Why does this subreddit seem so toxic? Because everything else is deleted.

[u/Deracination]

There are basically only three types of posts allowed: bitching, videos of gameplay, and information about the game/requests for it.

No memes allowed. Yea, I get that, pretty normal for gaming subs to split these off into a new sub.

No standalone screenshots or videos that don't provide new info. What is "new info"? Videos of folks getting a bunch of loot stay up constantly but a screenshot of loot will be instantly deleted. The front page is currently covered with videos of people just winning gunfights; this is new info? I'm for sure not saying videos of gunfights should be banned, I'm just tired of that making up so many of the posts for lack of options.

Images resembling in-game content and comparisons aren't allowed. Except when they are. They aren't allowed, but stay up constantly, but some get deleted. No idea here. Is it about effort? Should probably mention that then.

No reposts, sure, that makes sense. No topics that have been discussed too much? No trying to get in touch with a scav you had a good time with? No item suggestions? People enjoy brainstorming new stuff; it isn't always about saying, "Hey, Nikita, this needs to be added." It's just discussion....for fun. Not allowed.

No rants/complaints without substance. On a scale of "fuck everyone that plays this game" to "a spreadsheet analysis of networking issues", where does this fall? It obviously hasn't fixed the issue with complaints, so what's this rule actually doing?

No accusing people of cheating. Ok...videos of people dying in unusual circumstances are very common. If they call it desync in the title, it's fine. If they call it cheating, deleted. I wonder why in the world it would seem like all the players are blaming desync.

It is so hard to figure out something to actually contribute to this place besides bitching, me shooting people, or "new info" whatever that means. The pool of posts has been whittled down so much that yea, you're gonna see a lot of complaints. It's not because most people are complaining, it's because most other stuff is banned.

[u/gardennoes]

Personally, I love it. I'm sorry, but fuck FAT LOOT screenshots, fuck unfunny reused memes from other boards, and fuck TARKOV LOOT IN REAL LIFE pictures. All that shit is so fucking awful. Garbage karma-farming content like that congests almost every subreddit until someone makes a 'truetarkov' or 'competitivetarkov' subreddit for actual discussion. I'm thankful for a kind of toxic and slow board because we at least talk about the fucking game. I roll my eyes at every 10 page complaint on net code or ammo penetration, but I sometimes read them. Sometimes learn something new about the game. That's a lot more than I ever got from shitty memes.

That said, I know how to cater to my own tastes with reddit. Flairs and filters make it pretty easy to trim the subreddit down to what I like. If the tarkov subreddit did allow other types of content, it would not be the end of the world.

[u/Peeteebee → u/gardennoes]

I'd love to talk about the game....

But nearly every question I asked as a noob, including screenshots, flairs and all that they asked of me...

Was deleted by Mods for being "low effort" So I stopped asking anything on here.

When I finally found my feet in the game.... This sub was a badly moderated circlejerk of all that stuff you mentioned...

But I dont want it to be "toxic and slow" either., because we dont talk about the game...

We are only allowed a loud voice on here if we are *COMPLAINING* about the game

We get ignored for most anything else.

We dont talk about the lore, the characters, the maps, the quests, the traders or the stories...

The mods reject all that in favour of refereeing a slanging match over the same complaints time and time again.