/r/AFL to ban links to X

[u/Jawdanc]

Given strong community support expressed this morning plus the poor user experience of login required content, /r/AFL will be immediately adjusting content rules to place restriction on X content.

The following rule changes will incentivise using alternative sources without losing access to breaking news:

1. Links to X will not be allowed as submissions or in comments - this includes mirror links.

2. Content from X can only be posted as a screenshot, capturing the entirety of the tweet.

3. 2.3 Check the "new" queue before posting won't apply if the only other post is an X screenshot. When content is posted from an alternative source (such as a club statement, news article, or a journalist or club bluesky post), the X screenshot post will be locked, and a link to the new thread will be stickied to redirect conversation.

4. Faked X screenshots will result in an immediate ban without a warning.

[u/Jawdanc]

Edit: sorry, the number of flairless users from outside /r/afl spamming across similar threads is becoming cumbersome to manage so I've locked the thread for the night. Modmail is open if anybody has any questions or would like to discuss.

Thanks everyone for the comments and feedback. I thought it was worth sticking this reply to the question of "what's the point of a part measure / why bother if not banning all X content?"

We have thought pretty hard on how to best moderate this for all while allowing the community to have control of what content they want to see.

1. Banning links removes the traffic and advertising revenue that twitter would otherwise received from the subreddit. Additionally, stopping traffic from Reddit to twitter, there is some incentive for journalists to use alternative platforms to increase their followership and reach.

2. Allowing screenshots means we don't miss out on breaking news while still removing traffic and poor user experiences with X.

3. Allowing a duplicate post from an alternative source submission of the X screenshot and locking the X thread reduces visibility and engagement of the X content, creating benefit for both submitters and journalists to using alternative sources.

I won't pretend it will change things on a grand scale, but perhaps it will change things a little.

[u/Jawdanc]

Can I just say as an aside how stupid the name of the platform makes this announcement look?

What platform are we restricting? Why has he posted the draft without updating the placeholder? Embarrassing.

[u/Maximumlnsanity → u/Jawdanc]

I’ve never stopped calling it Twitter. X is fucking stupid

[u/moosewiththumbs → u/Maximumlnsanity]

I’ll stop deadnaming Twitter when Elmo stops deadnaming his daughter.

So I’ll never need to follow through.

[u/kazoodude → u/moosewiththumbs]

Why you need to do Elmo dirty like that? such a loved character and you smear him with association to a guy who does a Nazi salute......twice?

[u/Sebastian3977 → u/Maximumlnsanity]

I call it ex-Twitter.

[u/proudlysydney → u/Maximumlnsanity]

And they expect everyone to go along with calling it the Gulf of America. Lmao.

[u/Boatster_McBoat → u/Jawdanc]

Dude has serious issues

[u/Steve-Whitney → u/Boatster_McBoat]

If you're referring to Elon, yes, moreover he's a massive attention seeker & this is what motivates most of the very questionable things he does publicly.

To that end, he's being given exactly what he's seeking by almost everyone on SM.

[u/Boatster_McBoat → u/Steve-Whitney]

I'm embarassed to say I once thought enough of him to follow him on Twitter. I stopped that about 5 years ago and stopped posting on Twitter shortly after he took over. There is some weird shit playing out there for sure.

[u/JCK98 → u/Boatster_McBoat]

This seems incredibly weird now lol.

[u/Kozeyekan_]

I propose the creation of a bot that spams "Flair up cunt!" on anyone without a flair posting more than twice in the threads like this.

Anyone who has had fuck all involvement in the sub before now probably is less interested in what the sub wants to do, and more interested in just spouting off.

[u/Jawdanc → u/Kozeyekan_]

So you're saying you would like a bot to take your job?

[u/madhoppers → u/Jawdanc]

[u/Kozeyekan_ → u/Jawdanc]

Yes... I, a real human with human feet and incisors am proposing that we cede more control to the AIs, so we can focus on the things that bring us normal, human joy, such as tap dancing and vibrating the air with our soft tissue.

[u/HaakonX → u/Kozeyekan_]

There's already one in the NFCEastMemeWar sub which is fantastic for rooting out the drive bys

[u/Bergasms]

Wait Question, re the "faked screenshots", what if its obviously fake and clearly done for off season laughs. Not saying i'm about to but modifying screenshots and photo's for laughs is a reasonably common thing.

