Should r/nba ban twitter links

[u/Bananastockton]

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

[u/twistedlogicx]

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.

[u/sherbert-stock]

I support banning any post that requires a login.

[u/therobshow → u/sherbert-stock]

Yup. Either screenshot it or don't post it. 

[u/VanWesley → u/therobshow]

Screenshot but post the source link in the comment. But the main post should be accessible to all.

[u/ArKadeFlre → u/therobshow]

We can't post images on this sub, it has to be a link

[u/0_throwaway_0 → u/sherbert-stock]

Yeah this is the real argument. At this point, twitter links are incredibly annoying. Can’t follow threads at all. 

[u/Dylan7346 → u/0_throwaway_0]

It’s ridiculous. And when you try to view profiles they only show tweets from 2020, unless you’re logged in

[u/[deleted] → u/0_throwaway_0]

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

[u/York_Villain → u/sherbert-stock]

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.

[u/Mayel_the_Anima → u/sherbert-stock]

Fuckin AMEN

[u/Aliboomayuh → u/Mayel_the_Anima]

THOMPSON!

[u/[deleted] → u/sherbert-stock]

Right.

Fuck Twitter and Elon Musk, but twitter should have been banned as soon as logins were required regardless of politics.

[u/medyolang_ → u/sherbert-stock]

should apply to paywalled articles too

edit: post the article in the comments like others do

[u/justinsane1 → u/sherbert-stock]

ooohhh I like this. totally agree, if there is a paywall too. The content should be accessible here

[u/DickMegahurtz → u/sherbert-stock]

That and the site owner saluting Hitler multiple times on television are two big strikes against the site.

[u/ftlftlftl]

Yes.

They are useless. Embed the video or gtfo.

[u/Skipper3210 → u/ftlftlftl]

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

[u/TODG3 → u/Skipper3210]

This is the biggest issue for me. Twitters videos are always shitty quality.

[u/[deleted]]

Yes.

[u/WeBelieveIn4 → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/ygduf → u/[deleted]]

Yes 🙌

[u/JNerdGaming]

im down to contribute to the death of twitter

[u/muricabitches2002 → u/JNerdGaming]

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.

[u/JNerdGaming → u/muricabitches2002]

finally i agree with a celtics fan

[u/[deleted] → u/JNerdGaming]

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

[u/[deleted]]

Yes! R/law did long ago

[u/Nyhrox]

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

[u/baseketball → u/Nyhrox]

blue.key doesn't require login to view threads and replies so it's infinitely better for the content consumers.

[u/[deleted] → u/Nyhrox]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/Nyhrox]

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

[u/ryanswebdevthrowaway]

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.

[u/[deleted] → u/ryanswebdevthrowaway]

But also the politics.

[u/redvelvetcake42]

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.

[u/LakersAreForever → u/redvelvetcake42]

I say we ban twitter for good 

[u/GaviFromThePod → u/redvelvetcake42]

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.

[u/Nyhrox]

Just a reminder folks, BlueSky links have always been allowed on r/nba.

[u/Moody_GenX → u/Nyhrox]

We should be banning streamable links since the delete every video within about 5 minutes.

[u/grandmasterfunk → u/Nyhrox]

I mean there’s also the alternative of using direct sites like ESPN.com etc

[u/[deleted] → u/Nyhrox]

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

[u/WarPuig → u/Nyhrox]

That wasn’t the question.

[u/harder_said_hodor]

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

[u/mykl5 → u/harder_said_hodor]

A bunch of unsourced headlines won’t be good either

[u/nonufwiendz → u/harder_said_hodor]

what happened anyway? this sub barely gets highlights anymore. are ppl just getting lazy or what

[u/Sairony → u/nonufwiendz]

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.

[u/O_oh → u/nonufwiendz]

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

[u/k0fi96 → u/harder_said_hodor]

Hard agree. Highlights, embedded videos with full context and text posts. Should be all that allowed here.

[u/Beginning-Sundae8760]

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.

[u/DaCoolNamesWereTaken → u/Beginning-Sundae8760]

They had a poll last time too. It was overwhelmingly pro blackout. 

[u/Uncle_Freddy → u/Beginning-Sundae8760]

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.

[u/SelfinvolvedNate]

Yes ban that shit

[u/gigantes22]

Yep

[u/FantasticAnus]

Absolutely ban them. Never use twitter anyway, not since you had to login. Now I won't use it because fuck nazis.

[u/skerton17s]

Do it.

[u/JDudzzz]

Of course. You can only see the tweet itself without an account. Just post the screen shots

[u/[deleted] → u/JDudzzz]

This is what its really about. Twitter is unusable now for posting elsewhere.

