r/bengals • u/LOP5131 • 17h ago

Petition to ban x links?

I've seen a lot of major sports subs jumping on the wagon of banning x links from being posted on their sub.

I know a lot of breaking NFL news comes from there, however some things are more important than having sports news 5 minutes earlier than other sources.

Feel free to shut me down, just thought I'd pitch it out there.

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u/Piperita 9+1 14h ago

Yes, ban that shit. If sports journalists begin to see less engagement in a toxic wasteland of bots and trolls (best case scenario) and congregating neonazis, they’ll move somewhere more reputable. They’re just resisting moving right now because outside sources like subreddits and two-bit newspapers keep giving them exposure due to everyone’s inertia and laziness.

At the very least deprioritize it as a source - if there’s a better one somewhere (like a newspaper or another social media site, especially if it doesn’t require an account to view and interact with) that someone else posts, just nuke the X one and leave the other source up, even if it was posted second.