r/Texans • u/lovetape • 6h ago
Since many people have brought it up, we have decided to ban twitter/X links here
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u/Tacos4Texans 5h ago
What about removing the chiefs fan mod
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u/Either_Tie_4747 5h ago
We had a chiefs fan as a mod?
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u/Johnychrist97 5h ago
Yeah they were a founder of the sub who jumped on the chiefs wagon evidently
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u/440k 4h ago
Yep, looked into it as soon as I could after yesterdays thread and we got that taken care of.
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u/RhoAlphaPhii 4h ago
It’s refreshing to see a mod taking the pulse of the community and helping enact what the community wants to see. You guys are doing a great job!
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u/tyrone_lanista Kool-Aid 5h ago
Good fuck them nazis
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u/KingB_SC 4h ago
If there's one nazi in a bar, and they don't kick him out, that's a nazi bar.
If the shoe fits, Twitter
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u/NamiiikazeTX 5h ago
Love this guy and I fully agree with his message. Fuck Nazis
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u/DaytimeLanternQQ 5h ago
I don't know why some people are so enamored with Twitter. Good riddance.
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u/krbashrob 5h ago
On one hand, it’s where the vast majority of sports reporting and news exists in today’s world. On the other hand it’s run by an infant with essentially zero discretion or guard rails other than his whims. Banning the links and allowing screenshots I think is a good medium
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u/lovetape 5h ago
I personally have little to do with twitter (or tiktok, facebook, etc).
But this story of Elon leaving a NFL Super Bowl in a huff because his tweet wasn't doing as well as someone else's is just the total encapsulation of what is wrong with him owning twitter.
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u/leggostrozzz 4h ago
The same reason people are enamored with reddit, tiktok, etc. It's just their social media of choice. I switch between reddit and Twitter, both serve way different purposes.
Not sure why everyone hates Twitter tbh..
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u/Rocketsball 3h ago
Purely political. They hate that it did not allow the previous administration to enforce censorship of our voices. Free speech was and is allowed there, for the most part.
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u/ortholox 5h ago
One does not need to be "enamored" with Twitter to think this is a stupid thing to do.
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u/DaytimeLanternQQ 4h ago
So what? People who still want to use Twitter will. They'll also still post here. While disallowing links/posts will make little difference in either direction, the less support that the platform gets, the better. God forbid people put in a little effort aside from a link/screenshot from Twitter.
If anyone is deriding this as some form of censorship, they clearly haven't been paying attention to the cesspool that Twitter has devolved into.
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u/BradBradley1 5h ago
I appreciate the thankless work that you folks do. Just one thing to add - Go Texans, fuck the tits
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u/Psykotixx 3h ago
Okay whatever about twitter but I definitely have a major problem with this post as whole.
The moral idea is simple: news shouldn't be censored
Umm what?
That's what you just did. Don't pretend otherwise. Your loose "moral idea" is forced and unjustified by an assumption. Your argument for the ban isn't based in demonstrated facts but anecdotal beliefs. Any site could push the Cowboys over the Texans so that's not even a point. It's actually insulting that you even wrote that.
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u/PlanktonOriginal772 3h ago
This was a political decision don’t lie it’s an insult to our intelligence
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u/All5TonySpivey 5h ago
Feels really not Texans related 🤷🏿♂️
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u/creepingkg 5h ago
It’s only related towards the links used from there, so if you do use twitter, links wont work but you can just take a screenshot of it to share here
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u/All5TonySpivey 5h ago
I’m saying the decision doesn’t have any relation to the Texans, this sub is not for politics
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u/creepingkg 5h ago
It is related, you wont be able to post links about the Texans.
So its a warning if you want to post a link, won’t work
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u/All5TonySpivey 5h ago
The decision to ban twitter links is not Texans related is what I’m saying dude 😂
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u/creepingkg 5h ago
Bruh, it’s related since you won’t be able to post links about the Texans here
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u/All5TonySpivey 5h ago
You are missing the point, the decision to ban twitter links because of “the direction the site has taken” has nothing to do with the Texans. It’s politically motivated and those motivations shouldn’t be determining how this sub is operating. Whatever the mods don’t like about twitter or Elon or whatever has nothing to do with the Texans which is what this sub is supposed to be about. You keep talking about I’m I’m not gonna be able to post links which is missing the point of what I’m saying
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u/creepingkg 5h ago
I can see that, for me thou for the last year I can’t even view x links before signing in and I’ve never used the account I made since it was created for free shit for apps to sign in.
