Moderator Action Sticky 2019-c.1

Submitted by Seth on December 10th, 2019 at 4:46 PM

Locked. New thread is here: https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/moderator-action-sticky-2020

Someone broke my other one. 

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WHAT IS THE APPEAL PROCESS? Post here (start a new account if you were banned).

Don't comment in this thread unless you have to: If you leave an irrelevant comment in this thread it will be deleted.

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Seth

December 13th, 2019 at 4:50 PM ^

WHY DO YOU MODERATE...

  1. Anything? Freedom of speech doesn't imbue what you say with any quality, just like the freedom to invent a machine doesn't mean everyone has to buy it, or that every market has to let you display it. MGoBlog is a business, not a public institution; people come here for a high-quality ideas market about Michigan athletics. If you put out a bad apple, it gets tossed. If you do it constantly, you lose your stand.
     
  2. Politics. Don’t you get enough of this everywhere else?
     
  3. Unpopular ideas. Moderators are given the primary instruction: DO NOT CENSOR IDEAS. But some ideas are so tiresome and retread and badly argued that they’re not worth keeping around. If you’re getting a substantial amount of downvotes we’ll look to see if you’re posting an unpopular opinion that you can support. If you can’t support it politely and rationally, or if you don’t acknowledge the holes in your argument, it’s noise. Pro tip: if you're getting frustrated in a conversation, back off for a sec, find the BEST part of the argument of the other guy, acknowledge that's a good point, and try to pick it apart.
     
  4. Content from other sites. Clickbait is annoying. 247, WTKA always get the benefit of the doubt.
     
  5. The Drew Sharp Memorial Don’t Feed the Professional Trolls Rule. Pete Finebaum has taken the place of the late Sharp. Valenti is on there too. If someone's trolling Michigan fans, don't spread it.
     
  6. The ChatSports Rule. Given: a) The only person Yoder sources is Yoder, b) the only non-bot who follows Yoder is Yoder, and c) roughly 7.53 billion humans on Earth lucky enough to not be Yoder would be appalled if anyone thought they were Yoder, we can logically assume that anyone sharing a Yoder link must be Yoder, and we'll ban Yoder again. This also goes for that twitter account that makes up fake quotes and that one podcaster with ties to white supremacists who keeps trying to get his stuff posted here.
     
  7. Bewbs and general misogyny/objectifying of women. We have tens of thousands of female Michigan fans; don't make it suck for them.

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You Only Live Twice

December 19th, 2019 at 6:08 PM ^

Can't find an option to delete my account.  Please delete it for me.

Thank you.

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Seth

December 28th, 2019 at 10:50 AM ^

Investigated and I don't think so. Account has been around over a year and seems to have a narrow focus on Ohio State "where's the proof?" stuff when it comes to cheatin'. Probably an OSU fan who's trying to pretend to be a Michigan fan, using childish name-calling--"aOSU"--while repeating standard 11W message board lines, but not necessarily trying to cause harm.

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Seth

January 1st, 2020 at 8:49 PM ^

8-4, 9-3, 9-4, 10-2

Stop posting the combination to your luggage nobody wants to go in your luggage or have a thread for your comment that could go in any snowflake thread.

And change the combination on your luggage.

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