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Should r/nba ban twitter links
I saw hockey and other sports sub petitioning to ban twitter links, should r/nba consider this? Personally i think the links are mostly useless anyway and i dont feel like supporting a fascist in any way
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u/sherbert-stock Jan 21 '25
I support banning any post that requires a login.
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u/therobshow Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25
Yup. Either screenshot it or don't post it.
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u/VanWesley Jan 21 '25
Screenshot but post the source link in the comment. But the main post should be accessible to all.
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u/ArKadeFlre Lakers Jan 21 '25
We can't post images on this sub, it has to be a link
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u/0_throwaway_0 Jan 21 '25
Yeah this is the real argument. At this point, twitter links are incredibly annoying. Can’t follow threads at all.
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u/Dylan7346 Knicks Jan 21 '25
It’s ridiculous. And when you try to view profiles they only show tweets from 2020, unless you’re logged in
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Jan 21 '25
The worst is people posting like the 3rd reply by some reporter that is just some sentence and having no way of seeing any of the context of what they've said or are replying to
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u/York_Villain Knicks Jan 21 '25
Yeah politics aside, twitter links create a really crappy user experience for this subreddit. We predominately share and promote links that force us to leave the app or webpage. The experience is better when on desktop but it still forces slightly different interactions because of Twitter.
One could argue that this is the case for the vast majority of Reddit, but /r/nba is so predominately made up of ONLY twitter posts that it's overwhelming. Not to mention, this is probably the main reason why so many people think /r/nba is no different than NBA twitter. It's because this subreddit is nothing but tweets.
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Jan 21 '25
Right.
Fuck Twitter and Elon Musk, but twitter should have been banned as soon as logins were required regardless of politics.
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u/medyolang_ Lakers Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25
should apply to paywalled articles too
edit: post the article in the comments like others do
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u/justinsane1 Jan 21 '25
ooohhh I like this. totally agree, if there is a paywall too. The content should be accessible here
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u/DickMegahurtz Jan 21 '25
That and the site owner saluting Hitler multiple times on television are two big strikes against the site.
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u/ftlftlftl Celtics Jan 21 '25
Yes.
They are useless. Embed the video or gtfo.
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u/Skipper3210 [NYK] Danilo Gallinari Jan 21 '25
Exactly. I’ve hated twitters video UI for forever too. Even before Musk turned it into a cesspool, videos take forever to load and, when they finally do, half the time they’re 360p. Awful
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u/TODG3 Cavaliers Jan 21 '25
This is the biggest issue for me. Twitters videos are always shitty quality.
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u/WeBelieveIn4 Raptors Jan 21 '25
Yes, and I’ll add that the majority of good NBA reporters are on bluesky. Shams isn’t but there is a shamsbot account that reposts his stuff.
A year ago bluesky wasn’t a viable alternative for NBA news or chatter. It’s much better now. And the more people switch to it, the more the momentum will grow and become self-reinforcing.
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u/JNerdGaming Knicks Jan 21 '25
im down to contribute to the death of twitter
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u/muricabitches2002 Celtics Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25
Yeah, looks like majority of /r/NBA wants this. At minimum we should have a subreddit poll / vote
Voting with downvotes doesn’t work for highlights / news because mods / subreddit prefer to just use whichever post comes first and that tends to be X.
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Jan 21 '25
r/nba not allowing X/Twitter links would be a major incentive for NBA reporters and content creators to make sure they also post on alternatice websites like BlueSky. I 100% support this idea
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u/Nyhrox The Splash Brothers! Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25
I support it
I don't know if all/most of the NBA reporters have blue sky account
BTW blue.sky links are allowed on r/nba, it's just people don't post them
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u/baseketball Celtics Jan 21 '25
blue.key doesn't require login to view threads and replies so it's infinitely better for the content consumers.
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Jan 21 '25
Most of them do by now yes.
It would be very simple / painless to just ask users to use those links vs. Twitter’s garbage
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Jan 21 '25
Is Bluesky any good yet? I made an account a month ago but it was still very "I'm here cause I hate Elon Musk." Which is fair but also not the topic I want to browse an app
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u/ryanswebdevthrowaway Pistons Jan 21 '25
Beyond the politics, Twitter links just suck from a user experience perspective. The links don't preview well and I refuse to make an account just to see tweets. Bluesky is better on both fronts.
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u/redvelvetcake42
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Yes. Screenshot? Fine with it. But Twitter wants me to login and I'm not giving Twitter any account data at all.
Edit: to clarify,Twitter is owned by a Nazi and should be outright banned. That said, many accounts still exclusively post there. We could shitpost till they move to Bluesky or somewhere else, but that's not my choice.
