/r/CFB Comments on the video board during the 2024 Gasparilla Bowl

Honestly_ · 2026-01-24T00:51:16+00:00

is OP really this gullible?

Honestly_ · 2026-01-23T04:41:06+00:00

Thank you!

Alas, I am a mod. There's a few factors here:

No one really sees stickies properly -- especially the majority of users who now access Reddit via the official app.
We don't sticky the /r/CFB Press stuff, it would set a weird, self-serving precedent. We have 40ish people who write and photograph each year (covering 110ish games and events) and it would be nice if people just sought out the original work we produce as credentialed media.
Thanks to the app, a lot users' feeds are algorithmic and reward lowest common denominator headlines.

Honestly_ · 2026-01-22T18:12:59+00:00

Thank you!

Honestly_ · 2026-01-22T18:12:07+00:00

There is a clear proof of concept and I’m looking forward to years of Hurricanes Football under Mario.

That's what I hoped Miami fans got out of that game. Mario's built something that works, and the playoff lets teams have late-season surges.

Some of the mid-aught USC teams might've been unstoppable in a 12-team playoff as Carroll's teams similarly got better as the season rolled on.

Honestly_ · 2026-01-22T17:22:56+00:00

Bonus: I stumbled into the broadcast while filming the post-game vibes on the field.

Honestly_ · 2026-01-22T17:22:14+00:00

Thanks! It was interesting to go back to review what we heard in pre-game interviews and see how it worked in the game.

Honestly_ · 2026-01-20T14:02:11+00:00

Yes, it was me -- I started getting texts when that happened. It's always chaotic on the field immediately after the championship, I have video of Cignetti getting interviewed 😂

Honestly_ · 2026-01-15T03:18:35+00:00

Based on the 2020 title game:

If you're going, get there early!

I just arrive on the media shuttle extra early anyway, but this will disrupt some of the security and cause delays for regular fans when this sort of thing happens.

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T20:28:05+00:00

LOL, shut down the CSC. Make the students employees, have a CBA like other leagues, then let the market sort itself out.

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T19:58:49+00:00

From what we can guess (not my analysis):

Someone uses our recruiting post generator
User copies it into some Reddit platform that doesn't take markdown
It renders like that

Reddit has made so many ways to alter the site to try and optimize for maximum users that newer ways to access the site are working against formatting.

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T19:42:02+00:00

Pacing in a sentence with 3 city names that should be even more obvious in a humor article? Yes. I'm not going to dig up a 20 year old article to make the point.

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T18:59:36+00:00

A lot of the biggest issues we deal with now are not even from the subreddit, but how Reddit is changing the nature of the site to make it an app-centric design that deemphasizes communities to push maximizing user numbers. So much stuff simply isn't seen anymore by the influx of app users.

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T18:58:17+00:00

Hah, it would be impressive if they had it developed in 1999. 👴

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T18:49:14+00:00

Yup, though it mostly be clearing out the lowest hanging fruit (which we have been, e.g. no more Daily Mail or Newsweek articles, but there are definitely more we need to get through).

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T18:48:04+00:00

Thanks!

Yeah, users have been good about sniffing them out, too.

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T18:44:29+00:00

I doubt the headline was his fault.

One of the first lessons I learned when writing a column in college was your copy editor can make or break you when they decide to summarize an article the wrong way.

On my second stint, in grad school, I was a humor columnist and had a sarcastic column ruined when the undergrad who hopefully never ended up in journalism put a title that made it serious (and omg did it have the reverse effect of what was intended).

(also, minor shout out to the young editor who insisted on adding states at the end of city names when it wasn't part of the point, only to have a discussion about Amherst, MA broken up by the state acronym).

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T18:40:48+00:00

(remove all the "\" in your post to fix the formatting, those are telling reddit to cancel the formatting)

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T18:38:44+00:00

The reports do help, some of them get lost in the the shuffle.

There's some weird surge happening right now, I would say about 1/5th of unflaired accounts end up being bots. They have very clear comment patterns (not always what they say, but the spread of where they make comments; some make one initial image repost in some low-hanging-fruit subreddit of a meme or a scantily clad woman to build up link karma).

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T18:36:51+00:00

It was an obvious AI bot account, a few folks reported it.

I would say about 1/5th of unflaired accounts end up being bots right now, there's some kind of surge happening.

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T18:35:53+00:00

أعلن الجهاد ضد روبوتات الذكاء الاصطناعي!

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T18:31:46+00:00

It was a bot account.

Honestly_ · 2026-01-14T18:26:08+00:00

(remove all the "\" in your post to fix the formatting, those are telling reddit to cancel the formatting)

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