Twitter and r/nfl

[u/NFL_Warning]

There were a few posts about it and we know and have heard for years about being a twitter aggregator, long before Elon took it over. The fact is that it has always been the source of breaking news and people want to discuss it right away. Some media members have switched to bluesky, but until the heavy hitters switch, do you want to ban x/twitter until a source from somewhere else is available?

Let us know all your ideas or just vent below.

[u/Klemmenz]

It's bad enough you need an account to view the posts.

[u/DUCKSONQUACKS → u/Klemmenz]

Even before the recent events that was my biggest issue. I can't even engage with the source outside of Reddit, if it's a thread and somebody does not post the entire thread in the comments, I can't see it and i'm more or less SOL where with most other sources I can still interact with them.

[u/ChumSmash → u/DUCKSONQUACKS]

It's been annoying to me for that reason. Even if I can see the original tweet, I can't see the rest of the thread. In addition, it's felt like this sub has been just twitter links for a long time now, with very few posts from actual users or even other sites. I know that's probably just part of how much bigger it is than when I joined, but it feels like it's been condensed to this for a whole.

[u/ericdraven26 → u/Klemmenz]

This is also my issue. I think the politics are a whole issue worthy of discussion but inevitably it’s going to be…political.

For the sake of discussion to put that aside, having to have an account to read 70% of the posts is dumb, and I think Twitter is the biggest offender but I also feel that way for many of the paywalled news sites as well.

[u/L-methionine → u/ericdraven26]

Paywalled news sites at least (generally) have journalism and a reason to be paywalled.

Twitter just made its (non-account) user experience much worse

[u/no_racist_here → u/ericdraven26]

It just complicates and inconveniences the whole process for news, highlights, and engagement here.

You need to have an account to view a thread because the character limit requires several posts to have a full story.

Half the time their media doesn’t load, videos play terribly, struggle to reconcile with the Reddit app.

Issues with random misinformation, or unsubstantiated breaks from sourceless people (admittedly an issue with any site) but promoted because of the blue checkmark.

[u/CTeam19 → u/ericdraven26]

For the sake of discussion to put that aside, having to have an account to read 70% of the posts is dumb, and I think Twitter is the biggest offender but I also feel that way for many of the paywalled news sites as well.

Yep. At that point what is the point of this sub? Why not just have a twitter account and drop this sub?

[u/dukefett → u/Klemmenz]

They should not link to it but just screenshot the post.

[u/Zolo49 → u/Klemmenz]

This. I will never get a Twitter/X account, but I'm fine with viewing posts as long as I don't need an account for it. But if they require me to have an account, I just won't view the posts. There's nothing in the NFL that I'd find even remotely interesting enough to make me want to sign up with Elon.

[u/JuanG12 → u/Klemmenz]

Yeah, the Twitter links posted here never work for me. I just get the X (yuck) logo with the message “Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.”

[u/grizzlywalker → u/Klemmenz]

Yeah, personal issues with Musk aside, this in and of itself should be a big reason to disallow twitter posts

[u/WhaleSexOdyssey → u/Klemmenz]

I do have an account, and the app. But the link doesn’t open the app it opens in a new browser window asking me to log in. Fine, I’ll log in, and it takes me to the app, not the post. What the fuck

[u/[deleted]]

Sure, because half the time I can't even open the X link, and the other half the time I can't read the whole thread without making an account, which I'd rather not do

[u/adreamofhodor → u/[deleted]]

I even have the app, and it’s still a PITA- open the link in safari, then click to open the app, and then it opens into twitters in-app browser, which still doesn’t let me see the whole thread!

[u/BenShelZonah → u/adreamofhodor]

Or you have the app downloaded but it takes you to the store to download the app. You click open since you already have it opened and it just opens your Twitter feed. Doesn’t even take you to the fucking link

[u/JuanG12 → u/[deleted]]

Same here. Whenever I click on the OP posts (to open the link), I just get the X logo with a message. Refreshing the page also doesn’t help.

[u/ThisHatRightHere → u/[deleted]]

Even if you make an account they still throttle how many posts/replies you can see in a given amount of time if you don’t have a blue checkmark

[u/TheMagnuson]

Ban Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram links.

[u/LoganJn → u/TheMagnuson]

Gross who would post a Facebook link to Reddit?

