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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/Pzjg_ Jürgen Klopp Jan 21 '25
100%
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u/No-Presence3209 Jan 21 '25
agree. honestly amazed at the speed at which this post has been upvoted. had like 500 votes in 10 minutes I don't think ive ever seen that on this sub (maybe post match)
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u/Yopeman Jan 21 '25
I’m in some Eternity Club on Reddit now for having a post hit the r/all front page. Probably the lowest effort post to do so! But it’s clearly hit a chord…
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u/8six753hoe9 Jan 21 '25
Arsenal fan here from r/all. would love to see this initiative picked up by all football fans.
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u/the_light_of_dawn Jan 21 '25
It is near the top of r/all right now.
Signed,
A football player in my youth who doesn’t follow the sport anymore in favor of nerdy hobbies like r/computerwargames but supports this initiative
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u/tiggytigtigtig Jan 21 '25
Values aside… it’s just shite anyway not being able to view it without logging in.
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u/RedDemio- Lovely Cushioned Header…FOR GERRARD!!! Jan 21 '25
Literally… because I never made an account. Now I’m even more glad
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u/TheInvincibleBat Sztupid Szexy Szoboszlai Jan 21 '25
Same, I dislike seeing that preview and then it asks me to log in
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u/Wolfframm Jan 21 '25
Replace x.com/ with nitter.poast.org/ and it works like a charm.
However, the aim is get away from that cesspit
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u/Fussbear Jan 21 '25
For anyone struggling with this there is a work round
If you add cancel after the x it will open on another site.
For example:
https://xcancel.com/ChrisCotillo/status/1881391543539650861 (tweet I found earlier on the sub)
Still not great but very slightly less annoying than not be able to view them at all.
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u/CalFlux140 Jan 21 '25
Is it possible to post this as a poll.
Just to formalise things.
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Jan 21 '25
A poll sounds fair, but at the same time if you want to support a site owned and ran by nazi scum like Musk, you should have to admit that publicly rather than hide behind an anonymous poll.
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u/ead09 Jan 21 '25
Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Twitter have all supported trump in various ways. Might as well cancel your internet at this point.
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u/xanaduuu Jan 21 '25
Ban that filth
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u/terirandaap Jan 21 '25
++ open trumpers that want to ‘peacefully coexist’ like u/fluffy_position7837
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u/BoJaNYK Milan Jovanović Jan 21 '25
Cognitive dissonance of that dude must be massive in order to be a Liverpool FC fan and a Trump supporter
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u/pullmylekku Jan 21 '25
He probably thinks "feed the scousers" would be a funny chant if it wasn't used against us
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u/Bugsmoke Sir King Kenny Jan 21 '25
If we stop using Twitter for football news then I don’t have to have an account anymore so that would rule
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u/AppleSlacks Jan 21 '25
Same. The only reason I end up there is someone posted a link for a soccer or wrestling highlight/clip.
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u/Balbuto Jan 21 '25
Ban that shit! Should honestly ban Meta too
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u/MAMBAMENTALITY8-24 “Thank you for your support” - Darwin Nunez Jan 21 '25
we dont really have fb links anyway
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u/Beige_ Jan 21 '25
Instagram is Meta too. Should ban anything Alphabet related as well as Pichai was at the inauguration too.
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u/SeveralTable3097 ⚽️ Liverpool 7-0 Man United, 22/23 ⚽️ Jan 21 '25
Why don’t we just require news to be posted as a screenshot? Isn’t that the logical conclusion of banning every social media source of transfer news?
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u/RCarloswithawindy Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25
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 🤩 Jan 21 '25
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 Jan 21 '25
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/Ineedthatshitudrive Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25
No brainer honestly.
Just deactivated my account there too thanks to this post.
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u/Hot_Parfait_8901 Jan 21 '25
Make sure to delete rather than deactivate if you can!
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u/Ineedthatshitudrive Jan 21 '25
PSA I just learned: you can only deactivate, however if you don’t login back for 30 days, it is automatically deleted.
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u/JiveBunny Kostas Tsimikas Jan 21 '25
Yeah, fuck 'em. Screenshotting is the way forward, especially as the site more and more needs you to log in to actually view content.
