META: Any way to just sticky a sign related opinion open thread?
Mods: It feels like the longer this thing drags on, the more opinion and trash theory posts we're going to see, without bringing any new facts.
Any chance we could just open a single post for people to spew their two cents, and keep the board clean for actual sports news?
October 25th, 2023 at 10:36 AM ^
But then everyone's very unique and important opinion will get buried at the bottom of a thread and not displayed front and center for all to see!
October 25th, 2023 at 12:28 PM ^
Your comment brings up another distinction between this site and most others I frequent. On most other sites, the date and time of a post places the thread in a relative position to other threads. The thread with the latest activity is first on the list. As activity wanes, the thread moves down the page and eventually is no longer seen on page 1.
Why Mgoblog chooses to do things differently is beyond me.
October 25th, 2023 at 10:39 AM ^
I'm voting for a daily diary summarizing the last 24 hours of news if anyone is willing to do it, plus maybe a daily Sign Stealing Snowflake thread to contain thread spread.
October 25th, 2023 at 10:55 AM ^
Agreed, we don't need a thousand different opinion threads just regurgitating the same argument over and over. Just lump all the *new* information into a daily thread and keep the hawt takes in a snowflake thread.
If this board is just gonna beat this dead horse without giving us relevant, new information than spare me
October 25th, 2023 at 10:41 AM ^
I second, third and fourth the motion. M Go Blue!
October 25th, 2023 at 10:45 AM ^
All in favor... Aye!
All opposed.... ...seeing that there are none, the motion passes.
October 25th, 2023 at 10:49 AM ^
Aye!
It is a great topic of discussion with much consternation, but we don't need a new thread for every hot take/snowflake.
October 25th, 2023 at 10:49 AM ^
Additionally, what does Pate Thamel have to do to get added to the list of banned media sources? He clearly has forsaken his duties as a journalist to pen propaganda on behalf of leakers from the NCAA, and it’s not the first time he’s engaged in this type of sensationalism. When Ohio lost to Clemson, he dutifully gave credence to Day’s suspicion that Clemson was stealing signs. Also, his extensive coverage of Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend is a black mark on his credibility. Pete practices yellow journalism. Full stop.
October 25th, 2023 at 10:49 AM ^
Message boards are for opinion sharing. I fail to see the issue with lots of random posts. Is there super important board material that gets washed away as a result?
October 25th, 2023 at 10:57 AM ^
Because there's already dozens of posts on the topic, in which to share your hawt take.
Starting a brand new thread so you can say what's already been said 1000x in previous threads is just thirsty.
October 25th, 2023 at 11:46 AM ^
For me I'd like a dedicated thread because I never know where the most active discussion is and where I can get the latest news so I have to go through 4-5 different threads. But that's just me, I've always been on team megathread.
October 25th, 2023 at 12:01 PM ^
I think if the Mgoboard was a little more functional in terms of page navigation I might agree. But I find it very difficult to get past the first page of any thread and still keep track of what's being discussed. So for me at least, the reality is I get through maybe 20 or 30 responses to each thread topic and don't see anything that comes after that.
If we had "sort bys" to filter things reddit-style, to see most upvoted, most controversial, etc., and be able to condense sub-threads that I'm not interested in, than I'd be more inclined to support the mega-threads
October 25th, 2023 at 12:56 PM ^
Thats a good point. I love this board and website as other than Reddit its the only active free message board to discuss UM football (basketball too but UMHoops is amazing for that), but I have to admit its kind of clunky and difficult to use compared to other forums I post in.
October 25th, 2023 at 11:04 AM ^
I get the sentiment, but personally would hate that for the sole reason that it would necessitate wading through a thousand plus comment post to find actual news as it arises. It really isn't that big of a deal to have all the posts IF you navigate board posts via the actual board page, as opposed to the front page sidebar.
October 25th, 2023 at 11:16 AM ^
But that's exactly the point. If there is actual news, post it.
But what we're getting bombed with now is not news, it's the very special, unique threads where the OP gives us HIS VERY IMPORTANT THOUGHTS AND SPECULATIONS ON THINGS, not news.
The Bacon thread is news. The other three are just posts that OPs thoughts that easily could've been made inside one of the other 100 threads discussing this.
October 25th, 2023 at 11:19 AM ^
Exactly, if there's new news, I'd like to see a new post.
If it's just people posting "here are my thoughts", then there's comments under all the previous posts they can do that in.
October 25th, 2023 at 12:02 PM ^
Maybe we need to categorize posts better then.
The blog already differentiates between diaries and message board posts. Maybe what we really want are (1) diaries, (2) message board: News, and (3) message board: HAWT takes (or something to that effect)
October 25th, 2023 at 12:29 PM ^
Great idea except the Hawt Taeke thread creators never feel their Hawt Taeke is a Hot Taeke. In fact they generally get insulted when you call the post for that as they honestly believe their VERY IMPORTANT THOUGHTS ON THINGS are unique, special and worthy of independent discussion.
What would be cool (and therefore completely impossible here) would be a system like Twitter's community notes where the masses could determine if the thread was a hawt taeke or legitimate breaking news.
October 25th, 2023 at 11:05 AM ^
I concur that it does appear to be a "sticky" situation.
October 25th, 2023 at 2:30 PM ^
Yep, this would be fantastic. Over half the front page(s) of the message board is taken up by "investigation" threads.
So yeah, OP's username checks out.