But if you did that, then every troll who got negbanged would get a bunch of responses that would derail a thread, which is exactly what they want.
But if you did that, then every troll who got negbanged would get a bunch of responses that would derail a thread, which is exactly what they want.
March 29th, 2011 at 12:55 PM ^
I actually agree with you. Posbangs are nice and fun, but from a community functioning standpoint, negs are actually useful. Plus, if someone with, say, 31000+ points (just to pull a number out of nowhere) needs a good negbanging for some odd reason, that's a lot of banging to get to Bolivia.
Everyone (myself included) should still have accountability. If we can't get more than 1,000 points, negbangs can potentially matter. They also would mean that can't just dish them out willy-nilly.
If you have a large point total, you've proven yourself to be a good poster. You should be encouraged to make your point toal even more insane.
In general that's true, but I can think of a couple high-point posters who've gone through meltdowns, and negbangs could not do much to rein them in.
Isn't that also a Mod responsibility, to rein them in?
There were also some high-point posters who got docked into the negative range because the mods saw how ridiculous they were being. I don't really see that as a big issue.
I never had as many points as some, but I did get hammered pretty hard for some inappropriate jokes.
Maybe - a large point poster may have proven themself to be a frequent poster, which I differentiate from a poster who writes something of substance and not merely a "true that",
true that
If all you do is post "+1" or "Snakeoil!" you'll eventually earn a bazillion sissy points.
Or have negs scale with the amount of MGoPoints someone has.
1,999 and under, negs count as -1.
2,999-2,000, negs count as -2.
3,999-3000, negs count as -3.
4,999-4000, negs count as -4.
The list goes on. If someone has 31,000 points, negs would count as -31.
And if you neg someone, you get negged for the amount of points you have on the same scale as above. So if you neg someone with 19,000 points while you have 3,000 points, they get negged for -19 points, and you get negged for -3 points. This way, it's a fair system for everyone, no matter the amount of MGoPoints you have.
For this-
That was the door prize for people who hit 30,000. Did you not get your prize? Hmmm...sucks to be you.
I would have worked harder to keep my points if I knew about this deal.
I believe Raback got her for his call that Demar Dorsey was choosing Michigan the next day.
He was BKFinest before there was a BKFinest... you know, if BKFinest had been right.
Before all the weird plastic surgery.
March 29th, 2011 at 12:49 PM ^
Don't forget about gangbangs!
(I actually like this site layout more than the one without boxes around comments. It would be nice if neg/pos came back though.)
Is it bad if this is from my hometown and I applied for a job at the first address?
March 29th, 2011 at 12:51 PM ^
Why don't we just move mgoblog over to Reddit? We can make a sub-reddit for Michigan sports. They have the good upvote/downvote/karma system.
March 29th, 2011 at 12:54 PM ^
Let's move it back to Haloscan.
I do miss Haloscan.
I miss Haloscan because it was more discrete to read at work. And the handlejacking produced humorous results.
my favorite part of Haloscan -- the witty and well-timed handlejacked posts often made me laugh. It was absurdly comical commenting anarchy.
That's the sort of environment that you lose when a site gets as big as MGoBlog has. There's plenty of good with the growth, too, but some days I do miss the fun of the smaller community.
March 29th, 2011 at 12:53 PM ^
I miss the red NEW box more than the points-I hate looking through threads that I've read trying to decipher when someone just commented.
March 29th, 2011 at 12:58 PM ^
This is the one feature that I would like to make an illustrious comeback.
March 29th, 2011 at 12:59 PM ^
100% agree. Plus, I'm one of those posters that everyone else hates/laughs at for using the frontpage as my primary means of looking at and following the board. So I usually don't see the "X new" and "Last Post" things on the actual board page.
March 29th, 2011 at 12:54 PM ^
rabble rabble
I agree full heartedly, as you can see by the post, I have lost incentive to post well timed, witty photos ... I want MOOARRR POIIINTS....
Need. Moar. Points...
It's all your fault.
I could tweak the ultra-mgoboard to make it look like everyone's points are increasing every time you posbang them... would that make you feel better for the time being?
That would be awesommmeeeessss!!!
And can you get the NEWW!!!! red box back?
GIMME BACK MY SONPOINTS!
Brian is getting complacent. He thinks we'll blindly stay by and provide pageviews. Let's rebel -- it's all the rage in 2011!
pee in sum butts