/v/GamesNews - a subverse for... gaming news! Hello all, I wanted to let everyone know we are getting rolling with /v/GamesNews, the equivalent gaming news sub to /r/GamesNews which I also founded. We are a resource for first-party gaming news. The goal of GamesNews is to provide a central resource for gaming news which bypasses the drama, biases, and corruption of the games media. There are obviously many talented game writers, and they are still beneficial to gamers, but what we don't need are pre-digested and reworded press releases. We all have access to the same official press releases, blogs, and social media channels the games media does. Why not cut out the middle man collecting ad revenue from copying and pasting? Our subreddit was one of the first to implement public mod logs. We do not remove comments unless they violate site rules, are illegal, or blatant spam. I've personally been banned from Penny Arcade Report (by Ben Kuchera), RockPaperShotgun (by Alec Meer), and /r/Games (by PieMonkey). SeedzCuccos was shadowbanned on Reddit. I dislike moderation in general, and we do are best to be hands off. Our main roles are ensuring submissions meet the requirements, and submitting content ourselves. Here are the results of the first public audit I did on our subreddit moderation: https://archive.is/vYUy4 Currently we're waiting on the voat API to get gamesnewsbot migrated, but /u/SeedzCuccos is manually submitting content as he was shadowbanned from Reddit. In the spirit of protesting Reddit today, any long-term plans to make a major impact are going to require establishing and involving ourselves in communities outside of Reddit. One of the great things about Reddit is you can subscribe to dozens of different communities, large and small, that cover all of your interests. I urge you all to seek out subverses today that cater to you interests. Submit content to them, share them with friends, make comments, browse and vote on new submissions. If you can't find a community, create one. You're on the ground floor. Pioneer some shit. All Reddit alternatives need to succeed are users. Each of us can take small, simple steps to increase the value of voat, and thereby increase the number of users.