/r/soccer self post discussion

Belvedre · 12ヶ月前

Please don't. Might as well rename the sub /r/premierleaguegifs then

MICOTINATE · 12ヶ月前

I think an equally big problem as shitposts is when the first 5 comments of any self post are usually dismissive, aggressive attempts at humour. Shitcomments basically.

Someone could post "what are the biggest challenges facing football as a sport? " or something equally inoffensive that has a chance of good discussion and the first comments would be about 'dearth of leftback' and just nothing productive.

I don't think removing or limiting certain types of posts is the answer. At the end of the day its a big sub and we're all at different points of knowing the sport, for everyone who rolls their eyes at yet another "who was the bestest most world class ever?" there is someone who hasn't had that discussion ten times yet and still finds it interesting.

If you start drawing lines on what's allowed to be spoken about you'll just further the divide between the naive-annoying new fans and the holier-than-thou know-it-alls that plagues this place anyway. Every self post will get smarmily suggested to be taken elsewhere.

Honestly I know it went down like a lead balloon last time but hiding comment scores really is the best way to cutout the in-group, out-group, I-know-more-about-football band wagon voting. Also hidden scores might cut down on people going for karma on new posts by just chucking out the meme of the week.

Removing downvotes for posts could help too, people will upvote what they like, posts rise on merit rather than just being the least derided.

hellier · 12ヶ月前

Removing question threads

don't agree with this. not enough self post-discussions already. that's overmoding. browsing the new queue here is fun

I like how you all get rid of the clutter when lots of people post the same thing at the same time. but that's the only thing I really think you should remove - the duplicate content.

joethesaint · 12ヶ月前

Creating a new subreddit for questions

Creating regular discussion threads akin to Free Talk Friday

I fear these two wouldn't work because these low-effort posters probably don't bother checking if there is somewhere more appropriate to post first.

Svorky · 12ヶ月前

Can you not just ban best XI, over/underrated, best X of X threads and remove them? That'd take care of ~90% of shitty questions.

Separate subs never work, really. It's guaranteed to be a ghost town. And there are good questions/self posts, so outright banning them would get rid of a good amount of valuable content.

Weekly threads could be alright I suppose.

Whatever you do I think you need to be careful, this sub is pretty low on discussion as it is already.

thekrone · 12ヶ月前

I don't think removing all question threads is a good idea because they can lead to interesting discussions. Having said that, obvious shit posts and repeated threads (ie. most overrated players? Your unpopular opinion?) should definitely be removed imo.

The minimum character requirements is a good idea, though it shouldn't be ridiculous. I like the idea of a regular discussion thread and have actually had that idea before. It could really cut down on the questions because people could just wait and ask them there.

Theothor · 12ヶ月前

For reference, here are the questions in /new that would be removed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/3m8whg/has_anyone_on_here_grown_up_withknown_a/

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/3m8qob/who_are_some_of_the_youth_players_in_your_team/

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/3m8pjy/changing_in_club_policy_each_player_on_real/

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/3m8hy2/what_is_your_opinion_of_klopp/

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/3m817t/what_do_you_dislike_about_a_club_or_clubs_in_your/

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/3m7zrw/best_old_school_goals_60s_70s_80s_90s/

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/3m7ado/which_player_was_never_the_same_after_a/

Almost all interesting threads that I would hate to miss in this sub.

Swbp0undcake · 12ヶ月前

Low-effort self posts/Questions? Maybe ones that are like: Messi vs Ronaldo? That are repeated everyday but not ones that can actually cause discussion like "What do you dislike about a different club from your league" or whatever it was. That was a good thread to read through.

Please please PLEASE don't ban all self posts, I don't want this being gif only

alpha1028 · 12ヶ月前

The answers are the problem not the questions.

This place is for gifs, rumours and keeping up to date with scores, news. It attracts a fairly young, male, "banter" heavy userbase. Discussion is pretty low down on the order and since I have been subscribed for a couple of years, the quality of discussion has certainly decreased, while the amount of in-jokes, one-liners and gossipy biassed post-titles has increased. I've been a part of doing that myself here.