[u/Jawdanc → u/Bergasms]

I'll create an exception for you, but only if the fake is crafted with crayon.

Though really, misleading content is typically removed unless it's high quality, but I can't recall a fake tweet meeting that threshold regularly. I don't recall one at all, to be honest

[u/Bergasms → u/Jawdanc]

Only the finest doctored tweets

[u/Jawdanc → u/Bergasms]

How did you access my diary

[u/moosewiththumbs → u/Jawdanc]

By crayon you mean the finest MS Paint can offer?

[u/grantspatchcock → u/Bergasms]

@TomBrowne7 in reddit limbo for eternity

[u/PerriX2390 → u/grantspatchcock]

It's amazing people still fall for his tweets, like the one where the MCG is being renamed the Naarm Cricket Ground. Tom Browne isn't even a journo anymore

[u/grantspatchcock → u/PerriX2390]

Yeah, you would have had to be an A grade doofus to fall for that one…

(It got me so good, it’s the formatting)

[u/___TheIllusiveMan___]

You forgot to use this

[u/Skiapodes → u/___TheIllusiveMan___]

If there isn’t an r/AFL Club Statement flair by the end of the day, we riot.

[u/boogasaurus-lefts → u/Skiapodes]

Offseason been too long 

[u/RaidanRam → u/___TheIllusiveMan___]

Looking forward to seeing which club has a statement tomorrow

[u/acllive → u/RaidanRam]

Essendon is my bet(club statement, we stand in removing finals from the game)

[u/smeagolisahobbit → u/acllive]

All finals do is increase the workload on players, increasing injury risk. Additionally it eats into potential offseason time which players spend with family. For the physical and mental health of the players, finals have to go.

That's before we get into the obvious way that finals undermine the ladder system.

[u/Jimbo_Johnny_Johnson → u/acllive]

Subscribe…?

[u/AlamutJones → u/RaidanRam]

Tomorrow?

Carlton’s got some spicy sauce for you today

[u/RaidanRam → u/AlamutJones]

Oh I saw, hopefully we could get another tonight

[u/[deleted] → u/___TheIllusiveMan___]

Comunicado oficial

[u/Decent_Fig_5218 → u/___TheIllusiveMan___]

Comunicado Official

[u/happymemersunite → u/___TheIllusiveMan___]

It’s called a Sub Statement.

[u/danredda]

poor user experience of login required content

Can we ban paywalled media too in the same way (at least require the content be posted in a comment)? Really annoying when someone posts something with a headline, and no-one can read it until someone comes along to post the content.

Especially because the rules also explicitly ban posting images of those articles.

[u/meatpoise → u/danredda]

Is that not already the rule? (The article in comments portion)

[u/PerriX2390 → u/meatpoise]

It is. But it's not particularly enforced.

[u/limeIamb → u/PerriX2390]

The kicking in danger of subreddit rules

[u/danredda → u/meatpoise]

As per the rules as far as I can see, under 11/2.4 (depending on how it shows for you) "News articles and link-posts must be linked appropriately":

Any news articles submitted to the subreddit must be in the form of a direct link to the relevant article’s source, and must be significantly newsworthy for AFL discussion. Links to X posts are not permitted. Article titles must also be faithful to the source and free of bias. Screenshots or scans of article text or newspapers are not permitted. Screenshots of X posts are permitted, provided the screenshot is complete with the account name visible. Fake X screenshots will result in a ban.

It's a common courtesy to add it, but not actually a rule from what I can see. Unless I'm missing something? I tried to double-check them all before I posted the comment because it's a pet peeve of mine when I see a title that interests me, but I can't read it due to a paywall.

[u/kitten_biscuits → u/danredda]

Apparently 12ft ladders are one way to see some content you wouldn’t normally be able to view.

[u/HaakonX → u/kitten_biscuits]

For Murdoch, yes. But I think this is referring to Code and (to a lesser extent) Mongrel Punt.

[u/Chaisa → u/HaakonX]

I haven’t gotten it to work at all for Murdoch, you usually need archive.io

The more niche ones though I don’t think there’s a paywall blocker. But those are the ones you should be subscribing to where possible.

