If you ran MgoBLOG for one day......
...and position breakdowns. Then throw a huge party (on Brian's dime) to celebrate the greatest assembly of football talent to ever be assembled.
I'm sure Brian and co. have heard many of these before, but here are some things I'd be in favor of:
- Ability to direct message other users.
- Separate channels for different types of discussions. Limit to reasonable number (7 or fewer) and select carefully so they are as mutually exclusive as possible. Otherwise people will have to hunt around to much to find info.
- Ability to create a customized message feed based on user preferences (by channel, key word(s) and/or tags).
- Notification system: e.g., notify when Hello posts, main board posts, new posts to a thread you have selected to Track.
- Voting of yesteryear (as mentioned already by several)
- Improved page layouts. Current layout is cluttered by persistent links to non MGoBlog content. Wouldn't say eliminate them, but if that content were layered, accesible on separate page(s) via one or more links, you could open up the page, allowing the feature content more room to breathe.
- Mobile first responsive design. Would eliminate need for the app. (Sorry Elaydin)
- Reconsider separation of Diaries vs. Messages. Quite frankly, I'm not sure the difference is all that clear cut. I find the Diary content pretty hit or miss. Anything extremely worthwhile tends to get promoted to Main Board anyway.
- Reconsider New vs Recent vs Hot. Maybe it's the nomenclature, but not really sure how those work. Pretty much stick with new.
- Automatically surface trending / popular content.
- Easier integration of multimedia content.
- Ability for users to create polls, voting.
for EVERYONE!!!
(and no, this is not the wrong thread!)
I would tell a bunch of superstar recruits to commit so I can write about it and make everyone happy.
- UFR the bowl games and, most especially, The Game 2012. Wouldn't be pretty, but would be informative and would help with diary-writing.
- Implement a swear-filter. Actual swear words would still be kosher, but it would axe "Urbz", "Stefon Diggs", "RCMB", and "commit boner"
- Massive photoshop threads
forums and get rid of the terrible layout for the forums. Maybe an OT subforum. Basically, just hate the layout on here and that's why I rarely post.
- Notification system for replies to OP's or comments.
- Old point system.
- Some modding changes that would make life easier.
- Keyboard electrocution technology for particular types of comments. Just kidding. But not really.
Dude, slow down. The top of your head's on fire.
Edit: Crap. Meant as a response to Eth2's post.
/s
- Organize raids to OSU message board sites like Bucknuts and troll with great gusto
- Play Miley Cyrus
Bring the forums into the 21st century.
I rather enjoyed the 2nd half of the 20th century--spent 75% of my life there, you know!
I'm about the same age you are.
But there's no excuse except laziness for the "forum" being in the state it's in. It's really ridiculous. I guess people here don't go to other places so they don't know any better - or for some reason they have different tastes than the majority of the internet's population - but really, if you look around, it's not difficult to implement boards better than this. Sub forums, OT, private messaging, thread tracking - you can find all these features and more for free.
Create another MGoBoard Sticky for technical issues with the site and pointing out broken links, or links that go to sites that update less often than Sparties light couches on fire.
I was thinking perhaps about a 401(k) and pension scheme for mods and regular contributors, as well as free access to the MGoBlog gym as well as the back room at the MGoBlog club.
The ability to conduct online seminars for wayward bloggers and give presentations on what they might be able to do to become a more amiable MGoBlogger could be interesting as well.
Someone else mentioned it, but it would be helpful from a mod standpoint if there were some sort of push notification for new threads or posts, basically a screen which mirrors the "Track" screen here but could be accessed in one click and from mobile devices.
Perhaps as an alternative to an "OT" forum, I would like to see a "Community" section for meetups and tailgates for which MGoBloggers are the focus. This is a mature enough community now that I think these would get decent turnouts regardless.
The concept of having newly signed-up users read the FAQ/useful stickies and take a comprehension quiz does appeal to me.
I once got a research job at the VA Hospital in Ann Arbor working in research lab with animals. I never had any contact with patients or their medical histories, yet I had to sit and look at powerpoints for my first three days and then take a ninety minute questionnaire.