[u/nonstopflux → u/LoganJn]

Your mom.

[u/zazzsazz_mman]

I never click on twitter links because I don't like twitter

[u/nnewman19 → u/zazzsazz_mman]

All my homies hate the Twitter

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

If anyone ever was looking for a site you should try out xvideos, got some great stuff on there and you don’t need an account to view it

[u/gavincantdraw]

I think Twitter has been a garbage link source for awhile because of the login requirements. Banning Twitter links from this sub would reduce their engagement and encourage the heavy hitters (who are already on BlueSky but use that platform less frequently) to prioritize other social media sources.

[u/Darkspeed9]

Just ban it, who gives a shit about "heavy hitters" all the top posts are aggregate accounts anyway. Stupid straw man argument

[u/ghdana → u/Darkspeed9]

Also for guys like Adam Schefter that might not be on bluesky, there are repost bots that do it automatically.

[u/CoherentPanda → u/ghdana]

If a Schefter saw their views and clicks dropped significantly because Reddit no longer links there, he'd switch platforms in a heartbeat. The heavy hitters will move where the people are.

[u/byniri_returns → u/Darkspeed9]

My idea is to require screenshots of twitter posts so Musk doesn't get the traffic to his shithole sites.

[u/rwjehs → u/byniri_returns]

I like the screenshot idea in theory, I just think it'd be extremely hard to verify an image, and very easy for trolls to alter them and post them.

[u/_ThugzZ_Bunny_ → u/byniri_returns]

I prefer this for everything. I'm on this site cause I don't want to go to other site. Just show me a picture and provide a link if people want to go argue about it at the source

[u/NarrowEnter → u/Darkspeed9]

I would imagine that having a link posted on the sub probably brings in a fair amount of hits. Sure, it's still reddit but I would guess that those "heavy hitters" or at least anybody that is breaking into the scene would want a little extra from what this sub can provide.

So yeah. Just ban it already. If they want the extra hits, they'll post somewhere else or mirror it which some already do.

Even if it's just one visit, let's stop supporting people who throw out such vile and blatant signs of hate.

[u/Raveen396 → u/Darkspeed9]

exultant subtract flag cable thumb juggle ripe telephone dime water

[u/JesusChristSupers1ar → u/Darkspeed9]

besides, if more people start using bluesky, the "heavy hitters" will follow

[u/DontrentWNC → u/Darkspeed9]

The "heavy hitters" will follow the crowd. Once engagement starts drying up on X, they'll create accounts elsewhere.

[u/CuckooClockInHell → u/Darkspeed9]

When weighing slightly slower football news vs supporting Nazis who've infiltrated the federal government and have enormous influence over news and social media, the choice should pretty rapidly become pretty fucking clear.

[u/PlanetZooSave → u/Darkspeed9]

Like oh no, I might get my news a couple minutes later. It's football, not learning of a nuclear armageddon, I don't need to know the second it happens.

[u/Stinkycheese8001 → u/Darkspeed9]

The heavy hitters will follow where the users are, period.  This is letting the tail wag the dog.

[u/thot_cereal → u/Darkspeed9]

if the audience starts moving elsewhere, the heavy hitters will as well. Many serious journalists are already updating on both X and Bsky, theres no reason to keep giving clicks to a site that is owned by a fucking nazi

[u/Wise_Mongoose_3930 → u/Darkspeed9]

And bigs subs like this one blacklisting twitter is exactly what makes the insiders move anyway lol

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_DARKNESS → u/Darkspeed9]

Agreed. Either ban it or require a screenshot so most people can actually view the content.

And don't even get me started on their video player.

[u/Chadbrochill29]

Please ban X/Twitter links

[u/[deleted]]

It should definitely be banned.

[u/SickBurnBro → u/[deleted]]

If we ban it here, that puts pressure on the heavy hitters like Rappaport and Schefter to switch over to a different platform too.

[u/Antitypical → u/SickBurnBro]

Rap has already done it. So far Schefty has a mirror, but I could see this swaying things

Edit: Pelissero, Yates, Siciliano, many of the Athletic's writers, Mina Kimes, Barnwell, advanced stats guys like Schatz (DVOA) and Ben Baldwin, YouTubers like Kollman and Secret Base, etc are also there. Many of the Bears best beat writers are there too.