Some days the front page looks like buzzfeed. It influences the culture so when someone posts a thread asking "how good are Barcelona" they get a slew of sarcastic, lame jokes back, rather than discussion. I mean that's fine if you like that sort of thing and often it is actually fairly funny in a sort of bleak way.

Robbomot · 12ヶ月前

Leave them as they are, I browse new quite a bit and don't see many of the posts people circlejerk about. If they're bad then people downvote them and move on. There are enough good questions in there to keep this sub good. Eliminating question threads is silly. Will just leave gifs of goals which wouldn't make this sub any better

perry_cox · 12ヶ月前

Removing question threads

please no. I still like the occasional discussions and we are low on those already.

Placing a minimum character requirement on self-posts

Interesting and worth trying. Although, won't be new match threads that get updated quickly caught in this? (people who start match thread with minimal info and edit more as time goes by, or post match threads that are just vids of goals - we still have those for non-high profile matches). It's interesting idea for sure, although I think good discussions can come from low char count as well.

Creating a new subreddit for questions

dead on arrival.

Creating regular discussion threads akin to Free Talk Friday (these can be daily, weekly, etc.)

which will have the same problem as the Friday talk thread has. Unless you come to thread in first 10 minutes... don't bother. Reddit is not built up to have multiple discussions over several topics and in long timespan in one thread. Never seen it work on reddit.

bgp1845 · 12ヶ月前

if you're going to outlaw anything, outlaw pointless gifs and tweets.

Alder_ · 12ヶ月前

Creating regular discussion threads akin to Free Talk Friday

This would he a good idea but much like self posts, I doubt it'd get much steam though. Making a new subreddit seems extreme, no point alienating some of the community. Maybe have mods approve self posts and for those who make quality self posts often, have them approved full time.

EDIT: Any chance we can be stricter on banning people and maybe get a state of the subreddit every once in a while.

deception42 · 12ヶ月前

I agree with most of this. Questions threads shouldn't be banned altogether... I think that it may put off some people from /r/soccer (and maybe the sport altogether if they're trying to understand something about it). Concerning another sub, there already is /r/soccernoobs but I don't use it at all.

I do think a regular "Stupid Questions Thread" would be a good idea. The more regular they are (like once a week), I think it'd be better.

TuchelTrainergott · 12ヶ月前

I think we should ban all selfposts, they just get in the way of all the EPL and former EPL player goal gifs in shitty quality.

Thankyouedge · 12ヶ月前

Can I suggest removing scores for an hour , because most of this sub would vote with the general score of the comment

Takley · 12ヶ月前

Dont see why anything needs to be changed, unless the mods feel the workload of deleting such threads is too much then fair enough i cant comment on that.

Browse new all day, personally dont think it's that bad, most shit posts and such get downvoted and/or deleted within good time. Front page and such of the thread is barely ever impacted so for people who dont browse new dont see it showing much to them at all.

logicisfortheweak · 12ヶ月前

I'm real late to this discussion, but I'd personally like to see a MatchDay Goals thread where all the GIFs are posted there. I appreciate the work all the people who GIF the goals do, but it is very hard to find the threads that discuss the games because all I see are individual threads for each goal.

Why not a "Premier League Goals - Gameweek 8", La Liga Goals - Gameweek 8", 'Serie A Goals - Gameweek 8", etc., where they can all be contained? Would clean up the subreddit immensely and hopefully solve some of the recent complaints about GIF quality since these posts wouldn't gain any link karma.

dranani · 12ヶ月前

Creating regular discussion threads akin to Free Talk Friday

This one sounds like the best IMO

Removing question threads

~~that would make this sub basically gifs and match threads, not bad but lacks discussions usually.~~

EDIT: After thinking about it, banning question submissions would be a good idea and designate a thread once a week or whatever kind of time frame the mods decide would be a good idea,

Placing a minimum character requirement on self-posts

if i wanted this i would go to twitter ^{^semi-joking}

Creating a new subreddit for questions

This might sound me being lazy, but I'd rather have everything in one sun. The only exception here is /r/soccerstreams IMO

There are some great self-posts on here and it would suck to see those go away becasuse a bunch of morons/troll spamming self-posts like "Is X better than Y will ever be?"

