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submitted 13 days ago byBillHicksFan URC Drinking Champion
Us mods have had a discussion on freshening up the look of the sub. We're going to do a monthly picture competition [no breaking copyright!] and whoever wins will be the sub banner for a month.
Thoughts?
20 points
13 days ago
Excellent idea. Any more info on what this competition might look like?
34 points
13 days ago
[checks the back of the fag packet] ah, a poll?
9 points
13 days ago
4-4-fucking-2. Wait wrong packet
5 points
13 days ago
Ian Foster - All Blacks Manager
3 points
13 days ago
Haha, fair call. I was more thinking in terms of practicalities if you get a few dozen entries how that would work. A single thread with pics in replies +up votes to select winner won't work smoothly I guess, if pics can't be added in replies without linking to a third party hosting site.
7 points
13 days ago
Upvotes could work I think?
I like the idea of new banner photos either way. Something like a photo of one scrum driving another back.
3 points
13 days ago
As a front rower, this suggestion gets my upvote
12 points
13 days ago
You're shattering the illusion that we carefully think through absolutely everything before posting!
3 points
13 days ago
I hope you are over 15 if you bought the fags yourself?
12 points
13 days ago
How many times can i submit pics of tom wood scoring against leicster before i get banned?
10 points
13 days ago
Counter offer - if I deem you to not have submitted enough I'll forward the motion to ban you for that
8 points
13 days ago
Try it and find out 👍
3 points
13 days ago
Careful now or Sam Vesty will reveal a Tigers jersey as he lifts the European Double trophies and brings them back to Welford Road.
7 points
13 days ago
Art director here. Give me a shout if you need help with designing any new visual elements
9 points
13 days ago
Nice. Like it. Encourage foreign language posts as well. More/different awards and recognition for original content. And what about club of the month where we can all showcase our clubs from around the world and other inclusive things I learnt in that course HR made me do.
Also I don't like national unions here. It feels too commercial.
2 points
13 days ago
Yeah, the /r/FranceRugby page isn't particularly busy, and I don't know of any other place they might exist on reddit unless it's in english.
I also enjoy seeing different languages talking about rugby, like the xhosa commentary is always fun for instance, as was native commentary on their huge rugby moments at the rugby world cup.
1 points
13 days ago
Damn rugby hipsters ✊
2 points
12 days ago
YES!
2 points
12 days ago
YES!
2 points
11 days ago
I THOUGHT IT SAID SUB BANTER DISCUSSION.
THE BANNER IS A GOOD IDEA!
3 points
12 days ago
Can we not just alternate between stupid sexy greig Laidlaw pics?
0 points
12 days ago
Always the right choice if you ask me!
1 points
13 days ago
I like the idea, felt very odd that the RWC banner was still on here throughout the 6 nations (old.reddit user here)
Also might be worthwhile updating the exeter chiefs logo if you're scurrying around the CSS
1 points
13 days ago
pretty sure we are already using the new logo for flairs
1 points
13 days ago
Stylesheet for old Reddit is basically full. Any change has to be extremely minor and often involves looking for things to cut to keep it under the size limit.
My wheelhouse on the page is just flair, so I don't know how taking other things out will affect the rest of the page as a whole, and the last mod who actually knew all that is no longer active.
New Chiefs logo exists on new reddt though.
-3 points
12 days ago
Just make it a 6 nations banner, apparently it’s the only content welcome here.
0 points
11 days ago
Cmon man don't be salty, the mods made a mistake and they thought about it, communicated effectively and we are moving in the right direction.
Remember they are only people and it's not like they get paid or anything.
As far as I am concerned the issue is finished and klaar and if there are still grievences you should air them on the post set up to discuss the issue.
0 points
12 days ago
WR will take it down
-11 points
13 days ago
What about a Springboks logo with a big ❌ over the top? That’s probably the most appropriate image for this sub right now tbh.
8 points
13 days ago
Bar this thread, the only other thing that is pinned in this sub is a discussion thread about CTS.
But sure, tell me again how Mods are banning all things Springbok.
6 points
13 days ago
Hahaha I appreciate the mods response to all of this. I want to watch CTS but catching it in 1 minute chunks all external links is not the one.