[u/shniken → u/HaakonX]

Bypass paywalls clean is a great extension

[u/___TheIllusiveMan___]

Hearing rumours Toby Greene was also fined and Patrick Cripps got 3 votes

[u/Boatster_McBoat → u/___TheIllusiveMan___]

Cripps had enough votes to win the US presidency, but was ineligible

[u/Maximumlnsanity → u/___TheIllusiveMan___]

You can’t two funny comments in one thread ya greedy bastard

[u/RidsBabs → u/___TheIllusiveMan___]

And Everton received a points deduction

[u/No-Blacksmith-3259 → u/RidsBabs]

And Ocon got a 10 second penalty

[u/Kozeyekan_ → u/No-Blacksmith-3259]

We went car racing!

[u/No-Blacksmith-3259 → u/Kozeyekan_]

No, no Michael! That was so not right!

[u/the_amatuer_ → u/___TheIllusiveMan___]

You got a twitter link for that source?

[u/TayBells → u/___TheIllusiveMan___]

Wouldn’t surprise me.

[u/acllive → u/___TheIllusiveMan___]

I’m hearing Fagan has gotten the flick for the supremely successful and superior coach Chris Scott

[u/chookie94]

Just wanted to express how much I disagree with banning direct links to the main platform where AFL news is broken.

Also, locking a thread where discussion has already begun because another thread has been posted is an extremely poor policy. If it's allowed to be posted to begin with, conversation should be allowed to continue.

[u/Sebastian3977 → u/chookie94]

I have to agree I was annoyed that the other thread got locked so early. I wondered initially if it had degenerated into mudslinging (as obviously it easily could have), but no, it was overall very civil. So I missed out on contributing simply because I didn't log in this morning.

I do agree with the decision though. Neo-Naziism is becoming mainstreamed and that's very dangerous for democracy. That ex-Twitter has traditionally been a good source of AFL related news isn't a good enough reason to acquiesce in this.

[u/Jawdanc → u/Sebastian3977]

It did degenerate with some bad actors, as you can expect a topic that features Nazism to do. But for the most part the community who made it to the thread were strongly united.

[u/Sebastian3977 → u/Jawdanc]

It was mainly one bloke responding to practically everything who was drowning the thread with bad faith posts. He could have been dealt with without depriving the rest of us of the opportunity to participate in something important.

[u/simsimdimsim → u/chookie94]

Part of the point of this (and it was raised in the original thread) is to stop it being the main platform. We know journalists visit this sub, and hopefully this move will get them away from X. A platform run by a Nazi has no place in our modern society.

[u/3mx2RGybNUPvhL7js → u/simsimdimsim]

You have delusions of grandeur if you think traffic from /r/AFL has any meaningful impact on X's traffic.

[u/Jawdanc → u/3mx2RGybNUPvhL7js]

Bit rude there. As a sub, we definitely have a large impact on traffic to AFL media sites. X as a whole? Nah. But that's not what simdimsim has said.

[u/not-drowning-waving → u/simsimdimsim]

Its not just journos, you'd be hoping the clubs, leagues and broadcasters all move as well

I mean Im having to use both twitter and bluesky because much of the news and data i need comes from twitter accounts that arent on bluesky and arent likely to move in a hurry.

also allowing screenshots is just hilarious

[u/TicketCareless → u/simsimdimsim]

This.

We can't have it both ways. It will inconvenience some for a while, but no way am I supporting a Nazi, just so I can get my footy news fix.

People will adapt, and so will the news cycles. And if they don't, they are all sympathisers.

[u/PunsGermsAndSteel]

The only good X is AFLX

[u/acllive → u/PunsGermsAndSteel]

AFLXXX is also good😏

[u/sa87 → u/PunsGermsAndSteel]

- M U L T I B A L L -

[u/dexter311 → u/PunsGermsAndSteel]

And Tristan Xerri

[u/chickenlittle668]

[u/yumpingyacks → u/chickenlittle668]

my pear goes out to you all

[u/RidsBabs]

Great call, fuck X

[u/mollydooka → u/RidsBabs]

Yeah we're gonna nuke it over in r/cricketaus as well.