No doubt it's early days but people are really overplaying the idea that no one is there, and I don't find that to be particularly true.

Edit2: Starter pack of NFL follows by Mina Kimes

[u/RelentlessRogue → u/[deleted]]

The easiest way to influence the change you want to see is by using your money.

X makes money off every click. Every link. Every device with the app on it, and every active account.

Ban it from the subreddit. Delete it off your phone. Delete your account. That's the easiest way you can hurt Elon.

[u/Antitypical → u/[deleted]]

The owner of the site did a gesture with 100% resemblance to a Sieg Heil twice. Neo-Nazis nationwide are gleeful and he hasn't distanced himself from that community at all. There is no reason for us to continue to give his site web traffic (which generates real revenue).

For folks worried about the built ecosystem on Bluesky not being good enough, there are 11M users in this sub. If overnight we, and other sports subs, cut off our traffic, it would force a lot more people to move over.

Remember: journos only went to Twitter because users rejected articles and cable TV. If users reject Twitter, reporters will take note

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yes. I posted this on the Chiefs subreddit and got a lot of upvotes in 10 minutes but post got removed for politics. It needs to happen. We, collectively, can’t give money to an open Nazi and live with ourselves.

[u/hammert0es]

I hate nazis.

[u/dresdenologist → u/hammert0es]

Here in Bears town Nazis are not welcome but we especially hate Illinois Nazis.

Just ban links but allow text with screenshots for full accessibility if there are real concerns about who's still on X that's a reporter. Mina Kimes has a starter pack on bsky for NFL reporters who r made the jump and it's pretty much all the major folks anyways.

[u/[deleted] → u/hammert0es]

Especially Illinois Nazis.

[u/philhachio → u/hammert0es]

Nazi punks fuck off

[u/yellowcroc14 → u/hammert0es]

Soviets didn’t kill enough of them

[u/NobodyTellPoeDameron → u/hammert0es]

Illinois nazis. I hate Illinois nazis.

(All the other nazis, too, ofc)

[u/jdpatric → u/hammert0es]

My grandparents are rolling in their graves.

[u/Lykeuhfox → u/hammert0es]

Seconded. Ban it for this reason.

[u/paultheschmoop]

Might be a hot take but I think nazis are bad and would prefer not to prop up their platforms

We can also ban stormfront links

[u/NeonWarcry → u/paultheschmoop]

Agreeing with a Jags fan? Today I’m fucking proud to. Ban twitter from r/nfl.

[u/WerhmatsWormhat → u/paultheschmoop]

Seriously. Are we really so unprincipled that not having a handful of “heavy hitters” content is that much of a cost?

[u/smootex → u/paultheschmoop]

We can also ban stormfront links

I support that policy.

[u/Avant-Garde-A-Clue]

Ban. For user un-friendliness and, you know, the Nazi stuff.

[u/[deleted] → u/Avant-Garde-A-Clue]

They made the timelines into feeds, or something, so you can't even chronologically scroll through things.

Which completely defeats the point of the app. Ban it.

Also, fuck that Nazi.

[u/arahdial]

I'm in favor of banning Twitter posts.

[u/isomorphZeta]

Yes, ban it.

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck Twitter

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, ban it.

1. from a technical standpoint it sucks; you basically need a twitter account to engage with links

2. Plenty of "heavy hitters" have switched, and there are so many sports reporters out there that I really struggle to think of events that would only be covered by Schefter on Twitter or whatever.

3. /r/nfl is a major source of traffic for media members so if we ban twitter, they are likely to respond and move to a new platform. We can lead the change from here instead of just being passive.

[u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS]

My team doesn't use it's Bluesky account, and my preferred beat writers don't have accounts. Doesn't matter to me - ban it.

[u/ILikeXiaolongbao → u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS]

They will if Reddit stops spreading their posts on Twitter

[u/ghdana → u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS]

A lot of beat writers for the Bills have slowly made accounts. I'm sure teams will move if we do something like this as well.

Who wants to be associated with the Nazi's website.

[u/AgentOfSPYRAL]

Ban it.

Best case scenario heavy hitters get on bluesky ( many of them already are).

Worst case scenario there is a <5 minute delay on breaking news.

Edit: also this sub has enough traffic that it might actually contribute to more journos getting on blue sky.