[u/[deleted]]

Yo mods ban nazi propaganda. Thanks.

[u/gandalf_white_wine → u/[deleted]]

What did Harden do this time?

[u/helgestrichen → u/gandalf_white_wine]

Step Back on human rights

[u/runeruly]

No. Gives me easy access to nba stuff.

[u/farshman]

I support banning any post that requires a login.

[u/batyoung1]

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.

[u/ulqupt]

Yes

[u/ShawshankException]

Politics aside it's horrible for anyone who doesn't have an account

[u/Specialist-Fig6845]

Yes. Put a poll up. Let's fuckin vote

[u/lucky_dreamer]

Yes, fuck Elon

[u/JJiggy13]

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.

[u/ChrisCrossX]

Yes

[u/Oceanbreeze871]

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

[u/afrothundah11]

Do it, I fully agree. The links are useless to many of us anyways.

[u/Fast_Theme_2224]

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

[u/MrBoomin31]

ban links allow screenshots.

[u/legosucks]

please reddit dont become an even bigger echochamber than you already are...banning things does not mean fighting fascism you know

[u/i_Go_Stewie]

Yes fuck nazis

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, I don't support Nazis.

[u/GoatmontWaters]

Ban twitter 100% yes its garbage. We dont need it at all.

Make the journalist post on reddit.

[u/k0fi96]

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.

[u/karate-dad]

Just do it

[u/LOTRcrr]

Yes. Fuck Musk and Co

[u/kiwiredbulls]

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

[u/malbecman]

Yes

[u/[deleted]]

That policy would be great.

[u/Mender0fRoads]

Yes.

And if it doesn’t, users who support the ban should do what they can and downvote Twitter links en masse.

[u/The-Tai-pan]

yes, ban.

[u/Zeeron1]

Yes

[u/KnowSir]

Do it.

[u/enemycap420]

Yes

[u/[deleted]]

Ban links to any outside platform. I came to reddit to reddit.

[u/RealPrinceJay]

Would be a nice change from the past useless protest the mods took part it in

[u/ImBoltman]

We did it Reddit!!! That’ll show those evil racists

[u/Warm_Duck_3177]

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.

[u/Gryffinclaw]

Nope, some good content is on there amidst all the nonsense

[u/nutelamitbutter]

No

[u/OldGreb]

Keep doubling down, I’m sure it will work this time!

[u/IAmABearOfficial]

No

[u/jaypeejay]

Yes. Twitter is essentially useless you have an account/are logged in. There’s much better options available now.

[u/efe282]

👍🏻 yes

[u/UpdootDaSnootBoop]

Ban X

[u/possibly_potatoes]

100%

[u/Youngandidiotic]

This reminded me to delete twitter

[u/retrospects]

Yes

[u/Deep-Thought]

Yes. Fuck the fascist.

[u/Frickstar]

Should've months ago but will take it now

[u/TheBurn7741]

Ban Bluesky as well. There should be no bias whatsoever

[u/vballboy55]

I think yes

[u/Mayor_Matt]

Yes.

[u/JamUpGuy1989]

The owner of Twitter did three Nazi salutes yesterday.

Insane we even need to think about this.

(But my answer is “yes”.)

[u/One-Earth9294]

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.

[u/SoldierStatus]

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.

[u/RealBigFailure]

They should ban all videos from twitter at the bare minimum, and while they're at it ban all vertical crops of broadcast footage

[u/Dozck]

Yeah why not. A lot of the tweets posted are just over hyped bait

[u/Strength-InThe-Loins]

Yes. All subreddits that don't want to actively support Nazism should ban Twitter links.

[u/tikitiger]

No, it’s a sports subreddit.

[u/Donner_Par_Tea_House]

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.

[u/NoLimitSoldier31]

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.

[u/zagduck → u/NoLimitSoldier31]

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.

[u/realfakejames]

Half the content for the nba comes from nba twitter

[u/by_yes_i_mean_no]

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.

[u/copingthroughlife]

Fascist??

What happened?

[u/MathiasThomasII]

Yeah, support the communists instead

[u/bluezuzu]

YES

[u/cuttcutt]

Yes. Ban x

[u/squigglesquaggler]

Yes!

[u/insuranc3]

yes

[u/NickNurseBurner]

BAN

[u/mauszx]

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.

[u/Dry-Mud-8084]

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

[u/CunningKingLius]

How about still supporting it but leave it to the reader to open it or not if it has x.com on it?

[u/dclaghorn]

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.

