Moderator Action Sticky 2017
New offseason, new sticky, because these get cumbrously long.
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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.
Let's let the spartan boards keep track of the DISRESPEKT.
OT - Help Wanted
These GoFundMe things generally don't end well, no matter the subject. Saving the OP a lot of grief, trust me.
I just opened a thread at work and now I have to worry about being fired. Can something be done with this avatar? http://mgoblog.com/users/ralphgoblue
March 29th, 2018 at 11:27 AM ^
Another stealth spam-bot... this one in German? (Or, at least, a compromised, zero-point account):
Needs to go away... Thankfully, we're mostly a classy bunch and that drunken poster is getting appropriately neg-bombed. >>EDIT - you beat me to it, it's already gone, thx.
[Mods please delete] Profitable NCAA pools for Mgofans?
Removed by request of the OP.
Sincerely, an upset Michigan fan
To quote Monty Python, "What a stupid concept!"
That did not go well at all for the o.p.
thought about you earlier today, and hoped you didn't have an overly burdensome afternoon meeting schedule, because, well... there was quite an interesting board thread waiting for you. Having to do with the OP feelings. It was at -124 when last I checked. Logged back in to see the neg total and... it's gone...
Misogynistic troll doing his thing:
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/frozen-four-color-commentary-very-nd-heavy#…
http://mgoblog.com/users/dcinil
Sparty troll. Post history is absolutely garbage, I don't know how he's made it this far.
April 16th, 2018 at 11:21 PM ^
April 16th, 2018 at 11:29 PM ^
Here's the ed note for those who missed it in the original thread:
Somehow this turned political and personal because of a couple posters who are now on notice and have fewer points than they did before. The OP wasn't the problem, and while the first response opened up the politics conversation, the worst part was the belittling, mischaracterizing response to those with opposing viewpoints. (Yes, especially you, Brutus.) I have less and less tolerance for that BS with each passing day and accounts are going to start disappearing if it doesn't stop. Don't confuse this board for Twitter.
April 17th, 2018 at 12:47 AM ^
Have you guys ever considered adding a moderator who has relatively centrist viewpoints so it's not such a one sided team?
Not a sparty troll, a guy from other site's boards who's not yet used to this one.
-1000 points permanently
-100000 points (Bolivia) for a month.
Cleaned up thread.
April 18th, 2018 at 11:54 AM ^
mopwater
No further commentary is necessary.
April 18th, 2018 at 12:05 PM ^
Logged on just to post the same thing. His shtick was tolerable until he used a racial slur. Dude needs to be gone.
Some ugliness in the tail end of the "No additional protest..." thread.
Both of those accounts need to be banned.
April 19th, 2018 at 12:03 PM ^
Bolivia has done nothing. He should be gone
Time for this spammer to pack & move.
Michiganfootball1325 should be banned for using Fag*ot at least twice.
April 24th, 2018 at 11:40 PM ^
Yeah it happened right at the start of the game -- I made it. Sucked lol.