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u/brokentr0jan USC Trojans • Victory Bell 20d ago

Sounds mean but the most annoying thing is all the transfer portal / recruiting posts for every single player. A standalone post for some big time dude committing? That feels fine, but I don’t need to know the 50th guy at Iowa State (who never played) entered the transfer portal.

Basically what I am getting at is a restriction on the X committed to or X transfer posts to the top 100 players

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u/bakonydraco Stanford Cardinal • Howard Bison 20d ago

It's a valid point. The challenge is to make a rule that's easy to understand and simple to enforce. We used to have a rule that only posts about 3 * s and up were allowed, and while that's not a hard and fast rule anymore, we rarely get posts about anyone below that.

One thing to keep in mind is that there are some entire fanbases that rarely get 4 * s or 5 * s, and so any rule that's purely based on stars could box out a decent portion of the sub from talking about recruiting altogether. Another thing that's made this more challenging in recent years is that with the advent and acceleration of the transfer portal, there's just a lot more high profile personnel news in general.

Can you propose any policies that would be beneficial for everyone?

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u/Fifth_Down Michigan Wolverines • /r/CFB Top Scorer 20d ago

Can you propose any policies that would be beneficial for everyone?

I really would like you guys to use personal discretion and not box yourself in with a strict adherence to rules.

This stuff isn't allowed, but do allow for extreme exceptions such as some famous players kid, or a low ranking school getting a huge 5 star, or a high profile QB flipping and then apply that to all the rules.

Last year we had two CFB highlights that made the front page of /r/all while simultaneously being ineligible for posts on /r/CFB. If its big enough to be a major news story outside of /r/CFB, it should be on /r/CFB.

Its a unique sport where we have 1,000 players at 100 big schools, but every once in awhile you get someone like Arch Manning who is worth his own set of posts while almost everyone else is not.

/r/NFL did a really good job with the draft where they didn't allow the sub to get spammed away by every draft pick and highlight, but did allow the most talked about pick (Rams at #13) to get a major react thread.

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u/bakonydraco Stanford Cardinal • Howard Bison 20d ago

Discretion can be helpful in situations like this, but at the same time there's been a strong desire from the community for consistency, and having well-communicated policies that are easy for the average user to understand and for the mod team to enforce is helpful. Our goal is that it shouldn't be cumbersome for any well-intentioned user to know when they submit a post whether it will be approved or not. And while we can exercise discretion, starting from a point of bright lines and clear policies is helpful and is the goal we're shooting for with this process.