Moderator Action Sticky 2017
New offseason, new sticky, because these get cumbrously long.
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What this thread is for: It's an ad-hoc way of tracking what threads and comments get removed. Mods that remove a thread should post the title here with a brief reason as to why the thread is gone.
Don't comment in this thread unless you have to: if you leave an irrelevant comment in this thread it will be deleted (see: "cumbrously long").
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Things we will moderate so hard that if we were the government you’d probably have a 1st Amendment case but we’re not so shaddup about your freedom of speech this ain’t no democracy it’s just a message board run by people who believe in democracy.
- Politics. Don’t you get enough of this everywhere else?
How moderation looks from our end. - Noise. We ask our moderators to try really hard not to censor ideas, but we do control noise. If you’re getting a substantial amount of downvotes we’ll look to see if you’re posting an unpopular opinion that you can support. If you can’t support it politely and rationally, or if you don’t acknowledge the holes in your argument, it’s noise.
- Useless content from other sites. There are a lot of sites feeding a lot of Michigan content out there, and a lot of that is good stuff. But more than ever these days a lot of it is just stuff which tries to tickle your fancy or make you mad about something. 247, WTKA always get the benefit of the doubt.
- The Drew Sharp Memorial Don’t Feed the Professional Trolls Rule. Pete Finebaum has taken the place of the late Sharp. Valenti and Chatsports are the other two on the ban list. By the time you have enough points to post an article you should know that some people make a living off of trying to get the legions of Michigan fans angry enough to click.
- Bewbs and general misogyny/objectifying of women. We tried one year of this and our female readership shot up after being really low. This means it’s a good rule: however much you enjoy cutting loose with the guys, we have tens of thousands of readers it drives away.
Hall of Stickies Past:
The first, the second, the third. the fourth. The fifth. The sixth.
Great Moments in Moderation:
- "MODS: Please activate Death Star and obliterate this post."
- He's going to Eastern Michigan
- No Assclowns.jpg
- Most. Offseason. Thng. Ever.
- Where "Snowflakes" comes from
- BiSB is THE KNOWLEDGE
- That's not how the internet works, profit. NEG!
- Bad at spam
- We lost to who?
- This is funnier if you imagine it's Hoke and DB fighting.
- On politics in general and that one really political guy.
- Seth on censorship vs. noise.
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-some-rutgers-supporters-think-it-underpa…
May I suggest that because the "Honorary Captain" thread was allowed to devolve into awfulness, this is having a carry-over effect to other threads? If politics are tolerated on one thread, people will inject them into every thread. I do hope that doesn't continue to happen.
I'm not sure if his attitude truely crosses any moderator's lines, but Maizen picks fights whereever he goes. At this point it seems the vast majority of posters are tired of his shtick. He's got a million points though, so he must have done something somebody liked.
OT: USA still the best
Yeah, let's not do politics on the 4th......or indeed ever around here. Just wish everyon a Happy Fourth if that's what you're going for.
Expectations
I am guessing this is merely the abridged version of Grate Expectations by Edmund Wells, the same person who - as Python fans will note - wrote Knickerless Nickleby.
too OT
OT - Awesome State of Michigan Print - made by a friend
Typically, we try to keep the for-profit stuff off the board (as part of the kisok rule, at least as I interpret it - I could be wrong), even if it isn't specifically Michigan athletics stuff. No offense to the OP is meant.
this was stressing me out so I changed it like a UGA grade.
August 11th, 2017 at 5:10 PM ^
needed an email response; got one.
August 12th, 2017 at 2:09 PM ^
This guy. He's been here a year and he's still posting spamming links.
August 16th, 2017 at 11:17 AM ^
Let's not support piracy. Wait till Sunday and use your parents' HBO login as intended.
August 23rd, 2017 at 11:21 AM ^
August 24th, 2017 at 11:56 AM ^
OT: There are plenty of SEC teams in the top 10
The link was a little too Chatsports-ish.
August 28th, 2017 at 10:13 PM ^
A closer look at the entire Maize uniform
OK, the maize uniform threads need to stop....
August 31st, 2017 at 10:36 AM ^
September 2nd, 2017 at 2:07 PM ^
Unhappy Anniversary
I think the OP has learned the lesson, or in other words, "Many of us were there, so let's not talk about it ever again."
