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A couple weeks ago, I put together a google map with all of the Michigan bars I'm aware of (and also everything from the spreadsheet that bouje has been maintaining.) The map is here:

http://tinyurl.com/UMbarmap

I've posted it in a thread or two already, but I think Brian's going to pin this one - hopefully it might prevent the "where's the Michigan bar in Pittsburgh/Fresno/Topeka/wherever" threads that pop up every week.

If your favorite gameday hangout isn't on here, put it in the thread and let me know; I'll try to keep the map up to date.

To go along with the 'more informative headlines' theme, this thread will hopefully get set as a sticky.

I have made a spreadsheet listing all people selling and looking for tickets..

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Avnckx2kNv9GdGVPQXBQMDZQdFJ4RTJS...

Basketball season is here.. I've started up a new sheet in the document for basketball. Ive made the permissions open to anyone to edit, so we'll try the trust method for a while until someone abuses. Feel free to post what you are looking for or selling.

If it gets abused, I'll go back to the method of requiring someone to email me and then posting.

Why can't I start threads?

New users are not entrusted with that capability until they reach 20 points.

How do I get points?

Every time you post a comment or reply in a thread you get a point.

Wait… then why do I have negative 60?

You can't see this yet—you won't until you get to 20 points, naturally—but all posts/comments come with the ability to vote up or down on them. If you post things that are displeasing to the general populace, you will lose points as people downvote you. You get two points per upvote and minus one per downvote.

How can I avoid downvotes?

Don't be redundant. Don't use stupid nicknames like O$U. Spell things correctly. Don't post useless replies like "I agree" and whatnot.

What happens when I get huge numbers of negative points?

I get dinged and I check your profile out to see if you're pure troll or not, and ban appropriately.

What should I title my threads?

Please make your thread titles as informative as possible: "Justin Feagin" is bad. "Justin Feagin leaving the team?" is good.

How can I bold stuff, insert images, embed videos, etc?

ShockFX provided a helpful primer on basic HTML if you'd like to add some visual pop to your posts.

Why did my post get deleted/edited?

Getting personal on college athletes usually results in a deletion, and virtually always when it's a Michigan player in question. Threads that invite flaming also get deleted. Threads with misleading titles designed to scare the crap out of readers before they click will either be deleted or edited so that their titles reflect their contents.

What's the offtopic policy?

In the offseason, offtopic posts are somewhere between tolerated or encouraged. During the season it would be nice if they were kept to a minimum. What counts as on- and off- topic?

ONTOPIC

• Anything Michigan sports related
• Anything related to other Big Ten teams or upcoming opponents
• Stuff about the blog itself
• University of Michigan topics that don't relate to sports

GRAY AREA

• College sports in general
• Ann Arbor

UNWELCOME, KTHX

• Politics

OFFTOPIC

• Pro sports of any variety
• Everything else

I have another question.

Email me about it.

Quick note, in order to make the tags inactive and display the syntax, remove all ^ from the text when trying this yourself.Syntax can now be used "as is" thanks to a contributor to this post.

Images:
(Note, you can remove the [], just keep the "" for the URL)
Standard: <img src="[URL GOES HERE]"/>
Resized: <img src="[URL GOES HERE]" width="#" height="#"/>
Where width and height can be altered in two ways. One is to explicitly set the size in pixels. Use width="100px" height="100px" to resize the image to 100x100. Or, use width="50%" height="50%" to resize the image to 50% of original size.

Youtube:

Copy and paste the code from the specific youtube video page. On the right of the screen, under the user info, there is typically 2 boxes. URL and Embed. If you click in the Embed text box all the text should highlight. Just copy paste that here and it will work.
I searched "youtube embed circle" and this is the first image result:

Links:

<a href="[URL GOES HERE]">[Whatever you want the link to appear as goes here]</a>

Example: Whatever you want the link to appear as goes here

From BlueDurham on linking:

For another post of ShockFX's in a diary it would be:
http://mgoblog.com/diaries/state-recruiting#comment-125774

The comment number can be found in the address if you hit the reply button for a specific post - its the last number of the address.

To direct to a specific comment in a board [or one of Brian's articles (labeled story)], again another of ShockFX's past comments:
http://mgoblog.com/content/thumbs-new-point-system#comment-125573

To type something but not have it link or do the HTML thing bracket it with "&lt;" and "&gt;"

For example, the link to this post is:
&lt;http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/basic-html-posting&gt;
=
<http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/basic-html-posting>

More from BlueDurham:
To "Marquee" text:
<marquee>The text</marquee>

shows:
The text

You can do multiple things at once:

To put blinking small italicized text into a yellow box:
<blockquote><blink><small><i>The text</i></small></blink></blockquote>

shows:

The text

Yeah, I know, this comment is quite obnoxious with all of the stuff going on.

Yet more from BlueDurham:

arrows:
& followed by rarr; (right arrow, →), larr; (←), uarr; (↑), darr; (↓), harr; (↔), capitalize the A in the above gives you a double arrow, e.g. rArr; (⇒), and crarr; (↵).

subscript:
₂ shows up as ₂

similarly, superscript is ² shows up as ²

strike through

<strike>word</strike> gives word

Bringing it all together - something near and dear to all most of our hearts, the crucial process of fermentation is shown below:

C₆H₁₂O₆ → 2C₂H₅OH + 2CO₂