OT: Bolivians -- This is your thread to request clemency.

I've got a response to this, LSA, that I think the MGoReadership might find interesting.

11W has gotten big, and as with all big blogs, the comment quality has gone down, and the moderation has gotten more suspect.  But I always thought that the 11W mods had a nice light touch until the last year or two.  When I was a member there -- as "M Man" -- I said so to them.  I had more "helmet stickers" than most of the regulars.  Jason Preistas (a really terrific guy) put some of my posts on the front page of the blog as content.  I've met Matt Gutridge (super nice guy) and their intern Kevin Harrish (fantasitc kid) and I know their moderator Andy Vance (the very best moderator on the site, and a wonderful person).  When I was banned, it was a very big in-house controversy among their staff.

So why was I banned?  I'd like to write a reeeallly long ("not again, Section 1!") post about that.  In a word, I was kicked out, personally and solely by Ramzy Nasrallah, who confessed to not really being a moderator but he sort of made an exception for me.  I chastized Ramzy (in one of his posts about Jameis Winston) for calling Brendan Gibbons of Michigan a "rapist" (in an earlier post).  I told him and his readers that very much unlike the FSU/Winston case (this was before the Winston attack-movie, and before Stuart Taylor's demolition of that movie), the Brendan Gibbons case was investigated by two detectives and one chief of detectives and there was never so much as a suggestion of any interference by the Michigan athleitcs/football programs.  Gibbons, you may recall, volunteered for an interview with police without a lawyer; he fully cooperated; and he agreed to take a polygraph (that police would never have administered, but they were testing him).

I actually got a suspension for posting that "offense."  The offense being an "off topic" post. That very evening, I saw Seth and Brian at the Penn State night game tailgate and laughingly told Seth, "Hey man, I think I am in the process of getting booted by Ramzy at 11W!"  Brian's response was, "Dude, we know you can write, you just need to tone it down a bit."

After the suspension time ran, and I was back on 11W, one of their regulars was joking with me in one of the Forums about getting suspended.  And, jokingly, I told him I had to be the only person in the rough-and-tumble history of 11W to have gotten suspended for a single off-topic post.  Ramzy later read that line and freaked out.  As with my first supension, Ramzy launched into an obscenity-laced tirade about "dumbfuck sandwiches," Michigan's "shitstain helmets" and penis-size.  My offense this time was "passive aggression."

Their readership loved it.

In an exit email to their whole staff, I advised that if Ramzy Nasrallah were writing for a real publication, and if he had written some copy that accused an NCAA football player of being a "rapist" (Ramzy's repeated term), and if that player had never been charged, tried or convicted of any crime, then an editor would have come to him and would have asked him to change it, and fast.  Then, the publication's general counsel would have told him, that he had to change it.  And then, if it hadn't already happened, the publisher would have fired him.  Surprisingly, that ended "M Man" at ElevenWarriors.com.  Huh.

I could go on.  Come on, you know you want me to go on!

Anyway, thanks for playing.  Cheers and sincere best wishes to Brian and Seth, and Go Blue!

Seth did that.  And I have thanked him in person for the thought.  And, I will take this space to thank him again for the thought.  I've had others tell me to fire it up. 

Truly sincere thanks to Seth.