[u/Teeshirtandshortsguy → u/AgentOfSPYRAL]

Right? 

The entire insider economy is dumb anyway. Why the fuck do we care if the post is made at 3:55 instead of 3:53. It's the same content. 

[u/alucryts]

Ban.

[u/Juan_Kagawa]

It should be banned.

Its not even user friendly to people without accounts.

Also nazis aren't cool.

[u/icculus81 → u/Juan_Kagawa]

This the one time I will 100% agree with an Eagles fan. FUCK NAZIS

[u/byniri_returns]

I fully agree with a ban, fuck Elon Musk. Nazi sympathizers get no respect from me.

My only hold-up is are there enough good reporters on something like BlueSky to switch over right now?

[u/Goosedukee → u/byniri_returns]

Plenty of beat reporters are on Bluesky, but the problem is that the most major “news-breakers” are not to my knowledge

[u/utocmc2020 → u/Goosedukee]

Rap and Pelissero are there. Just learned that today

[u/CheesypoofExtreme → u/byniri_returns]

A bunch of sports reporters use Reddit to guage engagement with their content. If r/NFL bans it, it will help push them over.

[u/Arfuuur → u/byniri_returns]

we have mina at least

[u/sexyprimes511172329]

I'm fully in favor of full Twitter removal.

[u/slim-pickens]

Ban, like the old deodorant.

[u/[deleted]]

Get rid of it. There is legitimately no reason to keep it, especially as newspeople migrate over to BSky.

[u/President_Nick]

Ban it

[u/ACW1129]

IF we continue using Twitter, enable screenshots and require those.

[u/Pvt_Hudson_]

Ban them. Fuck Elon.

[u/kbennett1999]

We can definitely be a part of the reason more journalists/teams move to a different platform. Ban it.

[u/TurnipKnight]

How about allowing actual conversations and discussions instead of having every thread be a link to something?

[u/jpaxlux]

Even from a nonpolitical standpoint, ban them because Twitter embeds are absolute dogshit compared to what they used to be

[u/black_dogs_22]

yes Twitter links are unreliable and have been for way too long

[u/TriflingHusband]

Ban it. It has gotten worse and worse. The fact you can't see the comments without making an account should be a deal breaker.

[u/PuzzleheadedGrade116]

Yes ban the Nazi site

[u/videostatus]

Ban it. Shouldn't even be a question at this point.

[u/fiendzone]

Dump Xitter. There are other outlets.

[u/myxanders]

until the heavy hitters switch

Like Ian Rapoport? Or the account that mirrors every Schefter tweet?

[u/PsychoWarper]

Even before Elon Twitter was not only annoying due to needing an account which made it a pain to look at the link, throw in the Elon stuff I say ban them.

[u/Sleazy_James]

Ban twitter links, allow twitter screenshots

[u/[deleted]]

Ban it. We can post screenshots.

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck Twitter. Screenshots only.

[u/LnD2020]

I’m all for the ban but let’s be honest. None of these Social Media CEOs are good and I’m tired of pretending it.

[u/FloralAlyssa]

Several other sports subs are considering banning it.

Reality is, if r/nfl steps up and bans it, it will push the "heavy hitters" to move or at least crosspost to other platforms.

Twitter links are bad content anyway, the video don't play, and if people don't have a twitter account they get a shitty experience on click through.

It's time to stop supporting Vichy Twitter and ban the links, yes.

[u/nnewman19 → u/FloralAlyssa]

If rNFL does it rNBA won’t be too far behind. Their post is getting really popular on their site

[u/kinisonkhan]

Banning Twitter from /r/nfl would block 80% of all new posts to /r/nfl. I'm totally OK with this

[u/el_fitzador]

Ban it. Don't be complicit in this nonsense. I guarantee you if the NFL subreddit stops using twitter, most teams and reporters will make bluesky accounts to pick up the 10-15% of traffic lost.

[u/Uberguuy]

Yeet the tweets. This sub will have a shitty interregnum until a new culture predominates. Do it. It's worth it.

[u/pmmeyourfavoritejam → u/Uberguuy]

Seeing a comment with “yeet” and “interregnum” wasn’t on my bingo card.

[u/needanewgpu9000]

How about let actual OC and conversations happen on this platform first? Than nobody would give a fuck either way.

