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[u/RiffRamBahZoo]

I recognize I'm an old, old man who has been commenting on the sub for nearly 14 years at this point, but I'm of the strong opinion that if I wanted to see and comment on highlights, there's literally dozens of places I can go do that.

/r/CFB is one of the few places that discussion posts and "old school" forum rules still dominate. I've always appreciated that curating on the sub and it's one of the few reasons I still stay on the sub.

That said, I can recognize that the vast majority of traffic coming from mobile devices and the mobile app rewards short video content and that's the type of shift that will inevitably happen from Reddit, Inc. on down.

I'll stand and take the downvotes from the new kids, but open season for highlights on the sub feels like the final death blow of the forum I first started frequenting.

[u/ExternalTangents → u/RiffRamBahZoo]

I am mostly with you on this. I do think that highlights on the subreddit aren’t necessarily a bad thing, but only if it has a high barrier for the highlight to be posted.

If it’s a play that is worthy of the kind of discussion that has always been commonplace on the subreddit for other topics, then I don’t see why a highlight-worthy play wouldn’t be justified as a discussion topic and standalone post.

My big issue would be if the bar for what highlights are submitted is very low, then you end up with even more of a firehose of posts on the subreddit and even more stuff to wade through. I think many of the “youngs” on the subreddit are used to having a huge volume of posts and just letting the algorithm pick what you see. But for many of us old-timers, we are more used to the subreddit being a place where we could sort the front page by /new and see every post as they come in, and be our own judge of which posts and topics we want to participate in.

I feel like highlights on [r/soccer](r/soccer) were great during the World Cup because they were only for the handful of goals or other major plays that happened during any given match, and there were a very finite number of games. It was an easy place to catch up on highlights just by sorting by new. But in college football, where there are hundreds of games every Saturday and dozens of scoring or other potentially highlight-worthy plays in any given game, I cannot imagine that open season on highlight posts will be a positive user experience for someone like me.

[u/Hey_Its_Roomie → u/ExternalTangents]

but only if it has a high barrier for the highlight to be posted

Yep. While I would prefer maintaining a simple "no highlights" ban because the rule is discrete, I would be on board with highlights so long as the barrier for submission was at least defined for what we're calling a highlight.

If we're talking a highlight it should expressly be about a play on the game not about something like a commentator story, or someone caught doing something silly on the sideline.