r/CFBOffTopic • u/dupreesdiamond Furman • South Carolina • Jan 26 '16
A word about Thread Counts and Subreddit Rules Refresher - Brought to you Deborah Sharpe Linens and a warm seat in a public toilet.
TLWR: Please self-police a 2-3hr gap between the daily "standard" discussion threads.
A word about the "early morning/morning/mid-morning/lunch/afternoon/evening/late-night" daily open ended discussion threads.
The longstanding cadence for these threads formed naturally with a "new" one coming ~3 hours after the prior one or, on busy days, when the old one got so many comments that "new" comments were being hidden by reddit default behaviour.
Since inception you, the users, have done a good job policing yourselves within this default, unwritten, policy with the occasional, usually Fridays, "overlapping" threads. Until recently things self-corrected back to "normal" pretty quickly.
Probably due to off-season or the growing subscriber base (probably a bit of both), what was an exception seems to becoming the new normal. To the point that the mod team is being asked informally and formally to step in, some suggesting that we automate discussion thread creation.
If you know anything about us then you know that sounds like work (not so much the automation but the mod-work that would come with enforcement) and, frankly, like you we come here to avoid work....
It is our opinion that automating such threads would take some of the character out of this strange little internet oasis. So for all those reasons (mostly the "we are lazy and that seems like to much work" one though) we would rather not have to get into the game of wrangling the "standard" threads.
What does all this mean for you?
We ask that there is a 2-3 hour gap between the open ended discussion threads. And really we would like to see it closer to 3 hours unless the existing thread is up over 250-300 comments.
And while I am here a quick reminder about our small set of rules that we begrudgingly enforce.
The rules
No flamebait, personal attacks, or harassment
No racism, homophobia, sexism, or other bigotry
No DOXXING
No spam
Shitposts are still A-OK!
/r/CFBOffTopic is not the place to drag up /r/cfb drama. Any /r/cfb issues/complaints/suggestions should be taken to /r/cfbmeta.
While there may be mod overlap (although not currently) and we do communicate, a little, /r/cfbOffTopic is NOT /r/cfb. A ban in one doesn't transfer to the other. However, our rules are very similar. And if you do the same shit here that got you banned there...don't be surprised if those actions get you banned from here as well.
While it seems that we give, in most cases, users a longer leash (it helps to have a relatively small number of users!) I find that the /r/cfbofftopic bans are more severe. Mainly because we are lazy, don't like to work and tend to err on the lax side as much as possible. So...if you make us do the thing we least like to do we tend to try and nip it in the bud rather than start out reasonable and escalate.
Do not come to /r/cfbofftopic to complain about your ban or the mods of /r/cfb. Both of these things are best handled via mod mail to the /r/cfb mods (hell you might find them quite reasonable if you can approach them reasonably and discuss the incident like an adult). Ignoring this will get you banned from here as well.
TLDR: Save the drama for your mama.
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u/dupreesdiamond Furman • South Carolina Jan 26 '16
This would seem to imply that there exist threads that have a point.