September 4th, 2017 at 8:58 AM ^
Why can't Michigan recruit a Josh Rosen?
We should ask important questions here, like "Who the hell once thought it was a good idea to sell hot dogs in packs of eight but buns in packs of six?"
September 4th, 2017 at 9:05 AM ^
Film analysis from a Florida perspective
This was already posted yesterday, but it is worth your time to find it.
September 5th, 2017 at 1:23 AM ^
anyone else notice minute deprecations that the inexorable passage of time takes on living organisms? no? just me? well okay then.
September 7th, 2017 at 2:03 PM ^
One More Humping of the Shark
This went exactly like a photoshopped Don Brown head involved in humping a shark with a photoshopped Jim McElwain head would typically go....
September 9th, 2017 at 4:47 PM ^
http://mgoblog.com/users/big-john-lives-67
100% troll. I'm sorry, but enough is enough.
September 9th, 2017 at 10:08 PM ^
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September 12th, 2017 at 3:21 PM ^
RE: Bewbs and general misogyny/objectifying of women. We tried one year of this and our female readership shot up after being really low. This means it’s a good rule: however much you enjoy cutting loose with the guys, we have tens of thousands of readers it drives away.
See: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/dave-shand-safe-after-almost-dying-hurrican…
Literally, like 1-2 days after the misogyny thread, this guy thinks this comment is appropriate?
September 13th, 2017 at 4:13 PM ^
Clay Travis. Absolutely not.
September 14th, 2017 at 9:06 AM ^
let's not rip on jemele the one fucking time she's ever correct.
September 23rd, 2017 at 2:50 AM ^
*Deletes thread for breaking no politics rule*
*Inserts ignorant political take into the deletion comment*
The mgoblog moderators continue to amaze me with their unabashed hypocrisy.
edit: Whatever you think about his political views, calling him a white supremacist is not correct. This is the same boat as calling everyone Nazis,Fascists, and Communists and it only serves to further the attempted blurring of the line between people you disagree with and the fuckwad extremists.
October 9th, 2017 at 6:00 PM ^
You done?
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September 23rd, 2017 at 1:17 PM ^
Good, I'm sure the people who say similar things about other Presidents will be dealt with similarly.
September 23rd, 2017 at 2:34 PM ^
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September 23rd, 2017 at 8:41 PM ^
http://mgoblog.com/users/dagupe
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/nick-baumgardner-harbaugh-speight-has-soft-…
I think he got sand in his vagina
September 23rd, 2017 at 9:20 PM ^
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September 24th, 2017 at 8:02 PM ^
A comment in the Purdue Postgame Presser: Jim Harbaugh article, has an HTML body tag in it that is breaking the page.
http://mgoblog.com/content/purdue-postgame-presser-jim-harbaugh#comment…
The following code is present.
position: absolute; top: 54px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; left: -1000px;
September 24th, 2017 at 8:55 PM ^
I'm no HTML guy (I don't even know if that's the right acronym.) I just assumed they caved the comments because of the Constitution remark and following hubbub. This place is getting too political lately. I know I've gone right up to the line (and sometimes over,) but I'm going to be avoiding anything political from now on. I WANT MY MGOBLOG BACK!!!
September 24th, 2017 at 10:57 PM ^
They removed the comments after I posted this. The HTML was pasted into the comment section. The code I posted above was what I found in the comments that was causing the page to not work. It appears by removing all comments it fixed the problem as well.
Mods: Thanks for such a quick response. I really prefer reading the press cofrences.
September 26th, 2017 at 1:00 PM ^
FBI has arrested several NCAA asst. basketball coaches in a corruption scheme
This is the weekly reminder that often stories with this reach make it to the blog nearly instantaneously.
October 2nd, 2017 at 11:34 PM ^
Evidently been trolling for a while and waiting for an opportunity.
Mods just when you thought it was safe to be a mod again... please take a look at the thread and then I hope you won't delete the account, just give them a negative million or so (user already said he doesn't care about points) which will limit his trolling activity for some time.
Thanks for taking this step even though according to him you have been giggling together over the rest of us.