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!

  • @[email protected]English
    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.

    Edit: temporarily trying a ‘post goals from Reddit’ bot for a few hours. If you end up with 1000 posts on here in a few minutes then you know who to blame.

    • @CoelacanthEnglish
      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.

      • @FlayOttersEnglish
        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.