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!
So we do have filters currently in place that we’ve had for years that auto removed posts with less than 250 words and it holds them for review, this helped a ton with removing a lot of the “Baker sucks that is all” type posts. If that wasn’t there we’d certainly be at that point you mentioned already, there’s a ton of low effort stuff that just never makes it onto the sub in the first place because of that.
The reason we’ve brought up the self post ban is just because we’ve seen a spike in rant posts that while the feelings of the person posting are perfectly valid, they don’t add anything new to the conversation. It’s just word vomit of what is going through their head and while it crosses the word count threshold we personally felt it doesn’t really add anything new to the conversation and fits better in the game discussion posts. A rant post on it’s own with no new ideas in it just feels Karma grubby and attention seeking in my opinion. I get that people feel like their stuff isn’t seen in the game thread sometimes because there’s usually hundreds of comments in there but doing it as a self post has a “my opinion matters more than everyone in the post game thread” vibe to me.
The 24 hour ban is also an idea we stole from the Browns sub who often feel the same level of misery as a sub as we do. The way this season has been going I’d be inclined to test out the 24 hour ban to start but open to shortening to 12 down the road.
If you go to the Saints sub after a game it’s an absolute mess most of the time because they don’t remove most of the self posts and a lot of really low effort stuff gets through.
Anyhow I appreciate you voicing your opinion though, we as a mod team are most often just trying to do what we collectively think is best for the health of the sub, and all of the active mods were simply just users here at one point and only became mods because we care about this community a ton, but we know everyone has different views and we’re not going to ever have a system that will please everyone.