Moderator Action Sticky 2018
NEW STICKY: https://www.mgoblog.com/mgoboard/moderator-action-sticky-2019
New offseason, new moderator sticky.
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 moderate a lot:
- Politics. Don’t you get enough of this everywhere else?
- Noise/snowflakes. We ask our moderators to try really hard not to censor ideas but some ideas are so tiresome and retread and badly argued that they’re not worth keeping around. 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. Clickbait is annoying. 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. Bleacher Report is off the list but still under close observation.
- 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. The seventh.
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.
- More on politics
- Seth on censorship vs. noise.
Jumbo Elliot
December 26th, 2018 at 3:03 PM ^
Hi Seth! Longtime lurker/avid blog reader who just decided to start posting finally. Thinking I've hit the 100 post mark yet to be able to start voting/creating threads/etc, but for some reason it's still not letting me do these things. Please Advise. Thanks so much for your time and efforts.
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mgowill
December 27th, 2018 at 2:15 PM ^
Blocked the account GhostofChrisler. The account history reveals an OSU or MSU troll.
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mgowill
December 27th, 2018 at 2:37 PM ^
Peach Bowl Math
Post didn't make much sense. Was an attempt at humor that fell flat.
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mgowill
December 27th, 2018 at 4:16 PM ^
Account RedGreene has been banned. Negative points and a recent posting history that's pretty bad. Three full screens of account history that look almost exactly like this.
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mgowill
December 27th, 2018 at 9:19 PM ^
Zach Gentry undecided on going pro after this season
Thread was going downhill fast. Took it down because he is currently on the roster.
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evenyoubrutus
December 27th, 2018 at 9:23 PM ^
I'm confused why that thread was removed. It linked to an article by Nick Baumgartner. It isn't a rumor from a random internet guy. That's the sort of news that people like myself come to Mgoblog for so frequently.
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mgowill
December 27th, 2018 at 9:50 PM ^
I like to come here for that too. There were comments in the thread that were disrespectful to a current player.
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JWG Wolverine
December 29th, 2018 at 1:59 PM ^
GoingGoingBlue is a new user who is spamming in the game thread.
https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/7-michigan-vs-10-florida-peach-bowl-game-thread-1200-noon-et-espn-gatorskinshoes
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JPC
December 29th, 2018 at 2:26 PM ^
Agreed. Please ban. Everyone is pissed. Nobody else is posting a thousand times in a row.
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You Only Live Twice
December 29th, 2018 at 3:24 PM ^
Tiresome jerk at the keyboard. Most any account created today is suspect.
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carolina blue
December 29th, 2018 at 3:03 PM ^
Please take a look at JOHNNAVARREISMYHERO. Seems like either a troll or just a miserable turd. The comments are personal and crushing. We don’t need that crap here.
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urbansdaddy
December 29th, 2018 at 6:37 PM ^
He’s definitely a troll but the mods are afraid to ban him for some reason
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MGoPoints: 79
YoOoBoMoLloRoHo
December 29th, 2018 at 3:41 PM ^
Frequent submitter of unhinged tirades.
https://mgoblog.com/users/turnerandblue
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mgowill
December 29th, 2018 at 11:14 PM ^
Banned after account review.
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Section 1.8
December 29th, 2018 at 10:12 PM ^
I am trying to imagine how anyone could articulate a good reason for the removal of the post titled, “In Praise of Chauncey Gardner-Johnson.”
And honestly, I haven’t come up with anything.
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Seth
December 30th, 2018 at 11:08 AM ^
I left it up yesterday but I guessed it would get locked or taken down eventually because it was inviting too many internet tough guys to flex their opinions about Michigan players who didn't play in the bowl games, and those have been turning poisonous. Don't know who took it down but I'm not that surprised.
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Section 1.8
December 30th, 2018 at 1:49 PM ^
What I’d like to say for the record, Seth, is that the post itself did NOT pose any specific attack on any Michigan player or former team member. It was an unusually well-written post that was framed almost purely in terms of respect for Gardner-Johnson’s decision to play, which I thought was an amazingly clever and thoughtful way to approach the essential question.
And let’s remember a couple of other things. The essential question is an important, pressing, highly debatable question for Michigan and all of college football; how to address the problem of players abandoning their teams in the midst of their eligibility (and scholarship grants-in-aid) and before they have entered the NFL, so as to avoid any risk of injury and preserve their perceived/presumed NFL draft value. It is precisely the kind of thing that should be debated at a forum like MGoBlog.