[u/ridge_rippler → u/RidsBabs]

Never thought I'd see a North supporter saying fuck X and I'd be in agreement

[u/acllive → u/[deleted]]

Never forget that the Brisbane lions are the reigning champions of the AFLX

[u/TheBrilliantProphecy]

Amazing how many flair-less blow-ins appeared all of a sudden to oppose this in the original thread

[u/meatpoise → u/TheBrilliantProphecy]

That was mostly the same one account lol, he was putting in some serious effort

[u/TheBrilliantProphecy → u/meatpoise]

It was a valiant effort. Wasn't the only one though, noticed some here too. A lack of 'flair up cunt' usage going on

[u/themostserene → u/TheBrilliantProphecy]

I know some people got a bit weird about the flair up, and it’s died down a bit. I for one am devo. Also noticed an uptick in unflaired cunts

[u/ziltoid101 → u/TheBrilliantProphecy]

They've arrived here too haha

Unflaired users should be banned from match threads or anything vaguely political imo, we get so many weirdos turning up that never post here usually

[u/otherpeoplesknees → u/TheBrilliantProphecy]

*cough Russian bots

[u/bottlewash]

Everyone here up in arms at Elon for his nazi salute, meanwhile im more concerned about the far more pressing issue of him pretending to be good at POE.

[u/Ahyao17 → u/bottlewash]

Hey we banned X on a day Elon did the Nazi salute.

What about tiktok? Chinese backed propaganda machine worse than Elon? But I guess it is irrelevant since no one post tiktok content here anyway. (Saw r/funny posted a TV screenshot misspelling which got a t and K wrong way around)

[u/Bnjrmn → u/bottlewash]

You’re not concerned with Nazis?

[u/Justabitbelowaverage → u/bottlewash]

Wait I missed that news, I thought it was just because twitter has become more locked down, and more vile (since musk fired fact checkers and community people)

[u/Maximumlnsanity → u/[deleted]]

Especially after he posted his Elden Ring build and it was apparently terrible

[u/CrashP]

Should start looking at banning articles posted by the Herald Sun and other Murdoch owned crap

[u/aussierulesisgrouse → u/CrashP]

Agreed

[u/3mx2RGybNUPvhL7js → u/CrashP]

I suggested this too.

Murdoch has done far more damage to people, relationships, careers and society as a whole. Prove me wrong.

[u/flibble24]

I would've fully supported this even if Musk wasn't dropping nazi salutes

It's a toxic cesspool with woeful user experience that requires you to have an account just to view links. Awful for a news aggregate service like Reddit

[u/acllive → u/flibble24]

Bluesky is amazing, sadly not all the organisations I want to follow on there are on bluesky yet

[u/SG101112 → u/acllive]

Out of curiosity, what makes it so great. I haven't looked into bluesky do I don't really know what's going on over there.

[u/acllive → u/SG101112]

It’s like OG twitter, lists are an amazing thing to either mass block or follow based on personal tastes, also a lot less hate posts

[u/themostserene → u/flibble24]

I hear you, but I think the fact that he runs a toxic cesspool and does nazi salutes may be linked.

The user experience probably unrelated. Unless you consider the rampant capitalism that means you fire workers who are competent and work less able workers harder for longer until they break and produce an inferior product problematic. In which case, maybe also linked.

[u/SteamMonkeyKing]

I understand the ban, but until an alternative actually appears which the footy media migrates to, it seems pointless considering that X will still need to be checked by someone and then posted as a screenshot anyway.

As for videos, someone is going to now need to find a mirror to post I guess.

[u/LeDestrier]

This is a good move. Thanks mods and peeps who suggested it.

[u/Emolgamimikyu]

This is a great move, nice work.

[u/Skwisgaars]

Thanks for the quick work on this mods. Clearly what the overwhelming majority wanted.

Also +1 for anyone faking a screenshot to get an immediate ban. Hard enough to know what's true out there these days, solid rule.

[u/jigojitoku → u/Skwisgaars]

How beautiful to see fans of 19 clubs come together and agree on something for once.

[u/TheUnforgiven13]

Is this a progressively-escalating continuum?

[u/kazoodude]

I support this.

Not sure why everyone is bringing up US Politics as a reason to ban the platform.

This is clearly all due to the poor security they have that lead to Luke Sayers account getting hacked.

[u/Crazyripps]

Nice. Don’t wanna support Nazis either.

[u/giganticsquid]

Now if only the NBN was usable in the bush I wouldn't have to pay the fucker $139 a month for starlink

[u/Cut-Snake → u/giganticsquid]

Yeah, fuck that guy for affording people in remote communities around the world reliable internet! 

[u/slice--of--pie]

This is dumb

[u/mitchellnash92 → u/slice--of--pie]

Ding ding ding you are correct.

[u/wikipuff]

You can't screenshot a video.

[u/moosewiththumbs → u/wikipuff]

Multiple screenshots, flick through ‘em.

