Jumping the Shark: Why the MGoBoard is Unreadable
Everyone has their own special moments. You know, the moment the light bulb goes on and you say to yourself: "Self, the Board is absolutely unreadable now."
My special moment occurred yesterday morning when I just couldn't stop myself from checking the Board (dumb, I know). My instant reaction?
YEEEEEHAW! Doom, death, despair, Ignorance, insults, opinions galore!
(I know, I know. Cool story bro. But I'm getting there.)
Tell me, MGoPeoples, when was your "Jump the Shark" moment? Did it happen back during the post-Carr coaching search days? The Fire Rodriguez days? The Fire Borges days? After Akron? After UConn? After Penn State? This weekend?
Disclaimer: This is not to say that we will never visit the board. Its simply an open discussion so people can see why some regulars stop visiting the Board and adjust accordingly. And for those of you that say "Good, stop reading. You're a douche bag anyway," I say "Fine, I will!"
November 4th, 2013 at 10:55 PM ^
November 4th, 2013 at 6:59 PM ^
once that a banned hammer could land on my head via Email. I deserved it after carefully thinking out why I was warned and had no problem with it. One time though I made a comment(what I thought was a carefully thought out comment) and His Dudeness came down from all high asking me "If I were drunk this early in the day or am I really that stupid". It cut me to the bone, I did not respond for fear I may have said something that he would not have liked either. So I did not come to this blog for quite a while after. So I personally feel that people attacking other people for their opinions is more damaging than anything Brian may do.
November 4th, 2013 at 7:07 PM ^
I could highlight the useful posters (even those I disagree with) and block the mouthbreathing neckbeards.
November 4th, 2013 at 7:55 PM ^
Agreed. Now I just scan for the avatars and read the posts from the pictures I recognize and whose opinions/thoughts I value. What's ironic (for me) is that I enjoy the debate so posters on the other side of my thinking (like with Borges for example) I like the most.
November 4th, 2013 at 9:10 PM ^
November 4th, 2013 at 8:50 PM ^
November 4th, 2013 at 8:49 PM ^
November 4th, 2013 at 9:45 PM ^
November 4th, 2013 at 10:49 PM ^
I've been a lifelong fan, reader of Mgoblog awhile, and decided to join the boards sometime during the RR years. I know I don't have thousands of post so if you're the type of person who sees that as validation, you can stop reading.
The concept of hiding posts with a downvote is good in theory, but the execution is the terrible. People hide quality, thought out posts simply because they don't agree.
The refusal of talking about RR is ridiculous. The man busted ass for this school, he deserves to be mentioned - and like him or not, he's part of the team's tradition. If we can't talk about RR, then we can't talk about Bo. Frankly, I wouldnt mind seeing him come into the Big House and hang 50 pts on us.
Roll Damn Tide left...Did people actually think he was a Bama fan?
TomVH left.
November 4th, 2013 at 11:02 PM ^
November 4th, 2013 at 11:41 PM ^
First really falling off was the whole recruiting post chaos melt down.
Second was today in seeing the coach funk thread.
November 7th, 2013 at 12:11 PM ^
because I jumped the shark, and only check in every couple of days. I missed this thread until now. But I want to comment because I did have a defining "moment" that drove me away.
I jumped after being accused of picking on a HS kid. I felt that the direct criticism of me, being called out by Brian was unfair first of all. He was prickish about it. Then mob mentality, that inaccurately charactorized my comments and me took over and that is what made me not want to play anymore. So, as of a few weeks ago, the ap is off my phone; I check in periodically, but not constantly like I used to. I am just not taking this board seriously, as I used to. I can still find great information-I love the posts on the main page from Brian and crew informative and entertaining. But the forum and ignorant responses from many of the posters are nearly unreadable. Very mean, knee jerky, know it all-ish from dudes who are just fans. Sprinkled in are posts from people I actually enjoy, but its not worth the mounds of idiots.