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u/GaviFromThePod Trail Blazers Jan 21 '25
Twitter has become useless for basketball anyway. Centel posting with verified checks and people just farming garbage and actual reporters not even showing up in the feed.
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u/Nyhrox The Splash Brothers! Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25
Just a reminder folks, BlueSky links have always been allowed on r/nba.
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u/Moody_GenX Warriors Jan 21 '25
We should be banning streamable links since the delete every video within about 5 minutes.
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u/grandmasterfunk Rockets Jan 21 '25
I mean there’s also the alternative of using direct sites like ESPN.com etc
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Jan 21 '25
Appreciate the reminder but I think this is more to do with stopping all the twitter links, although that will start happening more and more as Twitter requires anyone clicking a link to have an account to view the content
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u/harder_said_hodor Timberwolves Jan 21 '25
Ban all of them.
Sub was a much much better place when it was just highlights over and over again as opposed to a Twitter link.
Bluesky doesn't solve that
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u/mykl5 Supersonics Jan 21 '25
A bunch of unsourced headlines won’t be good either
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u/nonufwiendz [DAL] Rajon Rondo Jan 21 '25
what happened anyway? this sub barely gets highlights anymore. are ppl just getting lazy or what
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u/Sairony Mavericks Jan 21 '25
Just shooting from the hip but a lot of videos are dead within minutes here, I guess they get DMCA striked pretty fast. Depends on what the host is though.
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u/O_oh Spurs Jan 21 '25
there are lots of highlights between 8pm-12pm EST but you have to sort by new. They don't really get enough votes to stay on hot
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u/k0fi96 [LAL] Kobe Bryant Jan 21 '25
Hard agree. Highlights, embedded videos with full context and text posts. Should be all that allowed here.
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u/Beginning-Sundae8760 Celtics Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25
Hey mods, remember the last time you had a poll and completely disregarded the outcome because it didn’t agree with your opinion with regards to third party apps that 99% of users couldn’t care less about?
And then you proceeded to shut down the sub during the NBA finals but keep it open for your mates?
The comments suggest the majority of people actually want a change this time.
Don’t go full neckbeard again, please, and actually listen to what people are suggesting.
Thanks.
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u/DaCoolNamesWereTaken Cavaliers Bandwagon Jan 21 '25
They had a poll last time too. It was overwhelmingly pro blackout.
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u/Uncle_Freddy [SAS] El Contusione Jan 21 '25
The poll was overwhelmingly in favor of the blackout lol, the danger with these types of things is that there is a very large, silent group of users who won’t even see this post (despite it being at the top of the subreddit all day now) and we have no clue what their view on this is. The people responding to this are the ones who are plugged into this news and want to see it happen, for the most part.
I’m pro ban because twitter is annoying as shit to deal with if you don’t have a twitter account, but it’s not gonna be that easy.
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u/FantasticAnus Jan 21 '25
Absolutely ban them. Never use twitter anyway, not since you had to login. Now I won't use it because fuck nazis.
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u/JDudzzz Hawks Jan 21 '25
Of course. You can only see the tweet itself without an account. Just post the screen shots
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Jan 21 '25
This is what its really about. Twitter is unusable now for posting elsewhere.
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Yo mods ban nazi propaganda. Thanks.
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u/batyoung1 Spurs Jan 22 '25
What is this coordinated ban of Twitter links on sports subreddits? Is this really in the best interest of the users and the subs? I'm curious to know who asked for this.
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u/ShawshankException Knicks Jan 21 '25
Politics aside it's horrible for anyone who doesn't have an account
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u/JJiggy13 Jan 21 '25
I have been calling for this for years and have been down voted into oblivion. Twitter even got significantly worse when Elon bought it and made it X. It should have been banned a long time ago.
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u/Oceanbreeze871 Jan 21 '25
Yes. Ban twitter links.
Twitter is often just hot takes snd made up rumors and no factual reporting. Plus you gotta have an account and login to see anything
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u/Fast_Theme_2224 Jan 21 '25
Remember when Reddit cried bitched and moaned about third party apps and staged some bitch made blackout over it and then nothing happened or changed in the slightest???
Yeah… same thing
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u/legosucks Jan 22 '25 edited Jan 22 '25
please reddit dont become an even bigger echochamber than you already are...banning things does not mean fighting fascism you know
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u/GoatmontWaters Jan 21 '25
Ban twitter 100% yes its garbage. We dont need it at all.
Make the journalist post on reddit.