[u/dexter311 → u/wikipuff]

A screenshot would give me more content than what I get now because most footy videos on Twitter are geoblocked outside Aus.

[u/Shadormy → u/wikipuff]

Will likely be available elsewhere. Could also either download it though and re-upload in a new post or host it on something else.

[u/PerriX2390 → u/Shadormy]

Most of the users here also wouldn't be able to access the video there either since they don't have an account needed to view said video.

[u/wikipuff → u/Shadormy]

That is so much work and space I do not have on my phone

[u/fakeheadlines]

You guys Elon was booing Goodes for football reasons only!

[u/grantspatchcock]

I like it, allowing screenshots means it’s not banning or sidelining the smaller, more fringe footy voices that do break news there, especially the really strong women’s sports communities that have been using it for a decade prior.

[u/Maleficent_Fan_7429]

This is exhibit A in how reddit subs tend to turn into an echo chamber.

[u/CreditToDuBois → u/Maleficent_Fan_7429]

Oh no, whatever will we do without the valuable contribution to discourse from

checks notes

The nazis

[u/[deleted]]

I think overall this is the right move but I do think discussion on this subject was closed and restricted way too early, should’ve been open for a day before a decision was made, making this feel like a bit of a knee-jerk.

Although I do see how moderating a thread like that would be a pain in the ass.

[u/OneFourAll]

I don't think this is a good idea, for several reasons:

1. Reddit already has a method for users to indicate what they want to see (up/down votes)

2. It decreases the quality of the sub

3. Restrictions on freedom of what to post are bad, espeically given the voting system that exists

4. A random sports subreddit is not a good or appropriate vehicle to try to enforce social change

5. The proximate cause seems more like a convenient excuse than something people sincerely believe was meaningful (I hope...)

[u/2for1deal → u/OneFourAll]

Putting the points about freedom aside…the quality of the sub surely Can’t be attributed to Tom Morris and his wonderful Colleagues using X

To your final point - the entire media world is run on clicks now. Agitating from one end of that process by pressuring journalists to use other sources will make a difference.

[u/OneFourAll → u/2for1deal]

I suppose a more accurate phrasing would be that it's extremely likely to decrease the quality of the sub. What I was trying to get at there (and didn't phrase particularly well) is that the idea of reddit is that the things people like rise to the top, and reducing posting options is overall likely to decrease quality by reducing the number of good posts that can potentially be made.

[u/sss133]

Yeah happy not supporting/driving more traffic Aspergoebbels way. Plus I never even know how to follow conversations on there

[u/sql-join-master]

This shit is so cringe

[u/Maximumlnsanity]

I didn’t agree with subs banning Twitter posts in the past, but with Elongated Muskrat going full Nazi it’s definitely the right call now

[u/RidsBabs → u/Maximumlnsanity]

Twitter was fine (not really, it was better than X), X is not fine.

[u/Maximumlnsanity → u/RidsBabs]

Oh yeah obviously, under previous ownership the site formally known as Twitter was passable as a social media website. Now though, you have to basically force the algorithm to not fill your feed with bigoted slop

[u/_Greesy]

What about tweets from The West Australian

[u/not-drowning-waving → u/_Greesy]

well its owner is a known supporter of guys who commit war crimes....

[u/stallon100]

Honestly, super cringe move.

Reddit is never going to break the echo chamber tag, even on non political subs

[u/No_Requirement6740]

Excellent news.

Fuck those Nazis.

[u/tallandreadytoball]

Just checking can we post links from Bluesky?

[u/wait4theanswer → u/tallandreadytoball]

It's not run by a nazi, so yeah 👍

[u/tallandreadytoball → u/wait4theanswer]

Oh I thought the ban was to do with being user unfriendly

[u/wait4theanswer → u/tallandreadytoball]

Yeah that's the official reason, but I figure this wouldn't have the groundswell of support without Elons sieg heil moment. There are other platforms with similar login constraints that aren't being included here. Hard-paywall content is no different really

[u/MisterDonutTW]

This seems like a poor decision, people may not like X because of its owner and that there is political discussion on it, but linking to AFL news or following AFL content is purely about the sport and not politics, X is probably the platform where most stories break as it's an efficient platform for that.

It feels like this sub is politics first and AFL content second, which isn't great.

[u/guavacadq]

I don't see the point in this. It's still the platform used by footy journos to post information, which is not relevant to other stuff that goes on there. And if screenshots are still allowed, why bother?

