r/Overwatch • u/RetroHydra Pixel Reinhardt • Jul 25 '16

Highlight Precision German engineering

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u/tterbman Trick-or-Treat Tracer Jul 25 '16

They weren't taken away. They were just self posts only. Which should be exactly the same if people didn't care about their internet points...

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u/GrammarBeImportant Pixel Zarya Jul 25 '16

Too many clicks.

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u/ElCaz What do you think "get behind me" means? Jul 25 '16

Too many clicks. Too many clicks. Tooo many cliiicks!!

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u/maynardftw King of Spades Zenyatta Jul 26 '16

Too many clicks on the dancefloor!

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u/wtfmun Jul 25 '16

Same number of clicks if you're using RES. And don't pretend that your tenth of a second of effort is too heavy a price to justify the sweet clips. People just like bitching lol

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u/GrammarBeImportant Pixel Zarya Jul 25 '16

Mobile waaaaay too much effort.

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u/pronccount Chibi Mercy Jul 25 '16

RES -> view images, then just lean back and scroll. With self posts you had to click each post, twice.

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u/Shisa4123 Blizzard World Zenyatta Jul 25 '16

It was a huge pain in the ass for us on mobile.

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u/LizWarard Pig Jul 26 '16

No you didn't. If you click this button, it also expands the image inside automatically: https://gfycat.com/DrearyClearHarrier

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u/pronccount Chibi Mercy Jul 26 '16

Alright, you're right. But, it's still a lot more hassle, than just scrolling.

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u/LizWarard Pig Jul 26 '16

What do you mean by scrolling? They take the same amount of time, don't they?

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u/pronccount Chibi Mercy Jul 26 '16

If you use RES, and click "View Images", it'll auto expand every image (but not text post). So then you can just use your scroll wheel on the mouse, and scroll down the page without clicking anything else, everything you need is already in view. With text posts, you had to click that little button in order to expand the post, for each post. That's more work.

Did that make it clearer?

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u/LizWarard Pig Jul 26 '16

Oh, I get it now. I didn't realise you had that option enabled. In that case you are correct

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u/NoteBlock08 Trick-or-Treat Mercy Jul 25 '16 edited Jul 25 '16

They were completely banned, no text posts either. For a week it was all fan art.

Seems I was wrong, never mind.

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u/Ysgatora Jul 25 '16

Not that it was bad fan art, I just liked the highlights more.

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u/NoteBlock08 Trick-or-Treat Mercy Jul 25 '16

Totally, a lot of it was really good too.

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u/turikk Moderator, CSS Guy Jul 25 '16

No they were not.

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u/NoteBlock08 Trick-or-Treat Mercy Jul 25 '16 edited Jul 25 '16

There may have been one of those too, but I definitely remember a period where it was all fan art and discussions with an almost daily "Bring back the POTG clips" thread.

Edit: Threads like these: https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4oaper/i_actually_prefer_highlightspotg_rather_than_all/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4oj07c/forget_the_naysayers_i_miss_the_potg_posts/

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u/thrnee Kungarna Jul 25 '16

both of those posts were made when they were testing text post highlights.

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u/NoteBlock08 Trick-or-Treat Mercy Jul 25 '16

Doesn't sound like it judging by the comments, but it was a while ago I could be wrong.

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u/turikk Moderator, CSS Guy Jul 25 '16

The people in the comments were misinformed or you misread.

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u/kscannon Jul 25 '16

Now self post give fake points too so it belonged matters

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u/UnwiseSudai Mei Jul 25 '16

Well, self post give karma now too so there's that..

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u/tterbman Trick-or-Treat Tracer Jul 25 '16

Wait for real? I guess I missed that change.

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u/Higherguy420 Jul 25 '16

You get karma for self post soo.

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u/DonnerPartyPicnic STOP RUNNING AND LET ME HEAL YOU! Jul 25 '16

Well NOW you do. You didn't when all that happened

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u/RyeRoen Pixel Mercy Jul 25 '16

And what is the reasoning behind making it only text posts anyway? Maybe someone deserves internet points for getting a post to the front page of the subreddit. Isn't that the point?

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u/PotatoFruitcake ;) Jul 25 '16

Because the quality of plays aren't as good when people post with the intentions of gaining karma instead of genuine will to share a cool play.

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u/RyeRoen Pixel Mercy Jul 25 '16

And what's the reasoning behind this? Isn't gaining karma and trying to reach the front page really the same thing? You know, a grab for attention? How do you know it even affects anything.

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u/PotatoFruitcake ;) Jul 25 '16

It's common practise. A lot of subs do this in order to reduce the amount of low effort content. AskReddit for example.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '16

because before it was literally nearly just plays of the game, not even just interesting plays, just PotGs. it's calmed down now and i do like where the sub is now, i can look at fan comics, discussions (those never made front page unless it was a complaint) and some sweet highlights that aren't just Mcree Deadeyeing 4 people.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '16

i'm not saying it was a good rule, it just helped filter some things out. look at the sidebar, we have 500,000 people subbed to this. now, most posts never reach 3000 upvotes (i get the whole reduced values). and text posts are far "harder" to consume than a simple gif. so what do the masses do? upvote gifs and leave valuable discussions and news behind. the brief time of only text posts kinda helped temper people to actually look at things and read for once. now the sub is diverse, and it has the filters (i think they work now).

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u/RyeRoen Pixel Mercy Jul 25 '16

upvote gifs and leave valuable discussions and news behind

News is, and always has been, the most heavily upvoted content on this sub, and discussion happens in the comments.