META: Read this please.
Look, I get it. You're pissed. I'm pissed EVERYONE is pissed. Nothing is going well. Everything is horrible. We get it. But people need to calm the eff down.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING:
- Personal attacks on other posters will be treated with extreme prejudice. This goes for long-time posters as well. Call another poster something that a 3rd grader couldn't get away with, and you're going to the penalty box.
- Unnecccesarily personal attacks on players/coaches will be treated likewise. "Devin has really struggled this month" is fine. "Devin sucks" is not. Saying "fuck [Player/Coach X]" will result in an instaban.
- Posts that just whine will be deleted (see: "This offense is UNACCEPTABLE!!!!11").
- Posts that just offer an opinion on long-standing debates will be deleted (see: "I think Michigan should fire Al Borges")
- Repeat offenders will be Bolivianed through bowl season.
None of these are new rules. But consider yourselves warned: Captain Insane-o shows no mercy. Tempt the ban-hammer at your own peril.
In short: KNOCK IT OFF, or be cast upon by the wrath of the mods. We are under martial law. There is no presumption of innocence, no due process, and no First Amendment. The use of unneccesary force in the apprehension of trolls has been authorized.
November 25th, 2013 at 10:50 AM ^
November 25th, 2013 at 11:13 AM ^
just the way you are. You are special just by being you. "
-Mr. Rogers'
-Hail-Storm
November 25th, 2013 at 10:51 AM ^
November 25th, 2013 at 10:55 AM ^
What happened to the thread about who we would hire once Hoke got fired?
November 25th, 2013 at 11:04 AM ^
The thread was destroyed in order to make way for a new Hyperspace Bypass. The OP was allowed time to escape to a Vogon demolition ship - hopefully he doesn't have to listen to their poetry later.
November 25th, 2013 at 11:07 AM ^
Should I bring a towel to the Ohio St. game?
November 25th, 2013 at 12:49 PM ^
stand up or sit down as I cheer on Saturday?
November 25th, 2013 at 11:08 AM ^
Also, should I panic?
November 25th, 2013 at 11:12 AM ^
If you could hit the inifinite improbability drive at about 12:02 pm Saturday, it'd be much appreciated.
November 25th, 2013 at 11:32 AM ^
Devin Gardner walked into the School of Social Work ten minutes ago with his jacket on, but his right arm down and not in the arm sleeve.
TremendousUM - 1 hour ago - Twitter for Android Retweet of nrothschild3
November 25th, 2013 at 12:40 PM ^
Hoke says Devin Gardner, Desmond Morgan, James Ross will be fine, expected to play Saturday.
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) November 25, 2013
November 25th, 2013 at 12:43 PM ^
Must only be a boo-boo, no missing pieces.
November 25th, 2013 at 12:43 PM ^
That's good news. We really missed Ross and Morgan at the end of the Iowa game.
November 25th, 2013 at 12:43 PM ^
So this could burn Morris's redshirt in the process. FML.
November 25th, 2013 at 12:48 PM ^
Already burned.
November 25th, 2013 at 5:29 PM ^
I'm expecting him to have an owie back or something or other.
November 25th, 2013 at 6:26 PM ^
He played in the MSU game, so he can't get a medical redshirt either.
November 25th, 2013 at 7:59 PM ^
Somehow I either missed that, or recent events blocked it from my brain. Sorry about that. Carry on.
November 25th, 2013 at 10:56 AM ^
Given the new (er, old but ignored?) rules, what will be left on MGoBlog? GIF's, I would imagine. Man in banana suit GIF's.
November 25th, 2013 at 10:58 AM ^
November 25th, 2013 at 11:04 AM ^
A2_Electricboogaloo is mean. Fire BiSB. This thread sucks. The mgoboard is UNACCEPTABLE!!!!11 I think Michigan should fire all borgs.
November 25th, 2013 at 11:04 AM ^
A2_Electricboogaloo is mean. Fire BiSB. This thread sucks. The mgoboard is UNACCEPTABLE!!!!11 I think Michigan should fire all borgs.
November 25th, 2013 at 11:04 AM ^
A2_Electricboogaloo is mean. Fire BiSB. This thread sucks. The mgoboard is UNACCEPTABLE!!!!11 I think Michigan should fire all borgs.
November 25th, 2013 at 11:04 AM ^
A2_Electricboogaloo is mean. Fire BiSB. This thread sucks. The mgoboard is UNACCEPTABLE!!!!11 I think Michigan should fire all borgs.