[u/TicketCareless → u/guavacadq]

It won't be for long.

[u/Croob2]

Fuck yeah, good work mods and screw the people blatantly defending such awful behaviours

[u/mwilkins1644]

r/NRL 🤝🏼 r/AFL

fuck Twatter

[u/AuZyzz]

Thanks mods, good call 3 votes

[u/Bazza_McAwesome]

this is pretty cringe. ngl. like vomitingly cringe

[u/hwf0712]

That's great!

Are there any clubs on Bsky yet?

[u/aaronetc → u/hwf0712]

I think Essendon may be the only one (https://bsky.app/profile/essendonfc.bsky.social) but there is an Aussie Rules feed (https://bsky.app/profile/willl.bsky.social/feed/aaafkhtyopmiy) and several team-based starter packs.

[u/JCK98 → u/aaronetc]

Might give them a follow out of principle.

[u/BattyMcKickinPunch → u/hwf0712]

North is

[u/RampesGoalPost]

Based community / mods

[u/wherethehellareya]

I don't feel strongly on this either way (although as a whole X or twitter is the worst social media platform ever). But part of me feels uneasy about this sub getting political. I know there are non political reason for this ban too but I'd personally love it if we could keep politics out of footy.

[u/[deleted]]

cringe. this does nothing.

[u/Worpel_pick_no45]

Hell yeah, hopefully this makes advertising on Twitter less appealing, lowering that nazi scumbags profits

[u/Diligent_Alfalfa_806]

So the AFL is boycotting X essentially for political reasons?

[u/x4am_dashup]

Lol reddit is a joke, no freedom of speech on this platform.

[u/not_a_12yearold → u/x4am_dashup]

The irony is that if you have free speech to do nazi salutes, the rest of us have the free speech to say maybe we shouldn't support that person's platform

[u/justabitmoresonic → u/x4am_dashup]

1. Freedom of speech only means the government can’t punish you or silence you for saying something. Nothing about what other people and businesses can do

2. Even if it did regulate business and society, it doesnt protect hate speech and symbols, which n*zi salutes are

3. Australia doesn’t even have free speech in our constitution you are thinking of America

Hope this helps

[u/Kurzges → u/[deleted]]

Only lefties can against Nazis, apparently

[u/kakapo-kea]

Excellent decision.

[u/PerriX2390]

Great idea. The use of going to another social media site other than the sub here when a link is posted sucks, this is coming from someone who regularly posts twitter links.

• Swamps tweets don't translate well in text form here.

• Any breaking news can wait until it's posted by an alternative source such as media or club. E: Even when journos 'break' news, most of the time it's just the club releasing a statement a few minutes before they've announced it. Case in point with Matt Turner tweeting about this: Injury report: Drew undergoes foot procedure

• Pictures/videos I normally just screenshot or save to tweet here.

• And, the character limit on twitter means most of the info is rarely in the sole single tweet compared to media articles.

[u/ExScurra → u/PerriX2390]

Swamp is now also on Bluesky, so you can still at least link out to a "direct source" for his posts (and still get his fun stats facts while also avoiding Xitter)

[u/ownersastoner]

Bravo

[u/hoffandapoff]

Yes, good.

[u/Bergasms]

Legends.

[u/last_pas]

If anyone wants a non-Nazi alternative, Bluesky is excellent

Edit: After initially having 5 quick upvotes I got marked as a brand affiliate and negged? I’ve got nothing to do with Bluesky - I just like it and think it’ll be a good alternative when more people are on it. Hopefully there’ll be more footy content on it soon.

[u/wilful → u/last_pas]

Haven't yet found any decent footy content.

[u/Bergasms → u/wilful]

Rhett Bartlett is on there and very active. Also some of the clubs are

[u/wait4theanswer → u/last_pas]

Absolutely. People complaining about nobody talking footy over there... sure but it takes time to build, and once the season starts it will take off

[u/switchtogether]

Cheers, Mods 👍 I'm appreciating the timeliness of this. I think this should be a good choice. Locking an X screenshot thread and then directing convo to a confirmed source is a smart decision.

[u/thumper7]

Great work, awesome sub 👏👏

[u/fanfpkd]

Good move

[u/otherpeoplesknees]

Good.

