Moderator Action Sticky 2023

Submitted by Seth on January 15th, 2023 at 5:11 PM

[THIS STICKY IS CLOSED. NEW ONE FOR 2024 HERE]

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Sharing Trolls Counts as Trolling: Sometimes desperately lazy outlets hire trolls, or trolls who are good at social media build enough of a following, that they become a headache for us, spreading hate or falsehoods. Because having them repeated on our site can directly harm us, if you're on the message board you should be aware that posting something from them could get you banned. They are:

  • SirYacht/Chat Sports/James Yoder - Fake news merchant who likes to make up plausible rumors or report non-sure things to get a false scoop.
  • Any local Spartan media when they talk about Michigan. Unless they're yelling "MAKE PLAYS!"
  • Rainer Sabin: Finebaum wannabe hired by the Freep to troll Michigan fans.
  • Tony Garcia: Same deal. Sparty the Freep hired to be a troll.
  • Steve Deace: Curiously well-funded white supremacist radio host who's got such a small Michigan following you can safely assume anyone posting positively about him is Deace and ban him again. Creates lots of burner accounts to promote himself. Recently booted by Maven for advocating lynching.
  • Barstool: People who took the freedom of young internet too seriously because really what they wanted to do the whole time was propagate bad ideas.

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Seth

January 15th, 2023 at 5:53 PM ^

GENERAL TIPS FOR SUCCESSFULLY POSTING ON MGOBLOG

  1. Act like you're at an alumni association event. You know how to act at an alumni club event. It's a mostly relaxed atmosphere of people with the same interests, but also a public one. There are strangers around. What you say might come back at you. People are dressed, and not here to hear about what people look like when undressed. You get the idea.
     
  2. When arguing, argue the BEST parts of the other argument first. If you're getting frustrated in a conversation, back off for a sec, acknowledge what's a good point, and then try to pick that apart first.  
     
  3. Be useful. If you're posting something, do we need it or do you need to share it? Those are different questions. It's always appreciated when you put in the extra time to provide examples, link where you got information from, etc. If you're sharing news, check it hasn't been posted recently, provide sourcing, and try to save your own comments for the comments section. If you're saying something people have already heard, maybe they don't need to hear it again (says the parent).
     
  4. Don't fight a mod or a writer. Not only are you probably wrong, but even if you're right I probably need them WAY more than you.

WHY DO WE MODERATE...

  1. Politics. Don’t you get enough of this everywhere else? NOTE: Writers (not mods) can get away with politics because you have the option of punishing us for it by not supporting the site. We have this rule so readers don't set each other off, because we don't want you leaving for something some message boarder said. If you leave for something we said, that went into the calculation of saying it.
     
  2. Freedom of speech. The freedom to say a thing doesn't imbue what you say with any quality, just like the freedom to invent a machine doesn't mean every store has to carry 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.
     
  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.
     
  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. Yoder. 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.

COMMON WAYS TO GET BANNED

  • Thinking because someone wasn't moderated (yet) that the rules no longer apply.
  • Creating a problem for us, e.g. if you post false information that the greater internet subsequently picks up and says they "read on MGoBlog."
  • Creating a thread that is embarrassing for us.
  • Going off on current and former MGoBlog employees.
  • Posting a conspiracy theory, e.g. anti-vax shit. Same reason as politics in general.
  • If I can tell that you're Maizen.

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BoFan

January 17th, 2023 at 1:04 PM ^

The title in”The Don expects equal carries” miss characterizes Edward’s actual comments in the article and should be changed.  The title makes it like Edward’s is demanding it on Twitter.  That was my and others first reaction.  He seems more deferential in the article. Its more like he thinks the coaches will have a plan for him to have equal carries.  He also talks about wear and tear on RBs. 

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rob f

January 19th, 2023 at 12:40 PM ^

What is lacking in M football culture?

With it having 60+ negvotes already, I shall be merciful to the OP and delete his thread.

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Seth

January 29th, 2023 at 12:06 PM ^

Freep Goes After UM/Manuel/Harbaugh

Adding Tony Garcia to the list of noncredible reporters who only exist to troll Michigan fans. Please don't share their shit here. Update: other mod informed me poster was on watch for trolling so he's gone.

