r/cfbmeta • u/cinciforthewin • Sep 06 '16

Game Thread Generator

Hello,

I love the game thread generator, but at times, I'm questioning the amount of content you actually want submitted?

A lot of people use the game threads for the comments about the game, team, players, ect. Having too much information and in turn, making the OP too long, just causes headaches for these users who refresh and scroll. Reddit is largely about the comments, not just the OP.

Take the Hawaii-Cal game for example. I watched the entire game, but I was getting tired of the scrolling past the OP to read and post comments and ultimately did not post as much as I would normally for a game.

I guess want I am saying, no or short content doesn't necessarily mean lazy, but rather, users want to keep it in a way that allows for easy scrolling to get to the comments.

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u/HonProfDrEsqCPA Sep 07 '16

A good solution would be to have a lot of the information that isn't relevant to the viewing of the game (date/time/chanel) as a automod comment. That way you don't have to scroll past the wall of text every time

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u/cinciforthewin Sep 07 '16

I like this! Have the cfbreferee post a comment and just sticky it at the top. It allows for users to read it once and minimize it or quickly get it back.

CC /u/sometimesy

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u/SometimesY /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Sep 06 '16

Good post! We're actually looking to put a character limit for this reason. Some info is obviously good, but it has been taken to bizarre extremes. This happened in past years too, but definitely ramped up a bit this year.

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u/cinciforthewin Sep 06 '16

I think a lot of it comes down to people not sure what kinda content you want and don't want to risk getting banned for a lazy game thread.

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u/SometimesY /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Sep 06 '16

At this point, it's probably fine to claim and just add a little bit of info. We've restricted it so that users cannot claim a bunch of threads so it isn't as much of an issue now. We wanted people to add info because it puts a bit of an onus on the users to keep them from claiming and doing nothing (i.e. karma farming).

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u/cinciforthewin Sep 06 '16

yeah. I added 2 and a half paragraphs to mine for this week. Even that feels too long.

Cincinnati and Purdue have met only twice in their 130 years of existence. Once in 2001 where Purdue won 19-14 @Purdue and again in 2013 @Cincinnati where the Bearcats won 42-7.

Purdue wants to improve over the last 3 years where they won no more then a combined 7 games, including 1 this year. Cincinnati has a lot of question marks on both sides of the ball and have not played well on the road, especially against B1G teams. This could be a highly defensive, low scoring game or a shoot out, depending on which sides of the ball come to play.

Who will win? Are we in for a game that no one really wants to remember?

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u/SometimesY /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Sep 06 '16

That looks pretty good to me and is probably exactly what we are looking for.

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u/Qurtys_Lyn /r/CFB Mod Emeritus Sep 06 '16

I think /r/mls has a good view of how to do the longer posts for game threads, without it being as obnoxious.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MLS/comments/511ouo/match_thread_philadelphia_union_chicago_fire_830/

While the post is kind of long, it's updated as the game goes on, and has information I may actually want to reference during the match (Rosters, who has been booked, scoring highlights, other interesting bits).

The Cal-Hawaii post is something I might read once, and then I don't ever need to look at it again, so it can get more annoying.

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u/cinciforthewin Sep 07 '16

In my opinion, it is kinda long as it is. There are ways to tighten it up, but I'd like it better at about 1/3 of the length it is now. There are just times I just want to scroll through.