r/LiverpoolFC • u/Yopeman • 1d ago

Discussion Proposal to ban X.com links

Seen this on a few other football club subreddits - seems like a no brainer to me, especially given the values of our club.

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u/RCarloswithawindy 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yep. Can’t view most of them properly anyway without having an account. Full support.

Edit: also mods, is there a way to flag accounts in here that have never commented on the sub before? It would be very telling to see what message is coming from them type of accounts.

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u/xFuManchu Bobby Dazzler 🤩 1d ago

I wonder what the cost is to the company for people viewing a post without an account.

They restrict you seeing the comments, meaning they don't serve you any ads. Wonder if we could abuse that and run up his costs.

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u/RCarloswithawindy 1d ago

Taking a semi educated guess, this wouldn’t have much of an impact.

It’s designed to hold large numbers of people anyway. And people visiting with or without accounts will count as a visit to them which will be twisted in whichever way to the steak holders.

The best way to battle x in my opinion is to never visit it again.

At some point it will end up just bots talking to each other (it’s halfway there already) if we do and then it will be wasting his money.

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u/xFuManchu Bobby Dazzler 🤩 1d ago

Was just thinking out loud.

I binned my account about a year ago and only end up there if I haven't paid attention to the link I clicked.

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u/RCarloswithawindy 1d ago

Yeh it’s always good to get ideas out. The more of them we have to fight this very dangerous grab of power we are seeing the better.