META: Number of points to start a thread
I and many others believe that the amount of points needed to start a thread should be raised. That troll just showed us how easy it is to create an account and, in thirty minutes, gain 100 points to start a ridiculous thread, which caused me to start trembling for 15 seconds. My suggestion would be 1000 points at the bare minimum. Hope you guys will be open to changing this. Thanks.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:14 PM ^
all day. If a new poster deserves it, they'll reach in due time.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:20 PM ^
For a couple minutes. Don’t have 2k, what if I have insider information about what Shea Patterson likes to eat for breakfast,(hint: it’s not pieces of shit like you, not you per se, you get the joke) Guess you will be left to wonder...
December 10th, 2017 at 6:44 PM ^
You would be adle to post since you’ve been here for a while. Set a threshold of points or time since registering. That way a one day user with 100 points can’t post a fart joke.
December 10th, 2017 at 7:06 PM ^
I'm gonna set up a bunch of seed accounts so I can sell aged MGoBlog accounts on the black market in a few years!
December 10th, 2017 at 7:46 PM ^
Asking for a friend.
December 10th, 2017 at 7:48 PM ^
I was just saying how easy it is to gain 1000, though I guess the trolls would just do their same to get to 2000. mea culpa!
December 10th, 2017 at 8:33 PM ^
Right. If I had urgent inside info I could email Brian or someone (at my peril).
While I'm a lowbie myself, I just watched this board anon for a long time before creating an account, so I don't know how hurt any low post person would get at not being able to post a thread. I sort of support a 2k cap, but know a few guys who have had accounts here for years and have probably posted twice in that time on average, wiith 25- 50 upvotes each time. (Only posting when they really have something good to say and it just hasn't been said yet).
I'm not sure how easy it would be, but I feel if you have had a non-banned account for 5 years, you should be able to create a thread if you have something to say.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:04 AM ^
[...it might actually solve the issue for all problem types. Down-vote double-ish post if you must...]
Freeze Tag:
What about setting a negative minimum point total on either an account, or per post {EDIT: Or per thread you started...this Julian account would be toast by now}?? Slip up, get too many negs on your account, or on a single post (say, -40ish trips the wire, as an example) and your account can live, but you can't post until a mod unfreezes you. Same concept could easily be applied w/ full account totals- get too many negs and you're frozen until someone with authority to unfreeze you does so.
Basically, we're all good enough to spot the fakes that they'd be effectively banned by user 'curation'. And if the point total is enough, it prevents trolls from gaming the system to get a user artificially frozen because no one is going to manage 40ish accounts just to take down single users.
And, this kind of process would naturally sift the likely b.s. right to the top, making the mods jobs a lot easier- they don't have to find a needle in the haystack- instead, the haystack finds the suspected needles for you to examine, validate, and then obliterate.
Also, new users w/ genuine intent would be more mindful of whatever they have the impulse to post- nobody wants to whoopsy into being banned because their post was no more valuable than that of the trolls...
Kind of feel like this might be the airtight solution to all our troll problems...no?
December 10th, 2017 at 6:22 PM ^
If you look at the majority of bad posts right now, they are coming from posters within the 100-1000 range. There are plenty of good posts that have been made by users between 1000 and 2000 points.
Take this post, for example:
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/things-i-was-told-last-night-re-ole-miss-trio
The user who made this thread only had ~1100 points before he made this. These are the type of posts that make the board awesome. Quality, not quantity will attract more good users and less trolls.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:34 PM ^
what about looking at their previous thread? If someone starts a bad topic and gets negged for it, maybe some time should have to pass before they can start another one. They'd earn a black flag or a red lock or whatever. Maybe you give them one mulligan. There's a lot of different ways to work out the details.
December 10th, 2017 at 8:24 PM ^
Red Lock.....I see what you did there. Dumbtonio would approve!
December 10th, 2017 at 9:24 PM ^
Man you only have 229 points. If your proposal came true this post wouldn't even exist.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:59 PM ^
What do you mean by META?
December 10th, 2017 at 8:43 PM ^
who just joined this community know to start the OP with META?
December 11th, 2017 at 12:04 AM ^
Raising point threshold will just lead to more posts like these
December 10th, 2017 at 6:29 PM ^
I say 239.
