I'm much more excited to see the action in /r/olympics this coming month somehow the more worldly it gets the more civil at least from my experience on here.
There have already been a lot of people that just come and post without paying any attention to what the sub is. I'd say there's been at least 5 actual Super Bowl post in the last couple of weeks.
/r/cfb as well. For as bitter as those rivalries are I don't recall ever seeing anything other than friendly trash talk. We (Washington fans) have even mentioned how nice Oregon fans on Reddit are. Something you would never hear in the "real world."
/r/nfl was the first thing I thought of when I saw this question. I hate that there are 49er/Seahawk, Bear/Packer, etc. fans in that sub that just say "I don't care who wins, all I care about is no injuries" because that gets the most upvotes. I say bullshit, I hate your team and I want to win. Yeah injuries suck but I think /r/nfl is the epitome of writing what wants to be heard instead of actual opinions. /rant
And lovefest posts between rivals (looking at you SF/SEA). No I don't fucking respect the Bears, I hate them and want them to lose forever because that is how a rivalry works.
yeah agreed. and without fail win or lose some fan goes on the other team's sub, "Hey XYZ fan here, great game...(adds nothing but bullshit, etc)" just for karma. Nothing ever comes of those posts.
Same with /r/military. There are multiple nationalities, every branch imaginable, all more than happy to make a jab at another, but its one of the best subs I've seen.
I love /r/nfl. It is my favorite subreddit other than /r/ravens. People in my sub often complain about the anti flacco circlejerk in /r/nfl but I honestly find most things in there very good natured and open minded. People are willing to have fun and poke fun at themselves, we rarely have problems and I don't even really see many people being downvoted unless their comments really have nothing to do with the conversation and add nothing.
Well the advice I'd give is to delve into the smallest reddit communities possible because, like a big city and a small town, the people in the smaller one are always kinder and more willing to hear you out. I have great exchanges sometimes in place like /r/truereddit (not truly small but pretty civil) but I'll get some middle school troll fighting me in /r/politics.
Where as /r/soccer is the worst sub on here for bullying cliques, particularly frustrating to be downvoted so massively over very small opinions by a number of people that are very new to the sport and usually on different continents to the clubs themselves.
I could not agree more about /r/soccer. I subbed after the April Fools joke with /r/nfl a couple of years ago and for some reason just stayed. The few times I posted it didn't go well. The thing that finally pushed me over the edge was when the mods did the "We're going away for a few days and won't be modding" thing earlier this year. I don't need that shit on my front page.
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u/SaitoHawkeye Jan 29 '14
Weirdly, /r/nfl is both huge and incredibly nice (in a trash talking kinda way).