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u/astudentoflight Jan 21 '25
agreed, we don’t need the site links of a billionaire social media owner who outed himself as a nazi here
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u/AdikkuChan 1️⃣5️⃣Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain Jan 21 '25
Yes. Also stop believing every single shitty "reports" that come from there. Sometimes I feel like fans go on there just to find something to be mad about
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u/thefogdog Ohhhh ya beauty, What a hit son, What a hit! Jan 21 '25
Yup.
Should ban Teslas too albeit I imagine that's harder...
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u/lickmyturds Jan 21 '25 edited Feb 20 '25
YES times a billion! Thank you so much for proposing this. 👍❤️
Also fuck fElon times a billion.
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u/elreytortuga Jan 21 '25
Yes please. A lot of big LFC accounts, even private, have prioritized engagement over a move to bluesky.
These are also the same people who rightly criticise the club over moral issues, ticket prices etc.
Time to walk the talk.
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u/notyyzable We are max number of user flairs Jan 21 '25
Yes please, it's the equivalent of Der Stürmer.
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u/Misery_Division Jan 21 '25
Should've been banned even before the Musk buyout anyway
Not only do we have to go to an external site to access info that could've been a text or image/video post, but you have to wait for the shitty site to load, deal with the "sign up/sign in" pop ups and awful video player every time, and in the case of football content, half the shit is geoblocked anyway.
Let's be done with it please and thank you
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u/blankwillow_ You’ll Never Walk Alone Jan 21 '25
Full support from me in the States.
Sorry for what we have done. I have never supported either Space Karen or the Rapist-in-Chief.
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u/MLHC85 Jan 21 '25
Fully in support.
I don't open x links, and down-vote them when I see them. Absolute toilet site.
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u/WelcomeToCityLinks Djimi Traoré Jan 21 '25
Supporting and funding Nazi organisations is a very serious crime in most countries. We should not be sending traffic to X and contributing to their income.
Fully support.
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u/stupidlyboredtho Significant Human Error Jan 21 '25
i’ve been using X.Cancel. It’s a site that shows tweets without an account but doesn’t give traction to it.
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u/Closersolid “Thank you for your support” - Darwin Nunez Jan 21 '25
Absolutely.
Fuck that nazi filth.
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Jan 21 '25
Also I think that x screenshots should be banned - it still would encourage people to go to the website to find and screenshot news, and might lead people to looking up specific messages there. Let's boycott and wait until the numbers make a difference, clubs/news will go elsewhere of enough people stick to it
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u/thisisnahamed From Doubters to Believers Jan 21 '25
100000%. Especially after that Nazi salute yesterday, fuck that guy and that platform.
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u/Comfortable-Ad5050 Jan 21 '25
Yup... Make X posts here screenshot only, no links. So that the cunt only gets 1 user traffic rather than thousands from when news is posted here.
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u/_cumblast_ From Doubters to Believers Jan 21 '25
The problem is that so many football news are there. We'll end up using it as a source even if it's banned, which renders it a tad pointless.
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u/nowitasshole Jan 21 '25
It could still be used as a source, as long as the poster is using a screenshot rather than a link.
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u/CrypticChoice Jan 21 '25
It's not set in stone. The Guardian hasn't been posting on there since November. The more communities like ours press for change the more random journos will follow the users to new places to get engagement
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u/Salty_Intention81 Jan 21 '25
Can I just say this post is a breath of fresh air to me. The number of X accounts of supposed Reds the other week gleefully and vocally supporting a buyout by Musk.
It’s definitely much nicer here.
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u/brabs2 Jan 21 '25
Fuck Musk
Fuck X
Fuck Trump
Fuck the Nazis
Fucking ban it. All of it. X, anything Meta, whatever. Just get shut of it
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u/Adventurous_Toe_6017 Jump on the bAndoni wagon Jan 21 '25
Yep. Not only is 99.9% of it utter dross, the further we are away from that monumental dingleberry that owns it, the better.
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u/Zezespeakz_ Jan 21 '25
As an American I fully support and urge this sub to distance themselves from Elon as much as possible. Please save yourselves from this shitshow.