Wandering_Wednesday · 12ヶ月前

Without questions this sub would be awful. Yes many are daft but it's not nearly as bad as the constant parade of gifts like "Ozil skills" posted over and over.

K10S · 12ヶ月前

What? No man, none of those suggestion would help the community. It would just make your job easier.

flancresty · 12ヶ月前

Both the best and worst posts here are self posts. I'm all for strong moderation to remove the kinds of frequent and low-value posts you mention, but I also recognize that moderating forums takes a lot more time than people realize, and I'm sure not volunteering to sift the signal from the noise.

So, absent strong human-based moderation, a minimum character limit might be a decent proxy. I assume mods can't mess with the post karma algorithms to for example make it harder for short selfposts to climb up the page relative to longer self posts.

JTB4MOD · 12ヶ月前

Free Talk Friday is the biggest shitpost in the sub.

daniloelnino · 12ヶ月前

This is a serious problem affecting all of reddit. To those proposing sending all the shitposts over to /r/soccercirclejerk, I have an argument for you.

We can't accept any more of you migrants in /r/soccercirclejerk. It's just economically not feasible. We've resorted to building a giant fence and closing our borders. We'd like to help out with the shitposting crisis, but really, this is a problem that Germany and the rest of the western subreddits (Lewandowski in particular) have caused. It is therefore up to you to solve. We are allowing your subscribers in but we're just giving them basic shitposting resources and letting them pass through in transit.

If every subscriber donated 1€ we could possibly allow for some sort of humanitarian aid. But in general, historically shitposting does not mix with our brand of serious discussion on soccercirclejerk. Allowing so many of you in would lower our quality of post and cause economic problems in terms of upvotes and downvotes.

Furthermore, we do not want to run the risk of your posters radicalizing on our subreddit and turning it into a place for legitimate debate and sharing of quality posts. No sirree.

Theothor · 12ヶ月前

Personally I do not see the problem. Just let the users decide with voting if it's an interesting selfpost. Maybe remove a selfpost when its heavily downvoted to clean up a bit.

14Deadsouls · 12ヶ月前

Generally I find the self posts to be the best threads on /r/soccer and the ones that generate the best discussion.

michaelisnotginger · 12ヶ月前

A lot of self posts are made out of sheer laziness. Many are simple questions that can easily be answered with a quick internet search. Others are wide hypotheticals that are hard to answer, and others are for the sake of shit-posting (premier league vs. La Liga, Man Utd vs. Liverpool). The few that are interesting could be limited to posting on a specific day or time, and removed if many are posted. I think many people like the validation of r soccer. I think a sticked 'newbies/questions' thread could work.

[deleted] · 12ヶ月前

My vote goes for this one

Placing a minimum character requirement on self-posts

If you can't create a decentish couple of paragraphs about your scenario/opinion/topic you want to discuss then the post doesn't merit a thread

This only leaves the tryhards, but they're seen as valuable users of /r/soccer anyway

[deleted] · 12ヶ月前

What's your underrated, left footed, bald, U16 XI?

The chemo ward at Great Ormand Street have a good team, churning out new talent every year too.

In seriousness, yeah, remove low quality and silly self posts, leave the actual good questions up and let the community decide if it gains traction or not.

AlanArchibald · 12ヶ月前

Personally I think a discussion thread would be the best option. Don't delete the question threads unless they're blatantly trolling/circlejerking/nonsense. Sometimes the question threads can have fairly interesting answers, like the one about players being disenchanted the other day. Tbh I think the worst parts of this subreddit are the people that turn up in match threads and goal gif threads that just talk garbage anyway.

honeymonsta · 12ヶ月前

It would be cool if there was a weekly thread to discuss tactical trends and tactics within a particular game.

hazzwright · 12ヶ月前

Wow, /r/Formula1 could learn a lot from this thread.

