META: A plea to the MGoStaff (pinned CC / concussion-gate threads)
To Brian and the staff/moderators of MGoBlog... Can you PLEASE, pretty please pin one generic coaching candidate (CC:) thread to the top of the MGoBoard? When it reaches 1,000 replies, maybe you unpin and start a fresh new 2.0, 3.0, and so on? Anything to consolidate all of these threads.
Also, can we do the same for anything Hoke/Brandon/Morris/Concussion-gate related? These are starting to die down...but it's still the same mob/petition/protest folks who aren't going to ease up. Which is fine - they shouldn't. I just know many of us would appreciate if these were consolidated as well. Especially when we know more will pop up after the pressers this week.
MGoBlog is special to many of us and we enjoy discussion about all of Michigan athletics or even more than just the same 2-3 Michigan football topics. At the same time, there are some very good thoughts/threads, so I hope they don't go away entirely. Thank you for your consideration.
October 6th, 2014 at 1:26 PM ^
...for the effort. The joke sucked, but you did try really, REALLY hard...so +1
Your hard on for me is flattering.
October 6th, 2014 at 8:50 AM ^
This is an awful idea. I agree with those regarding allowing discussions to happen organically. I certainly have no onterest in reading a pinned thread with 700+ replies. What's worse is that you are masking the real issue rather than fixing the root cause.
The sideboard is too short and needs to contain more threads. Threads get burried too fast because of its narrow limit before the topic of conversation has gone "cold." This leads to the creation of duplicates, which further exacerbates the issue of burying topics on the sideboard.... and the cycle continues. Add ten more threads to the list that appears on the board and see what that does. And yes I realize the sideboard has "toggle" buttons, but unfortunately they always seem buggy to me.
October 6th, 2014 at 1:27 PM ^
...I was throwing out a number. Make it a daily thread if you want.
October 6th, 2014 at 9:37 AM ^
And I absolutely agree with your stance. But someone made this same plea (I believe Alum##, but I don't remember) this weekend. He wanted to talk about the OL. People complained "that he was adding to the complaints by making a complaints about.... threads" instead of just starting a thread. So then he started a thread about the issue, and then people pretty much jumped on him for it in that thread.
I know there are people that think "season's over, who cares; coaches are jokes, players don't care, etc" (see above post). I care. I want these players to get wins. I want these players to keep working to improve so that they are better for the next coach. I don't want to lose every game for the rest of the year. I'd like to know about actual football things instead of the same, tired, retreads with no new information, and the same ol' bitchin'. But apparently there is a very vocal group that isnn't tired of those things, and it's a group that simply wants to pile on, I assume for the sake of piling on. There's making a point, and then there's having an agenda, in my opinion. The former is applicable in this situation and for the most part has been done. The latter is annoying.
But a vocal part of the fan base doesn't want to discuss actual Michigan football, they want to discuss the concussion, coaching change, "our coaches our jokes", etc. I don't know if the mods can control it all, it's a lot to ask. In then end, it'll likely just keep me away from the board more than usual and work more on my blog in my free time. That'll be my method of actually discussing real football in the mean time.
October 6th, 2014 at 1:30 PM ^
...if I stop posting...RedGreene will get so sad.
October 6th, 2014 at 9:42 AM ^
There's that stupid "concussion-gate" term again.
October 6th, 2014 at 1:29 PM ^
...in fact, I hate when anyone puts "gate" behind anything other than Watergate. But that's what people are calling it, so I'll roll with it for the sake of clarity.