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Seth

February 1st, 2023 at 3:19 PM ^

Is Josh Gattis returning to Michigan?

His evidence...I kid you not...was someone made an edit on Wikipedia.

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Seth

February 1st, 2023 at 9:40 PM ^

Would be Michigan Coach Killer to call plays for would be Michigan coach 

This is about Nathan Scheelhause becoming OC at ISU. Yech.

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rob f

February 3rd, 2023 at 11:45 PM ^

Chinese Communist Party Balloon - threat or not? doesn't belong on the MGoBoard.  Take it to the twitters, parler, fauxtruth social, myspace, wherever you wish to hang out and inject political nonsense to troll others.

Two week timeout for WhatchooTalkinBoutWillis.  ​​​​​Seeing plenty of evidence in the thread of intent to troll the board.

(edit: I did feel compelled, however, to save one YouTube video from the thread.  Enjoy!)

 

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rob f

February 4th, 2023 at 1:32 AM ^

No problem, no interruption.  I was watching the 3rd period and overtime of WMU@Minnesota Duluth hockey when I saw the thread title and began to comb thru it. 

And the "99 Luft Balloons" song? MGoUser Blue@LSU gets the credit for posting it in the balloon thread; I was just fascinated to listen to it while for the first time reading the English translation of Nena's lyrics, lyrics which were almost prophetic in the context of current events.

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Seth

February 5th, 2023 at 1:15 PM ^

Weiss and Helow

Don't need a thread for this. Skedgemopoint should know better, loses ability to create posts for awhile.

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rob f

February 8th, 2023 at 8:16 AM ^

Sparty on ESPN and all the OP mentions in the post is silly foam sparty hats he wanted us to see.

Do better.

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TruBluMich

February 13th, 2023 at 11:22 PM ^

The misinformation and wild rumors need to be cleaned up just as soon as they are found to be bullshit. Far as I'm concerned the politics can stay, even if I personally disagree with the majority, opinions matter and allowing people to vent right now is ok. 

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rob f

February 14th, 2023 at 12:33 AM ^

Copying and temporarily pasting here what user Switch26 posted:

This killer keeps calling into 911 saying there is an active shooter in multiple areas then the cops are saying there is literally no one here shooting at all nothing.. then he calls in 5 minutes later to a new location.. he's actively "swatting".. someone found a screenshot of the killer on facebook and said hope you msu chuds are ready to die tonight, millions need to pay or something like that. i have the pic on my phone. Lynn Dee Walker is the apparent poster/killer

...and I'll remove it once I finish looking at his posting history.   His account temporarily locked pending inspection; that post being deleted and responses directly below said post automatically fall off the board.

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rob f

February 14th, 2023 at 12:21 AM ^

Z1ppz account is temporarily suspended pending further examination, a quick look at his posting history (beyond the MSU active shooter thread) seems to indicate he has a strong tendency to troll the board.

I'll give his account a more thorough inspection later to determine whether to permanently ban.

Will look now at others... 

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rob f

February 14th, 2023 at 1:58 AM ^

It's almost 2am, so I'm locking the thread. I'll consider unlocking it in the morning after coffee and after completing a full inspection.

Temporarily locking the account of MaizeBlue2323. He's been tossing a lot of what I consider petty arguments in the direction of anyone & everyone who he disagrees with; while it might not necessarily considered "trolling", the net effect is essentially the same.  Full inspection of his posting history will be done in the morning.

 

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Hab

February 15th, 2023 at 3:03 PM ^

It was only an ambiguous title!  I'm sure the OP meant it to read like, Prosser on Torts, or Wigmore on Evidence.  Barrett on Staff has a nice, authoritative sound to it.  The guy does everything, afterall!  ;)

 

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Seth

February 20th, 2023 at 10:06 AM ^

Why was Hauser's leg extension into Jett's landing zone [causing injury] not called technical foul?

Because it looked like an accident. Don't do this.

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LSAClassOf2000

February 21st, 2023 at 10:23 PM ^

Nate Oats

If you want to post the story, feel free, but I don't think we need to start with the commentary necessarily. Provide something to read first, then make the comment in the OP, then let the thread degrade from there. Fairly standard stuff. 

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