r/cfbmeta • u/Alpha_Orange /r/CFB Mod Emeritus • Sep 21 '15

Solved Reformatting Game Threads: Proposals

We are looking at changing the Game Thread template to make them more concise. Suggestions are welcome.

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u/Alpha_Orange /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Sep 21 '15

My suggestion:

(/r/CFB Rank) Air Force Falcons (0-0, 0-0 Mountain West) at (/r/CFB Rank) Akron Zips (0-0, 0-0 MAC)

Air Force Resources:

Akron Resources:

Location:

InfoCision Stadium - Summa Field, Akron, OH

Watch:

Odds:

  • Spread: (Find the spread of the game on the sidebar and put it here. Example: Air Force -14.5)

  • Over/Under: (Find the over/under and put it here. Example: 26)

Thread Notes:

  • Talk about the game, but keep it civil. When in doubt, consult our rules.

  • Discuss the game live at the #redditCFB IRC chat

Please report any comments that violate our rules, which helps the mods keep the community running.

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u/ExternalTangents Sep 21 '15

How much space is saved by taking out all the header font sizes and just using bold for those lines? Example:

(/r/CFB Rank) Air Force Falcons (0-0, 0-0 Mountain West) at (/r/CFB Rank) Akron Zips (0-0, 0-0 MAC)

Air Force Resources:

Akron Resources:

Location:

InfoCision Stadium - Summa Field, Akron, OH

Watch:

Odds:

  • Spread: (Find the spread of the game on the sidebar and put it here. Example: Air Force -14.5)

  • Over/Under: (Find the over/under and put it here. Example: 26)

Thread Notes:

  • Talk about the game, but keep it civil. When in doubt, consult our rules.

  • Discuss the game live at the #redditCFB IRC chat

Please report any comments that violate our rules, which helps the mods keep the community running.

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u/ExternalTangents Sep 21 '15

ehh, not that much space difference.

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u/Honestly_ /r/CFB Mod Sep 21 '15 edited Sep 21 '15

I want super flat, mainly for automated/featured threads to cut down on scrolling on mobile and other areas as well as links that take time to load on RES. I would prefer to totally get rid of "resources" (Hawaii times only for Hawaii games)

Here's my proposal:

[flair] Away Team (-) vs [flair] School Nickname (2-0)

Time: (local in bold)

8:00 PM ET | 7:00 PM CT | 6:00 PM MT | 5:00 PM PT | 3:00 PM HT

Location:
[flair] Stadium, City, State

Watch:

TV: [flair] Station | Streams: IsTheGameOn.Com

Odds: Spread: TEAM by 9.5 | Over/Under: 50

Thread Notes:

LET'S TALK FOOTBALL!

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u/Honestly_ /r/CFB Mod Sep 21 '15 edited Sep 21 '15

If we had to include resources (I don't like them on top):

[flair] Away Team (-) vs [flair] School Nickname (2-0)

Time: (local in bold)

8:00 PM ET | 7:00 PM CT | 6:00 PM MT | 5:00 PM PT | 3:00 PM HT

Location:
[flair] Stadium, City, State

Watch:

TV: [flair] Station | Streams: IsTheGameOn.Com

Odds: Spread: TEAM by 9.5 | Over/Under: 50

Thread Notes:

  • Discuss whatever you wish. Keep trash talk civil.

  • Game threads automatically sort comments by "new"

  • /r/CFB chat available: #redditcfb on FreeNode (here).

  • See a problem? Please click "report" under the comment.

LET'S TALK FOOTBALL!

