Moderator Action Sticky 2017
New offseason, new sticky, because these get cumbrously long.
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READ THIS FIRST:
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/mgoboard-faq
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What this thread is for: It's an ad-hoc way of tracking what threads and comments get removed. Mods that remove a thread should post the title here with a brief reason as to why the thread is gone.
Don't comment in this thread unless you have to: if you leave an irrelevant comment in this thread it will be deleted (see: "cumbrously long").
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Things we will moderate so hard that if we were the government you’d probably have a 1st Amendment case but we’re not so shaddup about your freedom of speech this ain’t no democracy it’s just a message board run by people who believe in democracy.
- Politics. Don’t you get enough of this everywhere else?
How moderation looks from our end. - Noise. We ask our moderators to try really hard not to censor ideas, but we do control noise. If you’re getting a substantial amount of downvotes we’ll look to see if you’re posting an unpopular opinion that you can support. If you can’t support it politely and rationally, or if you don’t acknowledge the holes in your argument, it’s noise.
- Useless content from other sites. There are a lot of sites feeding a lot of Michigan content out there, and a lot of that is good stuff. But more than ever these days a lot of it is just stuff which tries to tickle your fancy or make you mad about something. 247, WTKA always get the benefit of the doubt.
- The Drew Sharp Memorial Don’t Feed the Professional Trolls Rule. Pete Finebaum has taken the place of the late Sharp. Valenti and Chatsports are the other two on the ban list. By the time you have enough points to post an article you should know that some people make a living off of trying to get the legions of Michigan fans angry enough to click.
- Bewbs and general misogyny/objectifying of women. We tried one year of this and our female readership shot up after being really low. This means it’s a good rule: however much you enjoy cutting loose with the guys, we have tens of thousands of readers it drives away.
Hall of Stickies Past:
The first, the second, the third. the fourth. The fifth. The sixth.
Great Moments in Moderation:
- "MODS: Please activate Death Star and obliterate this post."
- He's going to Eastern Michigan
- No Assclowns.jpg
- Most. Offseason. Thng. Ever.
- Where "Snowflakes" comes from
- BiSB is THE KNOWLEDGE
- That's not how the internet works, profit. NEG!
- Bad at spam
- We lost to who?
- This is funnier if you imagine it's Hoke and DB fighting.
- On politics in general and that one really political guy.
- Seth on censorship vs. noise.
January 3rd, 2018 at 8:42 AM ^
In the past major developments like this are kept up. Now you’ve buried the major news. It’s the difference between having a headline in the news that said “mueller files charges” and one later that says “Trump impeached” At least change the other headline to RichRod fired. The parenthetical comment is cut off on mobile.
MOD REPLY: That was not the intent, of course, to bury major news - on a laptop, it appears as something that could simply be merged into the ongoing discussion. Please feel free to post it in the other thread. Apologies.
January 4th, 2018 at 8:24 AM ^
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January 9th, 2018 at 11:25 PM ^
Please do... your incessant crying is annoying.
January 8th, 2018 at 8:43 PM ^
http://mgoblog.com/users/honest-abe
http://mgoblog.com/users/danny-r-c
http://mgoblog.com/users/dolores-umbridge
http://mgoblog.com/users/fellow51
All Inman. Ban me with them if you have to. I want to help this blog. If they are all banned I won't come back. By pretending to be me, this guy has ruined my name for good on a website I like.
January 8th, 2018 at 9:18 PM ^
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January 8th, 2018 at 11:07 PM ^
mods don't like racist fucks
January 9th, 2018 at 1:14 AM ^
No they just don't like trolls that keep coming back to start shit with people
January 8th, 2018 at 11:16 PM ^
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January 9th, 2018 at 9:10 PM ^
You....might want to go and save kaz. Maybe step in like a referee stopping a boxing match due to TKO.
January 9th, 2018 at 9:12 PM ^
was about to post about that thread.
January 9th, 2018 at 9:27 PM ^
If you've forgotten ... be honest ...
Trust me, this is for your own good.
January 10th, 2018 at 10:44 AM ^
Coaching staff rumors
No offense to the OP, but we might be better served by more than a rumor and then asking for news. If there is in fact news, rest assured it will appear, possibly before it even breaks on even more influential media.
