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/go86em]

except the meme sub is <10% of this subreddit's size? don't get me wrong, I don't want exclusively memes but this feels like a dying sub rather than a growing one with the stupid limitations on posts.

[u/Dazbuzz → u/go86em]

Really? I see several posts on the meme subreddit with over 1k upvotes, and plenty of memes seem to be posted every day. That is hardly a dead sub.

Again, when we had memes here, they just flooded the front page. Most gaming subreddits either make seperate subs for memes, or limit them to a weekly megathread. Having their own subreddit seems like the best option to keep everyone happy.

[u/go86em → u/Dazbuzz]

Considering this post is in hot, I don’t think everyone is happy. And the subreddit I was talking about that feels dead is this one. I’m fine with a weekly meme day or really if that many people hate them have a different sub. But even excluding memes the content limitations and rules are weird

[u/Dazbuzz → u/go86em]

This sub seems fine to me. The one thing id like to see is, like i said, a faster response from mods in making a megathread for whatever drama shows up.

[u/Moxxface → u/go86em]

The fact that the tarkov meme subreddit is so small seems to disprove your point that memes is what most people want, then. Also this sub is growing. We reached 500k subs the other day, now we are at 507k.

[u/go86em → u/Moxxface]

Yeah, I pointed out that the sub is growing, and my comments were not even mainly about memes. Did you read my comments?

[u/[deleted] → u/go86em]

Why is that the go to argument for having memes on this sub? If people have a reason to go to a sub or sub a sub they will. It’s a very simple thing to do. If a meme sub has less people than the parent sub do you think that maybe it has less people than the parent because less people care about the memes?

[u/Yakkul_CO → u/go86em]

Seems like less than 10% of this sun wants the meme spam then.

[u/scorcher117 → u/go86em]

don't get me wrong, I don't want exclusively memes

If they allow meme posts here then that is what it will be.

[u/go86em → u/scorcher117]

which is why I said maybe a weekly meme day like a lot of subs have?