META: off topic etiquette?
The amount of people chiming in on OT posts to complain about OT posts is becoming absurd. Can we please place a moratorium on the complaining about complaining as well?
I don't want to play the it was better when card. Nor do I want us to have to see a heightened presence by the moderators. I just want to be able to read a thread without hearing about a hard-on, reading Magnus and the Rager go back in forth, or witness another draw in the perpetual battle between just what exactly is an adequate OT post and what is not.
love,
jdon
ps. this is my first, and hopefully last, topic I plan to start. Please forgive any format or decorum errors.
EDIT: Someone below is correct - this is a "META" thread. To answer another question asked, anyone with enough points can create such a thread if they have a question about the site. LSA
I've mentioned in other threads that my time in Bolivia helped me to understand that I am also part of the problem, so yes there is a little irony...
That said, reading all the responses here the only hope lies in us each individually refraining from acting like a child when we have such impulses. Is that easy? Not as easy as it should be.
love,
jdon
The constant back and forth lately is starting to feel a lot like the RR debates. Needless to say neither side is going to win so everyone should shut the fuck up.
Ehh, I'd vote for him
Only if he brings back the five o'clock free crack give-aways.
My generation was different. I heard about Blue Balls, but never Red Balls. Regardless, I want neither set (of balls.) I suppose this has something to do with the rash of stupid male excitement posts over which way a recruit is tending?
NSFMrs.K!!!! Blue Balls? Inappropriate!
is that anything like Prince Albert in a can?
Well you can start by not bringing a dick. That's never a welcome item.
Make it stop!
Not a complaint, but this should be META, not OT. Discussing the site is certainly on topic, IMO.
I thought only mods could make a META thread. Perhaps I'm wrong, but regardless, we should duke it out over the next 150 comments.
Why does every comment I make start with a 0 rating? That's not cool.
Come on man.
What do you mean?
Well I had a lot more than that, but the mods had to go all Gestapo on me and took them away.
What would that have to do with my points? Only mods can take those away.
Geez, a few juvenile jokes about boners and I get my account of 3 years deleted.
The mods are all a--holes. They're just internet tough-guys. I bet if I met them in person they'd think twice about docking me points!
He's admitting he's a troll.
Ban him again, please.
Love your contribution to the board, MGBM. Please continue to put the motherly smackdown wherever necessary.
is gestapo the best comparison you could come up with?
If you're going to say I'm only coming on to continue trolling, just keep banning everything.
Where is BiSB as a mod to give out those email addresses to spam sites when you need him? ;-)
There hasn't been much complaining about OT threads specifically. People are overreacting,
One thread was pulled by the mods because they didn't feel some Deadspin hit job about an ESPN sex scandal from 4 years ago was really something we want to have on the board.
Then another thread (that wasn't an OT thread) blew up when TheGhostofYost drunkenly started talking about his boner and proceeded to lose his shit when people said that wasn't cool or appropriate.
Then yet another thread (that also wasn't an OT thread), where someone didn't properly title their post, blew up thanks to TheGhostofYost's sock puppet accounts shitting all over the thread out of anger from having been banned.
Two of those threads had one thing in common.
If you think the second one blew up thanks to me, I suggest you go back and read it. There were about 14 people arguing, including yourself. In fact, you were one of the biggest contributors. Before I even commented, the debate had already been going on for almost a page, and I seem to be the handy MGoScapegoat lately.
Btw, about 75% percent of your posts have been about me lately. I suggest you let it go, because I'm not going anywhere.
That is correct. Obviously there are too many threads blowing up.
And snarked about. He's talking about permissible OT threads where someone has to be too cool for school and come in and say "this doesnt belong on a sports blog" or "why do you like that loser" mentality. If it's offensive, or serves so small a segment of the readership then chime in. But if it's just not your cup of tea, just skip it. No one cares that you don't like it. (See: "I hate the NBA/hockey/soccer/etc" or "Game of Thrones is for neeerrdddddssss."
But, my points say I am better than you. And Brian's points say he is better than everyone else! This thread is giving me a nice stroll through memory lane and a chuckle though.
Agreed. I'm starting with the man in the mirror.
I propose that the offseason be eliminated entrely. Someone petition the NCAA to allow football teams to play 42 games in the regular season, please.
That's not enough; what the heck are we supposed to do for those other 10 weeks?
Spring practice and the Spring game, dude!
Initially I thought you were proposing the blog shut down after the football season. My heart skipped a beat.