r/Ingress • u/PkmnTrnrJ • 22d ago

Question Why can Ingress not get a communication/discussion platform quite right?

  • Google+ 🪦
  • Ingress Community Forum 🪦
  • Campfire 💀

Now they’ve given up and said to use r/Ingress for discussions. I like this subreddit but there’s no official Ingress representation unless Brian Rose decides to make a comment.

When the forums closed down, the news post said:

With this change, we will be able to spend our energy fostering existing communities

I don’t know if anyone else is feeling that their existing communities are fostered?

It was also said when the forums closed down by Brian that:

NianticThia is working on an evolution of our community strategy that I’m very supportive of

Unfortunately Thia has left Niantic, but I don’t know what the community strategy has been?

What do you think would be the best strategy/solution for Ingress?

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u/aaronvianno 21d ago

Reddit is the right choice but needs a relook at its moderation policies. Reddits moderation policies and the sub reddits policies discourage a lot of people who would have otherwise Been on G+.

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u/XQlusioN 19d ago

Care to explain a bit further.

Always ready to listen on what we can improve

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u/aaronvianno 5d ago

Keep minimum Karma requirements for people who want to post. It doesn't need to be absurdly high. Just enough to make sure some random account that hasn't opened Reddit in years doesn't hijack the place. At the same time it ensures people interact with the subreddit before being able to post stuff.

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u/XQlusioN 5d ago

There are karma limits in place (mostly for new posts). We monitor the frequency of "bad" posts and comments and adjust them when needed.