January 10th, 2018 at 8:06 PM ^
http://mgoblog.com/users/wolverineinnutcountry
Same terrible english skills. Joined right after the ban wave. Already has 184 points.
Also, if me doing this gets annoying, mods are more than welcome to ban me. Just trying to help you guys out.
January 10th, 2018 at 8:52 PM ^
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January 10th, 2018 at 9:02 PM ^
"I joined yesterday after being a reader for years."
"I'm a brand new user bro."
Not going to go back and forth with you. I'll have that opportunity when you re-join the website in two days.
January 10th, 2018 at 9:07 PM ^
January 12th, 2018 at 7:28 PM ^
How many times have you been banned, and now you're chief critic and detective of troll accounts and new users.
That's something.
January 11th, 2018 at 1:58 PM ^
ND Dad's Letter: "CAN'T WAIT FOR MICHIGAN"
Maybe someday we'll know what this thread was even about....
January 11th, 2018 at 6:04 PM ^
The board post. If you read the board and not the main page you probably saw the two free Maryland tickets thread and that'll get the same information across without repeating a main thread article on the board.
January 11th, 2018 at 6:06 PM ^
Don't post Chatsports links. They make up crap to get clicks, and it becomes dangerous for us when people share their bullshit here because then people say "I read on mgoblog that..."
Reader can make himself a new account that doesn't post Chatsports links.
January 12th, 2018 at 7:37 PM ^
I've beat this drum here before, and I'm not ashamed to do it again: The consistent use of the word "retarded" as a perjorative around here is shocking and offensive for a board supporting one of the best universities in the world, and should not be tolerated.
January 12th, 2018 at 11:31 PM ^
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January 12th, 2018 at 11:46 PM ^
As much as I bitched on Twitter and other places about this thread, there was a shit ton of collateral damage in the cleanup of this thread. Replies on both sides of the debate were removed as a result. The interface allows for a very clumsy, time-consuming cleanup and that's it - I am not opening up a few dozen tabs for targeted deletions, so entire subthreads went. I am sorry if individuals feel personally slighted as a result but the editing functionality in Drupal is a small step above GeoCities. In retrospect, I shouldn't have let it go, but the OP asked an honest question, I thought.
January 12th, 2018 at 11:57 PM ^
January 13th, 2018 at 12:35 AM ^
I understand that it looks heavy-handed, but for a rare moment, I tried to stay ahead of it too, looking for comments that may not have been by themselves too bad but which I had an intuition about, things I thought might eventually bring out some less tactful remarks. If a comment was deleted and it wasn't particularly unfortunate or offbase, it was me trying to project the board's tendencies this time.
January 13th, 2018 at 6:48 AM ^
January 13th, 2018 at 12:44 AM ^
January 13th, 2018 at 12:45 AM ^
Way, WAY OT: Who’s the jerk (re: flu shots)
I thought the OP had an honest question, and as I know there are plenty of parents on the board - myself included - I thought we'd see where this went, but after numerous attempts at cleaning up some unfortunate items on both sides of the issue, I concede that we're not at the level of nice things yet.
Hopefully, the OP got any reassurance that they needed.
January 13th, 2018 at 10:26 AM ^
Is it possible that the Freep-link ban might be re-evaluated in the future? Stretch-Gate is farther in the rearview mirror now (although I will boycott the writers involved for a lifetime), Freep now has a better writer on staff (Baumgartner) and more importantly, the Freep has been all over the Larry Nassar developments at MSU. I've had several articles show up in my inbox recently that might have been candidates for a thread, but I'm not going to knowingly post in violation of policy (whether official or unwritten policy).
January 13th, 2018 at 6:04 PM ^
Double post.
January 14th, 2018 at 3:33 PM ^
January 14th, 2018 at 10:29 PM ^
Take a look at this troll carrying on a "conversation" using 2 separate accounts.
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/knicks-sign-trey-burke#comment-4876424
This is amazingly offensive and will tend to drive away good people who might otherwise want to participate here. Mods, please do something about this.
January 15th, 2018 at 4:10 PM ^