Moderator Action Sticky
Brian has requested that instead of deleting each individual comment in the Moderator Action Sticky, that we instead just create a new thread. It takes hours of less time, preserves the comments for future explanations, and just clears things up faster.
You'll notice that the previous thread is now locked, and will slowly fade back into darkness. For the time being, the link from the Useful Stuff menu will point to the wrong location. We're working on a fix for that.
This thread is 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.
NOTE: if you leave an irrelevant comment in this thread it will be deleted.
November 16th, 2011 at 11:05 AM ^
No way is that an acceptable topic on the board.
November 16th, 2011 at 11:10 AM ^
It's not sports related per se, but it is Michigan related. Or was it too political?
November 16th, 2011 at 11:13 AM ^
It wasn't Michigan related, it was entirely hypothetical.
It was also a really dumb hypotheical.
November 16th, 2011 at 11:15 AM ^
He was asking a question about the Michigan student body.... seems related to the university to me... whatever...
November 16th, 2011 at 7:24 PM ^
It wasn't too political, it was political period, which is an unacceptable topic on the board.
November 16th, 2011 at 11:08 AM ^
Too OT for the season.
November 16th, 2011 at 11:27 AM ^
This was not going to end well.
November 17th, 2011 at 9:13 AM ^
No need for another separate thread - just toss your information/comment in the pre-existing thread on the same topic.
November 17th, 2011 at 4:45 PM ^
Improper OT. I see what you did there, but you can just neg the other OP if you don't like his contrarian views on a Michigan football-related topic and/or post your attempt at humor in that thread.
November 18th, 2011 at 1:50 PM ^
HALF the fanbase believes it's SQUARE but Brian and his cronies on this blog are ALWAYS going to say it's round because if you say the Earth is SQUARE you get deleted around here! Why can't you accept other opinions?
(here's when another poster will come in to say it's Pyramiddic.)
November 18th, 2011 at 3:42 PM ^
Because we all know that it's Htrae that's square. (Or we all don' know...?)
Now, earth, however....
November 19th, 2011 at 9:27 AM ^
If the moon was made of spare ribs, would ya eat it?
November 21st, 2011 at 12:57 PM ^
Stop trying to change the topic. The topic is that the SEC is better at football (because this is always the topic).
November 17th, 2011 at 7:06 PM ^
JoePa has a new job already!
Sometimes you can sense the derp before opening the link...
November 17th, 2011 at 9:17 PM ^
Hope you found one. Try a sports bar. Ft Myers has 60000ish people. There aren't going to be Big 10 team-specific bars. Otherwise, drive to Naples and hang out with the alumni club.
November 18th, 2011 at 8:01 AM ^
you guys leave those threads up all of the time and their usually for such remote locations that you have no chance in finding a bar. i am sorry that i cluttered up the board with such a bad topic, heaven forbid that i go on vaction with my wife and would like to find a sports bar that michigan fans in the area like to go to so i can enjoy the game.
November 18th, 2011 at 1:45 PM ^
I try to nail the ones I see. We do have a sticky for them because there were getting to be tons of local threads on fridays. I left up one up once: Munich, because of selfish reasons (I am sometimes there for Oktoberfest, which means during an early season game) and because I was interested to know if he would actually get a response, because really? Michigan in Munich?
I think someone else got to it anyway.
November 18th, 2011 at 1:41 PM ^
"i already posted in google doc but..." let me stop you there.
November 18th, 2011 at 5:20 PM ^
I oscillated on this one . . . I always like hearing some good gossip, especially at the water cooler. However, the Board is not a rumor mill and this is one topic that we can simply wait until its public knowledge. If what the OP says is true, well, then he scooped everyone!
November 18th, 2011 at 6:18 PM ^
If he can't verify his source (and that counts stuff behind paywalls), it shouldn't be on there. We've already got the 11W thing.
If he's got a private source he should contact Brian with it.
November 18th, 2011 at 9:42 PM ^
Sports by Brooks tweeted something. This guarantees it won't happen. Sorry Eleven Warriors.
Seriously, Herbstreit and Fickell? What the hell is Herbstreit going to coach and why the hell would he leave ESPN?
November 19th, 2011 at 8:49 AM ^
I am not sure if you guys can see my posts but I am going to post this anyway. I understand the point docking I received for an idiotic post at the begining of the season but I was wondering when others will be able to see my posts? A few people I know are MGoBloggers and have said my posts never appear even though I can see them when I am logged in. Also I have noticed that when I log out my posts disappear. Can you tell me how much longer this is going to last? Thanks
November 19th, 2011 at 9:21 AM ^
OT Good Time
I admire your attempt to categorize a strip club question as football-related. But no matter what the stripper tells you, there is no OT on the MGoBoard.
November 19th, 2011 at 9:41 PM ^
Another Victoria's Secret thread, three of the Sparty's a Creep threads, and a few other repeat threads.
I also deleted a couple flamebait threads.
November 19th, 2011 at 10:17 PM ^
November 19th, 2011 at 11:12 PM ^
and assign me to lashings
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/vs-fail-product-recalled-due-um-influence#c…
November 20th, 2011 at 9:01 AM ^
See what I did there?
