Meta: What would you do if you won a chance to Mod for a day?
It's a thankless, but necessary position,what could you accomplish in one day of modding? Banning me is entirely ACCEPTABLE.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:19 PM ^
I would ban all viewpoints that contradict my beliefs and/or ideas and all posts that I simply do not like and/or enjoy. In other words, I would do the same thing the current moderators do . . . (I jest!)
October 18th, 2010 at 4:23 PM ^
Give everyone with greater than 500 points the ability to freely downvote.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:24 PM ^
dong punch muppets and declare Henri "unacceptable." Then I would institute a 5 million point post threshhold.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:24 PM ^
/thread
October 18th, 2010 at 4:24 PM ^
Ban all the other Mods and take over. Say hello to MGoWordToYourMother.
Id also hire the WLA.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:44 PM ^
Several from the WLA were previously "employed" as mods. Several were mods. chitown actually deleted his own account to make sure he could never mod again.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:54 PM ^
How many moderators are there in the MGoCommunity? How often do you check the site for deletable content?
October 18th, 2010 at 5:09 PM ^
There's around 10-15 with powers. Only about 5-7 of us actively moderate, the others have left over power from guest posts or baby-sitting the site during one of Brian's vacations. Of those 5-7 active, I would guess Brian, Geaux, Tim, and myself are most active.
No set schedule. We just pop in and out at convenience. Peak times of year for me, I'm actively floating through every thread ~10 hours a day. I would say I spend closer to 3-4 sessions per day just running through things, maybe combined for over an hour per day on a normal week day. Post game Saturdays and Sundays, if I'm not working for the Texans, I tend to spend more time excising ad hominem or knee jerk reactions.
October 18th, 2010 at 11:16 PM ^
No offense, but a solid 10 hours a day seems pretty insane. I hope you're being compensated.
October 19th, 2010 at 1:36 PM ^
Peak hours tend to be my own free time. It happened more when I was only taking 12 credit hours (classes only Monday and Wednesday 8a-2p). I spend close to 6-7 hours a day online and with google reader and twitter streamlining the process, I keep one monitor on mgoblog/reader/twitter, the other on ESPN360/TV. I am a content whore to an extreme.
During my "peak times," I'm on the internet/TV for 12-14 hours a day. Luckily, I'm working 2 jobs now as well as taking 16 hours to compensate for those past free times. I'm lucky to get 3-4 hours of content saturation. I've yet to even help out on CiL's for Michigan games, or even watch more than one volleyball game this season as a result.
And compensation, no. Baseball season nets me a little cash, but not enough to be taxed on. That's for content, not moderation, but that's fine with me.
October 19th, 2010 at 4:39 AM ^
Can I have powers?
October 18th, 2010 at 4:28 PM ^
Lifetime Bans:
1. Grammar nazis
2. Posters who point out there was a related post 3 weeks ago, and you should have replied to it.
3. Posters who start a post complaining about dumb/unnecessary posts(really? seriously?)
Additionally:
Anything Brian commented on would get pinned to the top.
October 19th, 2010 at 4:45 PM ^
Seriously? 'Nazis' should be capitalized.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:26 PM ^
I would change people's passwords, avatars and usernames... and really mess with people's minds. I'd probably reverse the site so the mgoboard and diaries are on the left side. I'd also reverse the color scheme, so maize is the predominant color. I'd also translate everything into Spanish. (All inadvertently.)
Yup, I'd pretty much ruin everything.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:29 PM ^
That would be a total Mind-F, I would actually have to do some work at the office if that happened.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:30 PM ^
Are you a mod from GBMW?
October 18th, 2010 at 4:41 PM ^
Unlike many things tossed around here, we do implement something similar for some trolls.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:42 PM ^
that's what it does. i thought when we clicked that it sent kathy bates over to someone's house with a sledgehammer and a typewriter. now i feel bad for doing it so often
October 18th, 2010 at 4:47 PM ^
I have a bone to pick with y'all!
