r/CFB • u/sub-feedback • Apr 24 '26

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u/BadgerBuddy13 Wisconsin • Paul Bunyan's Axe Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

I wish the Dear CFB: Going to a Game Advice threads were stickied or posted at more relevant times. If you go back a few years, there used to be loads of comments, soliciting and receiving feedback on upcoming trips & gamedays. It was a great forum and opportunity to leverage the local knowledge of the community.

If you look back over the last year or two, those threads are now a shadow of their former self. There's far fewer folks asking questions and those that do are less likely to get meaningful answers because there's fewer people checking in.

I have personally benefitted from the advice on many occasions and been thanked in several instances for the context and recommendations I was able to provide others. Meaningful feedback from others in the community feels far more relevant than 40 posts about 3-star commitments or imagining CUSA head coaches as breakfast cereals for the umpteenth time.

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u/srs_house Swaggerbilt Apr 24 '26

If you look back over the last year or two, those threads are now a shadow of their former self. There's far fewer folks asking questions and those that do are less likely to get meaningful answers because there's fewer people checking in.

Unfortunately this also seems to be partly an issue with how reddit is pushing people to use the site/app. Recurring threads in general are down in participation and some people just develop blindness to stickied threads in general. (Literally, modmails asking why we haven't posted something and it's currently stickied.)

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u/thecravenone definitely a bot Apr 27 '26

Unfortunately this also seems to be partly an issue with how reddit is pushing people to use the site/app. Recurring threads in general are down in participation

Reddit admins actually told us to use unique titles to avoid this problem which is why recurring threads have dates.

some people just develop blindness to stickied threads in general

IMO part of the problem is that Reddit continually makes it harder for mods to communicate with users. It used to be you stuck the rules in the sidebar and that was it. No one even sees the sidebar now. So you put them in a sticky thread and people get used to that being a section of the sub that they can ignore. And that's how you end up with major subreddits where every single thread has an automod response to tell you the rules (which I would bet you have learned to scroll by without looking at)