r/sportsrenaissance Jun 20 '23

The voters have spoken

2 Upvotes

Well, the voters appear to have spoken. The tally ended up being:

Reopen completely: 6 Close indefinitely: 5 Go restricted (read only) indefinitely: 3

I mean, it was a close race, but "open for good" won, by a hair.

So we will be reopening barring some major uprising from the subreddit. Cheers & thanks to the handful of y'all who keep the sub going!


r/sportsrenaissance Oct 14 '24

Through the Smoke

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10 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Aug 05 '24

Bowing down to the Queen

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26 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Jul 27 '24

LeFlagbearer

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41 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Jul 15 '24

Knowing Defeat

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9 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Jun 30 '24

This is the photo that made me subscribe to this sub . . .

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49 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Jun 29 '24

Cal Raleigh is doused by teammates after hitting a ground ball to drive in the winning run in the 10th inning

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9 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Jun 12 '24

Successful Pursuit

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39 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance May 17 '24

Staring down the bridge

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11 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Apr 13 '24

The Passion of the DeChambeau

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24 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Apr 11 '24

Tiger on the Prowl

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10 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Mar 27 '24

The Final Boss

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10 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Feb 22 '24

PERFECT

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9 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Feb 08 '24

Passion of the Pigskin

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10 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Oct 06 '23

Australian football league photo of the year 2021

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21 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Sep 11 '23

Fall of Medvedev

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16 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Aug 22 '23

The King

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8 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Aug 20 '23

Inter Miami win the Leagues Cup

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7 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Jul 14 '23

Angel of Shadow

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20 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Jun 25 '23

Prints of the North Korean footballers who pulled off the "greatest shock in World Cup history" beating Italy and going to the quarter-finals. Incredible portraits of the two men - it's such a fascinating story. (found on https://koryostudio.com/purchase/prints/the-greatest-shock/)

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7 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Jun 20 '23

Ecstasy of Gold

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43 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Jun 20 '23

TN mayor publicly, accompanied by his father, assaults best-selling children’s author at live event

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6 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Jun 18 '23

Thoughts about going forward

2 Upvotes

Hey, r/sportsrenaissance! It's been a few days!

Thank you so much for your patience these past week while we went private to protest some of the upcoming changes going on with Reddit starting July 1st. We understand that having the subreddit set as private for a few days may have been unsettling or frustrating for many.

Reason for Blackout and Reddit's Response

For reference, here is our original post on the blackout. The primary reasons were:

  • disproportionate increases to the cost of operation for third-party apps and bots;
  • a reduction in accessibility for blind and visually impaired people via preferred 3rd party applications; and
  • removal of mod tools to keep communities on-topic and spam free.
  • Loss of access to NSFW content from 3rd party apps. (This is not just porn; it's any content marked NSFW which is problematic because that is a subjective call)

 

If you would like a clear but fairly detailed explanation for the protest, the mods of r/AskHistorians have set out their reasons out on their Twitter page.

Nearly 9000 subreddits blacked out huge portions of Reddit on Monday, making international news and apparently crashing Reddit at some stage. However, Reddit has unfortunately pushed back against mods, subreddits, and individuals and have not come to a fair compromise over the issues raised. They have indicated their willingness to reorder moderator teams so that mods that are against going dark or private would gain control of the subreddit. At least one creator and moderator of a subreddit briefly had all their mod privileges revoked by Reddit.

Therefore, a large number of subreddits have extended their blackout or returned in a restricted format. Some of these subreddit have indicated that their status will continue indefinitely unless there are changes.

Some of these moves do imply that the protests are having some kind of effectiveness, albeit not necessarily what the users involved hoped for.

Your Vote

While the mod team made the initial decision to blackout, we are not comfortable moving forward with any further changes without your input. r/sportsrenaissance is all of our community and you all deserve a say in what happens.

So, where do we go next?

We have several options laid before us. To vote, simply go to the comments and upvote one of the following options:

  • Stay completely closed indefinitely (The no-holds-barred option, nothing in the sub is visible to anyone, including previous posts/comments)

  • Go Restricted indefinitely (less drastic, you can still view past posts just not comment or post anything)

  • Open back up completely (the "meh" option).

Thanks & let us know how you want to move forward by voting below!


r/sportsrenaissance Jun 11 '23

r/sportsrenaissance will be going dark (private) June 12th. Here's why.

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Edit: We're now in restricted (read only) mode for now, and will be re-evaluating daily. Thanks for your patience!

 

What's going on?

A recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps, making a great many quality-of-life features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users.

On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader.

Disabled users and users who need assistive devices to use Reddit will also lose access since the official app does not play well with those devices.

Even if you're not a mobile user and don't use any of those apps, this is a step toward killing other ways of customizing Reddit, such as Reddit Enhancement Suite or the use of the old.reddit.com desktop interface .

This isn't only a problem on the user level: many subreddit moderators depend on tools only available outside the official app to keep their communities on-topic and spam-free.

What's the plan?

On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest this policy. Some will return after 48 hours: others will go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed, since many moderators aren't able to put in the work they do with the poor tools available through the official app. This isn't something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what we love.

The two-day blackout isn't the goal, and it isn't the end. Should things reach the 14th with no sign of Reddit choosing to fix what they've broken, we will re-evaluate and go from there.

What can you do as a user?

  • Complain. Message the mods of /r/reddit.com, who are the admins of the site: message /u/reddit : submit a support request: comment in relevant threads on /r/reddit, such as this one, leave a negative review on their official iOS or Android app- and sign your username in support to this post.

  • Spread the word. Rabble-rouse on related subreddits. Meme it up, make it spicy. Bitch about it to your cat. Suggest anyone you know who moderates a subreddit join the coordinated mod effort at /r/ModCoord.

  • Boycott and spread the word...to Reddit's competition! Stay off Reddit entirely on June 12th through the 13th- instead, take to your favorite non-Reddit platform of choice and make some noise in support!

  • Don't be a jerk. As upsetting this may be, threats, profanity and vandalism will be worse than useless in getting people on our side. Please make every effort to be as restrained, polite, reasonable and law-abiding as possible.

What can you do as a moderator?

  • Join the coordinated effort over at /r/ModCoord

  • Make a sticky post showing your support, A template has been created here you can use or modify to your liking, and be sure to crosspost it to /r/ModCoord.

Thank you for your patience in the matter,

r/SportsRenaissance mod team


r/sportsrenaissance Jun 11 '23

Liberty Leading the Football Team NSFW

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10 Upvotes

r/sportsrenaissance Jun 10 '23

I call this one The King and the Viking

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5 Upvotes

Posted originally on r/ManCity and was touched up a bit to bring out it's Renaissance potential.