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 12:38 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 12:54 PM ^
Oh I don't enjoy the product at all -- at least when I'm going for anything more than cheapest beer to drink with dinner -- but I do appreciate the catchphrase. It's weird. It's dumb. It's odd. But it has really taken off in a lot of different public sectors.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:09 AM ^
There has been a bit of a swift uptick in troll accounts. MOAR culling!
December 11th, 2017 at 11:09 AM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 11:09 AM ^
I oakland still in play?
December 11th, 2017 at 11:09 AM ^
I hate all of you. And especially YOU! Yeah, YOU!!!!
December 11th, 2017 at 11:11 AM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 11:15 AM ^
Who was culled? Banned? Sent to Bolivia? And I'm assuming there is a difference. If you go to visit Bolivia, you can still comment, but not start threads. If you get the banhammer, you are gone for good. Or at least a good while.
I haven't seen Maizen for a bit. I'm curious is the proprietors actually check on new users, to screen out those who are trying to get in after they've been banned.
I'm also curious if any mods have ever been demoted.
I had kinda assumed that after people vented with the OSU loss, there was just naturally less negativity and snark.
The thing that seems to have changed the most has been the move to using phone apps as a platform, and also twitter. I think that leads to tons of extremely short and non-informational posts. When there is a thread that is basically comprised a couple words, maybe a couple lines, and it is just made up of putdowns and snark, it gets tiresome to scroll through.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:16 AM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 11:24 AM ^
He ruined the wolverbear for me.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:38 AM ^
Bleh, never been a wolverbear fan. The best Alt-Michigan logo is easily the full wolverine:
December 11th, 2017 at 12:13 PM ^
That's my tattoo right there - could use a good re-coloring tho.
December 11th, 2017 at 1:56 PM ^
and the WolverBear. Both make for a better MGoBlog.
Go Blue!
December 11th, 2017 at 9:32 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 2:36 PM ^
I always liked this one (which the Michigan Football Guide used to use):
December 11th, 2017 at 1:13 PM ^
One of the underrated joys around here was being able to read a basketball game recap without a bunch of angry posts about coaching and veil dog-whistling about Beilein's recruiting.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:18 AM ^
It's pretty tough to check on new users. I get an e-mail anytime someone signs up for TTB, but unless their screen name is totally offensive, then it's tough to tell whether they're trolling until they start posting.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:14 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 1:19 PM ^
The thing about filtering by IP is that you can sign up in some many different ways (and people's IP addresses can change pretty frequently) that if someone wants to create an account to troll, it's hard to stop them. And in particular, the sad, bitter people who keep making said accounts are going to find ways to do so.
December 11th, 2017 at 9:43 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 11:45 AM ^
I can't say I was happy with the osu loss, but there sure were a lot of positives to take from that game. I thought for sure the game would not even be competitive, so that in itself was a pleasant surprise. I thought the team may not show up because of the QB situation. They not only showed up, but had a chance to win in the end. Of course, because of the afore mentioned problem it did not work out in the Wolverines favor.
Of course there is the wait til next year thing, but really next year things will look much different. I think you will see a lot more one sided victories, where we play two and maybe three QB's. The o-line will look a lot more cohesive and dominant and because of actually havinf a QB who can throw the ball, it will open up the run game even more. I see Higdon and Evans both going over one thousand yards or getting really close. Evans will probably get more passes thrown his way. I thought we would be moving forward with Peters at the helm, but will see with Patterson in the mix. I personally think adding Patterson gives Michigan the Best QB in the big ten. Just let that sink in for a minute, going from having the worst QB to the best in the big ten.
With the defense Michigan is going to field next year, and having at least good QB play, the sky is the limit for this team. We will see what happens in the bowl game, but I expect Michigan to roll big in this one. Do not be surprised that when the college rankings come out that Michigan is a top four team and favored to win the big ten.
December 11th, 2017 at 7:18 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 11:14 AM ^
Yeahhhhhhh, but Get back to me when there has actually been something worth complaining about that has happened in the Michigan Athletics universe. The OSU basketball game doesn't really reach the level of passion a football game does.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:16 AM ^
Well for certain posters your avatar/name is enough to be complaining about...
December 12th, 2017 at 9:04 AM ^
So is yours for those of us with severe Rich Rod flashback syndrome!
http://mgoblog.com/content/its-peanut-butter-jelly-time
Bonus: Brian kisses Bill Martin in this thread.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:57 AM ^
How many years (months?) until you regret this username?
December 11th, 2017 at 12:13 PM ^
I know it's old (ca. 2002?) but that commercial bugged the crap out of me.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:56 PM ^
Actually there's a key difference. I think I actually smiled / semi-chuckled with those waaassuuupp commercials. At least the first 50 times. Then two weeks later they became very annoying. These new ones though? Man. I know I'm old and all, but they just aren't even remotely funny. And it is so painfully obvious that someone in corporate is trying to push this catch phrase into existence. I'm guessing they skipped their focus groups. Or maybe they just need to fire their version of Lochdogg.
December 11th, 2017 at 7:35 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 11:19 AM ^
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December 11th, 2017 at 12:32 PM ^
then genuine, sincere kissing up.
December 11th, 2017 at 1:10 PM ^
Well shit. I read it as sincere kissing up, but now I'm not sure. I'm gonna be plagued with doubt the rest of the day thanks to you.
December 11th, 2017 at 1:11 PM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 11:26 AM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 11:28 AM ^
...unacceptable
December 11th, 2017 at 11:28 AM ^
But let no man be Culled before his time!
December 11th, 2017 at 11:28 AM ^
Sure seems to me like there's been a huge surge in very active new users - AKA people who were banned previously or simply like trolling the board with multiple user names. It's so freaking easy to pick them out: Franklin our faux hip, street guy commenting multiple times in EVERY thread and then creating tons of new ones or the guy with 200 points starting a thread complaining that a 100 point threshold for creating threads is too low are two that readily come to mind.
And every one of them, when outed, had really been reading the board for many, many years and just now decided to start posting....a LOT....for some reason which I think is complete bullshit. I still remember my first year here (I was a loyal Maize n Brew reader first) and I was scared to death to type anything cause everybody seemed to know everybody and there was entire insider language and protocol that took me a long time to figure out.
I know it's a ton of work to research IP addressess (and even that isnt foolproof) but man this proliferation of fake names & banned users coming back as somebody else is as bad as I've ever seen for some reason.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:31 AM ^
This. Julian comes to mind.
Still hoping i can get some sort of response as to why my account was banned. I wasn't part of the OSU post creation or player comments.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:35 AM ^
was nuked years ago. I never got an answer why, but my default setting is "offensive asshole", so it could have been any number of things.
I self-censor about 1/2 of my posts now.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:45 AM ^
Holy shit! Can I get two tickets to "The Mad Hatter: Raw and Uncensored". Bet that would be a fucking hilarious show.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:46 AM ^
I got the ol' -10,000 hammer and sent to Bolivia after an offensive joke I made. The worst part of being sent to Bolivia are the CAPTCHAs.
December 11th, 2017 at 11:48 AM ^
December 11th, 2017 at 12:51 PM ^
My first account (RIP) was banned after I told an offensive joke in an 'OT Most Offensive Joke You Know' thread.
You'd think the mods would just nuke the thread if they weren't prepared for the responses..
December 11th, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
that thread.