[deleted] · 12ヶ月前

Sidebar link to r/soccercirclejerk

SeekerInShadows · 12ヶ月前

Sounds all awful ideas honestly.

Bills_Mothers · 12ヶ月前

I asked a question about comparing eras and it was deleted, yet there are numerous posts about "Is Ozil better than x"? And loads about Messi and Ronaldo that are repeats.

tigranater · 12ヶ月前

Yeah I think you should definitely strip off any remaining charm or discussion this subreddit may have that makes it unique, and make it solely a place to watch incomplete gfycats of boring goals from a pitchside camera angle.

exceptioniol · 12ヶ月前

it's an open forum.. accept that the football crowd tends to be young, fanatical, very defensive about their team and irrationally critical of other teams. But we all essentially agree to those unwritten truths when we contribute in the community. Is there a ton of immaturity here? yes.. Are there a bunch of assholes? yes..

Is banning questions a reasonable idea to come up with in an attempt to improve your community? not even close, it's insane. yes, right leaning republicans and extreme conservatives are fucking bat-shit crazy and possibly the stupidest group of people on the planet if you don't consider Chelsea fans. But in the wonderful world of the r/soccer community where free speech comes in the form of "top bantz" and "[insert chelsea player here] is a cunt", less government (moderation), the better.

Obviously I don't mean to say this place needs no policing whatsoever, I think the mods do an excellent job and there's not much of a need for what I consider radical change.

[deleted] · 12ヶ月前

Don't like the idea of excluding questions. I like the idea of a minimum word count, but then you may exclude posts like 'archive of all of Messi's goals' which is just a list of lots of links. It may not have much worded content but it would still be a good submission.

Perhaps a way to minimise questions is to have a 'Simple Questions - Week of 21/09/15' thread or similar posted each week.

[deleted] · 12ヶ月前

Requiring a minimum character requirement would solve a lot of the problems I reckon but would it not also exclude some content which only needs a few words to be said?

As someone who browses the new queue I think the mods do a good job of removing the shit content and low effort posts. I feel the good discussions will get upvoted though these types of posts seem to be 1 in 20 posts. Maybe a warning and then a 7 day ban for people who make shit posts would be a good deterrent perhaps?

practically_floored · 12ヶ月前

Removing question threads

I think some questions can generate good discussion, it's the questions that get asked over and over again that don't add anything to the subreddit.

Placing a minimum character requirement on self-posts

This could be a good idea, it wold mean people actually have to put some thought into their posts and it would get rid of a lot of the low effort nonsense that gets posted.

Creating a new subreddit for questions

I feel that it's unlikely this subreddit would become popular, and there wouldn't be enough people to actually hold decent discussion.

Creating regular discussion threads akin to Free Talk Friday

This might work, but if it means discussion posts are disabled then it would probably need to be more regular than FTF.

Dob-is-Hella-Rad · 12ヶ月前

Removing question threads isn't a good idea in my opinion. There are lots of bad ones, but there have been a decent amount of fairly decent questions that actually spark good discussion. Personally, I can get most of my news, highlights and shit banter from elsewhere, so I think discussion is something that /r/soccer is actually better for than many other places. The questions don't even have to be brilliantly insightful, some of those "create an XI with a ridiculous stipulation" can be a fun thing to think about to kill some time, but there are a lot of needless ones. Like Joe said, a new subreddit and a discussion thread probably won't fix things that much (a discussion thread would do a little though, I'd be fine to see that, it just wouldn't fix everything. Actually come to think of it I'd like it, I just wouldn't expect it to make as big an impact on the self posts as you'd like). The character requirement could be interesting, I think it could be very good. There could be the occasional problem of if people ask open-ended questions and then put their opinion of an answer in the self-post and it's a good question but a terrible answer so they get downvoted. Then there'll definitely be people who try to get around it, or maybe some good questions where you don't need more characters, but I'm sure you could find a way to use them to prompt some greater discussion. And maybe you could have a banned list of questions. Some questions are worth being asked periodically (unpopular opinions is bad if it's every week, but every few months you'll get new ones as new stories emerge. Maybe those ones we can have a quasi-offical thread for), but there are some we can put to rest.

