Perfectenschlag alle zusammen verdammt nochmal!
Now that I have your attention, welcome to the (almost) annual fireside chat about rules, the state of the sub as well as your feedback and what can/should be improved.

Six years ago, fellow German DerFechtTrainer opened his Pirateside Chat with “we are over 8,000 subscribers and growing…” Well, he ain’t wrong, we grew some 112,000 users strong but I still love every single one of you bastards (excuse my Welsh) like I did when we were a small and cozy little sub where everyone knew each other at least by nickname. I’m glad some of those names are still around and kicking. For all of you younglings, that is the reason why some of the low effort me mes or endless self post rambles are allowed and some are not. Because these people have earned the right to behave like stubborn five year olds high on Dr Pepper and bathing salt, mostly because they have been behaving like this forever and never changed. And I love you for that!
Some things have changed and I dearly miss Lansdownestreet and Factcheckonthefly. If you don’t know who that was, check the sidebar.

I still believe we will win the Superbowl this year but it seems like most of you have lost faith and that’s OK. I will gladly accept your apologies during the parade.

What’s not OK, is the amount of self posts after the games which bring nothing new to the table but are just reddit’s equivalent of old men yelling at clouds. We understand that you, like all of us, are disappointed and full of grief and anger. But for the love of Vea use one of the regular weekly posts for that. Going on there will be two rule changes concerning self posts:
Self Posts

A) There will be no self posts allowed for 24 hours after our game. Calm down, create a funny me me or use the post-game thread for voicing your complaints. Take the dog for a walk, ride your skateboard again or call your mom. It‘s Sunday and you haven‘t checked in on her for a while.

B) After that cooling period, please try to put more effort into these posts. This is not a Todd Bowles game plan so please use more than three brain cells and five minutes. Before you write, think about this:

• If it could be a comment in an already existing post. It doesn‘t need a new thread.
• If it‘s a discussion type of post, state and explain your own opinion and not just state „We should conjure Chris Conte from the shadow world and resign him. What do you think?“
• If it‘s just a rant, go get a pubsub instead. They sure are tasty. Or validate your thoughts. Or use one of the weekly thingies. Or have been ranting in this sub for more than seven years.

Mock Drafts

I know, I know you have created (found!) this perfect little mock draft and can’t wait to post it. IT IS EARLY NOVEMBER GODDAMMIT, let’s delay mockdraft season a little bit. I know some of you put a ton of effort and research into those things but it’s just not the time. Rule of thumb if you haven’t put up your Christmas decoration, don’t post your mock draft. There will be weekly mock draft Wednesdays (or was it Mondays?) come December. Also, remember no auto generated mock drafts unless you give some information about the picks. We will draft last, so just go Kicker or obscure lineman from a College no one has ever heard about.

Your input

What other rule changes or other changes would you like to see on the sub? Personally, I would love to have the great me mes of the Fitzmagic time return but have to confess that I don’t have even close to the time to do that myself again.

What should/could be improved? What would you like to see more?

Feuert die Kanonen und los geht’s Bukanier!