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The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/LindyNet on 2024-08-12 12:03:36+00:00.
Welcome to the 2024 Pre-Season Fireside Chat!
Rule Clarifications and Updates
| 1. Tis the season, so long off-season! |
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Per the off-season rules, we are now be removing the low effort and r/AskReddit type posts that have been flowing since February.
| 2. Highlights Policy |
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Not much to report here. We are still waiting to hear from the admins and the NFL on how to handle highlights. There were at least 90 posts copyright stricken in the last year and we have heard they will try to not do that, but there is still a discussion upcoming.
It’s probably best to stick with YouTube and/or Twitter💩 for now as the Reddit hosted videos seem to be the ones that got nuked. If you want to see which ones were popular, here are the top 1,500 highlights over the last year.
| 3. Data for Nerds |
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Continuing our project from last year, we now have a years worth of post data from the sub. It’s not 100% perfect but the nitty gritty is that each night we take a snapshot of the posts from the last 24 hours, as well as everything from the modlog - which includes removed posts either by us or Reddit or the users themselves.
Tweets vs OC
It’s practically a required comment in a lot of twitter posts at this point. “This sub is just a twitter repository”, “Mods delete all the great posts so we can get more tweets!!1!” or “Mods get paid by the NFL to suppress discussion”.
The truth is the users upvote simple-to-consume posts like tweets far more than long form text posts, or text posts of any kind. Below you can see that we did retain more twitter posts percentage wise, but not by much.
Since last year we now auto-remove tweets with a link to an article and we try to remove reaction and vague nothing tweets when we see them.
| Tweets | |
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| Kept Tweets | 17,768 |
| Percentage Kept | 73.65% |
| Removed Tweets | 6,358 |
| Percentage Removed | 26.35% |
| Self Posts | |
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| Kept Self Posts | 28424 |
| Percentage Kept | 71.24% |
| Removed Self Posts | 11475 |
| Percentage Removed | 28.76% |
The raw numbers don’t really tell the whole story, tho. All posts can be anything from the best OC to the random porn we sometimes see attempt to be posted.
To show how much more upvoted tweets are than self posts, here are the Top 100 Self Posts and the the Top 100 Twitter Posts
Below are the average scores for the top 100 of each and the average scores for all posts.
| Average Scores (Upvotes) | |
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| T100 Self Post | T100 Twitter Posts |
| 4,823 | 8,906 |
| All self posts | All Twitter Posts |
| 152 | 619 |
For all the non-twitter link posts (espn.com, nfl.com…etc) the average score was 402, also below twitter posts. Here are the Top 100 Non-Twitter Link Posts
| 4. Almost 10 million subs to this sub |
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We said in the last post when we hit 5 million users that we wouldn’t have another until we hit 10 million. We had no idea it would only take less than a year to double in subscribers. We are at 9.3 as this is written this on 8/5/24 and should pass 10 in the next month.
The End
We ask that if you see someone breaking the rules, please hit ‘report’ on their comment so that we can take a look. With the 30,000 up to 60,000 comments that fly through here each day, there is simply no way for us to see them all. If someone is being abusive, let us know! We want game threads (or any post) to be open to everyone to share their awful, awful opinions.
As always, post your thoughts in the comments below.
Mods suck, updoots to the left.