So basically, my point is that I like the discussion here, even some of the kind of inane hypothetical stuff, because /r/soccer is a good platform for it, my big problem is the same stupid questions where anything interesting's already been said.

Also, can we do something about shit responses to even decent questions? Like just straight-up not even trying to answer the question type responses.

matig123 · 12ヶ月前

Is there not some sort of auto-moderator tool that can delete a post if the percentage of upvotes is too low? For example, if the post

Who has a bigger penis, Bendtner or Balotelli?

has, say, under 20% upvotes, it gets deleted automatically. That way the moderators don't have to be digging through self posts looking for the shit and the users are deciding which content they want to see.

insighttoleft · 12ヶ月前

Creating a new subreddit for questions

Wouldn't work. Few people who can answer said questions would bother going on there - Not that many competent people go on new so there'd be even less on a completely new subreddit

yjlevg · 12ヶ月前

Why not just do a regular "Moronic Monday" type thread that other subs have? I've seen the noob question threads here but they don't seem to be regular. Just make one of these threads a week and pin it to the top for that day, remove any posts with questions and redirect them to that thread

kabajingai · 12ヶ月前

The problem with self-posts is that they don't work well on a catch-all generic sub like this. On specific Arsenal/Chelsea/Wolverton subreddits you can basically pose a daft question or a very specific question. You simply can't do that on a general sub unless the question is very well-focused, intelligent/funny and able to attract decent comments from a large number of fans across the globe.

Also, here you have a mix of knowledgeable posters, the Archbishops of Banterburys and of course the 14 year old kids from Iowa who play Fifa. Its tough to satisfy everyone without being too esoteric or too low-brow in its content.

If we could create a single daily thread that can get all the 14 year old spammos asking stupid questions and posing daft hypotheticals (could Messi play in outer space?) than that would help alleviate a lot of problems and help clear up the clutter.

Also I think the amount of gifs is an absolute joke. When Lewandowski scores 5 in 9 minutes you have all 5 goals being upvoted on separate posts. I'm sorry but that is bullshit. Its from the same match. You really need to stop people from doing that imo. You don't allow people to post multiple match-threads, so why is that suddenly allowed? I don't want to see 4 or 5 posts that has basically the same content.

kahrismatic · 12ヶ月前

I like self posts, but I don't really notice the ones that don't make it to the first couple of pages.

If you're going to change it then the weekly post on X topic/s sounds like the best way though. A new sub will have too limited an audience for much discussion, a determined troll will get around character limits anyway, and I'd hate to see discussion type posts go entirely.

Maybe we could just prominently link the /r/soccercirclejerk and hope a lot of the shit goes there where it might be more appreciated.

Another option is something like the /r/science way, basically taking on more mods with limited specific duties to deal with the problem.

Or can we tag posts in some way and then have the option to filter by the tags? I'm pretty sure a few subs have something like that. /r/food off the top of my head.

OtifireMightblade · 12ヶ月前

Could you guys pls log some of the best shit posts on here and at the end of the season post them all as discussion points in a mega thread? Or maybe even a shit post of the year type thing? I can imagine there would be some terrible ones but could give us a laugh

Cee-Mon · 12ヶ月前

I don't think self posts are much of an issue. The really terrible ones are swatted by the mods (thanks for that, btw), the bad ones are downvoted and the few actual good posts usually make the front page.

xtfftc · 12ヶ月前

Removing question threads

Too broad.

Placing a minimum character requirement on self-posts

Again too broad.