And it is not a subject that has been off limits. (Nor should it be.). It was “debated” (from basically one angle) by MGoBloggers when Nick Bosa left the OSU. It is debated — albeit from one side only — when various MGoBloggers comment about how they want to thank and congratulate Devin Bush, Karan Higdon, Rashan’s Gary, etc. on their contributions to Michigan football and how those players clearly and obviously made the one and only right decision to move on to “the League” without risk of injury.
Seth, your response here is a credible one, at least from your personal perspective. In previous years my response to this ill-advised and seemingly inexcusable moderation choice (not your action, I understand) would have been to re-create the deleted OP, substituting the name of Jake Butt or Chase Winovich for the deleted Chauncey Gardner-Johnson. As a test of moderation principles.
But instead I’ll just leave this response here for your benefit. In a word, if I were a moderator concerned about inappropriate comments following an excellent OP, I would delete the offending comments and not the excellent OP.
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mgowill
December 29th, 2018 at 11:03 PM ^
Well the real football team is flexing its Muscles
Not a diary and not reall board worthy
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mgowill
December 30th, 2018 at 12:01 AM ^
JOHNNAVARREISMYHERO...
Banned. I’m not even trying to really find stuff, but you need to back away from the keyboard.
Harbaugh has recruited a bunch of pussy ass players.
Also, fuck you Hudson. You have done nothing all year and you scream like a retard on the sideline.
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mgowill
December 30th, 2018 at 11:02 AM ^
I’d take Bobby Petrino
This could have been posted in the coaching snowflakes
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Seth
December 30th, 2018 at 11:06 AM ^
Curious
See guidelines for naming your posts
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MH20
December 31st, 2018 at 12:41 PM ^
https://mgoblog.com/users/goblue58
https://mgoblog.com/comment/243267557#comment-243267557:
Yep, this guy just actually told people to go kill themselves because they dared to perhaps still believe (right or wrong) that Harbaugh could still be the guy for Michigan. Talk about a mentally unstable individual.
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mgowill
December 31st, 2018 at 10:25 PM ^
Gregg Henson claiming Nordin gone, team sources refuting
Dropped post because Gregg Henson isn’t a reliable source.
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JPC
December 31st, 2018 at 10:51 PM ^
There was a really good “Washington to OSU” and “Brown to Temple” discussion going on in that thread. There was insider information as well.
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Harbaughlin
December 31st, 2018 at 11:19 PM ^
Please note my intention was never to even have that be about the Nordin thing... more about what is going on that Gregg Henson? who used to actually be a legit Michigan source and is now fighting with people on twitter and having a damn near Mental breakdown when called out by Michigan fan's that he's straight up making up stories.
The Mod who edited my post turned it into Nordin leaving post. I would have deleted it myself if we had the ability once he edited because the "fixed post" in no way what I was even asking about. Either way its probably best removed but Just FWIW I would never consider that man a legit source to post about.
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Seth
January 2nd, 2019 at 10:43 AM ^
I edited it because I wasn't interested in going another 5 rounds with Henson. I've said before why Henson info is tricky but I'll repeat it here because it goes to how to moderate threads from him. There are some former players who, like the rest of the fanbase, will get frustrated with the program and want to bitch. But they also have some access to the program and get to know things that go on in Schembechler Hall, and a few are known to blow off steam by blasting it out to an email list of media who cover Michigan. They don't bother to BCC so I can see everyone else on the "To:" line that it goes to, and Henson is one of them.
Henson will sometimes take stuff from those email blasts and run with them. He's also got no concept of grace or legit peer review, so when people question him or the context he gets crazy defensive and turns into a jackass.
The public gets so little from inside the program that context is lost when they do hear a thing. This is not about Nordin but other stories I've gotten: If a player gets into a fight with Harbaugh and leaves practice, has he left the team? If Harbaugh tells him to clean out his locker, is he off the team? Not necessarily; in fact often that stuff gets resolved. A common story is the player quits, calls his parents to say he's coming home, and the parents say "Not without a degree you're not!" I'd wager half of all college players have made up their mind to transfer at some point.
From our perspective, attacking him on the board--even if it's a user and not one of us--usually results in a long email chain (if not a public twitter fight) about sources and shit because Gregg doesn't know the difference between someone on our message board posting a thing and us posting a thing.
Sometimes it's best to just delete the thread and that was probably the right call. Other times i might edit the thread to try to add some context. In this case I got the same email with the same rumor, and since there was some truth to it (as far as I knew) I didn't want to go 9 rounds on sourcing.
