META: maybe no politics at all?
When I read the politics policy outlined here some days ago my gut told me : "this is a trap".
I do not think you can mediate political threads. The standards are way too vague for when they go "too far". One person gets slapped down- another gets off scott free. Ill will grows at mods. These threads bring lots of anger and burn relationships. Before you know it, people are downvoting each other like crazy. Politics starts bleeding into other threads.
JH is a pretty political coach IMO and covering all his non-sports views is inviting disaster for this community. If people really want to follow his views its pretty easy on other forms of media.
The simplist approach IMO is just to stick to sports- but its not my blog. Luckily, I have many other options. Hate to see people set up though- seems unfair- lots of good folks here. Its hard to see this ending well- but it might.
April 20th, 2017 at 10:49 PM ^
April 20th, 2017 at 10:54 PM ^
Next few threads to be:
META: maybe no hottakes at all?
META SNOWFLAKES: put your snowflakes HERE!
OT: BRIAN: META: SNOWFLAKES: BRIAN PLEEEZE ALLOW POLITIKS!!!
*WD thread about new bandaids the team will use*
April 20th, 2017 at 11:01 PM ^
My contribution for the last thread
April 20th, 2017 at 11:03 PM ^
Oops they're not Nike/Jordan Brand though so....womp womp
April 20th, 2017 at 11:14 PM ^
The font on the top of the can is wrong.
What?
Um, no
April 20th, 2017 at 11:19 PM ^
Then I'd rather bleed to death.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:36 PM ^
This must kill you then. The wrong font is the devil.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:57 PM ^
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April 20th, 2017 at 11:45 PM ^
April 20th, 2017 at 10:55 PM ^
April 20th, 2017 at 10:56 PM ^
This is just such typical thing that a Republican/Democrat would say.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:05 PM ^
Ditto for Brexiteers / Remainers!
April 20th, 2017 at 11:14 PM ^
And Gingers / Mary Anns.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:50 PM ^
April 21st, 2017 at 12:08 AM ^
Me too.
Not even close.
The Professor was my hero because I always assumed he was hitting it hard.
April 21st, 2017 at 12:45 AM ^
April 21st, 2017 at 12:24 PM ^
Um, sorry. No.
April 21st, 2017 at 12:42 AM ^
One definitely aged way better than the other. Also, kind of funny they are the last two surviving main cast members, survivor takes all.
April 20th, 2017 at 10:59 PM ^
April 20th, 2017 at 11:12 PM ^
The Election.
Truman's.
April 21st, 2017 at 12:52 AM ^
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April 20th, 2017 at 11:04 PM ^
I disagree with your notion that politics should be banned!
(comment banned)
April 20th, 2017 at 11:05 PM ^
I'm Sextus Empiricus and I approve this post.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:06 PM ^
April 20th, 2017 at 11:06 PM ^
April 20th, 2017 at 11:09 PM ^
Scott Frost's mom for this.
April 21st, 2017 at 12:04 AM ^
As you should
April 20th, 2017 at 11:48 PM ^
Here's some politics for you:
Thank God this blog does not allow complete freedom of speech.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:10 PM ^
Draftageddon.
This ain't over, Draftageddon, my old nemesis. From Hell's heart, I stab at thee.
Also, Corinthian leather? But of course, why not the best?
Also, Welcome to Fantasy Island.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:14 PM ^
Oh, thanks for the reminder. We needed some content and I'd quite forgotten it's time to get this going.
April 21st, 2017 at 12:54 AM ^
April 21st, 2017 at 12:57 AM ^
April 21st, 2017 at 12:42 AM ^
It's our All Big Ten post, or more accurately our Top 125 players of the big ten. And it's important for us to prepare for the season. We play into the joke of certain readers not liking it but honestly they get good reads and it's great for getting us ready to talk about all of these teams. It's going to happen.
Count me among Big 10 mgoblog draft haters. I'd rather read about politics than that.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:13 PM ^
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/moderator-action-sticky-2017#comment-4454774
I literally outlined our policy this week. It included an example addressing just this specific case:
Harbaugh wades into politics: Original post should include JUST THE FACTS and a link to a reputable* source, discussion allowed to survive until someone takes it ugly, at which point the thread will be locked and the offender moderated.
We cover Michigan sports here, with a heavy footbal emphasis. Harbaugh is persona numero uno so long as he's head coach of Michigan Football. When he wades into politics, people are going to come here and see what he said, because as MIchigan fans they're going to have people saying to them "Hey, did you hear what Harbaugh said...?"
I figure in that scenario holding our ears closed doesn't serve the readers. Providing just facts without political bending does serve them, since they know they can come here, get what was said and what context it was said in, and go forth to fight whatever Office Sparty said he said differently or whatever. Discussion is important in such cases because the original story doesn't always contain all the facts or context.
Taking a hard-line "no politics even if it comes from Harbaugh himself" approach just sets us up to constantly be taking down threads and looking like assholes for locking things down when we've got the one thread on the internet discussing this that isn't turning into a flaming hell-hole. Liberty unless there's a very good reason, and then maximum possible liberty, that's my motto.
Also: We put our pants on one leg at a time. This is also my motto.
And the thing about the bird who got up at 6.
And who's got it better than us...