Creating a new subreddit for questions

Does this ever work? The vast majority will stick to /r/soccer.

Creating regular discussion threads akin to Free Talk Friday (these can be daily, weekly, etc.)

Won't hurt but won't prevent people from posting separate threads - and many topics need a whole thread to be discussed properly.

Frankly, I'd be okay if you remove shitposts on subjective criteria, e.g. does the mod looking at it consider it a shitpost. I don't think anything else can work efficiently since the rules would either be too limiting or would have to be applied selectively.

Also, can you restrict regular offenders from opening new threads? Not banning them from the sub altogether, just not allowing them to start threads.

nowimanamputee · 12ヶ月前

What about a monthly moratorium? /r/badhistory has a community poll every month which decides which three topics will be banned the following month. So for example, the community could choose to ban any best xi posts for the month, and mods would remove any posts in that content area. It keeps the same topics from coming up too often and restores some of the freshness when they do come back.

Marchinon · 12ヶ月前

"Is Anthony Martial the greatest player ever?" What am I in? /r/soccercirclejerk?

gotziller · 12ヶ月前

I get why you want to get rid of the troll posts but what is the point of stopping all questions. Even the stupid ones from newbies shouldnt get deleted because if I was just getting into soccer and wanted to learn more I'd probably go to the soccer subreddit to learn

aman27deep · 12ヶ月前

This is a bad idea. If you lot are having trouble moderating new posts, add members to the mod team. Except self posts, this sub-reddit is a worse version of some sort of youtube.

renome · 12ヶ月前

The sub is bad enough as it is, banning self posts will just degrade it even further, even if we're just talking about question threads and stuff like that. I understand you want to make your job easier, but even /r/gaming didn't ban self-posts.

MR777 · 12ヶ月前

Leave the self posts, if they are good we will vote on them ourselves. Yesterday there wqs a great piece of analysis posted as a self post

CameranAlavi · 12ヶ月前

I made a thread about this topic a couple of weeks ago, and I think the consensus there is very similar to the consensus here.

What many subscribers to /r/soccer (and myself to an extent) believe: Self-posts can be important discussion-starters but they can also be pointless. However, I think we all agree that the mods already do a pretty good job of removing the latter before most of us can see them. The posts aren't the problem. The real problem is, again, with the comments.

I'm not even going to discuss the issue with comments myself because you read it in this post or my old post. We all know the meme responses need to stop, or at least slow down (I think each and every one of us can do our part to make this happen).

What I personally believe: I've seen people post legitimately good questions such as "Who is the best player to play for a country different from where they were born?" which have the potential to teach us a lot and kind of get the brain working. In fact, this was the first time I found out that Zidane was actually born in France, and is not an appropriate answer for this question; for some reason, I'd always heard he was born in Algeria. The point I'm trying to make is that self-posts need to be given a chance, and like someone else said on this thread: For every person who criticizes a question post for being repetitive, there is someone who hasn't had footballing friends around him and hasn't had the ability to discuss his question before.

I really think it would help an enormous amount to simply put a hover message over the downvote and upvote buttons. I know I'm guilty of downvoting something I simply don't agree with, and I know for a fact that I do this far less frequently on other subs when I'm reminded every time to make sure my voting rationale is unbiased. If someone doesn't want to contribute to a discussion, then just leave that discussion alone without voting either way; if enough people agree with/think like you, then you won't have to worry about it "reaching the front page" if that really is your concern. Of course, if you think a self-post will not inspire good discussion or is something that is truly repetitive, do us all a favor and downvote it, or better yet, simply comment with a link to where that question has been asked before. It may be naive, but I think that doing all these things will significantly help the issue as well as allowing self-posters to get their fill of discussion, albeit maybe in a separate thread.

Sorry for the rant, guys, but this is clearly a topic that I (and many of us) feel strongly about. At the end of the day, I think a hover message would do a world of good, and I also think it's the solution that fewest people would get angry about.

