Random: The Switch Subreddit Is Having A Bit Of A Meltdown

Well... that’s insane. I honestly don’t know what to say.

This is hilarious! Love the guy's sense of humour

People taking reddit mods seriously?

How to waste time online 101

Next it'll be Luigi telling people to go to Mass on Sunday.

I too am a weird person and I can confirm we do not have motives

He sounds preachy and like he's bitter that some people can afford more games than him. Or maybe I've just been reading that nasty r/tomorrow sub too much and am being cynical.

I didn't actually know this r/Switch sub existed, only r/NintendoSwitch.

When I just read the headline, I thought the mods demanded rent from the people on the subreddit. For being allowed to be a member on there.

no one cares about this one, the "official" subreddit is NintendoSwitch. And it can be a pretty toxic place as well

Honestly not that shocked it’s from this Switch subreddit. I can’t honestly say I’ve had too many great experiences on it (or Reddit as a whole for that matter, talk about a sarcastic pit of despair lol)

@GrailUK Not to everybody tho... If this is a joke/prank/troll, Imo its a really mean one, especially if they are taking money from people.

@ALinkttPresent Same and Proud

Rent moratorium has lifted in some places, including reddit. Where will all these people go if they get kicked out of reddit? This will only fuel the internet homeless problem.

Side note: I honestly can't tell if this is a joke or someone on a power trip.

@redpanda0310 you clearly only read the title. He is reminding people to spent their money well and keep rent in mind when spending. Not to pay him rent to troll them.

Pretty much all of Reddit is toxic and it has become an echo chamber of whatever bias people prescribe to.
I dont think I read a thread that didn't become a political cesspool before I left the site.

@darkswabber No, read the whole article, must've missed something- my mistake.

Oh. I didn't realize this was actually about real rent. Had to read the actual tweet to see that.

Even their mods drift!

I mean, it’s obviously a bit

@redpanda0310 Hahahah. No money is changing hands you numpty!

Wait? charging rent?

Hmmm 🤔 _{that could work}

As someone who quickly abandoned reddit, this is a joke, right?

The current rules of the place include "Do not covet your neighbour’s lawn" and "Ensure that there are functional connections between land and water". One of the sidebars details "Compulsory Subscriptions" to other, unrelated subreddits, like r/PersonalFinance and r/Catholic. The new flairs - tags that go on a post to indicate its content - are themed around the seven deadly sins.

Sounds like some weird cult.

@GrailUK ;D

This is a very strange situation! I wonder when my Nintendo Life rent is due?

@Ralizah Truth

They're three months early.

@Mr-Fuggles777 If it becomes an echo chamber of both sides then it’s not an echo chamber. Reddit can be wild but it has just as many nutters from all walks of life to see more politically charged debates between two sides than any sort of echo chamber. Unless you’re going on the Trump subreddit or something.

Someone who has gone mad with power and thinks everyone needs financial help as well as to become Catholic? Not surprising really seen most places on reddit seem to become a law upon themselves and almost like a cult for people who are on specific ones long enough.

Power hungry mods are everywhere. Bad news for Reddit, but they deserve it.

@nessisonett I meant an echo chamber depending on Subs, I'm quite central (probably more central right than left) and would often see people wholeheartedly repeating both Left and Right wing rhetoric depending on the sub - what I never seen was open and honest debate, it simply turned into a slagging match on the subs where ideologies crossed paths.

@Mr-Fuggles777 That’s more a problem with the internet in general than Reddit. Just look at how the Last of Us subreddit became a no-fly zone so quickly. It’s quite impressive that given access to the most sophisticated social platform ever devised, humans use it in ways like that. Although humans are stupid, given a stick they’d use it to poke others instead of using it to advance humanity.

I mean, as weird as it is, he's not wrong.

@EVIL-C redditor here, it probably isn't

Now nintendo life needs to charge rent £2,000 a week sounds fair

@nessisonett it's because humans are a herd animal and flock to those who share opinions and ideals whilst fighting others who disagree.
The Internet simply highlights and condenses what's been going for eons - most wars have been fought over who's imaginary friend is the best after all.

As for the last of us 2, it was a deliberately divisive game praying on current trends to push sales and illicit free marketing. When did it become mandatory to know every characters sexuality or identity and why is it important? LoU2 felt forced in that respect, and I think that was where a lot of the push back from certain camps originated

Pretty sure this is one moderator that will probably not be one anymore.

It's all kind of insane and asinine but it's also not surprising since it's the internet and, on top of that, it's Reddit of all places. It's funny AF to watch unfold.

@doctorhino pretty sure you haven't been to reddit lmao. Mods usually don't care.

Oh, Reddit... always at the NL writer's service.

If you go to the “About” tab, it says goodbye in a bunch of different languages. So either it’s one one the mods leaving and they are having a little fun, or there shutting down the sub. Or they are just crazy. That’s a possibility, it is Reddit after all.

This subreddit has been rolling like that for a while, all this “cult” and “echo chamber” nonsense is some humorless scold extravaganza, just enjoy the weirdness.

Also, go on strike if you can, and don’t scab if you can’t.

LOL Tom nook wants your money bc you din't pay up.

@NorseGamerTommy Same. I was like "what not again evil nintendo"

@Gaming365247 oh no xD

@WickedUnicarnBoi I saw that - but if you click any of the "goodbye"s, it takes you to a "Deactivate Your Account" page, so maybe it's just a goof??