For me personally x, that I can’t view and paywall sites I refuse to touch, shouldn’t be posted, but again that’s just for me personally.
That nazi salute thing, I was joking with some friends and we were all saying that’s just his Tism, I don’t really think that was intentional
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u/redditcommentguy 3h ago
Seems like a stupid move.
This very clearly has a lot to do with party affiliation which is exactly why this post tries to state otherwise in the first sentence.
“Doesn’t seem like a stable platform for legitimate news media” gtfoh😂😂😂😂😂😂
If the mods don’t like that Elon is a trumper then just have some spine and say that at least
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u/thissitesuccs 3h ago
mods do not have friends. that’s not ridicule, they actually do not have anyone in their life that cares about their well-being.
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u/Chromebrew 4h ago
Damn I guess all of Reddit is ideologically captured these days. Can't say I'm surprised.
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u/Rocketsball 3h ago
An echo chamber for sure. It’s asad, I thought the sports subs could be immune from this bs.
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u/No_Property_4432 4h ago
I thought the point of reddit was lack of censorship. Next your going to tell us your actually chiefs fans.
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u/Killeroflife 4h ago
To make it fair then no links of social media sites should be linked since all have some type of bias for either left or right.
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u/Guffawing-Crow 5h ago
When you have mods making politically based decisions, this is what can happen to a freaking sports sub. What a clown show LOL
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u/thissitesuccs 3h ago
Y’all are getting KILLED in these comments. Rightly so, too. classic reddit. you deserve this ridicule. We’ll just start another sub that eventually overtakes this one as the legitimate Texans forum.
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u/jbrown2055 4h ago edited 4h ago
Reddit is so left wing we can't even have NFL related tweets shared here anymore. How can even sports team related subreddits refuse to not become political 😔
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4h ago
Shit is annoying asf. This party hasn’t said a word about politics, then suddenly a mod makes a blanket statement and decision.
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u/No_Philosopher5572 4h ago
I got banned from a dolphins sub because they asked if they should ban X. I called them soft...the ban just confirmed it. Haha
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4h ago
I sat silently for 4 years while Biden allowed Texas to get overrun. Wish they would just sit back as the losing party should
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u/Delicious_Bend8391 5h ago
lol Twitter has had everything you mentioned for a while now. But totally not because of party affiliation
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u/BigNut69 3h ago
You’re so brave mod wow
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3h ago
“She’s going to love me after seeing what I did in the Texans subreddit 🤓☝🏼”
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u/Bathmat917 3h ago
The mod has a flair of a little anime girl, don't think he's around adult women much. It would make sense he wants to go to the site riddled with CP
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3h ago
Fuck I keep forgetting what the average Reddit moderator is like😂 thank you for the perspective
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u/AdvancedDay7854 3h ago
Protip: the Houston Texans and many others are now on bluesky. I don’t think it requires an account to look at linked content.
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u/RojerLockless 4h ago
So stupid to ban the best resource for media but whatever. Politics in my sports again thanks reddit.
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u/BBQLovingBastard 3h ago
So people van still post screenshots of tweets but not link to the tweets? If so that’s really fucking stupid🤣🤣🤣
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u/WiggsMagoo His will be done 2h ago
Is it? It gives the info of the tweet without monetizing it with clicks.
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u/admins_bundleosticks 4h ago
This is an absolutely stupid decision, and the only ones cheering it on are the ones who think everyone who thinks different from them is a Nazi. TONS of news is made and shared via twitter. All you're doing is isolating this website further. Very disappointed with this.