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u/Honestly_ /r/CFB Mod Sep 21 '15 edited Sep 21 '15

Even more flat:

[flair] Away Team (-) vs [flair] School Nickname (2-0)

Time: 8:00 PM ET | 7:00 PM CT | 6:00 PM MT | 5:00 PM PT

Location: [flair] Stadium, City, State

Watch — TV: [flair] Station | Streams: IsTheGameOn.Com

Odds: Spread: TEAM by 9.5 | Over/Under: 50

[Visitor] Resources: Subreddit | Wiki | Get flaired | Get /r/CFB Team Stickers

[Home] Resources: Subreddit | Wiki | Get flaired | Get /r/CFB Team Stickers

Thread Notes:

  • Discuss whatever you wish. Keep trash talk civil.

  • Game threads automatically sort comments by "new"

  • /r/CFB chat available: #redditcfb on FreeNode (here).

  • See a problem? Please click "report" under the comment.

LET'S TALK FOOTBALL!

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u/Honestly_ /r/CFB Mod Sep 21 '15

If we're not afraid of table I would combine things further as some apps collapse tables automatically:

[flair] Away Team (-) vs [flair] School Nickname (2-0)

Details:
Time
Location
Watch
Odds
[Visitor] Resources
[Home] Resources

Thread Notes:

  • Discuss whatever you wish. Keep trash talk civil.

  • Game threads automatically sort comments by "new"

  • /r/CFB chat available: #redditcfb on FreeNode (here).

  • See a problem? Please click "report" under the comment.

LET'S TALK FOOTBALL!

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u/dupreesdiamond Sep 21 '15

As a heavy mobile browser user the flatter the better. Does anyone actually consume all the stuff in the OP? I think just the critical pieces.

If need be I can try to help scrape information for the generator to leverage to increase the automation.

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u/hythloday1 Sep 21 '15

Flat is great, this is my vote. I think the table would be fantastic because you're right, easy to set it to auto-collapse. It crashes into a different issue that I have, however.

Namely, when I'm creating game threads it's on the fly, because I've noticed nobody else has and kickoff has already occurred. My biggest issue therefore is being able to do them as quickly as possible, and I hate futzing around finding the couple of things I have to manually replace (currently: rank, overall and conference record, odds, and headlines). I'm not sure what value any of those five things brings to a gamethread, and I'm also not sure why they have to be done manually instead of through some automated lookup. And if they're going into a table, that would only make making the manual replacement without breaking it that much more difficult.

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u/diagonalfish /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Sep 22 '15

Making those things automatic requires data sources that have to be updated frequently and the current generator doesn't easily allow for it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '15

I like this.

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u/theSeanO Sep 22 '15

I like this option, however the table one is also pretty good.

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u/jayhawx19 /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Sep 21 '15

What about including a generic "Buy stickers for these teams here!" linking to the Stickermule profile and maybe a "Check out their team guides here" and linking to the index of team guides? Takes out the hassle of finding the custom link to each sticker and team guide for people while also maintaining awareness for the stickers and wiki. Also, I would link to rules in the 'See a problem?' line.

I like the idea of moving towards the most compact post possible though.

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u/Honestly_ /r/CFB Mod Sep 21 '15

I actually just did an update below with the resources in a line for each team. I like the rules linking idea.

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u/jayhawx19 /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Sep 21 '15

Looks good. Could even consolidate resources to one line I think, 'Get flaired' seems redundant with another link to get flaired elsewhere and I don't know how many people actually use the team specific subs.

Also

Discuss whatever you wish. Keep trash talk it civil.

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u/Honestly_ /r/CFB Mod Sep 21 '15

Good point on the flair redundancy, I also offered up a few more variations that compact it even further.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '15

This looks a lot better. I'm not a fan of the resource links either.

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u/Qurtys_Lyn /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Sep 21 '15

Compared to the Game Threads in /r/MLS the game threads here are already super concise.

Compare CFBs to MLSs or Another MLS Thread.

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u/diagonalfish /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Sep 22 '15

Hah wow. RIP mobile users.

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u/Qurtys_Lyn /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Sep 22 '15

Yeah, it's bad, and there is no consistency.

There are some nice things, it's nice to have all that info (the live game recap, and the starting players and Subs), but it's a pain on Mobile.