Good Evening Netscord,

As you may or may not have seen, the mods over at r/NBA have decided to go through with the ban of Twitter/Meta domain link posts. This leaves our community at a bit of a crossroads as to whether or not to follow suit. However, the tricky thing is that the current state of Sports Journalism heavily relies on the use of Twitter, so much so that many stories and announcements will break first on twitter only to be later published on the writers site.

On top of this, many (if not all) of our current Beat writers do not post on any twitter alternatives at this time. This makes it difficult for timely reporting of news to be sourced if Twitter domain posts are banned from our community. That being said, we also do agree with the sentiment behind the request of blocking these links.

With all of that said, we'd like to give our own community the chance to vote on how we proceed. This is a very big change in the way sports news will be posted in our community, so we want to make sure we're doing what the community thinks is right. So please vote using the link provided, and as always, GO NETS!

https://strawpoll.com/NMnQNp400g6

Edit: Forgot to mention, the poll will be open until 5pm tomorrow.

10 comments

  2. I don’t like clicking on twitter links. I don’t use twitter and it’s annoying

    Also Elon is supporting hate speech that personally makes me less safe. So I don’t his personal soapbox online hate toy around anymore

  4. Follow suit and ban them. Sports Journalism is going to have to adapt to the fact that Elon has tanked his own website and it isn’t what it used to be. They will migrate to Blue sky eventually.

  5. Twitter is a shitty platform. FB and istagram too. Required login, spam comments, crappy thread handling and image browsing. They shouldn’t be used to source news anyway, even disregarding the ideological turn they’ve made recently. I don’t think we’re losing much by posting breaking news a couple minutes later from an actually useful source. Also, more and more writers and news outlets are moving to bsky and even mastodon. Any alternatives should be at parity soon enough.

    The only problem will be enforcing a screenshot policy, because people will just screencap twitter posts and post them as images. Does the mod team have any idea how to stop that?

  6. I don’t have twitter and don’t use Facebook so I’m not super fussed.

    Apparently a lot of reporters etc are going over to something called blue sky? Idk if that helps at all? I don’t have that either so.. yeah idk

  7. If enough people migrate to bluesky, the content creators will follow. Don’t wait for the tail to wag the dog.

  8. I say yes. The news always gets picked up elsewhere anyway, Bluesky has lots of cross posts from Twitter for a lot of reporters who aren’t on there (there is a ShamsBot on there already, plus others).

  9. I could care less about the links but at least allow screencaps of tweets. Our beat reporters like Slater and Lewis break their news on twitter and usually take hours to post followup articles.

  10. Lotta usernames that haven’t been here all season suddenly chiming in how this sub should be run.

    Sub is going to be dead without news from twitter.

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