Hello fellow football enthusiasts!

I hope you’re all enjoying our community dedicated to the beautiful game. I wanted to ask your opinion regarding the current state of moderation and rules, and I’d appreciate your thoughts.

I’ve noticed that our community has only one moderator who hasn’t posted anything in the past three weeks. This raises questions about how we can ensure that discussions remain productive, respectful, and in line with community guidelines.

  • What specific rules or guidelines do you believe are necessary to maintain a healthy and constructive discussion?

  • Does anyone know the moderator? I wonder if we can reach out to him/her. I sent a message but haven’t heard back yet.

Thank you!

  • FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Goal highlights were always an important part of r/soccer. Having them posted within seconds of a goal being scored was great and one of the major reasons to sub.

    Figuring out how to get that on here seems like potentially an important thing to discuss? I doubt anyone is going to be copying every single video link from reddit to here on a Saturday afternoon. Don’t know if it’s possible to find a way to automatically post them here from r/soccer or if Reddit is the actual source point of those streamable.com and dubz.co videos (or if there is another source where they also get posted instantly).

    I was looking a few days ago and apparently you can scrape reddit by flair i.e. just scrape the media posts. Not sure if that has been affected by the API changes though. Unfortunately I’m not technical enough to come up with a python script on my own, nor do I wish to keep my PC running 24/7 to scrape for new media posts on reddit and have them automatically posted here. I could try and learn more if anyone else has the capacity to keep it running.

    • Coelacanth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Excited to see if the bot works, I agree that goals and highlights was a huge part of the old place.

      • FlayOtters@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Bot seemed to work in a test. No idea if it would work in the long term with reddit api limits. Takes about 30 seconds for the bot to post here after it’s up on Reddit. I might test it again when there are a bunch of games on at the same time to see how it does.

        I chose to exclude v.redd.it. Nobody posts any major goals there due to Reddit’s copyright policy anyway.

        If anyone wants the python script and can run it constantly then feel free to ask.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Personally, I’d like to keep the memes or shitposting kinda contained. Maybe a daily or weekly meme post. I really like how things are right now with the on-topic posts and discussions.

    Might also need a bit of active moderation to remove duplicates posts and enforce some civility, though right now those aren’t problems.

    Daily discussion threads would be a good way to keep people engaged.

    For the moderator situation, you can probably contact a site admin and bring it to their attention. They should be able to add extra mods (I know this because this situation came up for a community I created right before I went on vacation).

    • Coelacanth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’d like to keep the memes out if possible and keep this sub to news, transfer stories, goal highlights etc much like the old place. Don’t mind browsing some memes now and then but I’d rather have a separate community for that. If one exists it can be linked in the sidebar, maybe.

      Daily Discussion would be great, agreed.

      • PoppinKREAM@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Midweek there are usually European matches on, so maybe on Fridays? Reddit footy subs have free talk Friday threads, maybe something like that?

        I like the way this sub is right now in terms of sticking to news and transfer updates. If it turns into a wild west of memes I’ll probably leave. But I can live with 1 day of the week. Daily Discussion threads would also be a great addition as ThePowerofGreek suggested.

  • Ggtfmhy@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    Due to how haphazard it’s been with community growth, there’s always the possibility that another one will take off if spam or other issues start piling up here.

    For now there’s a tiny amount of content at all, let alone spam.

    Although I must admit, having the proper “Football” community instead of “Soccer” is nice.