November 25th, 2013 at 12:55 PM ^
Given the very nature of The Collective, if you fire one Borg, you DO fire them all. That's their Achilles heel. Muahahahaha!
November 25th, 2013 at 11:06 AM ^
Borges is the most wonderful offensive coach I have ever seen in college football. Words cannot express the sincere gratitude I have for the way he has taken a team I love to heights I could have never imagined. The creativity of his offense makes Michelangelo seem an ordinary man. A life time contract would not do justice to someone of his ability.
- DPRK
November 25th, 2013 at 11:07 AM ^
November 25th, 2013 at 11:09 AM ^
I'm glad I'm not a mod. But sometimes I wish I were, because there would be a lot of people to banhammer about now...
November 25th, 2013 at 12:44 PM ^
I would not be merciful.
November 25th, 2013 at 11:15 AM ^
I watched The Good Wife last night. The episode revolved around a website where people were accusing others of doing bad things. Alicia went to court to get an injunction to take down the thread. As soon as the thread was taken down, a new one popped up in it's place. The key to her winning her case was proving that the Scabbit.com moderators were employees of the website. Another interesting item from the episode is that they talked about a robo-poster, who was not an actual person. They just took comments others made and made similar comments on other sites to drive traffic to scabbit. Who do we know on this site that is like that? (see above. EDIT: I meant RDT, not Magnus)
I, of course, thought of this blog.
November 25th, 2013 at 11:15 AM ^
I heard Bolivia is warmer than the Midwest these days.
November 25th, 2013 at 11:16 AM ^
...you guys have here is a fascinating place with extremely edifying repartee among its user base. I may give it a whirl from time to time.
November 25th, 2013 at 11:45 AM ^
Translation:
"Your views are interesting and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter."
November 25th, 2013 at 11:16 AM ^
It's about damned time.
I'd like to add one additional item to the list of things that get immediate banhammering:
"MIchigan is (the usual implausible, idiotic name)'s dream job!"
November 25th, 2013 at 11:22 AM ^
As a totally implausible, idiotic hire (never played football, no coaching experience), Michigan IS my dream coaching job! C'mon Don, I thought we were cool man.
November 25th, 2013 at 11:27 AM ^
I like most Borg's, but not all.
November 25th, 2013 at 11:27 AM ^
November 25th, 2013 at 11:29 AM ^
November 25th, 2013 at 11:33 AM ^
November 25th, 2013 at 11:42 AM ^
Cumong, everybody knows he's a Breatharian.
November 25th, 2013 at 1:11 PM ^
November 25th, 2013 at 11:46 AM ^
What's with this, does the Athletic Department have you guys by the pants?
Good luck maintaining this message Saturday when half the posters are drunk and everyone is angry.
November 25th, 2013 at 12:03 PM ^
November 25th, 2013 at 12:18 PM ^
make me a sandwhich
November 25th, 2013 at 12:26 PM ^
....
really?
November 25th, 2013 at 12:28 PM ^
Gone.
In case it wasn't painfully obvious before, misogynistic cave-man crap is not a good idea.
Also, you spelled "sandwich" wrong.
November 25th, 2013 at 12:33 PM ^
Query: Is misandronist cave-woman crap permitted? If so, build me a spice rack, Snausage breath.
November 25th, 2013 at 6:41 PM ^
Denarded
November 25th, 2013 at 12:04 PM ^
I recently attacked a fellow user in a particularly idiotic way. The struggles of the teams and - much more than that - various other non-Michigan things got to me. This was very dumb, and I apologize.
I suggest people do the following: Ask yourself whether what you are posting contributes anything (humor, insight, etc.). Ask yourself whether what you are posting is obviously negative and caustic. Ask yourself whether what you are posting is not heavy-handed in its negatively but none-the-less contributes in a small way that adds to the negativity of the board - one of the tiny ripples of negativity that creates great waves of it.
It's very possible that you and others have nothing to post - and I include myself in that. The inescapable fact here is that we are a group of adults whose moods are linked to the comings and goings of 18-21 year old kids. This is fundamentally absurd, and the blog is built on that absurdity, so there is often nowhere to go but down. A very good question is whether one simply shouldn't visit the blog at all.
November 25th, 2013 at 1:11 PM ^
THIS
think before type and treat other like treats. thats the golden rule and should be the board standard