Edit: Just fixing up some typos.

bonesbones90 · 12ヶ月前

I find that the most effective and organized sports sub is /r/cfb. They have multiple different discussion threads on a regular basis. I feel if we do this, it will create a more organized sub and allow better discussion. * Complain About Your Team Thread * Trash Talk * Free Talk Friday * Image, Video, GIF, Vine Thread * Weekly Wind Down

we could also do special threads for champions league, cup leagues, etc

THEFreger · 12ヶ月前

Some subs like /r/civ has a weekly "stupid quistion post" which could remove a lot small question posts

El_Nombre_Occupado · 12ヶ月前

There are some great question threads like the obscure grounds discussion threads, where people were posting photos of really cool football grounds they had visited and telling story's about them.

Leave the upvote/downvote system to do the job for you.

ncocca · 12ヶ月前

Removing question threads

This is too broad. Just ignore stupid questions

Minimum character requirement on self posts

I like this. Also, this could help with the questions issue above, considering questions are inherently self-posts

Create new subreddit for questions

I assume this is in tandem with the first option? In that case, I say no, because you won't get the audience to make asking the question worthwhile

Regular discussion threads

Yes, I like these. They help facilitate disussion that is related to the game but sometimes not necessarily important enough to be its own topic

PoorAuthor9 · 12ヶ月前

I think removing question threads is a terrible idea. It's actually one of the greatest parts of this subreddit. It's r/soccer, not r/soccergifs. I find the discussion threads to often be very insightful. It would be a really sad thing to see this subreddit cease to host discussions like that.

LIGHTCATTY · 12ヶ月前

Utilise /r/AskSoccer

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[deleted] · 12ヶ月前

Creating regular discussion threads looks like the best Idea

TheFormidableGiant · 12ヶ月前

Creating regular discussion threads akin to Free Talk Friday

This, this, this and this. This.

Alder_ · 12ヶ月前

I think new accounts or accounts that havnt written much in /r/soccer shouldnt be allowed to post self-posts or even submit links. This would stop people from posting nonsense on their throwawayaccount

autistic_wizard · 12ヶ月前

Have you ever thought about adding something like a [Serious] tag for the self posts?
If you search "serious" on this sub you can find quite a few decent discussions without retarded comments like "Lads, it's ____", "Typical arsenal" and other meme replies.

theEternalDingus · 12ヶ月前

But the shit posts are amusing! How else would we get such a gem such as Dearth of a rhubarb?

apotre · 12ヶ月前

Banning question threads would be like cutting off your arm for the blister on your finger.

[deleted] · 12ヶ月前

Placing a minimum character requirement on self-posts

This is the best one IMO.

NINE_HUNDRED · 12ヶ月前

Don't remove all question threads, some are quite interesting. I think just ban the shit/meme post ones that crop up every week.

I don't see a separate subreddit working at all, don't think it's that much of an issue to divide things up.

Kreindeker · 12ヶ月前

Option four sounds best, along with stepping up nuking the shitposts. A regular discussion sticky works well on a number of different subs, and it'll help ensure the poor quality posts are streamlined.

alpha_c · 12ヶ月前

Removing question threads is harsh, imho. Sure there is shitposting and low effort stuff, but how are people with legitimate questions supposed to get their answers then? Besides, I've seen plenty of question threads with interesting discussion, which add to the value of /r/soccer.
How is a minimum character requirement supposed to solve anything?
A weekly question thread won't work either, I'm afraid. If that gets popular there's a good chance that good questions get buried, with only a handful of posts generating valuable discussion.

All in all, creating something like /r/soccerquestions seems to be the most sensible thing to me.

gignac · 12ヶ月前

Do like /r/hiphopheads

moonflower · 12ヶ月前

It's not a bad idea to remove the obviously poor quality questions like ''who is the third best footballer in the world?'' but I think it would be better to assess them individually rather than try to judge them by number of characters in the text, because you could feasibly have a very short question which leads to an interesting set of answers - so you could let each self post stay on display for a short while and then see how they are going in the comments section

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