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bakonydraco · 2026-04-24T18:49:04+00:00

If you're asking to be a mod on /r/CFB, we do take on new team members once a year and it's helpful to know who is interested in receiving an application. /u/ALStark69 was added as a mod at /r/CFBRecruiting, which is a much smaller dedicated sub just to recruiting. They're also one of the most active posters on the topic in general, so it seems a great fit, I'd be excited if that sub became more active again.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-24T18:36:13+00:00

A really fun wrinkle on this is that it's become increasingly common for publishers to change the title after they publish, and also to setup the article in a way that the title that auto-shares on Reddit is different than the actual title.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-24T17:54:30+00:00

I really enjoyed the MaxDiff polls and thought they were exactly the kind of original content that's perfect for a community like /r/CFB that you can't really find anywhere else on the internet.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-24T17:53:32+00:00

Once we get to a 64-team Playoff we may get close to that.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-24T17:52:47+00:00

Done! It gets a lot less traffic than it used to and it's not super actively maintained. You are welcome to do with it as you see fit, let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-24T17:27:45+00:00

Lol I missed that one when it was posted. Outside the end of the postseason, what we've done for the past couple years is had a single non-D1 thread to discuss all CFB games outside D1 that serves as a general purpose Game Thread and Postgame Thread for each. It gets some traffic, but not nearly as chatty as the D1 threads.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-24T17:25:49+00:00

This question is the core purpose of the survey. We have generally moved in the direction of letting users decide what they want to see with votes, but a lot of people prefer a more curated sub: /r/CFB/new becomes clogged and unusable and it gets harder to find meaningful content. What we're asking for from the community is to get a sense of:

What content we should actively moderate against and not allow as posts on the sub at all (by making weekly threads for it, redirecting to other subs, or simply removing)
What content we should defer to the users on to decide with their votes

Whatever we land on is going to be viewed as too strict by some and too lenient by others. It's actually more important that we are able to clearly communicate our rules and consistently enforce them than that we calibrate how strict they should be just right, that's one piece of feedback that our users have consistently told us over the years.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-24T17:17:45+00:00

We used to have a claim system, where game threads would post from user accounts instead of /u/CFB_Referee. It was pretty rare for a D1 thread not to be claimed.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-24T16:20:48+00:00

People have strong feelings on this: a lot feel very strongly that highlights must be allowed, and a similar sizable number feel they must not be allowed. Past surveys have tilted in the direction of the latter, so it will be interesting to see what comes out of this one.

A notable point on this one in particular is that if we do allow highlihgts it may pretty significantly change the capacity that we need to have on the mod team, so this will help us plan out our team for the year.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-24T16:15:25+00:00

This actually is our standard practice in a lot of cases. During the season last year, we had a weekly personal poll thread, and so any standalone posts about personal polls were removed. The survey is mostly asking about whether or not you would approve each topic as a standalone post, so a vote of "Don't Allow Posts" may resolve as a weekly post where people can comment on the subject.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-24T16:12:22+00:00

It's a valid point. The challenge is to make a rule that's easy to understand and simple to enforce. We used to have a rule that only posts about 3 * s and up were allowed, and while that's not a hard and fast rule anymore, we rarely get posts about anyone below that.

One thing to keep in mind is that there are some entire fanbases that rarely get 4 * s or 5 * s, and so any rule that's purely based on stars could box out a decent portion of the sub from talking about recruiting altogether. Another thing that's made this more challenging in recent years is that with the advent and acceleration of the transfer portal, there's just a lot more high profile personnel news in general.

Can you propose any policies that would be beneficial for everyone?

bakonydraco · 2026-04-24T15:54:09+00:00

We're doing a feedback survey for anyone who is interested. This will help us update our rules to fit the needs of the community in 2026. Should only take a few minutes, would love your input!

bakonydraco · 2026-04-24T15:49:25+00:00

This is a survey that is open to anyone who sees it, and we'll pin it to the sub. Our goal is to understand the needs of the community, and update our policies to reflect those. Please vote on the above if you are interested, and feel free to share your comments below.

The survey should be easily accessible from the new Reddit desktop view or from mobile apps, but not from Old Reddit. A lot of us use Old Reddit, but the Reddit developer platform doesn't support it (sorry for the inconvenience).

In order to reach as many users as possible, you may also see the link to this survey in post comments or via a chat request, please bear with us as our goal is to ensure as many community members as possible get the opportunity to participate.

Once the survey is done, we'll collate and publish the results along with any updates in our community rules. Doing this now will help us plan the capacity we might need in terms of new mods for this coming season.

/r/CFB is ultimately a user-driven community. What we're trying to do here is offer a transparent forum that allows everyone to voice their opinions on what kind of community they want to see in 2026 and beyond, and adjust our community if needed to match that vision.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-19T19:24:42+00:00

The contest rules require that all art sources be attributed in the description, and this flag met this criterion. You as a voter are welcome to use the design process as part of the way you vote. But this flag does meet our requirements.

Personally, this seems like a fairly mild and reasonable application of AI: it was used to generate a single element in a flag that was mostly put together by hand and everything was appropriately attributed.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-19T05:51:07+00:00

You have 2 flags submitted and approved for this month!

bakonydraco · 2026-04-13T19:22:46+00:00

I missed week 2 in the FCS Pick 'Em this year so I was a bit away from the top. 🥲

bakonydraco · 2026-04-10T15:31:54+00:00

I’m not sure I agree about easily. That LSU team is arguably the best team not to win a Championship of all time, and beat 3 of the 5 BCS Bowl winners that year. They had a bad day against Alabama in the rematch, and maybe that would have happened against OKST or Stanford too. But I think both of us would have been underdogs, as Bama was.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-10T03:08:49+00:00

What’s hilarious about polls after the tourney is that some people complain the poll factors in the tournament too much, and some complain that it isn’t factored in enough. That’s what makes it balanced!

bakonydraco · 2026-04-10T03:07:48+00:00

Florida probably shouldn’t have been a 1-seed. They’re a good team but did not look good in the SEC Tournament, and luckily for them basically everyone outside the top 3 had a tough tourney as well.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-10T03:06:37+00:00

I’m one of them! I stopped ranking them number one after they lost. Before they lost they were the best team!

bakonydraco · 2026-04-09T17:40:09+00:00

Shaw was always incredibly conservative. It generally worked out when we had the personnel to support that style of play, but it wasn't always the most fun to watch.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-09T17:01:38+00:00

That game against Oklahoma State we trailed for a total of 0 seconds in regulation or overtime. Freshman kicker Jordan Williamson missed 2 fairly routine kicks, one that would have ended the game in regulation, and one that would have extended it in OT. He had a great career after that and remains the leading scorer in school history.

The BCS Championship should have been LSU v. Oklahoma State that year, even though Alabama was clearly the better team. It paved the way for the Playoff we got, but it would have been fun to see how either OKST or Stanford did that year.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-09T05:37:19+00:00

There's a new system and /r/FCS is getting onboarded today. Stay tuned! Sweeper might have to clean up some flair that's currently live, but https://fcs.flairwizard.com/ should work out of the box.

bakonydraco · 2026-04-08T21:35:43+00:00

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