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u/FreedumbHS Jan 21 '25 edited Sep 25 '26
The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.
Afterthought rhythm narrow tangerine blanket seemly manganese hobbies
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u/ruanhaas Bobby Dazzler 🤩 Jan 21 '25
Ban! And Tesla, Space X, The boring Company! There is no space in society for Nazis!
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u/Dan595 Jan 21 '25
The fact people post controversial stuff on there because they make money just makes it clear how shite it is as a site. Ban it.
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u/agricoltore Hello! Hello! Here we go! Jan 21 '25
Up for a ban of links, however screenshots should be allowed. As long as we’re not directing more people to that putrid filth and growing his ad revenues
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u/999999994563 Jan 21 '25
Generally agree but how far do you take it? Because if it is banned people will just post aggregators from bluesky or similar and we still see X posts like usual until the posters move platform(if at all).
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u/CW24x Jan 21 '25
100% + include Meta in that
There’s a fair few journalists and news accounts on BlueSky anyways so it’s not like there’s no alternatives
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u/emre23 Jan 21 '25
I agree
Just a thought - where else can we get lineup announcements from as an alternative?
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u/stupidlyboredtho Significant Human Error Jan 21 '25
instagram graphics, club app itself, bluesky.
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Jan 21 '25
They routinely post the lineup graphics on their official Youtube, i think. The same goes for the results.
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u/TheBestCloutMachine Jan 21 '25
I think the proposal is banning links to X and replacing them with screenshots of tweets. Otherwise, it's a terrible idea. It's still the place to be for most journalists and ITKs regardless of the weird cunt that owns it.
But other socials do the lineup announcements - insta for example.
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u/Tango00090 Jan 21 '25
That would also mean that 80% of transfer news are gone - I’m all for it, it’s trash and bait anyway
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u/trashboatfourtwenty Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25
Let's goooo!
Everyone who does not support racism and bigotry should be off of X now.
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u/mrchuckbass Jan 21 '25
Nothing to do with "values of our club". It's human values. Ban that clown.
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u/SubbyLime Jan 21 '25
Why stop there? Can't we do a blanket world wide ban? Who would miss it, really?
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u/Dry_Ad3942 Jan 21 '25
Deleted x long time ago, Elons retweeted a picture making fun of Zelensky and the war in Ukraine. That was it for me.
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u/CJVCarr Corner taken quickly 🚩 Jan 21 '25
Putting content behind a logon wall isn't fine. I'm sure we can get our rumours some other way (in a screenshot, for example).
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u/Desperate_Kale_2055 Jan 21 '25
Agreed. Also, this post is making it easier to block and weed out the “supporters” who are ok with that POS, what he stands for, and what his platform has enabled; all of which are antithetical to LFC.
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u/Bobbyswhiteteeth There is No Need to be Upset Jan 21 '25
100%.
Delete instagram too, have you seen the shady shit they’re pulling with the #’s?
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u/Kingslayer1526 From Doubters to Believers Jan 21 '25
Totally on board want no association with that Nazi
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u/IsfetLethe BOOM!💥 Jan 21 '25
Absolutely!
Things like this make me proud to be a Liverpool fan. No tolerance for nazis
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u/OK_TimeForPlan_L Jan 21 '25
Yes please, you've just reminded me to finally delete that piece of shit from my phone. Every time I open it I'm either miserable or enraged within 10 minutes .
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u/mrheils Jan 21 '25
Yes absolutely. Don’t have an account, can’t really read the links. Fuck that site. Burn it with fire. Fuck Elon musk
Up the reds.
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Jan 21 '25
Completely support. Screenshots would be fine at a push, or links to other credible sources (BBC, the Athletic or whatever) but we should not be giving any traffic to the nazis
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u/woody83060 Jan 21 '25
Can't understand why anyone is still on that shit app, it's an absolute sewer
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u/rLiverpoolFC_Mods DMs & chat requests not monitored - Use ModMail. Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25 •
The mod team is discussing this and we will get back to you on it.
Edit: To the clowns from r/all, reporting this post will not take it down. Might just end up getting pinned. So fuck off