Post BBall Season Beveled Guilt-a-thon Pledge Drive Pos-bang!
Well, its been a heckuva a season, and i know that i have eaten up more than my fair share of bandwidth here. in my opinion, MGoBlog really picked up the basketball coverage this year. Ace provided pre-game analysis, post-game analysis, mid-game tweeting, and post-game giffing. Brian and Seth set the mood with poignant thought pieces, Mathlete hung around and did his thing. All the while, Brandon Brown kept that sweet sweet recruiting juice flowing and the mods kept tight reins on the whole thing.
the great thing about MGoBlog, for me at least, is that it is its own thing, its not part of a yahoo network or bleacher report or anything else. one benefit of this is that it can be whatever the editorial board, and to a lesser extent the users, want it to be. it can be a place where stats and narrative and memory and analysis and tidbits live without all the name calling, emoticons and childish behaviour of the rest of the sports internet. and all of this is given to us for free, no memberships required, nothing.
so, i have a challenge for you, fellow MGoBloggers, the first MGoBlog MGoPoints Beveled Guilt Pledge Drive. here's how it works: for the next 24 hours, you up-vote this post and i donate $0.50 for every up-vote. and just so it doesn't seem like i am hunting only for MGoPoints, a down vote will also get a $.50 donation. now, there are hundreds of thousands of visitors to the site every day and many of them are more computer savvy (aka capable of hacking voting system) than me, so i am going to cap my donation this first time around at an amount i have predetermined. based on what this number is, future donations may not be capped.
i encourage others to make the same pledge below, as well. maybe if we raise enough, we can talk a certain someone out of leaving medical school to rejoin the MGoStaff...
March 31st, 2014 at 11:23 AM ^
I regret that I have but one account to pos-bang with, as opposed to Brian who has six.
March 31st, 2014 at 11:30 AM ^
That's what she said.
March 31st, 2014 at 12:00 PM ^
I knew he was THE_KNOWLEDGE
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Yes
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March 31st, 2014 at 11:24 AM ^
I hope you pay for this.
March 31st, 2014 at 11:25 AM ^
for the bangin'
March 31st, 2014 at 11:25 AM ^
had a guilty conscience and donated to the cause, but I like this idea and will definitely use it in the future.
And one nice thing about someone accusing you of MGoPoint hoarding, I believe that upvotes to MGoBoard posts don't accumulate points. Only upvotes to responses do. Unless I'm totally using this thing wrong.
March 31st, 2014 at 11:30 AM ^
So to MGoPoint hoard, I should declare that I will donate $0.50 for every upvote this comment gets.
I think enough time has passed without any new upvotes, so I'm closing mine. $13 sent. Wait. Shit. It was supposed to be $16. I can't do math. Oh, well. I suck.
March 31st, 2014 at 11:39 AM ^
That is correct. Only the replies to the various threads can get upvoted or downvoted in such a way that the user's total is affected. The orginal post - however the votes turn out - does not in any way affect point totals, although memories of a particularly bad OP might affect the point totals of someone down the road.
March 31st, 2014 at 11:33 AM ^
Perfect timing. We're *this* close to a shark tank in the MGoLair.
March 31st, 2014 at 12:15 PM ^
....with fricking "laser" beams attached to their heads?
March 31st, 2014 at 12:26 PM ^
Depends on how football season goes.
March 31st, 2014 at 11:37 AM ^
$$$$ posbang!!
March 31st, 2014 at 11:39 AM ^
Oldest profession in the world.
March 31st, 2014 at 11:39 AM ^
I'll cap it too, but I'll try to match whatever you get.
March 31st, 2014 at 11:40 AM ^
I refuse to make the same pledge, but I will buy a T-shirt. I've worn my other Michigan shirts so much that they're starting to fall apart, get faded, etc.
March 31st, 2014 at 11:44 AM ^
March 31st, 2014 at 11:52 AM ^
I need a sweatshirt, so I will buy a sweatshirt from the MGoStore and I won't even use my coupon.
March 31st, 2014 at 11:55 AM ^
March 31st, 2014 at 12:01 PM ^
The basketball coverage has been great. "One Frame at a Time" and "Hoops Opponent Watch" are my favorites.
March 31st, 2014 at 12:13 PM ^
for the Beveled Guilt-Bang, and to send some tangible support to keep it MGoingOn. As always, this board showed its stuff during the tourney run. Great information/analysis and great postings (mostly). Well-done, MGoGang.
March 31st, 2014 at 12:34 PM ^
I've upvoted and donated $50 myself. Great job with everything.
March 31st, 2014 at 12:39 PM ^
I get "over" tough UM losses in a different way in my early 30s than I did in my youth, but I was heartbroken for Morgan/Stauskas/GRIII, etc. yesterday. Ace and Brian's posts were fantastic, and the site's coverage of all things UM (with it's refined focus on football/basketball) is as good as ever. Thanks to the whole crew.
March 31st, 2014 at 12:44 PM ^
Best $.50 someone else ever spent on my behalf!
March 31st, 2014 at 12:48 PM ^
good idea. i submitted my beveled guilt.
March 31st, 2014 at 12:53 PM ^
I don't like being sad.
1 small thing. If you have adblocker installed, you can allow ads on this website so that Brian and company get a little revenue from that.
Damnit
I will definitely donate accordingly, and encourage everyone else to show their support and appreciate by doing so, as well!