Steam’s Subreddit Is Operating An Wonderful Steamy Protest

As we’ve been protecting, issues aren’t going properly over on Reddit in the meanwhile, with the positioning’s possession at the moment engaged in a operating battle with readers and moderators. Customers are so irritated at makes an attempt to monetise the positioning that they’re working by means of a wide range of protests, however one of many bigger gaming subreddits—r/steam, with 1.9 million subscribers—is now my favorite.

We’ve seen blackouts, we’ve seen websites toggle their settings to NSFW (thus reducing off advert income), however r/steam—whose mods had been threatened with elimination in the event that they didn’t reopen the subreddit after an preliminary blackout—has determined as a group that in the event that they needed to reopen, they had been going to reopen with a goal.

And that goal, as PC Gamer level out, was to grow to be the web’s prime vacation spot for all issues steam-related. And by that I don’t imply the PC’s most well-liked shopfront and launcher, however steam engines. Steam clouds. Steam tractors, steam-driven automobiles and educational books about steam.

Right here, for instance, is a traditional “price my setup” publish, emphasis on traditional:

On this publish, a consumer has an necessary technical query they’re hoping the group can reply:

Simply because there’s a protest happening doesn’t imply there isn’t something to have fun:

Like most gaming subreddits, customers are generally overcome with nostalgia, and wish to reminisce concerning the good outdated days:

Right here’s a reminder that Reddit solely exists because it does at the moment as a result of it’s a spot the place customers can train, be taught and hang around with different human beings without cost:

Whereas this possibly isn’t essentially the most efficient type of protest—with customers nonetheless producing content material, anybody viewing r/steam on the corporate’s official cell app will nonetheless be served adverts, which is the entire purpose they’re making an attempt to squeeze third-party functions out within the first place—should you’re going to settle right into a protest for the long-run, you might as properly have some enjoyable with it.