I don’t think nexus mods should remove the mod. 99.99% of people will just scroll past the mod. Removing the mod gives it publicity and vindicates the author.
Its insulting to me that nexus mods doesn’t respect their users enough to give them the choice to install it or not. They think they need to shield us from what is ultimately a dumb meme mod.
“Big gaming news” is generally just talking about game marketing and honestly kind of boring. I want to see people talking and sharing clips and things about their games. If there is to many posts from one game dominating the feed then they could be asked to form their own community.
Its easier to post to an active community than a dead one. For example I may not have played old school runescape in a while and I wouldn’t be following the osrs community but if I saw a thread about osrs on a generic gaming community I would be drawn into the conversation. I think having lots of people in one place can encourage people to Participate in threads they wouldn’t have gone out of their way to search.
I think the threadiverse is still to small to have individual game communities. I’d rather see people posting things about their games in a generic game community.