That subreddit on the whole hasn't been great for years, the mods have always been super strict about what posts can go up and it's boiled down to fanart and news essentially, no significant discussion to be had.

@dont_simp_for_them Yikes. Glad I never went back there.

I'm sure it's some "joke" that's really just something the person's too scared to say seriously but that they really mean.

Also it seems a stupid place to even make a joke like this. But people do what they do.

We really need a Nintendo direct if this is the hot topic of the day.

Having visited that subreddit many times over the past few years, I can totally understand why new mods might feel inclined to say this. That isn't a subreddit about video game news and gameplay, its a subreddit dedicated to showing off your game collection. I genuinely don't understand why exactly that's what it became, but it definitely did, and it became far less of a resource for finding any Nintendo Switch news and more a place to showoff what your Switch has on it and what it's capable of. While at the same time often badmouthing Nintendo's practices in the comments. It's all over the place, and I can get why someone would want to steer it in a direction it was more intended to go. But I do think it's probably far too late for that.

Pretty sure this kind of thing is why forums stopped being popular. Forums were a good idea back in the day, they were sort of an early form of social media big in the 00's, but most of them seemed to fall victim to terrible moderators who saw the forums as an excuse to abuse the user bases. To little surprise those user bases eventually got tired of their crap and stopped returning or got banned, and the forums couldn't get much in the way of new traffic, so over time they really fell apart and now hardly anyone uses forums anymore.

Reddit is one of the few still around but that is probably because some subs are actually pretty well run, since the site allows each sub to be ran individually. Still you get problems like this that remind everyone why forums have been dying out. Most people who use forums just want to post about some stuff, nobody wants to deal with some authoritarian moderators acting like jerks, and sadly forums seem to far too often attract the worst people to be acting as moderators.

@Varkster That is precisely what I was thinking lol!

@JayJ Some people are just looking for excuses to go on power trips; the smaller their role, the more important they think they are.

I see stuff like this and just am endlessly fascinated at how complex human society can be. This r/Switch sub is it's own self contained island with its own internal history and drama and participants and leaders, and that whole community developed entirely independently. Take a look at the r/NintendoSwitch sub or even this site, and you'll see two other communities that center around the exact same topics, yet have developed their own wholly unique culture. It really goes to show how much of an effect individual voices have on the broader conversation.

Clearly, no one on that subreddit knows Mr. Ditkovich. This is easily a joke and probably some reference to the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy.

curious to see where this article goes
EDIT: WAIT THE AUTHOR HERE WROTE THE HARRY POTTER KOTAKU ARTICLE WHAT

In this day and age, it seems like half the country encourages people to act like jerks and tyrants so this shouldn't surprise me.

@dont_simp_for_them I guess not a lot, I mostly just use it for game sales and help. Got some cheap game keys on there

@SwitchVogel Yeah it is pretty amazing to see when you stop to think about it, I've been mixed in with some forum groups before that came and went and there is still a few that I am a part of, the comments section on this site is it's own community as well, and it's become my favorite way to discuss video game news.

Well, I just got banned from it. They said I was a bot. All I did was just ask a question on how to get my switch to connect to hotel WiFi, and that was it.

Sounds like trolling and not much more, carry on.

Sounds like they're just having fun and not merely overmoderating. They could do without the religion stuff though.

Every once in a while something in a Reddit email looks interesting so I click. Invariably the entire discussion has no relevance to the post and there is no additional explanation of the post. It's always, "this guy I heard about..." stories that add nothing of value. The level of objective, factual information is below that of 4chan.

Sounds like a good bit of silly harmless fun. There's other switch subreddits so why not make a weird one?

Reddit is a terrible place in general.

@TheLightSpirit oh you silly lamb.

I happen to be a redditor myself, and let me tell you, that this behavior is...........absolutely normal

@Deliesh YOOOOOOOOOOOO ur pfp! nostalgia at its finest

I can only say, r/switch is much more welcoming and friendly than r/NintendoSwitch, that's a bit of a snake pit. It's marginally weird, yeah, but at least you can post something and not have a trolls pile-up.

@SortingHat Yeah Google definitely has a bad effect on the internet as a whole these days, a total anti-trust situation that is really spiraling out of control as partisan politics has rendered the Americans all too unwilling to do anything about it. I usually try to avoid discussing politics around here but when it comes to internet censorship and Google it's pretty hard to avoid at least addressing the elephant in the room.

Thanks for the compliment though, I am usually not shy about posing long comments as I always do my web browsing on a laptop, I never liked using a tablet or phone for web browsing. Since I grew up going to forums as a kid I got pretty good at typing on a keyboard so it doesn't really take me much time to type things out. It seems like a lot of people just like to leave a quick response, I guess the Twitter influence has really had that effect on the way people go about social media these days. As for me I never got into Twitter and I try to avoid most social media, discussing things and sharing my opinion on sites like this is something I enjoy. I just never saw the appeal of the Twitter style of comments, comes off more as people just seeking clout or delivering quick attacks, the whole concept of discussing things seems to have been lost.

Reddit is a strange place compared to the world. But this is to be expected

@SortingHat Yeah but it seems like most people are finally starting to get aware of that.