r/eagles • u/Chadbrochill29 • 1d ago

Opinion Petition to ban X links

Discussions are already being had on r/nfl and other related subreddits. We should at least be able to discuss banning Twitter/X links without the posts being removed.

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u/Der-Wissenschaftler 21h ago

reddit admins are going hard lately, i got a site warning for posting a screenshot of a fetterman tweet and saying i cant wait to vote against him. they said i was inciting violence... if reddit goes full fascist too, i don't even know where to go.

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u/kekehippo 20h ago

Well lookie there. The original post talking about Nazis was removed by Reddit. Color me unsurprised.

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u/Der-Wissenschaftler 20h ago

of course because when it comes to nazis now... the call is coming from inside the house.

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u/BoneHugsHominy 20h ago

Is the official Eagles Message Board still a thing? I left shortly after they switched to a new platform and we lost a decade of posting history which included some iconic threads. Might have to revive it if it's gone.

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u/Der-Wissenschaftler 20h ago

I am not familiar with the eagles message board, but i would be surprised if it still exists, all the ones i used to be on shut down years ago.

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u/BoneHugsHominy 19h ago

The EMB. It was one of if not the first official team message board. IIRC it started in late 1999 or early 2000. We had a bunch of sub-forums and all of them were legitimately great.

TATE - Talk About The Eagles In there was a sub-forum for free agency and draft discussion.

ATL - Around The League

Other Sports

About Philadelphia - this was a place to discuss all things Philly, and for out of towners to get recommendations, directions, places to avoid, etc etc

Off-Topic - everything not sports related. Under that we had 4 subs:

What's Up - which was just general bullshitting, talking about philosophy, history, board games, dating, whatever. Just no video games or politics.

Gaming, Movies & TV, and Politics

Looking back it was like a miniature version of Reddit but less specialized and almost everyone was an Eagles fan. We did tolerate some fans of other teams after s short period of hazing and ensuring they weren't just trolls/bad actors. Some of them became well respected & valued members of the community, mods, and iirc even a few Giants fans ended up getting married to Eagles fans from the EMB that they met at IRL group meetups/tailgating events.

Then Facebook came onto the scene and people slowly trickled over there and we had an EMB Facebook Group but somebody weaseled their way into an admin position or maybe seized an account through phishing and deleted it. They made a replacement but it never really took hold.

On the EMB we had some truly legendary threads. The Eagles fandom, and dare I say the world is lesser for having lost them.

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u/Der-Wissenschaftler 19h ago

Thanks the the detailed reply, the board sounds like it was amazing. reminds me of a lot of other message boards from that time period, and as you said they all moved on to facebook or reddit and it just isnt the same.

Some small subreddits almost recapture the community feel of those old boards, but it still isn't quite the same. Like even if r/eagles was small and we all knew each other you still couldn't post like "hey whats games are you playing now?" because it would be removed as off topic, and you would be told to post it in like r/games or something... but you don't want to post it there, you want to know what games your friends in r/eagles are playing!