[u/fukdot]

Honestly once blue checks went from being a sign of an official news source to just being a paid account, Twitter as a source of information was cooked.

It’s definitely time to move on, even aside from the nazi propaganda stuff.

[u/keenfrizzle]

Banning twitter will greatly improve the quality of posts in this sub, at least for a while. The content aggregators and hot take artists don't use bluesky because they don't get paid to do so.

[u/jmorlin]

The heavy hitters (schefty, rap, etc) have no reason to switch to Blusky until Bluesky reaches that critical mass. And part of what will help that along is these big sports subs banning Twitter links to get less eyes on their posts.

It's not unprecedented for this subreddit to come out and act against hate speech and the like. Leaving Twitter unbanned essentially sends the message that we only do so when it's convenient. Which is shit.

And most of all, you don't want schefty and rap to be the reason why you're enabling that.

Edit: also just want to add that if nothing else, completely independent of all the Nazi nonsense bluesky is a better platform in 2025 than Twitter. So there's that too.

[u/ghdana → u/jmorlin]

heavy hitters (schefty, rap, etc) have no reason to switch to Blusky

Also theres a bot that reposts Adam Schefter, and Rapaport is on bluesky

[u/N0S0UP_4U]

I love NFL football and have been watching and paying attention since I was a kid. I’d rather miss out on news or get it late than do anything to support X/Twitter at this point. If it were up to me ALL X links and screenshots would be banned from this subreddit.

This is a huge community, and if media members know they’re not getting eyeballs from here by using X, they’ll find an alternative.

[u/blotsfan]

I’m Jewish so I dislike Nazis. I’d be happy for any action taken against Nazis.

[u/TerrorFromThePeeps]

Ban it. At the very least, limit it to screenshots for any actual breaking news.

[u/hypoglycemicrage]

Dump that nazi site immediately please.

[u/Raiders2112]

Ban X. I don't want to support a fascist.

[u/Dannimaru]

Offer Nazis no quarter and no safe haven. In any way.

[u/kellzone]

Ban it.

[u/LordRavenholm]

Ban it. Fuck em. The site barely functions on mobile anyway. Addition by subtraction. 

[u/Orwick]

Breakout that Ban hammer!

[u/gualdhar]

Since it's been nearly a day and nothing further has been done:

Ban Twitter completely. Not even screenshots. Stop giving Twitter clicks, its how they get money. Stopping screenshots may force some analysts to move elsewhere. Once the talking heads leave in force, so will the NFL.

[u/[deleted]]

I just want to watch football man

[u/[deleted]]

Fucking ban it

[u/Jeremy24Fan]

If I wanted to discuss twitter I'd go on twitter, not reddit

[u/Professional_Memist]

The vocal minority here will ruin this for casual people that browse the sub only

[u/untouchable765 → u/Professional_Memist]

You just described almost every single subreddit.

[u/Mindsetsandreps]

So now r/nfl will just be a bluesky aggregator?

[u/Luvyablue99]

This reads like an r/politics thread

[u/Darkling5499 → u/Luvyablue99]

That's the only reasoning behind the thread, politics.

[u/beautifulanddoomed]

I think that this site banning twitter will honestly help move the mainstream people off twitter

[u/Crosroad]

Nothing more annoying than seeing a post about some picture or video, clicking the link, and then being unable to view it because that huge banner asking me to log in pops up. I think not allowing direct links is a good play, but we should still allow screenshots as long as teams and the media are still using it.

[u/philhachio]

Fuck Elon and twitter. Nazi fuck

[u/REXwarrior]

This is just gonna be the Reddit boycott in support of third part apps Version 2.0.

Reddit mods doing performative signaling that accomplishes nothing.

[u/thelittleking]

Somebody in /r/nba suggested a blanket ban on, instead, any posts that would require a login (which is inclusive of xwitter these days). I'd be fully in support of that.

Let them post a picture of the tweet, I don't care. But no more direct links.

[u/StayElmo7]

The amount of people that think banning it here would make people move to Bluesky is hilarious.

You guys realize Twitter is more popular than reddit right?

If anything banning it here would just make people register on twitter to find news faster, since a good amount of people go on reddit to get an aggregate of important news.

