It’s well known that the forums and reddit hate each other often but I want to get to the bottom of why. The forums think that reddit controls the game and is nothing but dps mains and reddit seems to think the forums control the game and its full of support mains. While i doubt this is true i want to know your opinions on it. I’m rather new to the OW reddit and am interested in what you think.
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and reddit seems to think the forums control the game and its full of support mains.
True
The forums think that reddit controls the game and is nothing but dps mains
Wrong
Case closed
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Both are trash.
Sadly
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I always find the forums to be more organized compared to reddit.
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Fun fact i also posted this on the reddit.
Compared to r/Overwatch maybe
But compared to r/CompetitiveOverwatch, no way. low-effort content and dumb threads just gets deleted, unlike here
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Frankly it pretty much comes down to this 
Forums: Reddit is where “pros” and high rates players hang out and that’s because of them mercy and co got nerfed.
Reddit: the forums is a cesspool of children and butthurt support mains that can’t formulate a proper argument and think feedback is saying “Benji is broken” and “tracer doesn’t have counters” and saying overwatch will die to Fortnite.
From my point of view since I use both quite heavily, I’d say Reddit is closer to the truth but they are both far away.
Both platform are pretty much unredeable sometimes but it happens less on Reddit because there is more people with better moderation.
When people on the forum talk abt Reddit, it’s usually r/compow.
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Oh? How is that going?
THIS THIS^^^^
How do i like a comment twice?
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Both are equally bad. It happens with any large fanbase. The forums seem to complain a lot more though in general since bad posts can be downvoted on Reddit.
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I primarily use these forums and I think it’s full of support mains too.
Nearly everything here gets blamed on dps mains and people seem to be very in favour of powercreeping supports.
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Even on r/ow, low effort content or useless rants get instantly deleted by bots/mods.
Here, any topic can be created so we see more stupid threads with 0 sense of logic like how OWL killed the game and how mercy should have stayed OP because I liked it that way.
That’s the problem of the forums. If you don’t enforce proper discussion, proper discussions won’t happen. People won’t take the initiative and the habit of doing proper threads and stuff.
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Every subreddit is slightly different. Yet somehow the discussion is nearly always more civilized there.
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There is no actual discussion on reddit, 99% of the threads are highlights or memes.
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Don’t they have a section for S-posts as well? Something the forums 100% do not allow? I cant tell if that’s more or less cancerous for reddit or the forums. 
If you only use r/ow main page, ofc you will pretty much see all highlights. Like if you only use general discussion from the forum you only see rants and stuff.
The biggest thing o Reddit, is the flairs. You know if it’s discussion, humorous or a highlight right away. You know if it’s a rant, balance discussion right away. And upvoted threads are ALWAYS nice discussions with elaborated stuff in the OP. It’s the comments that are sometimes dumb.
But the forums, some thread would get instantly deleted on Reddit for low effort or uselessness but here it gets a 100k likes.
Low effort highlights or memes make up the vast majority of the r/ow threadd
As I said, if you only use the main page of r/ow.
If you use r/compow, you won’t see the same thing and that’s where most of the “serious” conversation happens.
Same like r/owuni and stuff.
It can varies. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
R/compow is even more useless, 90% of it consists of fanboys squeeing about what a pro said or a highlight.
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