November 20th, 2011 at 9:42 AM ^
Drew Sharp < Sports by Brooks < a New Mexican third grader's in-depth analysis of the OSU vs Michigan game < Eleven Warriors < ESPN < EDSBS < Yahoo! < MGoBlog
The New Mexican third grader's analysis is an acceptable topic. Anything less than it isn't.
November 20th, 2011 at 1:52 PM ^
OP - Search function = FAIL!?
November 20th, 2011 at 4:51 PM ^
Should have deleted it earlier. That's a meltdown topic...
November 20th, 2011 at 6:23 PM ^
Zone Left
Why is it not ok to ask questions that challenge popular opinion? The knee-jerk reaction of "all is well and you're a jerk for saying otherwise" simply isn't true. Things have changed and not for the better. One responder I think absolutely nailed it - the relative failure of the past three years coupled with the increased seating capacity has led to additional empty seats in the student section. That isn't a mirage and Hoke himself addressed the issue so this isn't just some random old dude ranting at these young folks.
My title could've been less inflamatory obviously but if you go back and read the posts on the same topic after Minnesota and then Purdue the excuses offered can't be used this time. I think it's interesting that instead of being pissed that their fellow students are blowing off the games, those attending are apparently defending status quo by saying people are just moving down low. I don't know how old you are but if you've been around for more than five years (and specifically in the late 70's, 80's and 90's you know that simply isn't so. Students have always moved down low and the section was still overfilled with no visable empty seats anywhere. Look at shots taken during any of the big games back then and I challenge you to find any openings much less 3-5 entire rows being deserted.
I 100% agree that the students make exponentially more noise than the rest of us put together. Which is exactly WHY i want them there and not hanging out in the dorms. For whatever reason people missed that point entirely.
November 20th, 2011 at 6:39 PM ^
I deleted the thread because the comments weren't staying civil. If there were one or two long threads of back and forth "screw you" type comments, then I'd delete those. Unfortunately, that's not what happened in that thread. The thread was deleted because it wasn't civil, which was why I made the comment in my deletion post that I should have deleted it earlier. I personally find the topic irritating, that's not why it was deleted.
Bottom line, if a student is an active commenter here, they're probably in a seat for kickoff against Nebraska. If not, who knows, but the answer isn't here.
I've been attending games for about 25 years (13 as an adult) and I really don't notice a difference--except scanning the tickets leads to longer delays at the gates than in years past. The student section has always been a little slow to fill (particularly for noon starts). Michigan just managed 113,000+ last week. It's pretty hard to call out attendance numbers after that.
FWIW, I don't think you were being uncivil, it's just part of my job to keep the namecalling down.
November 20th, 2011 at 7:18 PM ^
Just saw on Bucknuts...
Let's hold off on this stuff for 6 days or so.
November 20th, 2011 at 9:16 PM ^
Wow, at least five posters were surprised former Michigan players said they were from their high school instead of Michigan.
Seriously, I deleted four threads within two minutes.
November 20th, 2011 at 10:57 PM ^
My post wasn't related to that at all. It was about the Eagles vs Giants and Michigan and Ohio players having roles in the game....??
Edit: Can I get a reason?
Edit II: Awesome.
November 20th, 2011 at 10:59 PM ^
OT: Fear Factor coming back December 12th
Too OT.
November 21st, 2011 at 10:00 AM ^
November 21st, 2011 at 6:02 PM ^
No need for two.
Our former coach going somewhere else isn't OT
November 22nd, 2011 at 7:22 AM ^
Dilemma when we blow tsio out
November 22nd, 2011 at 8:57 AM ^
Is there a reason that the "TWIS is up" or "Michigan at the Ozone" is up posts are allowed to continue? It's not like if Rittenberg posts something on ESPN or Woj posts something on DetNews, it always gets up on the board...plus when people are annoyed by the posts they tend to say stupid things on the topic. I feel like Brian can include that in his post if he wants or people can find it through the side tab on the the left side of the screen.
November 22nd, 2011 at 1:54 PM ^
November 22nd, 2011 at 4:15 PM ^
Urban Meyer Signs deal
No, he probably didn't. And if he did, Random Talk Radio guy is not a sufficient source.
November 22nd, 2011 at 8:40 PM ^
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November 22nd, 2011 at 9:33 PM ^
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:09 AM ^
"My boi Demar"
Week-old, thoroughly-discussed article.
November 23rd, 2011 at 1:03 PM ^
Of the half sentence variety in 19 hours....what is this guy up to?
http://mgoblog.com/users/onescaryunit
Setting up some massive trolling.
And is there anyone other than FA who can start a new one of these threads? 800 posts are beginning to cause script errors when the page tries to load.
November 23rd, 2011 at 1:16 PM ^
OneScaryUnit - YMRMFSMGUA ohioblueblood and ohioblueblood82?
November 23rd, 2011 at 1:49 PM ^
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/michigan-vs-memphis-open-thread
Someone obviously wants to post something stupid, or downvote everything by getting to 100 fast.
November 23rd, 2011 at 7:33 PM ^
I hear you, but the posts have enough variety that I can't really do anything now. If he wastes his time making an OMG scUM SUXs post, he'll get banhammered.