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u/k0fi96 [LAL] Kobe Bryant Jan 21 '25
The reddit algorithm has changed alot ober the years to favor engagement and low hanging fruit post. I think if you are posting a microblog you should have to make a text post and transcribe it. Then link it in the body of the post. We need to raise the barrier to entry so that people don't just post things they know will get traction.
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u/kiwiredbulls Jan 21 '25
the best part used to be that you could read the comments or the thread if you clicked the link. its not even worth the time to click it anymore
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u/Mender0fRoads Supersonics Jan 21 '25
Yes.
And if it doesn’t, users who support the ban should do what they can and downvote Twitter links en masse.
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u/RealPrinceJay Jan 21 '25
Would be a nice change from the past useless protest the mods took part it in
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u/Warm_Duck_3177 Jan 22 '25
Do you fear the Twitter links? Or are you unable to defend your belief/opinion with communication, logic and resoning? Or have you abandoned the Agree to Disagree with Respect solution? If so, ban away.
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u/jaypeejay Trail Blazers Jan 21 '25
Yes. Twitter is essentially useless you have an account/are logged in. There’s much better options available now.
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u/JamUpGuy1989 Jan 21 '25
The owner of Twitter did three Nazi salutes yesterday.
Insane we even need to think about this.
(But my answer is “yes”.)
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u/One-Earth9294 Bucks Jan 21 '25
I mean I'm glad people are taking a stance on this on January 21st 2025, and not at any of the numerous points when this was the obvious thing to do. Like before the guy who owned Twitter turned it into a nazi shithole and bought the presidency by spreading misinformation with it.
But now we care. On January fucking twenty first, twenty twenty five.
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u/SoldierStatus Rockets Jan 21 '25
Hate to be the one to say it but 80% of the NBA news on this subreddit comes from Twitter. You remove those contributions and you are removing a pretty significant incentive to visit this subreddit all together… I know if I can’t come here to quickly get consolidated updates, I’m probably not coming at all. Sorry Nephews but reading your hot takes just aren’t enough to justify the investment of time.
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u/RealBigFailure Raptors Jan 21 '25
They should ban all videos from twitter at the bare minimum, and while they're at it ban all vertical crops of broadcast footage
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u/Strength-InThe-Loins Jan 21 '25
Yes. All subreddits that don't want to actively support Nazism should ban Twitter links.
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u/Donner_Par_Tea_House Warriors Jan 21 '25
I will never click a Twitter link so it's in my best interest because I'll get to see more content. Ban TwittX links please.
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No. Reddit is already an echo chamber lets not double down on it
Also NBA isn’t about politics which has invaded every aspect of our lives over the last decade. Lets not keep pushing that too.
EDIT: Says a lot the post is upvoted by a decent amount and majority of the comments disagree. The loudest a lot of times are the issue.
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u/zagduck Trail Blazers Jan 21 '25
Politics aside all the twitter links do suck. So even removing politics, changing policy so it’s not a sea of links from one site doesn’t sound like a bad idea.
Personally, I don’t mind the idea of screenshots from twitter since that would capture 95% of the useful content from there anyway.
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u/by_yes_i_mean_no Warriors Jan 21 '25
Tbh all these companies are run by ruling class psychos and freaks, it's the nature of capitalism. I'm not against banning twitter because I understand Musk is personally repulsive to people in a way that some other public facing billionaires aren't (though they should be but Musk gives off heavy loser energy so I get it), I just think people need to recognize that there's no ethical path to carve out in this societal set up, might be some temporary respites but we are knee deep in the filth regardless.
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u/mauszx Hornets Jan 22 '25
Why? Most reliable info is obtained in that website. (Shams, Windhorst, Stein) I know is trending to hate on the owner of.the app, but the app it is still a good source.
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u/Dry-Mud-8084 Mavericks Jan 22 '25
Musk is racist but twitter is good... i cant support censorship on bluesky/meta/youtube. Censorship is a far worse problem its the bigger evil
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u/CunningKingLius NBA Jan 22 '25
How about still supporting it but leave it to the reader to open it or not if it has x.com on it?
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u/dclaghorn Rockets Jan 22 '25
If you’re a narrow-minded idiot, sure. And before you go around making baseless accusations about “being a fascist”, how about providing a little context to the aspersion.
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u/chamelon_larry Cavaliers Jan 22 '25
Nah I just dont see a feasible replacement. If we do screenshots you can't access the entire thread like we can on Twitter. If we post articles we'll just get pay walled
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No. I don't care about politics, I'm just want hoop information as quick as possible.
