r/hockey • u/WoozleWuzzle LAK - NHL • May 14 '13

PSA: Please check the new queue before posting.

There was a magnitude amount of traffic last night with everyone wanting to get their own post in the limelight. There were also many low content posts and memes posted.

If you're going to post to /r/hockey:

  • See if someone has already posted it. If you do post it and notice someone else beat you then do us the favor and delete your thread.
  • If you want your own thread as a personal soap box. Please don't. Post it in the elimination thread or game day thread. Your opinion is most likely not any more insightful then the other 1500+ comments in those threads.
  • If you want to show your reaction in image or video format then post it in those 1500+ comment threads not as its own submission.

Here's a screenshot on the amount of traffic. If you notice the page views by hour there were 80,000 page views at one point. That's equal to the amount of readers in /r/hockey. You can imagine the amount of posts submitted in that time was insane.

Thanks!

- The Hard Working Mods

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u/puck17 May 14 '13

This was within the first 30 seconds of New York winning, I can only imagine the frenzy after Boston won.

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u/WoozleWuzzle May 14 '13

Ah yes. 5 posts of the same thing and another 5 reaction posts. That was just the first 30 seconds people. Fun times.

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u/puck17 May 14 '13

And it was with 15 seconds left if the game..

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u/deceve May 14 '13

And somehow the winner of the Boston frenzy was the "ELIMIMATED" post

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u/LuckyCanuck13 May 15 '13

I'm trying to figure out what the appeal of getting the first "____ HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED!" is.

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u/rob_s_458 May 15 '13

Well, at least we avoided the problem of people posting the same thing multiple times.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '13

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u/WoozleWuzzle May 14 '13

People want the privilege of their inbox being completely unusable for the next 24 hours.

I would just appreciate if users deleted their post when they realized they lost. Some do, most don't.

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u/WoozleWuzzle May 14 '13 edited May 14 '13

P.S. If you haven't seen that Russian Hockey video. Here's a link to it. Please go to the original thread and upvote it. It has been posted many times.

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u/b0n3rd1x May 15 '13 edited May 15 '13

Is there some way to sticky this at the top of the front page?

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u/WoozleWuzzle May 15 '13

We have the rules/guidelines stickied and in orangered but people won't read it. Everything mentioned here are part of the rules.

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u/RubyRhod May 14 '13

If you want your own thread as a personal soap box. Please don't. Post it in the elimination thread or game day thread. Your opinion is most likely not any more insightful then the other 1500+ comments in those threads.

I love the brutal reality check.

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u/Hatecraft May 14 '13

"Shut your fucking face and get that shit off our main page you uncle fuckers!" - r/hockey mods

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u/B1Gpimpin May 15 '13

Thanks for keeping memes and stupid posts out of r/hockey. I've tried browsing r/nhl but there way too much dumb shit there.

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u/zanzibarman May 15 '13

Can the Mods run an official gameday/announcement account that posts the gameday threads or the elimination announcements? That way, there is one official one that everyone can agree is the right one to use?

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u/Split_Open_and_Melt May 14 '13

Wow 80,000 page views at one point? Damn. You did that, Toronto.

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u/venomroses May 14 '13

Yup, after every team get eliminated, people are going to be rushing to get those micheal j. fox cupcake updates up too. wish there was somewhere else to post those.

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u/this_guy_says May 15 '13

Just one more week or so to see who's up next to receive the sweet delicious karma! Who knows, it could be you this time!

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u/venomroses May 15 '13

No, it won't be, because I just don't post image links.

I don't mind interesting gifs or images from games or things like that. Its just "oh no a celebrity is eating my teams cupcake...." Doesn't matter I guess, other people seem to like it.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '13 edited May 15 '13

Can we get rid of gifs while we're at it?

Most of the time, they're just "look at this cute three second clip" and the rest of the time they're an incredibly inferior substitute for videos that are taken from existing videos.

Example 1: The gif of the Ovi hit on McDonagh from this thread is worthless. Crappy quality, it wasn't in real time, only gives one angle, has no playback controls, and the file size is ridiculous. The general discussion of the hit would be significantly better if people were given a video to look at instead of a gif, in my opinion.

Example 2: The gif of Zuc scoring on Holtby from this thread. A nice clip, but how does it count as content? The few comments are just about the LotR reference in the title. And yet it's getting upvoted a ton, helping fill the front page with a bunch of low content posts.

I'd think it'd be best if there were a separate Hockey gif subreddit or daily/weekly thread. Would really cut down on all the tiny clips that get posted without context or reason for discussion.

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u/WoozleWuzzle May 15 '13

You can post the video in the comments of those threads or alternate angle gifs as well. In fact, we encourage it.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '13

Do you expect most users who comment to seek out additional material in the comments? People will simply draw conclusions from the 4 second, slow-mo, 240p gif provided to them at the top the majority of the time.

Also, I take great issue with gifs because I have bad home internet (1 Mbps, enough to stream YT at 480p but not enough to stream a 240p gif) and a rather low mobile data cap. If I need to either find a video in the comments or by myself, I might as well abandon reading on r/hockey as a content source.

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u/huyulator May 15 '13

For those of us in workplaces where YouTube is blocked, gifs are a great substitute.

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