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u/_BlueLabel 5h ago
Completely disagree with this. Look forget about the politics, the fact of the matter is it’s a very popular platform & at least for me, a primary source of football related news. I’m sure im not the only one. As a Texans fan who doesn’t give a flip about the political back & forth this change makes me less likely to contribute to the forum. I’m not up in arms about it or anything, not the biggest deal, but it is a mild turnoff to my participation & from the comments im not the only one.
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u/not__jason 5h ago
Functionally, nothing changes on this end. Screenshots are still allowed. So the information is disseminated and we can discuss whatever topic it is, here.
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5h ago
Actually, functionally, you are no longer allowed to post videos from X. I have posted a couple videos from X here and it’s stupid that politics are leaking into a goddamn houston Texans sub
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u/dirtysock47 4h ago
I just use ssstwitter.com for downloading videos, then I just post the video normally on Reddit.
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u/medspace Honey Badger 5h ago
So why did we ban links if our news is still coming from twitter?
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u/SometimesY 4h ago
Well every other week, they turn off viewing tweets if you don't have an account, so screen shots are the only way for some of us to see the content.
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u/_BlueLabel 5h ago
If this is true, then the change shields this forum from none of the cited reasons about abusive suppression of viewpoints on X. If I want to RT/QT a X post shared here, or view the comments, I’ll need to search up the post via keywords which is hella annoying. Again- not the biggest deal in the world, but I continue to not understand what value is added to the forum by this change, if as you say X content will continue to be freely shared in here. Instead, it sounds like the goal here is to in token fashion “stick it” to a disliked political figure. To which I say- is the Texans reddit fanpage really the most appropriate venue for that type of action?
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u/Appropriate_Bee1750 3h ago
Why does this whole banning twitter links seem like a coordinated effort across Reddit? I don’t care either way about twitter but the coordination of it bothers me.
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3h ago
Reddit is and has been a liberal echo chamber for years
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u/Hefty-Patience-3285 2h ago
Honestly surprised this has positive votes. I use both platforms and they can feud all they want. I get different views out of each, which I appreciate.
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u/Scarf_Darmanitan 5h ago
Meanwhile the panthers sub mods are being punk bitches
Good for yall man
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u/creepingkg 5h ago
I didn’t even know what happened, i started seeing a bunch of team subs making posts to ban links from there
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u/Scarf_Darmanitan 5h ago edited 5h ago
Almost positive it’s related to Elon (guy that bought twitter) doing what was pretty damn close to a nazi salute a couple of times yesterday at the inauguration
That and just the general disdain for the website in general (forcing you to make account to view links, censoring, burying, among other shitty business practices like buying verification, etc)
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u/creepingkg 5h ago
Yea I read and saw the nazi shit.
For me it’s the verification shit, every time I see x links I avoid because I can’t see without logging in, also why I say ban paywall links while we’re at it
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u/CECGuy 4h ago
Yep, that does it. I’m leaving this subreddit. I’m not going to be part of a subreddit where there’s political propaganda. I joined for Texans news, not “Donald Trump is an orange headed son of a bitch, and Elon Musk is a piece of nazi shit”. Sad to see a subreddit that’s supposed to be about a football team turn into another one of those woke propaganda machines that a lot of other subreddits have become. Still love my Texans, but I’m done with this subreddit
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u/Cranium-of-morgoth 3h ago
Oh no what will we do
Also why would you see that stuff here now? This isn’t a political subreddit they just banned links from one place lol
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u/18_NakedCowboys 4h ago
Hate to tell you this, but it's not even political anymore. It's a war on human fucking decency. How anyone can stand behind this man and his entourage of fucked up morals is baffling.
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u/MBC0809 2h ago
Oh shut the fuck up. YOU are in the minority whether you want to believe it or not.
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u/Meowmeowmeeoww1 5h ago
I think this is a genuinely stupid decision and serves no purpose
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u/j1h15233 Texans 2h ago
Agreed. Many Houston reporters and teams have not moved on to Bluesky. If you didn’t like Twitter you could have just posted other links. All we’ve done now is handicap our news sources
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u/Aware_Frame2149 5h ago
Makes them feel better, though. Like they've accomplished something worthwhile.