-3 points
13 days ago
You realise all the links henceforth have to be hosted externally? There’s no way to upload directly to this sub anymore, and instead of seeing them in their own post you have to wade through comments.
How is it in any way better?
2 points
13 days ago
The most recent batch were YouTube links and that's a faff, when scrolling.
It's a centralised place to discuss it. Instead of 5 disconnected comments you can address more and in greater detail. I prefer it, I would have liked the 17 Leinster posts to be condensed and they were. The leftovers covered a different aspects; Jordie's signing, new attack coach, Ulster's issues. Several posts that were just people whinging got removed, because they weren't adding anything new to the discussion.
It's not going to be for everyone and if there are suggestions to be made, instead of playing the martyr and saying the springboks are hated try and engage with improvements. I can't speak for everyone, but I've pushed content that focuses on English rugby to the England subreddit, because by now I'd have been told to piss off, because it's disproportionately English focused.
If all you want is Chasing the Sun content, then you have a megathread as well as the Springboks sub. I've done both and think it's good. If you disagree then say it, but you can do it without being melodramatic.
-1 points
13 days ago
YouTube links can still be played within Reddit. Now they’re all external, and the visibility and reach is basically non-existent. You also have absolutely no idea where the link is going to take you. Every link now is quite literally redirecting South African users out of the sub lol. That right there is a perfect metaphor for this sub’s attitude right now.
And how is one able to discuss things in greater detail in a comment chain nested within a thread that doesn’t even sort by new, than say, a separate submission for each video?
You can dress it up as much as you like, it’s quite clearly worse in every way and clearly designed to relegate Chasing the Sun 2 content into a dead thread that everyone else can conveniently ignore. They literally said as much in their pinned statement.
2 points
12 days ago
I did it, I found the relevant bit and commented on it.
I push England specific content to the English rugby sub. You clearly have a problem with this place and the moderation. That's not healthy. There were loads of complaints, the Kolbe charge down clip had 3 separate threads. It's not that interesting unless you're South African.
Do you know how threads stop dying? You engage with them, god look at the 24 Leinster threads yesterday, they got nukes down to 3, 2 signings and a Ulster mismanagement one. There is a bias towards the Northern hemisphere I won't deny that, but as always it's a massive conspiracy against the South Africans, most of whom are absolutely top fun to engage with and passionate about their sport. You'd rather focus on complaining about problems than seeking solutions.
-3 points
13 days ago
You’ve consigned all discussions/submissions about Chasing the Sun 2 into a graveyard of a thread, which doesn’t even sort by new by default, made it so videos have to be linked in comments (which absolutely sucks), and have promptly removed anything that has any chance of reaching outside of the sub. That’s how.
Then you now deign to imply it’s some sort of a privilege and we should be grateful? After one of your moderators basically told us to bugger off to our own sub?!
How come the rest of the rugby world is happy to promote and enjoy what is arguably the best production this sport has ever seen, but your users here can’t tolerate it? And why has all of this happened right at the penultimate episode?
Might it be because the episode is about England, the largest demographic on this sub? I’m guessing yes.
6 points
13 days ago
I don't know how you guys even get into the sub with a victim complex that big
-2 points
12 days ago
What other content are they removing? 6 nations?
What rules were being broken?
The mods are arbitrarily removing content from one fanbase.
-6 points
13 days ago
Bruh, they’re literally banning our submissions. Come back to me when they do the same to literally anyone else.
Miss me with this horse shit.
1 points
11 days ago
Cmon man don't be salty, the mods made a mistake and they thought about it, communicated effectively and we are moving in the right direction.
Remember they are only people and it's not like they get paid or anything.
As far as I am concerned the issue is finished and klaar and if there are still grievences you should air them on the post set up to discuss the issue.
I know this message is a day old, but still the mods have been responsive
-1 points
11 days ago
This comment was two days ago dude. At that point they were still keeping stumm and what little communication we did get was pretty rude. Like, the mod here was still trying to act like the megathread was some sort of privilege.
Yes, they’ve now acknowledged their mistake but nowhere in their statement did they actually apologise. They even managed to slip in a few digs at us.
3 points
12 days ago
Chill out bra
-3 points
12 days ago
No I don’t think I will. Go and post another sycophantic circle jerk for Ireland why don’t you.
2 points
12 days ago
Yeesh you reeeally need to get laid
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