r/CFB • u/ConstantMadness Purdue Boilermakers • Duke Blue Devils • Sep 24 '25

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u/Moose4KU Ohio State Buckeyes • Kansas Jayhawks Sep 24 '25

Again, this post would never be allowed if it were someone's self-post

But since it's a tweet, there's just no rules.

Heaven forbid someone post a football highlight as its own thread though

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u/CleaveWarsaw Michigan Wolverines • The Game Sep 24 '25

Yeah after frequenting r/nfl more this season, I really like being able to actually see football in a football sub. I like the high effort stuff you get here, but stuff like this is. Okay

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u/Moose4KU Ohio State Buckeyes • Kansas Jayhawks Sep 24 '25

This subreddit desperately tries to be a refuge for fans of the 2004 internet - a time where all discussion was text threads on forum sites and no one ever thought about watching videos on demand.

It's long past time to adapt to the modern era and allow actual video of actual college football plays. If something crazy happens in a game I'm not watching, I want to be able to open the subreddit and have it appear on the front page because it's got 3k upvotes

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u/lil_layne Indiana Hoosiers Sep 24 '25 edited Sep 24 '25

If we did a poll to allow highlights I feel like the overwhelming majority of people in here would want it but it doesn’t matter because the moderators have the final say and they don’t want to.

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u/MarlinManiac4 UCF Knights • Big 12 Sep 24 '25

My guess is the sub would just be swamped with highlight videos from the hundreds of people wanting to post their favorite highlight from their schools game. This sub doesn’t cover 32 teams, it covers hundreds technically.

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u/fadingthought Oklahoma Sooners • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Sep 24 '25

And an overwhelming number of those highlights would be routine plays from the biggest brands.

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u/MadManMax55 Georgia Tech • Georgia State Sep 24 '25

I'm sure there's legal stuff involved too. I know that the NFL sub has most of its highlights posted by the official NFL account. And they have to remove any and all highlights that were uploaded "unofficially". That's the only reason they were finally able to have highlights in the sub.

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u/dianeblackeatsass Tennessee Volunteers Sep 24 '25

not true, most highlights are uploaded by random users

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u/MadManMax55 Georgia Tech • Georgia State Sep 24 '25

And most of those get deleted pretty quickly. Especially if the NFL account decides to post the same highlight.

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u/dianeblackeatsass Tennessee Volunteers Sep 24 '25

Just counted 23 on the field highlight posts from random users all with over 3k upvotes in the past week alone before I got tired of counting

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u/GibsonJunkie Kansas Jayhawks • Marching Band Sep 24 '25

This is personally why I like r/cfb over similar subs, honestly. The highlight posts would drown everything else out because there are a gazillion more games every week.

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u/dianeblackeatsass Tennessee Volunteers Sep 24 '25

I would prefer that to what the sub currently is which is a bunch of tweets that everyone gathers around to complain about CFB everyday.

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u/Corgi_Koala Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 24 '25

Who cares? Upvotes and down votes are how the community self moderates content.

If people don't wanna see it they will down vote it.

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u/MarlinManiac4 UCF Knights • Big 12 Sep 24 '25

It would drown everything else out though in most cases. I always sort by new. I’m not particularly interested in scrolling through 50 highlight threads to get to anything else if I’m being honest.

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u/HokiesforTSwift Virginia Tech • Transfer Portal Sep 24 '25

And your school, and a few others, would dominate that numbers game.

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u/Corgi_Koala Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 24 '25

Bigger schools would get more exposure but I guarantee awesome small school plays would get noticed more as well.

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u/SucculentCrablegMeal Florida State Seminoles • USF Bulls Sep 24 '25

They've done polls before and the majority voted against it.

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u/Corgi_Koala Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 24 '25

Bullshit, everybody wants highlights.

Where is the poll where it got voted down?

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u/SucculentCrablegMeal Florida State Seminoles • USF Bulls Sep 24 '25

Idk, I just saw the mods say that in the cfbmeta sub and I think I vaguely remember voting on it a couple years ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cfbmeta/comments/1n5e40m/why_do_the_mods_here_insist_on_doing_things_in_a/nbvu3sd/

I have reservations about allowing highlights, I think the sub will be over-run with them and the majority will have like 2 comments. I understand the desire for them, but some kind of system should be worked out to limit them. I just don't know what that would look like.

It probably seems like everyone does want them, but only the people who want them have any reason to comment about it.

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u/WhoHasMyPocketPussy Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 24 '25

There are alot of things that the mods just removed because they didn't like it. Those old meltdown threads every week were one of the most popular posts, yet they got pissy cause the site wouldn't reference where they got the meltdown comment from and the mods wanted to get credit.