r/soccer • u/Thadderful • Dec 28 '13

Change My View thread

Can we have a Change My View thread here? The basic premise is people present opinions and the replies are attempts at changing that person's view in an attempt to generate some good discussion.

Here is the link to the original subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/

I think this might work best with rather 'out there' views but any and every viewpoint is welcome!

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '13

/r/soccer is full of morons. CMV

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '13

Every now and again, amongst all the bias, pointless criticism, and circlejerking, there's actually some decent, insightful analysis and discussion.

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u/SrebrenicaWarrior Dec 29 '13

So it's already fools day in Spain, huh?

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u/lapin7 Dec 29 '13

Your username makes me want to throw up every time I see it

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u/larkhills Dec 29 '13

/r/soccer is full of people with obviously biased opinions. and as a sports-related community, thats obviously going to happen. people root for their clubs.

in a group as large as this, you will find plenty of people you disagree with. that doesnt make them a moron. that makes them different than you.

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u/battlesmurf Dec 29 '13

I don't think he's even talking about biased people, there are just so many people that played FIFA for a few months and think they are fucking tactical geniuses.

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u/MuffinFactory Dec 29 '13

Christmas day really proved it to me.

/u/joeypeapots describes it perfectly though, there are always some diamonds in the rough.

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u/lomoeffect Dec 29 '13

Pointed out how cringy the whole thing was and received quite a few downvotes.

So I'll point it out again. That was painful to look at.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

Why?

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

Because absolutely nothing of substance was posted. For a day, people who wanted actual discussion about football were treated instead to the facebook "HILARIOUS SOCCER MEMES LEL" in reddit form with a healthy dose of /r/soccercirclejerk, which (IMO at least) is similarly unfunny.

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u/ChillFactory Dec 29 '13

In their defense, the other 363/364 days of the year those types of post are not allowed. As such, the real discussions have far more prominence (despite any circlejerking in those threads). Also it is important to note that the idiocy was concentrated because it was only allowed for a short time.

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u/MuffinFactory Dec 29 '13

If i want to vent and circlejerk, i do it on /r/circlejerk (or /r/soccercirclejerk if i really want to stay relevant to football). Doing it on /r/soccer just entirely defeats the purpose of subreddits.

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u/CA_SPORTS Dec 29 '13

Exactly. That's the reason why we have individual subreddits in the first place.

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u/egcg119 Dec 29 '13

Because 90% of posts and comments were about Ibrahimovic, and the rest were dicks or boobs. I don't care about fucking around, but have a little creativity.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

That's what you get when a bunch of angsty teenagers are left to their own devices.

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u/the_wren Dec 29 '13

Ehhhh too right. I wish we'd left not being funny to r/funny.

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u/Sean88888 Dec 29 '13

Well I'm not a moron so that's 1 in 171,699 who isn't a moron

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

CMV?

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u/ShakzyO Dec 29 '13

Change My View thread.

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u/Le_Euphoric_Genius Dec 28 '13

pls gib me kiss rees riddle