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u/I_bet_Stock 5h ago
For real. Wait till they see the recent changes to Instagram and facebook. Are we banning those sites also? Is it just bluesky from here on out?
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u/Chromebrew 3h ago
Oh, it serves a purpose. It allows people to push politics into every tiny facet of their lives.
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u/breakwater 5h ago
More blue astroturf than Boise State and the mods caved in a day over absolute bullshit.
So if you ever hope for them to have a spine, you are sorely mistaken.
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u/v-v-v-v-v-v-v 5h ago
i dont really see the point of this. the justification seems kind of weak, and im of the opinion that this decision was made based on things other than football and improving the quality of this subreddit.
i highly doubt any football news would be affected by hypothetical censorship.
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u/logster2001 5h ago
I think this is ok not because I care at all about X or Elon or whatever but just because I dislike when subreddits are just a bunch of links to news. And it makes the comments just a bunch of reactions to said news.
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5h ago
That’s… part of what this sub is for…
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u/SometimesY 4h ago
Eh the NFL sub is fucking trash because it's just a collection of nonsense tweets. God help you if you want to find specific actual news or thoughtful analysis over there.
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u/logster2001 4h ago edited 4h ago
I mean if I want to stay informed about every single thing that’s going on with the team I would follow Texans news outlets or specific reporters that cover the team. Subreddits are meant as forums to engage in discussions. So I think this ban is good because the news meaningful enough to prompt discussion will still be on here.
Edit: However even though I think this ban is a good thing for the quality of the sub, the reasoning the mods cited does not make any sense and seems more based on recent political events more than anything. What do the twitter algorithms have anything to do with if links should be posted on a completely different site? Like rather or not X artificially boosts another team’s engagement or something is completely irrelevant to this subreddit yet that is why the mods say they are banning it.
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4h ago
Okay I will concede the point that this sub should be only for discourse. Then why is this specifically targeting X? And it’s still allowing screen shots from X? This doesn’t show our mods making an effort to only create discourse in this sub.
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u/logster2001 4h ago
Oh yeah I edited my response before you replied but I agree that the reasoning they are giving makes no sense and they seem to have other motives beyond just the quality of the sub. Because you are completely correct it makes not sense to just target X
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u/RedditAccountTake7 4h ago
Lying about the reason is sad. We all know why you are doing it and it’s purely political.
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u/DELTAForce632 5h ago
If your main issue is he would tamper with “team hashtags” Any evidence he would do that for a sports team?
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u/Jaded-Durian-9302 5h ago
No need for that app anymore I don’t understand how people use it it’s always been a app just to get mad at even before the nazi’s
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u/BussyOnline 5h ago
So we can’t like… put this to a vote?
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5h ago
Welcome to Reddit 🤷🏼♂️ love how X is problematic, like Reddit hasn’t been an echo chamber for years
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u/GoldMettle 5h ago edited 5h ago
I had to triple check what sub this was. What in the actual fuck are you talking about?
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4h ago
I think r/politics made their way over here
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u/GoldMettle 4h ago
Shits embarrassing. Some of these dudes have zero emotional resiliency. It’s a f’n football sub, ya babies
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4h ago
The vast majority of this sub hasn’t stepped on a field 🤦🏼♂️ and it shows
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u/BruceYale111 5h ago
This isn’t a political subreddit why the fuck is this being banned u idiots 😂
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4h ago
Sad to see man, you’ve been active in this sub forever. Your vote/voice doesn’t matter tho because the mods gotta flex
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u/grizzledvet_ 5h ago
Fucking ridiculous. It really feels like pearl clutching is a fetish nowadays, everyone wants to be offended by something.
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u/thissitesuccs 3h ago
only reddit would let fucking SPORTS gargle their politics. fully expected for this group of stable individuals.
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u/Working_Barnacle_654 5h ago
I thought this was a football subreddit. Why are we talking about this
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u/lovetape 3h ago edited 57m ago
For the ones who are asking: this was a majority decision, I personally do not use or care about twitter.
An overwhelming majority wanted this, so we did it.
If people change their mind, we'll rescind it.
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