Meta: Hello: LSAClassOf2000 (MGoPoints prize inside)
Doing my best Ace impression, I'd like to welcome the first commit for the Moderator Class of 2013, long-time user and well known board statistician, LSAClassOf2000. A prolific diarist with seemingly endless uses for tables, graphs and charts of all kinds, LSA comes highly touted by three of the four services, the lone outlier, ESPN, incorrectly projected him to defensive tackle. MGoBoard is believed to be his only offer, although uncommitable offers were reported from select scarlet and grey sites.
In all seriousness, I'm excited to work with LSA and believe MGoBoard picked up a valuable addition. With Trey Burke Trey Burke'ing Sparty last night, it's been a good couple days on the site, and this is an opportunity to share any cool stories about the game, the impending postseason, anything else sports related or just generally anything cool, fun or unique. If MGoPoints are your thing, LSA will be using his newfound functionality to adjust a user's points upward an undetermined amount for an undetermined reason, so get creative if you're interested.
Did he get the points for guessing closest to the score? He guessed 59-57 M.
It's a Bolivia/returning him from Bolivia issue. My fault.
Whoa. I can only assume he's done his share of e-beejing himself.
Wait, not e-beejing himself, but he himself has been e-beejing...someone.
But how is his pad level?
My cool story from the MSU game - I went to the game with a friend and as is typical for me, I was screaming my head off at the times when I thought it might help our team (on defense, during MSU free throws etc.). There was a State fan who was by himself and sitting next to me. We (and everybody around us) were above the fray and ignored him. He was quiet as well except for muted displeasure about some of the calls. After the MSU three that brought the score to 56-54 he suddenly turned towards me and started screaming in my ear in a mocking tone. I promptly turned to him and started with 'You will always be a typical state fan, but this is Michigan - you better cut it out'. He said 'But you were shouting throughout the game' to which I replied that none of that was directed at him and that is what fans do in their attempt to influence the game in however small a way. I ended by saying that if he wanted to scream/cheer anymore he better look straight ahead or STFU. Rest assured he STFU and politely excused himself after the game.
Great get for the mod class of 2013. Love seeing a 5-star prospect go to the good guys.
I hear people in Ohio are even considering becoming mods.
He'll probably get knocked down to a 4 star. Paysites still do have to sell subscriptions.
And he just gave a guy a pony avatar. With LSA2000 a real mod now, how long before we ALL have My Little Pony avatars?
That should be a question on the non-existent prospective mod questionnaire. I'm guessing like four days to get from one end of the points list to the other.
i can forsee pony avatars being a part of any package trip to bolivia in the future.
How is that a punishme...I mean....what...umm.. yea haha that would be funny. Silly ponies. So lame.
Say, in this case a bearded, sweaty sweatshirt wearing pony in shades.
Brady Hoke's pet Viking pony
Is this because profitgoblue gave up after that one...uh...interesting thread a few days ago?
because it's not fair to him or to LSA to have 50 comments about it on here, but I will say that profit is cutting back (he even changed his signature earlier) and there wasn't any specific thread or incident that prompted it. He's been talking about it for a while now and decided that the time was right in the past few days; that's why we have this Hello: post tonight.
Like JGB said, I've been thinking about quitting for a while now and that last thread was the perfect reason to make it happen. Its pretty damn stressful and time-consuming to be a moderator. I've been doing it for over 2 years and I think (and you all probably agree) that it was time for some fresh eyes. Congrats to LSA! Good luck to him!
[Edit: And apparently I'm "trolling" with this comment. Thanks for the fitting sendoff, internets!]
Commit watch
Get a real job, hippy.
First and foremost, thanks to all for the support here - it does mean a lot to me. In celebration, I am trying to go through the thread and give everyone an across-the-board 100 point boost, so congratulations to those of you who are now empowered to create threads. Also, the beers are on me tonight - I just have to remember not to use the corporate card, that's all. Further, I promise to remain the only person with a Rainbow Dash avatar willingly, although I am not necessarily above finding avatars to give to wayward posters.
In all seriousness, it might take a bit for me to learn the ropes of the whole mod thing, but if you run across anything that needs a look, I am on Twitter, so feel free to DM me there and I will try to respond promptly (within a few hours on the outside).
Empowers a bunch of people to make threads.
Has to clean up the mess of horrible threads they make.
Job security.
well deserved promotion good sir!
You didn't guarantee someone wouldn't end up with one of the other ponies.
Muh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-HA!
We can do some practice runs if you want. Maybe someone can go make a thread full or racist political porn and you can practice nuking that?
I'm here for the modbang. Congrats!
And i prefer my rainbows.. Dashed.
Congrats! And congrats to Brian & co. for making a very good choice.
This is probably a good time to ask "WTF is your avatar?" So WTF is your avatar? Warning: I'm old and out of touch.
My avatar is indeed from the latest incarnation of "My Little Pony". It is from a Halloween-inspired episode, so it is one of the characters (Rainbow Dash) dressed in a pseudo-ninja type outfit basically.
LSAClassof2000 can give me an avatar of anything he wants, even a pony, if I win a points prize, and I'll keep the avatar until the next football season starts.
Something doesn't feel right here. Don't do it.
to upload myself, and i'm sure he won't pick something too awful. and if he does, I guess i'll just be really quiet on here until August.
May I suggest Fluttershy?
You're lucky I'm not a mod. And so is Brian.
as of this writing i'm still sans avatar and sans points bonus.
EDIT: I got the points bonus, but no avatar. I'll still honor my end of the bargain if you hit me with one, but thanks!
Us bronies moving up in the world! That's what's up!
This is me screaming about Trey Burke on college radio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKxj1Sw43fc&feature=youtu.be
Congrats! My number one choice for a mod on here.
justingoblue took offense to this.
some characteristics of highly successful moderators. Instead of 100 points may I have a little karma boost?
Because I pulled a hammy floor slapping
But that's because I thought he was already a mod.
Congrats to LSAClassof2000! I hope you don't mind if my donkey doesn't wear sparkles and bangles.
Moderate posbang me...please
I think we discussed something a little while ago about this day..
Drink
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