I’m MistYNot, a mod from r/GuildWars.

  • Necropola❌@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    @meldrik@lemmy.wtf @HourOfTheOwl@lemmy.wtf

    Is this meant to be the Guidl Wars 1 lemmy community on the fediverse?

    Would be great to also have a reddit alternative for this game!

    Would you mind setting a logo, a background image and sidebar information (links to GW wiki, PvX wiki, etc.)? Similar to the GW2 community on lemmy.wtf.

    Since r/GuildWars is no longer private it might be a good idea to post a link to this lemmy community in the existing ModPost as soon as everyhing is set up here:

    r/GuildWars is open. Discuss the Blackout and future actions.

    It’s kinda interesting to see how the original feedback from the community was (clearly in favor of the blackout) and how the feedback looks now. There is definitely something very shady going on.

    • ChthonVII@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s kinda interesting to see how the original feedback from the community was (clearly in favor of the blackout) and how the feedback looks now. There is definitely something very shady going on.

      There’s definitely some sort of skullduggery going on, but I can’t quite figure it out. There are a bunch of posts in the “r/GuildWars is open” thread made by accounts with zero prior connection to that sub. (And several more by accounts with only a handful of posts in the distant past.) But why? Why would anyone come to a sub that they’ve never participated in and pretend to be a community member criticizing the blackout? What do they have to gain from doing that?

      Even more curious, one of these accounts had zero other posts in r/guildwars, but thousands of posts in other subs. After I called them out for astroturfing, they deleted their account, their very, very old and well-established account. Who does that? The only explanation I can think of is that the account was compromised and the one astroturf post in r/guildwars and the deletion of the account weren’t done by the original owner. Puzzling.

      Another account with zero prior posts in r/guildwars was keen to assert that community migration away from reddit was impossible, and discord was definitely not a suitable place to migrate. That was pretty obviously an official reddit sock puppet.

      One possible clue is the odd behavior of the user “Genesor” who insists that the blackout is “100% political” and anyone who denies that is “lying to yourself” and that me checking up on the post histories of posters in that thread is “classic behavior for a part of the political spectrum.” (In point of fact, I got the idea to check it from Genesor themself, who claimed that “Most of the people that answered the first post were not GW players.” Ironically, while Genesor claims to be a DoA SC player, they have zero prior posts to r/guildwars.) Genesor’s post history suggests some far right views, so maybe someone’s got the maga crowd convinced that “woke libruls” are behind the blackout?

      Aside, Genesor plainly made that claim in bad faith, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s false. It might be worth investigating the possibility that we got astroturfed from two sides.

      Anyway, I’m looking forward to not being on reddit and hopefully not having to deal with this sort of propaganda campaign again.

      • Necropola❌@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        We don’t need to migrate r/GuildWars to lemmy or rather to the fediverse. As long as a big enough bunch of half decent people who still love the game gathers here we should be fine.

  • WonDoe@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    1 year ago

    helllo, first comment on here. :e

    edit: ohh heck; didnt know Lemmy had a vote system. :/ One of reddit’s double-bladed features imo. hmmm, might just stick to the forums depending on how things go here…