- # Delay: Create a random-length delay, giving the appearance of a slow connection. (by default this happens 40% of the time)
- # White screen: Present the user with a white-screen. (by default this happens 10% of the time)
- # Wrong page: Redirect to a random URL in a predefined list. (by default this happens 0% of the time)
October 18th, 2010 at 5:20 PM ^
So this is why I keep getting that "504 Gateway Timeout" bullshit?!
I hate you...
October 19th, 2010 at 4:42 AM ^
awwwh man....that must be what's wrong with our secondary considering all the "402 tackle not found" errors.
October 19th, 2010 at 9:16 AM ^
I'm pretty sure a 402 error would result in an NCAA violation.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:32 PM ^
to delete their own thread. When news comes out, inevitably there's two to three people who post on the same topic, typically a Hello: Player X thread. I'd let the late guys to the party delete their post so they don't take up MGoBoard space with "Duplicate, Please Delete"
October 18th, 2010 at 4:33 PM ^
I've been waiting for this to happen for quite some time.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:37 PM ^
I think the reason this hasn't happened is so that trolls can get negged into oblivion for starting a commotion. That goes away when they can put it up and take it down 20 minutes later.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:31 PM ^
all of Magnus's points.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:41 PM ^
Cmon.. Magnus? Really? That dude is an absolute pollyanna... how can you wish ill upon him?
/s
But seriously, there is nothing more enjoyable than seeing Magnus get to a slow simmering boil through his threads regarding
a. Cam Gordon
b. transfers
c. armchair HCs
October 18th, 2010 at 4:47 PM ^
You forgot the Devin RS. That is his personal fucking Alamo.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:52 PM ^
Vincent Smith sucks/ MOAR Mike Cox was his personal Alamo?
October 18th, 2010 at 4:54 PM ^
Dude, he knows more than anyone. He is a coach you know.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:56 PM ^
And by the reports I'm hearing, his Powderpuff team has a real shot of competing for a championship.
October 18th, 2010 at 5:19 PM ^
" Voluptuous Vikings" on a Tear in the Pink Division.. Attribute Success to Iceleandic Training and Superior Schemes
October 20th, 2010 at 2:08 PM ^
Shoot, my Powderpuff team already won the championship by three touchdowns.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:31 PM ^
Do the exact opposite of whatever it is that Geaux Blue seems to be doing. Sooooooooooooooooo annoying...
October 18th, 2010 at 4:33 PM ^
For the longest time I didn't know he was a mod I just thought he was being sorta annoying.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:40 PM ^
I am surprised this post is still up. We should all just walk away slowly at this point.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:40 PM ^
Yeah, it's a good thing he can't read this thread, otherwise this thread could get really awkward.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:43 PM ^
I was hoping this thread wouldn't degenerate into personal insults.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:51 PM ^
I smell like Ricki Stanzis left ass cheek. There, now we can all continue.
October 18th, 2010 at 5:04 PM ^
that's not an insult. stanzi's cheek smells of america.
don't you want to smell like america? if you don't then you're obviously a terrorist.
are you a terrorist?
October 19th, 2010 at 4:53 AM ^
Glenn Beck is that you??
(lol joke ppl!! no politics)
EDIT: If I were mod for a day, I'd made that day a one-day politics free-for-all but only for that day, and things would return to normal on the next day.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:32 PM ^
I think all of his posts regardless of length should be put in the Diaries section so they don't get lost in the MGoBoard shuffle
October 18th, 2010 at 4:33 PM ^
there's a "Tom" tag on the right side of MGoBoard that does that.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:40 PM ^
That does not have all his posts and mixes in stuff he only commented on. All his posts are important and informative and I think should be put on top with the diaries
October 18th, 2010 at 4:37 PM ^
I would institute an unchangable rule that would require Tom to respond to me immediately upon my posting a recruiting question, even if I don't put his name anywhere in the post. I demand immediate answers and he should be monitoring the site 24/7 for any recruiting questions.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:33 PM ^
make myself a mod for every day.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:35 PM ^
Double secret probation.
October 18th, 2010 at 7:16 PM ^
That takes me back.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:38 PM ^
It'd be a pretty crappy prize. I'd turn it down.