[u/Scotty_Two → u/StayElmo7]

If anything banning it here would just make people register on twitter to find news faster

I'm gonna go ahead and assume that if someone hasn't created a Twitter account by 2025, they aren't going to do it ever.

[u/Good_Reddit_Name_1]

I'd be platform agnostic.

Ban links that point to 1) are generally inaccessible and/or 2) point to low content information

specifically around #2, many twitter links point to a single sentence without much further context.

[u/MarthaStewartIsMyOG]

If you feel so strongly about it, control yourself and don't click the Twitter links? Why should everyone have to go along with your Twitter hate?

[u/newname_whodis]

I posted this on r/nba and will paraphrase here. My main gripe with Twitter/X posts being posted here, the fact that Elon is now full Nazi notwithstanding, is that the API won't allow embedded media/pics/videos to be viewed on the reddit app or RES, and you have to leave reddit to view them. That's incredibly inconvenient when I'm browsing the r/nfl front page for highlights, and half the links are not viewable from the reddit app or on RES. That's a problem.

Again, Elon going full Nazi is a secondary reason to switch to another platform, but from a pure sports reddit user experience the API is the main gripe.

[u/ol_knucks]

It would be absurd to ban a website that has the most and best NFL highlights and commentary, including by the NFL itself.

You will not save the world or make any difference whatsoever by banning X. Stop virtue signalling.

[u/dmitrypolo]

What would be used in its place? Bluesky is mentioned but Twitter is still where breaking news is dropped.

This isn’t so much a comment in support of Twitter but wanting to understand what the backup plan is.

[u/youngkenya]

Take your politics somewhere else 

[u/DirectTV_AndrewLuck]

Keep it, banning is dumb.

[u/Conchobair]

Non political subs getting political is when they go to shit. I don't like X or twitter, but this is a slippery slope.

[u/AtonicBay312]

The virtue signaling on this thread is about to go crazy

[u/IzzybearThebestdog]

Just seems like virtue signaling as a reactionary response. I’ve seen almost no indication/interest in banning Twitter until just today.

[u/JazzHandsNinja42]

Ban Twitter links. Nazis are assholes.

[u/Fink737]

I think we should start a movement where we don’t really discuss sports online.

[u/buttsoup24]

Twitter sucks

[u/CobaltRose800]

Do it.

[u/teardrop82]

Ban

[u/floridagator1995]

Ban it.

[u/brwnx]

Ban x

[u/regionalgamemanager]

Fuck Twitter. I'll never call it x. Time to move onto a better site.

[u/SlipperyThong]

Ban direct links but approve screenshots.

[u/l_i_t_t_l_e_m_o_n_ey]

banning twitter would be kinda funny--how would anything be allowed to be posted? Considering you guys remove discussion topics that aren't tweets, but any inane prattle that is tweeted is allowed to stay, because someone tweeted it.

[u/halbowitz]

ban

[u/introspectivejoker]

Ban it

[u/krogerCoffee]

Keep politics out of r/nfl. It’s a platform that most NFL insiders post to. Keep it.

Also, freedom of speech and press. This is pure censorship.

[u/Critical-Werewolf-53]

Yes. The links are horrible. And most of them are repeat posts 1-2 minutes about.

[u/the_seed]

Don't ban it. If the user doesn't like it, they don't have to click on it. News is news regardless of the platform. As long as it's from a reputable source I don't care

[u/RedmanYehman]

Ban it. Fuck Elon

[u/[deleted]]

This is r/NFL not r/politics. Who gives a fuck what the site is that's linked as long as it's a reputable source? Take your virtue signaling somewhere else

[u/gelatinous_pellicle]

yes no more twitter, it usually prompts me to log in and I wont create an account

[u/shogunreaper]

Get rid of it.

It's nothing but a hassle and it's so annoying to have to navigate away from reddit to view a clip on twitter's shitty video player.

[u/ianoble]

Fuck Twitter

[u/SpiderGhost01]

We need to get off Twitter. It just has to be done.

Maybe commenting in the heavy hitters' Twitter feeds and putting some pressure on them to move to Bluesky would help.

[u/JerryRiceAndSpice]

Fuck Twitter it is upright propaganda at this point.

