and that's the mentality we've always been going with. Nobody is above criticism, when it's fair.

However, we see 5-6 DAILY posts that are either 'is this game dead' or 'this game will be dead' and it's typically 1-2 sentences and that's it. It's just not productive and ends up being spammy. And I can fully understand why such posts would be hated by people, myself included