META: A surrender in the battle for nice things

Who posts once ever two months. You've said you'll still post, so that's good. Too many mods have quit and disappeared as a poster too (though not doing it as much when the kid comes is understandable).

Used to be the powers that be were the mods, with a couple of volunteer helpers. Now it seems like the mods do the board work and then inform them because what's going on at the site is so much bigger than it used to be. And it's their (kind hearted) goal to give everyone a say that's the problem. It's not a public place. It's a private site. Putting up with jackasses wastes everyone's time, annoys everyone, and wears out mods. People like that poster who come on twice in 9 weeks just to stir up trouble, Bolivia is a waste of time and just puts off the inevitable. Ban their ass. The site is big enough now that they're not going to bankrupt it over page hits. Not a long time, generally good contributor who has a bad post or night. But people who contribute nothing but one track venom.

Eventually Brian's going to have to weigh his sense of fair play for jackasses vs. mods and other good posters saying enough is enough. Which does he value more? Because in democracy we have to put up with morons saying what they want; but you don't have to put up with it in your own house.

The price of growth as the site expands.



Our public library used to have a room where adults could sit and read and talk and smoke while the kids sang and did kid stuff. I wish the Internet had such a place, although adult reading rooms on the Internet are a much different thing.

I guess this is the part where we play a montage of BiSB's finest moments to that one Green Day song.

Making voting that powerful is something I disagree with for 2 reasons...

1.  It creates an environment where dissenting opinion on a certain issue is going to be discouraged.  If there is a raging topic of 10 guys just whining their butts off about say out of conference scheduling and you don't agree with their position, you're going to be far less willing to jump into that topic and contribute knowing that you will most likely be downvoted within minutes.

2. There are plenty of posters on this blog with ALOT of mgo points who are lazy and immature posters.  that means they will have just as much power to down vote and handicap others as the good posters with lots of points.

Thanks for all your work BiSB. Good luck with the kid.

I thought you did an excellent job policing the masses BiSB, but as the father of a 19 month old little girl, I can say without hesitation, you will NOT have time to deal with babysitting this place once your little bundle of joy arrives.  Congratulations to you and your wife and best of luck.

so as far as mods go, I guess you were better then most. This however was dumb. 

Fuck me.

To spend time with your family, because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man....

1) Downvoters probably had their stupid posts yanked at some time or other;

2) Way to instantly increase posting quality: require a umich name/password.  Sure, some fine posters will be lost (unless there is an appeals system), but the flip side is this (which includes shit posters like yours truly). 

3) Losing the walmart faction will hurt revenues (is there any other reason that M grads embrace the WWs?), but again - this.  Today's hoi polloi are less savage (!) but more entitled than in prior epochs.  Revenues and contemptible baseness run in the same direction.

I used to read every post on the board, along with most/all of the comments.  I have nowhere near that commitment now.  I pick the topics that interest me and stick to those alone.  There's way too much nonsense on here with all the gifs and repetitive comments.

Good for you for walking away.

I have imagined what it would be like to walk away, but so far I haven't found a big enough reason.  It will happen sometime, though.

This thread is rife with one of the most common sentiments found in many e-communities:

This place was so much cooler before you got here.

Yawn

Congrats on the impending parenthood, BiSB.  But honestly, I'm glad you're no longer a mod -- now that fascism is dead and Hitler has been deposed (how did this thread go so long without this reference?), I'll be able to find out when Tool is coming to the Palace!

I've been on a few internet posting sites, and the ones that are "wide open" where anyone can post anything are THE WORST.

Making an honest effort to limit what gets posted to either something informative, attempted humor, or attempted logic--none of which include douchebaggery--is what keeps this site a cut above the rest. We don't need more threads; we already have plenty.  We need good Mods to help keep this site good.

Thanks BiSB, for your service, and I hope that whoever takes your place continues to limit the board to relevant/hilarious content only.