Edit: now 240.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:05 AM ^
And these
December 10th, 2017 at 6:15 PM ^
I think the guy on the board for 6 days should tell us what he thinks...
December 10th, 2017 at 6:18 PM ^
It's a social experiment by sexian, I mean Julian.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:22 PM ^
Lahey
December 11th, 2017 at 9:47 AM ^
He thinks he can wear that black shirt, with those muscles and say things.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:07 AM ^
And these!!!
December 10th, 2017 at 6:22 PM ^
Weird when a guy with 200 pts starts a thread to complain about it being possible to so do in the first place. Must have forgotten to log in under his other account with more points.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:40 PM ^
Maybe he understands that he hasn’t been around long enough to get a feel for the do’s and don’ts around here. His assumption is buttressed by a knucklehead with 100 points.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:56 PM ^
Yeah right.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:17 PM ^
Been saying that for years but at the same time, I remember how much the board changed after it went from 0 to 100. I think you would see most of the threads being created by the same 4 people or an entire board of posts from WD.
500 would be better.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:19 PM ^
As someone who took a long time to get to 100 points, I think a 100 & 6 month minimum would also solve a lot of the troll accounts/threads. That being said, I’ve only started 1-2 threads so I could live with a 500 point minimum.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:36 PM ^
Just post things like "fuck ped state", "fuck msu", and "fuck osu" in any thread. You'll be there in no time.
To hell with notre dame.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:39 PM ^
Fuck Ohio.
Sparty can kiss my ass.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:46 PM ^
fuck psu and all their joepa-loving delusional fans!!!*
*East German Judge
December 10th, 2017 at 7:59 PM ^
So that's the formula huh? Man It's so simple.... yet genius.
December 10th, 2017 at 7:56 PM ^
fuck osu, fuck psu, and fuck msu! I need all the help I can get right now...
December 10th, 2017 at 11:53 PM ^
Dittos!
December 10th, 2017 at 6:18 PM ^
Irony
December 10th, 2017 at 6:18 PM ^
Not only just points, I think you should have an account for a couple of months before you can start a thread. We've seen so many people get into the thousands in just a couple of days.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:42 PM ^
Another thing to look at would be trending
If your recent post are being negged then you shouldn't be allowed to start post. I have seen good post by users with 500 to 1000 points. Usually they have been here awhile but stay in the background.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:18 PM ^
10,000 points. Would also suggest people who have more than 1 screen name be unable to start threads.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:23 PM ^
If they have different emails then how you gonna catch them?
December 10th, 2017 at 6:32 PM ^
UMProud’s point is that if they have many accounts in all likelihood they would not have 10,000 points on each of them therefore unable to OP with any of them.
December 10th, 2017 at 7:56 PM ^
Hold my beer
December 10th, 2017 at 10:17 PM ^
Yeah... hold my beer.
I had to read it twice more to realize UMProud meant not allowing Multiple Account Holders to OP.
Doh!
December 10th, 2017 at 8:40 PM ^
Won't they be just using their alt accounts to upvote themselves? I mean we are talking about buckeye fans here, you don't expect them to follow the rules do you?
December 10th, 2017 at 9:08 PM ^
A few of the devoted M fans in this site have a dozen or more accounts that they upvote themselves...sad really who fuckin has the time and patience to do all that shit? people who need to gtfo out the house that's who
December 10th, 2017 at 6:44 PM ^
IP log file when peiple.enter their credentials. Really easy to run a batch file that would check all IP addresses that register > 1 login credential
December 10th, 2017 at 7:04 PM ^
Of second hand electronics, wouldn’t you be unfairly excluding those would be members of the community?
I find second hand electronics a rather risky proposition so I refrain from that. But it is a business and people buy them.
December 10th, 2017 at 7:04 PM ^
You've never heard of VPN?
December 10th, 2017 at 7:53 PM ^
from the same block. Plus, you shouldn’t be here while working - amiright? If you want to hide IP’s, use Onion Routing.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:19 PM ^
And u start a thread with just over 200. Cool story bro. Also, Franklin Hatchett had over 2k and alot of people were pissed he was starting threads. Let the Mods decide and stop tryin to suck up and gain points.
December 10th, 2017 at 6:24 PM ^
Negged for posting with a 2 day old account