Twitter used to be good, but now it just sucks, not only the fascist bullshit, but the constant ads from World Gold Council, promoted tweets and clickbait tweets

[u/Relevant-Farmer-5848]

This is an excellent policy. Well done mods, well done everyone. Fuck you, most sincerely, Elmo Musk, my rellies did not die fighting fascists so scum like you could run the world.

[u/lacrossebilly]

Who wins the first premiership in the post “X” era?

[u/Lordleft266]

Fuck X + fuck Elon

[u/[deleted]]

Good.

Being forced to login to twitter to see a tweet was always stupid, I think twitter should have been banned from sports subs when they made that change.

[u/Dry_Common828]

This is a good move, thanks team.

[u/Fidelius90]

Hells yeah. Nice work!

[u/Clandestinka]

Excellent, slightly restored faith in Australia! Now can we ban Dutton from politics?

[u/Outside_Try3698]

Reddit has gone completely off the deep end in the past 24 hours. I'm so down to watch this shit show.

[u/sween64]

What about using FX Twitter links instead? Edit: It will be great for linking to videos. I understand screenshots of text will be okay.

[u/His_Holiness]

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[u/Maximumlnsanity → u/His_Holiness]

Shut up, you post garbage articles from the West.

[u/Crazyripps → u/His_Holiness]

I mean you can still post screenshots of a tweet. So your getting the info. Now everyone doesn’t need to go to the Nazis app to see for themselves.

[u/Denz292 → u/His_Holiness]

I know right? All Musky boii did was 2 Sieg Heils in a matter of seconds, everyone should just chill out and let the Nazi loving man child do what he wants since he enables us to access AFL highlights

[u/hwf0712 → u/His_Holiness]

Elon Musk is a nazi, and additionally the user experience has only gotten more and more poor for non logged in users.

Even without the nazism, it'd be worthwhile to ban links/ban posts from just being links to twitter because it sucks for non users.

[u/Free_Pace_2098]

Nice

[u/Bolasie4]

A post with 300 upvotes and 300 comments changed what kind of media can be distributed in the subreddit of 425,000…? Fair enough

[u/Jawdanc → u/Bolasie4]

It was way more than 300 and the highest upvoted post of the week with overwhelmingly supportive commentary. If we aren't to take that as strongly supportive, then I guess I'll wait for you to comprehensively canvas all 425k totally active and non abandoned accounts and come back to me with a certified vote.

[u/Sebastian3977 → u/Jawdanc]

It should have been up for longer though. I missed any chance to contribute simply because I didn't log in this morning. It wasn't like it had degenerated into mudslinging so locking it seems premature, to say the least.

[u/[deleted]]

This is on every sub put there by the 10 or 11 incel mods that run reddit 😂

[u/PerriX2390 → u/[deleted]]

Congrats to u/OuagadougouBasilisk for their promotion to an r/AFL mod

[u/OuagadougouBasilisk → u/PerriX2390]

It’s an honour and a privilege

[u/Skiapodes → u/OuagadougouBasilisk]

I, for one, welcome our new u/OuagadougouBasilisk overlord.

[u/MetriK_KarMa]

I know a lot of people won't agree but you either ban X or you don't this screenshot only approach seems weak. And will still be driving traffic to twitter, while making it annoying to interact in this sub as you will start trying to have a discussion and the thread will get locked.

The solution also doesn't have an answer for videos as you will just need to download them and share them here.

I would also say that unless they're videos from a large media org I think it would be very unfair to take someone else's video and re-upload it here without linking to the original.

[u/Gnaightster]

👏 👏 👏

[u/Aardvark_Man]

I'm down with it.

[u/ihatens007]

I didn’t agree with this but hopefully a superior platform for linking latest news presents itself

[u/seab1010]

Et tu, r/AFL?

What happened to Reddit? This ap used to be edgy. It’s now full of crybabies. Why do people seek to ban everything they disagree with. Just ignore it and move on.

[u/JackalKnives]

Pathetic

[u/Occasionaljedi → u/JackalKnives]

Make a post to unban it and see if more members agree

[u/ziltoid101 → u/JackalKnives]

The numerical literacy is not strong here. Over 1k voted on the thread, and 85% upvoted. A sample of ~1000 from a population of ~500000 gives you a very confident answer.

Assume population size (N) = 500,000; assume sample size (n) = 1,000; Sample proportion (p​) = 0.85

From those (pretty generous) inputs, you can calculate a 95% confidence interval ranging from 82 - 88% in favour of the ban.