I may not know the thirty different ways that can make a person a UM booster, but I can definitely tell you if that person is violating HIPAA.
It would be a good way to weed out spam bots, trolls, and would let genuine fans hit the ground running with productive posting.
Question: if you as an MGoUser get the SMU-style NCAA death penalty, do you die in real life too?
Answer is yes; pretending I'm Mao on the internet is the only reason I have for living, and I'm pretty confident the Stalin impersonation is vital for LSA's well-being also.
Generic you? Most of me hopes not, but also strangely hopes so.
Then I would get laid all day long.
I would write my anti-rich rod manifesto and enjoy one day of sanity on this site.
/ducks
jdon
I already do #1, and trust me, it's really not that fun.
with rooms by the dozen,
Right in the middle of the town.
I'd increase the percentage of front page writing done by Brian, working him until the distance between his fingerprints and underlying bone was thin as tissue. Even if only for that day, it'd be worth it.
I respect everyone else's time, thought, and commitment, but the content quality isn't the same. It's the difference between A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and a mishmash of undergrad honors theses and creative writing assignments. Hard work well done, but done by non-savants. Not the same.
EDIT: You know what? Challenge accepted.
WiSB, PUT ON THE COFFEE. The savant-writing shall begin.
After this nap.
Really? I know it's just a matter of personal opinion, but I find Brian's stuff pretty hard to read. There's an inside Mgoreference every three words. I just can't keep up with the times.
And change it so he's one of the guys who can post, but no one else can see his comments...except you obviously. Then spend the rest of the day giggling to yourself as he loses his mind
1. Posbangs
2. Our dear departed recruiting insiders
3. Swag Mattison banner across the top
4. every snap video library
Would people be interested in a closing-the-chapter-on-Denard piece?
Yes, but call it something other than "closing the chapter...."
"Turning the page" sounded a little too Bob Seger. Plus I'm several Two-Hearted Ales in. Words aren't my friend right now.
love him, but ready to move on...
he could be the inaugural member of the mgoblog hall of fame. shit, name the hall after him...
Yes and no.
Yes, I'd love to read it.
No, it'd make me have sad.
I say go for it.
he retires from the pros....he's still playing ball
...but TomVH is sitting, waiting paitently for someone to say they've bring him back. Jussayin.
First I'd start swingin' the banhammer like a drunken viking, cuz some of you bitches need to be told. Then as interim Lord of Mgoblog, I'd feel obligated to provide some musings of great wit, introspection and/or analysis to prove my own particular voracity. Undoubtedly though, in researching whatever fascinating topic that came to mind, I'd get bogged down hopelessly in pictures of cats disguised as burritos and fall asleep before I actually accomplished anything.
More Monkey Rodeo videos, polls, and references.
Change diaries to earn 5000 points plus karmic kickback. Moderate diaries to insure they are worthy. Points are worthless - but analysis and/or good reads are relatively rare but drive traffic - especialy if we get more consistent content.
The readership is a huge asset - points have value to them. Few people have the time to write. Those that do often move on to other blogs / jobs. I would try and leverage the points for more content.spend the day talking to myself in the forum
Because I still don't get what kittens, snowflakes, or the term neg banging means but I see stuff like this referencesd all the time. I would also make SectionOne a moderator.
This is something we can probably actually do.
Not the Section 1 Mod thing. We're not monsters.
Allow me to paraphrase:
I would make a gradual, sensible improvement that would make everyone happy and provide lots of entertaining discussion. I would also activate Skynet.
(Edit: I think I have a half-finished MGoGlossary diary post somewhere on this here computer. I think I never posted it because I feel enormously unqualified to do so. Seems like a mod or something might be a better person to make it)
Move the entire blog onto a DJango or maybe a Ruby on Rails CMS platform. Bring back the old voting system.
Use some of my money to establish a server farm in some other country that doesn't respect DMCA and host football videos there.
Introduce a forum preview that showed tags, at least the tag as to which sport the topic is about.