Jumping the Shark: Why the MGoBoard is Unreadable

Submitted by CooperLily21 on

Everyone has their own special moments.  You know, the moment the light bulb goes on and you say to yourself:  "Self, the Board is absolutely unreadable now."

My special moment occurred yesterday morning when I just couldn't stop myself from checking the Board (dumb, I know).  My instant reaction?

 

YEEEEEHAW!  Doom, death, despair, Ignorance, insults, opinions galore! 

(I know, I know.  Cool story bro.  But I'm getting there.)

Tell me, MGoPeoples, when was your "Jump the Shark" moment?  Did it happen back during the post-Carr coaching search days?  The Fire Rodriguez days?  The Fire Borges days?  After Akron?  After UConn?  After Penn State?  This weekend?

 

Disclaimer:  This is not to say that we will never visit the board.  Its simply an open discussion so people can see why some regulars stop visiting the Board and adjust accordingly.  And for those of you that say "Good, stop reading. You're a douche bag anyway," I say "Fine, I will!"

 

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Mgodiscgolfer

November 4th, 2013 at 6:59 PM ^

once that a banned hammer could land on my head via Email. I deserved it after carefully thinking out why I was warned and had no problem with it. One time though I made a comment(what I thought was a carefully thought out comment) and His Dudeness came down from all high asking me "If I were drunk this early in the day or am I really that stupid". It cut me to the bone, I did not respond for fear I may have said something that he would not have liked either. So I did not come to this blog for quite a while after. So I personally feel that people attacking other people for their opinions is more damaging than anything Brian may do.

Joined: 01/13/2011

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Reader71

November 4th, 2013 at 8:49 PM ^

Two spots that I think might have been turning points. Brian's "Profiles in Cronyism" post on Hoke. I don't blame him for being skeptical. Hoke was an unproven commodity for sure. But there has always been a lot of love for him from guys in the program. Why were we so untrusting of the guys who actually wore the helmets? Is it just because we were tired of Lloyd by the end of his tenure? I think that's the likely reason, but that shouldn't lead to personal attacks and the belittling of one non-Lloyd Carr person's career. The second time was post-PSU, when the mods wanted a lockdown. Brian said, "Tonight is for anarchy." I could be wrong, but I don't think such a thing would have been done after an unfortunate loss by a Coach Rod team. Even if not, it was a misstep. The tacit support of the Fire Borges brigade has emboldened people to make really stupid posts. I've been a huge Borges supporter. I've also said that firing him would be OK, so long as there a good reason. No one has presented a thoroughly convincing one that doesn't just state, "I want better results."

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ca_prophet

November 4th, 2013 at 9:45 PM ^

and stay away from anything other than front page content for the most part. I think most of the user content has gone downhill since user moderation was broken. Since our worst fears about the OLine were realized, I'm basically just reading front page content. The rest is so full of "Fire someone - anyone - to make it stop!" posts that I can't be bothered to find the sanity if it's in there. (I believe firing coaches will make things worse, and if It weren't "my" team too, I would revel in the resulting schadenfreude when our team got even worse after such a firing.)

Joined: 09/07/2010

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Stuck in Ohio 2

November 4th, 2013 at 10:49 PM ^

I've been a lifelong fan, reader of Mgoblog awhile, and decided to join the boards sometime during the RR years. I know I don't have thousands of post so if you're the type of person who sees that as validation, you can stop reading.

The concept of hiding posts with a downvote is good in theory, but the execution is the terrible. People hide quality, thought out posts simply because they don't agree.

The refusal of talking about RR is ridiculous. The man busted ass for this school, he deserves to be mentioned - and like him or not, he's part of the team's tradition. If we can't talk about RR, then we can't talk about Bo. Frankly, I wouldnt mind seeing him come into the Big House and hang 50 pts on us.

Roll Damn Tide left...Did people actually think he was a Bama fan?

TomVH left.

 

 

 

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MGoBrewMom

November 7th, 2013 at 12:11 PM ^

because I jumped the shark, and only check in every couple of days.  I missed this thread until now.  But I want to comment because I did have a defining "moment" that drove me away.

I jumped after being accused of picking on a HS kid.  I felt that the direct criticism of me, being called out by Brian was unfair first of all.  He was prickish about it.  Then mob mentality, that inaccurately charactorized my comments and me took over and that is what made me not want to play anymore.  So, as of a few weeks ago, the ap is off my phone; I check in periodically, but not constantly like I used to.  I am just not taking this board seriously, as I used to.  I can still find great information-I love the posts on the main page from Brian and crew informative and entertaining.  But the forum and ignorant responses from many of the posters are nearly unreadable.  Very mean, knee jerky, know it all-ish from dudes who are just fans.  Sprinkled in are posts from people I actually enjoy, but its not worth the mounds of idiots. 

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