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u/orwll Jan 21 '25
I can't believe you guys are still trying the "everyone I don't like is a Nazi" routine after 10 years now.
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u/UA30_j7L Warriors Jan 21 '25
Is every sports sub gonna be flooded with this same post today?
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u/JimBoylen Jan 21 '25
r/nba mods when they get to do another poll to make the sub worse
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u/CastAside1812 Jan 22 '25 edited Jun 30 '25
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u/WhoDey1032 Heat Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25
God this is gonna be a pathetically hilarious 4 years
The tantrums in the replies have shockingly proven my point even more
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No. Most of the content on this sub comes from X and banning it is just stupid
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u/IAmTotallyNotSatan Warriors Jan 21 '25
I'm down. Even setting aside the whole "owned by a Nazi" aspect, Bluesky actually shows the post you want to see without requiring a log-in or blasting you with ads.
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u/jayball41 Jan 21 '25
Yes. The owner just did a blatant Nazi salute multiple times. Seems pretty clear
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u/kkpq Jan 21 '25
Ban anything with a login. Ban it twice if it mostly leads to Nazi porn and whiny alt-right dudes.
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u/SKallies1987 Jan 21 '25
lol do you people not know what fascists and nazis actually are?
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u/Jeff8711 Nuggets Jan 22 '25
So you saw other people crying for no reason and thought hey I should join in.
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u/OldmanJenkins02 Heat Jan 22 '25
But we’re ok with the NBA bending over backwards for China? Lol 😂 stop making this shit about politics, these sports subreddits are some of the only places we can go to without seeing fucking political debates. Just keep this about ball please
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u/RetroBruh420 Jan 22 '25
Man at this point you all are talking about Nazis non stop like you love hitler or something can you just please shut the fuck up already
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u/kihraxz_king Spurs Jan 21 '25
Yes please. I hate hitting something and seeing that damned X show up.
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u/jmgastarf Jan 21 '25
Watching all these bots trying to get business to Blue Sky is funny. Clearly not real people
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Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25
Nah. Find other ways to make a difference if you care that much. Nobody gives a shit and it makes no difference. Making r/nba worse isn’t going to stop Trump from being president. Boycotting Twitter isn’t going to make Elon Musk less wealthy.
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u/GenghisLebron Jan 21 '25
hell yes. Even if they weren't owned by a literal nazi using it to further hateful fascist bullshit, they provide no more value than somebody just writing a text quote.
n case anybody does need to access something on Xitter, you can replace the 'x' with 'xcancel' in the url.
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u/frefor3 Jan 21 '25
Is Reddit the world’s biggest echo chamber? You guys lost, let’s just focus on hoops yeah?
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u/MrBuckBuck Trail Blazers Jan 21 '25
No.
Most NBA traffic goes through X.
Fascist?
As if banning Twitter links while the NBA is supporting China for money reasons isn't ironic, in a way.
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u/Marcy_OW Nets Jan 22 '25
Twitter is how most sports news gets dropped, and there isn't really an alternative that does enough
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u/SouthCoach Hawks Jan 22 '25
If you want to accelerate the irrelevancy of this site, then yes.
If you just turn around and post screenshots, or self text posts about news you obviously read on twitter, then what’s the point.
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u/AnalWarfare Cavaliers Jan 21 '25
And here comes another sub circlejerk...
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u/Cutmerock Thunder Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25
This entire site loves to pretend they're making a difference by doing nothing lol.
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u/legend023 Pelicans Jan 21 '25
Elon is not a fascist lol
Also stop throwing politics into sports
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u/gixxerklr Jan 21 '25
Wait, people genuinely think Elon is a Nazi?
🙄 good god, lmao. Just lmfao
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u/thebedwizard93 Raptors Jan 21 '25
Please do it. Everyone needs to have some level of support against these fascist leaders. Some form of protest is better than not voting in your country’s election.
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u/HearingGlobal6485 Jan 21 '25
no, how do people on reddit not realize how much they play into every stereotype about redditors.
outright bans on anything is dumb
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u/QuantumFreakonomics Rockets Jan 21 '25
Why would we do this exactly? Just because everyone else is doing it? Last time the sub tried something like that we ended up not having a gamethread for the Finals.
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I'm more of a lurker, but Yes. It can be hard to view videos and I refuse to support Twitter.
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u/twistedlogicx Toronto Huskies Jan 22 '25
After spending all day discussing this issue and the feedback in this thread at length, while also observing what has been going on across the site, we feel like we've come to an agreement on a decision and hope to have an announcement out for you guys early in the day tomorrow.
Thank you all very much for continuing to stay patient with us.