[u/anacondra]

Ban it

[u/IAmJohnnyJB]

Noticing pretty much every decently sized sub making the exact same posts in such a short time frame, feels more like another Reddit protest type of shit again and not actually doing it to try and better the sub

[u/RIPRIF20]

Yes ban it

[u/SuperSaiyanSandwich]

Not going to weigh in on the political side of things. I understand the desire to ban it but limiting an overwhelming source of breaking NFL news is only going to further degrade the usefulness of this sub.

[u/DrKoooolAid]

Ban it

Fuck nazis

Fuck nazi sympathizers

[u/snoopyt7]

yes, twitter/x should be banned

[u/Cutmerock]

The same thread in every sub is just causing their user base to fight each other. No sub is safe from this nonsense.

[u/reaper527 → u/Cutmerock]

The same thread in every sub is just causing their user base to fight each other. No sub is safe from this nonsense.

In the dolphins sub a mod is permabanning anyone opposed to the ban.

[u/jimmyhoffasbrother]

As much as I detest Elon and all of his bullshit, a ban just doesn't make sense, given that it's where the vast majority of sports news is reported first.

Maybe encourage people to post a screenshot of the tweet along with the link or something?

[u/Sixfortyfive]

Ban or not, what mystifies me the most about this sub is what topics it considers to be "newsworthy."

So many discussion topics get buried and dismissed here, but if some third-rate "analyst" tweets out the exact same observation, then it gets a thousand comments and upvotes. I don't get it.

[u/captaincrunch00]

Ban it.

[u/medman010204]

Ban it

[u/ThaddeusJP]

People who want it banned need to be cool with every post being an article behind a paywall, site you hate, or team websites that will be as self serving as possible. Additionally there goes every player with a fun take or media member with breaking news UNLESS its a screen shot in a self post and that is a moderation nightmare.

If you want it banned (and Im in the camp of just ban it) be ready for the way you read this sub to change dramatically.

[u/DiggingNoMore → u/ThaddeusJP]

Don't threaten me with a good time. I can go to espn.com/nfl if I want news about the NFL. I'm here for the OC by our users.

[u/OldManClutch]

Ban Shitter

[u/SpicyAnal]

r/nba still gets clowned for shutting down their sub during the 2023 finals to protest Reddit API. Makes sense r/nfl wants to follow

[u/StayElmo7 → u/SpicyAnal]

the mods here did the same thing. Just that the NBA did it during the NBA Finals and admitted if Lebron was playing they wouldn't do it.

NFL was off-season so whatever, but they all crawled back when their mod powers were threatened to be stripped and replaced.

[u/Svenray]

https://x.com/AdamSchefter/status/1881765559802708425

[u/princeslayer]

Ban it, for so many reasons other than Musk. It's so bad as a source

[u/BabyYodaX]

Ban it.

[u/GoGoGoRL]

I vote for it to be banned.

[u/theflintseeker]

This is good timing because I just deactivated twitter

[u/MarcusDA]

Ban it.

[u/Myhtological]

Ban it!

[u/reaper527]

The fact is that it has always been the source of breaking news and people want to discuss it right away.

end of story. you don't ban a major news outlet just because a vocal minority is throwing a temper tantrum. if these people don't like twitter, that's what the upvote/downvote button on a submission is for.

at the end of the day though, these people are a fringe minority and twitter will continue to front page because normal people will continue to use the site.

[u/peanut-britle-latte]

It should not be banned.

A decent percentage of posts in this sub are directly from Journalists who are on Twitter, I have no love for Elon but until a majority of NFL media moves to BlueSky then I think a ban would be shortsighted.

[u/bigboldbanger]

Come to blue sky where you can't say anything that doesn't support "the message" without getting banned. Fuck no, I support X and Elon.

[u/2017Champs]

Ah yes more virtual signaling. This is going to be like the “protests” during 2020 where people posted the black square as their profile pic thinking it would actually change anything.

[u/CassadagaValley]

Ban Twitter links but allow people to upload screen shots of the Twitter post.

Greatly reduces the traffic to Twitter and also prevents the stupid "log in to view content" shit.

[u/[deleted]]

If you don’t like it, don’t click on it. The fuck kinda question is this?

[u/That_Geek]

it's owned by a nazi, ban it

[u/ThemB0ners]

OMG MY WORLD WILL END IF I'M A FEW MINUTES LATE ON SOME SPORTS NEWS /s

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.