META: Since the culling . . .
Since the culling that took place shortly after the OSU game, this board has been immensely more pleasant and fun to be a part of. Getting rid of all the UNACCEPTABLES was a brilliant move! It's so refreshing to know that I can come here and actually (gasp) have a good time talking about my favorite football program! What a wonderful change!
So, I just want to say THREE CHEERS TO THE BLESSED MODS!
HIP HIP . . .
December 11th, 2017 at 4:04 PM ^
what was that joke again? It's been so long that I forgot . . . .
December 11th, 2017 at 11:45 AM ^
I have no doubt that Julian resurrected himself from the grave, but I don't see much wrong with anything he's posted in his new life. I'm sure it'll come at some point, but you can't police things based on anticipated future transgressions. The mods have a tough job - they know several new posters are going to show an ugly side, they just don't know when or where - they aren't precogs.
Or are they?
December 11th, 2017 at 12:00 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 12:35 PM ^
No corrective lenses this evening Mr. Papagiorgio?
December 11th, 2017 at 1:40 PM ^
I thought they were wraith.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:58 AM ^
"God" was another one but I think it got the axe along with Franklin-Hatchet (and was probably the same person).
We also had the rather unpleasent Wolverine Devotee Devotee account last week but it only lasted a couple posts.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:59 AM ^
EDIT - Double post
December 11th, 2017 at 11:35 AM ^
I actually think it might be even worse now, people just don't recognize the fuck tards yet. This place is becoming unreadable, IME.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:46 AM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 12:31 PM ^
Hello Franklin
December 11th, 2017 at 11:46 AM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 11:51 AM ^
MAKE IT STOP
December 11th, 2017 at 12:01 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 12:53 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 2:20 PM ^
How many football blogs have someone doing takes on Dante? (formerlyanonymous) Or Hunter Thompson? (jhackney) Remember Waters Demos and his philosophical dives? Blue Seoul and his With Pics! stuff? The front page writing is, in my opinion, better than when I first lurked, Bronxblue rocks it (along with a few others), but you're right that the vibe is somewhat different from what it was.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:30 AM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 11:33 AM ^
Maizen had some valid posts and engaged in active dialogue. His downfall was the numerous posters here bringing him up in every thread. If you ever responded to Maizen's posts, he would respond back, engaging in active dialogue.
I'm sure a good amount of posters agreed with some of his posts, unfortunately, they are not the vocal ones.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:36 AM ^
hey guys, i found him
December 11th, 2017 at 11:54 AM ^
The problem with Maizen's "active dialogue" was that he shit all over you if you didn't agree with him.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:29 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 12:48 PM ^
Why would Maizen want me hard?
That sounds awful...
December 11th, 2017 at 12:01 PM ^
No, Maizen was trolling. He posted good info at times, but his business was trolling.
Alum96 came on the board a while back, talking about how Michigan's football team wasn't cutting it. He presented a ton of data, made great arguments. I hated him at first - this is back when a lot of people were still giving Hoke a long leash - but he persisted and you had to respect his posts. That's a pretty big bar to reach, but that's how you do it.
When you post threads claiming M coaches were being out-worked for in state kids, without recognizing the ridiculously great job they did in-state in the prior two classes, while focusing on kids who have not even signed LOI's yet (or were just crystal-ball'd and not even committed), you know you have a troll. Likewise piling on after negative events.
December 11th, 2017 at 6:49 PM ^
But he was tolerable, until recently. Then dude just went off the deep end.
December 12th, 2017 at 7:33 AM ^
My problem with Maizen was not his opinions, it was that he seemed to not read the front page and engage with the arguments presented by Brian, Ace, et. al. He was so inconsolably negative that I thought he might've been depressed.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:09 PM ^
I actually miss both of those guys. I argued with Yost a few times, but nothing major. I thought he had some good posts and some that just were out there, but he gave commentary and really seemed to care about Michigan football. Same for Maizen. They both seemed passionate, but maybe they took things to far. I am kind of desensitized to that so I kind of just got a kick out of the trantrums. I guess I just laughed and moved on.
I like the angry and beligerent guys. The posters I can stand are the trolls with there silly comments that have zero to do with Michigan football. The guys who have to write dilly dilly fifteen times or other silly and immature crap that makes zero sense to me. If your passinate about Michigan football than your cool with me. I guess they went outside of the limits. I don't know. I rarely down vote anyone. I just skip to the next comment and so on.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:31 AM ^
I think there will always be troll accounts. I suspect "Big Deezy" already. The best strategy is just to ignore them and focus on trusted contributors.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:32 AM ^
He was the Nihilist Arby's of MGoBlog. I could always count on him to find the dark lining in every silver cloud.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:39 AM ^
Well we'll all be dead and completely forgotten in about 100 years and most definitely in 200 years. Name anyone from 200 years ago, You can't. Life is doesn't matter. We're all a meaningless blip. Worse than that, no one will love you in 2 generations. Do you love your great grandma? Love barely extends to people we don't know much less a few generations away.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:39 AM ^
Keanu Reeves. Boom.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:47 AM ^
Have to upvote the nihilism. No counterargument, sadly.
December 11th, 2017 at 7:45 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 12:01 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 12:01 PM ^
"Hey kid, ..."
December 11th, 2017 at 12:11 PM ^
It always blows my mind just a little to remember that 0 AD and 250 AD both seem pretty much equally ancient to us, but 250 years ago the Revolutionary War hadn't even begun yet and that is a long fucking time ago.
"Campus Martius" (as in the ancient district of Rome) means "Field of Mars", but the Campus Martius was as much a field to Julius Caesar as Queen Elizabeth I is now queen of England. Time is weird.
December 11th, 2017 at 1:34 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 8:57 AM ^
Technologically speaking, you're probably right, but there's also a huge recency bias, I'd guess. I'd also guess that culturally, a whole shit-ton of things changed between 0 AD and 250 AD that are lost to us forever.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:56 PM ^
Fuck that, my LinkedIn profile will live on forever.
December 11th, 2017 at 1:03 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 1:14 PM ^
And I did know and love my great grandma - at least one of them. I cried when she died and asked my dad why god didn't take someone else.
December 12th, 2017 at 2:05 PM ^
Awww. Well, damn. RIP Blue in Paradise's Grandma.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:37 AM ^
i thought of him as the Pessimistic Info Wars of MGoBlog.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:02 PM ^
Implying that regular Info Wars is a ray of sunshine?
GAY FROGS!
December 11th, 2017 at 12:27 PM ^
The globalists!!!!!!!!!!!
December 11th, 2017 at 12:22 PM ^
Sounds exhausting.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:35 AM ^
Tell Coach. This is sometimes very true.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:39 AM ^
The culling was nice... While I do like the different opinions and back & forth of conversations, there is a big difference between differing thoughts about how/what to do versus outright whining and complaining based on nothing more than UNACCEPTABLE feelings.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:46 AM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 12:41 PM ^