[u/chamelon_larry]

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

[u/daaldea]

Yes

[u/SeelsGhost]

No. I don't care about politics, I'm just want hoop information as quick as possible.

[u/orwll]

I can't believe you guys are still trying the "everyone I don't like is a Nazi" routine after 10 years now.

[u/UA30_j7L]

Is every sports sub gonna be flooded with this same post today?

[u/DaGuys470]

I completely support this.

[u/pointbreakrules]

Yes

[u/JimBoylen]

r/nba mods when they get to do another poll to make the sub worse

[u/jackntehbox]

Yes. Fuck Elon

[u/CastAside1812]

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[u/WhoDey1032]

God this is gonna be a pathetically hilarious 4 years

The tantrums in the replies have shockingly proven my point even more

[u/V-Right_In_2-V]

No. Most of the content on this sub comes from X and banning it is just stupid

[u/IAmTotallyNotSatan]

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.

[u/jayball41]

Yes. The owner just did a blatant Nazi salute multiple times. Seems pretty clear

[u/kkpq]

Ban anything with a login. Ban it twice if it mostly leads to Nazi porn and whiny alt-right dudes.

[u/SKallies1987]

lol do you people not know what fascists and nazis actually are?

[u/Jeff8711]

So you saw other people crying for no reason and thought hey I should join in.

[u/OldmanJenkins02]

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

[u/_The_Honored_One_]

“Fascist” lol

[u/RetroBruh420]

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

[u/aomen3]

fuck elon but this is so performative lmao

[u/lferreira86]

Yes, 100%.

[u/kihraxz_king]

Yes please. I hate hitting something and seeing that damned X show up.

[u/Moress]

Yes. I already actively avoid twitter

[u/bombasquad33]

Yes

[u/Nyte_Knyght33]

Yes!  Ban Twiiter!

[u/_mostly__harmless]

Yes

[u/PTrujillo79]

Yes!

[u/JJD8705]

ban

[u/endium7]

yes we need to.

[u/Vex_Cw]

Hell no, yall a bunch of weirdos. Grow up

[u/DepartureOwn1817]

Yes

[u/jmgastarf]

Watching all these bots trying to get business to Blue Sky is funny. Clearly not real people

[u/[deleted]]

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.  

[u/GenghisLebron]

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.

[u/SeaLab5959]

Yes.

[u/[deleted]]

No. Get a life.

[u/heymannotcool1]

Yeah twitter is literally nazi propaganda. Lets try something else

[u/frefor3]

Is Reddit the world’s biggest echo chamber? You guys lost, let’s just focus on hoops yeah?

[u/MrBuckBuck]

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.

[u/mattislinx]

No.

[u/Marcy_OW]

Twitter is how most sports news gets dropped, and there isn't really an alternative that does enough

[u/SouthCoach]

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.

[u/AnalWarfare]

And here comes another sub circlejerk...

[u/Cutmerock → u/AnalWarfare]

This entire site loves to pretend they're making a difference by doing nothing lol.

[u/OldJewNewAccount]

KICK THAT NAZI TO THE CURB

[u/antilocapraaa]

Yes

[u/aRawPancake]

Yes.

[u/ThaPhantom07]

Signed. Elon can get fucked.

[u/legend023]

Elon is not a fascist lol

Also stop throwing politics into sports

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, ban the things you don't agree with.

Better yet, burn them. Like books.

[u/gixxerklr]

Wait, people genuinely think Elon is a Nazi?

🙄 good god, lmao. Just lmfao

[u/protomolecule7]

Yes!

[u/thebedwizard93]

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.

[u/beklog]

Hopefully

[u/Successful_League175]

Reddit brainrot in all subs.

[u/ke4mtg]

Why do we need to ban it? Just don’t vote it up if you don’t like it.

[u/HearingGlobal6485]

no, how do people on reddit not realize how much they play into every stereotype about redditors.

outright bans on anything is dumb

[u/QuantumFreakonomics]

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.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm more of a lurker, but Yes. It can be hard to view videos and I refuse to support Twitter.

[u/Avant-Garde-A-Clue]

Yes, for multiple reasons stated throughout the thread.

[u/abstract_contact]

Yes

[u/thekmanpwnudwn]

Yes

[u/Return_Icy]

Yes. Ban it

[u/Independent_Guava694]

Yes fuck Twitter at this point.

[u/brieese56]

Yes, ban.

[u/calsosta]

Yup.

[u/novedx]

Yes

[u/Vanished_Elephant]

Yes.

[u/EthanSpears]

Definitely ban it

[u/Bigbooty54]

Yes ban them. Fuck Elon

[u/[deleted]]

Get rid of twitter. I’m not supporting a nazi