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mgowill
January 1st, 2019 at 2:23 PM ^
Does anyone know the real reason Solomon transferred during the season?
Probably best to not have this discussion again.
Evolution of bowl game participation
Already a bowl game participation thread up on the board.
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mgowill
January 2nd, 2019 at 12:16 AM ^
WichitanWolverine given a week off for post in Zach Gentry to NFL thread
Bye Felicia.
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mgowill
January 3rd, 2019 at 1:31 PM ^
Washington to OSU (per Yoder)
Removed because Yoder. MGoStrength account blocked. Don't post Yoder.
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Cam
January 4th, 2019 at 11:52 AM ^
https://mgoblog.com/users/billy
This guy is a troll. Please check his posting history, particularly him calling Harbaugh a pussy.
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OysterMonkey
January 4th, 2019 at 2:37 PM ^
This guy is just dropping some casual racist epithets in a thread that is a real cess pool, like every thread here lately:
mgoblog.com/users/jgoodman
[edit: mgowill] deleted the screenshot you took of the comment as it has been removed from the board. User has been banned.
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mgowill
January 4th, 2019 at 2:37 PM ^
Account jgoodman has been banned. Dropped the N word in the Justin Fields thread. I took a screen shot before it was deleted.
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Hei2man
January 4th, 2019 at 3:19 PM ^
Poster urbansdaddy needs to go. He's only been here 1 month but take a look at his posting history. It's nothing but insults directed at other posters. Nothing substantive in any of his posts.
https://mgoblog.com/users/urbansdaddy
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mgowill
January 4th, 2019 at 4:17 PM ^
Account has been banned. Posting a message the account user in a thread on the board. I found the same and saved some screen shots.
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snarling wolverine
January 4th, 2019 at 2:44 PM ^
This guy is racking up the downvotes. For a "new" poster he's coming on pretty strong with the reflexive contrarianism.
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Hei2man
January 4th, 2019 at 3:14 PM ^
And? People really need to grow thicker skin around here. Just because it's not what people want to hear doesn't mean it's not what they need to hear sometimes.
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mgowill
January 4th, 2019 at 4:40 PM ^
This is a place for discourse. When done correctly people don’t need to be told what they should think. I think that’s where you might be a tad confused. The fact that you stated “what they need to hear” makes me think you might just be trolling.
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Hei2man
January 4th, 2019 at 6:39 PM ^
I agree it's a place for discourse, which makes it all the more confusing when people down vote something just because they don't like it and can't factually argue.
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jmblue
January 5th, 2019 at 6:53 PM ^
This guy's a Spartan troll using a pretty obviously stolen avatar...
https://mgoblog.com/users/bubba
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mgowill
January 7th, 2019 at 4:05 PM ^
Banned user TD Billy Taylor for the comment below. Deleted the comment in the thread as people were rightfully upset.
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Seth
January 7th, 2019 at 9:18 PM ^
This one too. I know I invited some vitriol with how I wrote the article but anyone hoping a guy dies for taking a better job because of football rivalry doesn't have their priorities right. Comment deleted, user sent to Bolivia.
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Seth
January 8th, 2019 at 11:19 PM ^
This Week's Michigan Podcast
Mods keep an eye out for this. Wannabe podcaster keeps pretending to be a reader to use our site for free advertising.
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East Quad
January 9th, 2019 at 4:05 PM ^
Please nuke the thread - Additional coaching rumors and consider banning Prince of Nachos.
Thanks
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East Quad
January 9th, 2019 at 4:30 PM ^
Thanks for the Nuke.
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mgowill
January 9th, 2019 at 5:36 PM ^
Tarik Black liked this tweet
Subject of the offense has been discussed a whole bunch. Probably not enough substance here to retread the whole discussion again.
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Lionsfan
January 12th, 2019 at 10:11 AM ^
Is there a particular reason the Rhonda Faehn thread was locked?
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Bando Calrissian
January 12th, 2019 at 10:16 AM ^
Honestly, I find it pretty disappointing that the thread was so quickly and inexplicably locked. Needlessly heavy-handed.
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mgowill
January 12th, 2019 at 11:48 AM ^
It was maybe premature to lock the thread. I emailed Seth after the second post came up. There was also some Twitter buzz about the same time. I locked the thread this morning because the article was released in the wee hours of the night and I was being precautionary.
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MH20
January 12th, 2019 at 2:15 PM ^
Could a mod (or Seth) turn on comments for the Northwestern preview on the front page? Looks like it was published with commenting turned off.
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mgowill
January 12th, 2019 at 2:55 PM ^
Should be open now.
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