Moderator Action Sticky 2024
Hello National Champions. New sticky for a new year.
Please don't post on here unless it's for Moderator Actions because they get cumbrously long. Long threads get deleted.
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Sharing Trolls Counts as Trolling: Sometimes desperately lazy outlets hire trolls, or trolls who are good at social media build enough of a following, that they become a headache for us, spreading hate or falsehoods. Because having them repeated on our site can directly harm us, if you're on the message board you should be aware that posting something from them could get you banned. They are:
- SirYacht/Chat Sports/James Yoder - Fake news merchant who likes to make up plausible rumors or report non-sure things to get a false scoop.
- Any local Spartan media when they talk about Michigan. Unless they're yelling "MAKE PLAYS!"
- Rainer Sabin: Finebaum wannabe hired by the Freep to troll Michigan fans.
- Tony Garcia: Same deal. Sparty the Freep hired to be a troll. If he's posting news you can probably find the same from Angelique and others.
- Steve Deace: Curiously well-funded white supremacist radio host who's got such a small Michigan following you can safely assume anyone posting positively about him is Deace and ban him again. Creates lots of burner accounts to promote himself. Booted by Maven for advocating lynching.
- Barstool: People who took the freedom of young internet too seriously because really what they wanted to do the whole time was propagate bad ideas. This one's a soft ban. No beef, but we are on opposite ends of the fan vibe, so if it's being posted there it's unlikely to be welcome here and vice versa.
WHY WAS MY THREAD DELETED? Read this: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/mgoboard-faq
WHY IS MY ACCOUNT LOCKED? Read this: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/mgoboard-faq
WHAT IS THE APPEAL PROCESS? Post here (start a new account if you were banned).
WHAT IS SEA LIONING? LMGTFY: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sea-lioning
Don't comment in this thread unless you have to: If you leave an irrelevant comment in this thread it will be deleted.
Hall of Stickies Past: For those who love to get lost in the meta. The first, the second, the third. the fourth. The fifth. The sixth. The seventh. The eighth. The ninth. The tenth. The eleventh. The twelfth. The thirteenth. The fourteenth. The fifteenth.
February 16th, 2024 at 8:18 AM ^
Thank you for finally paying some attention.
Our job as mods here isn't about censorship, isn't about what "upsets" or "bothers" us, isn't about authority. To the contrary, it's about helping to maintain the MGoBoard as a vital and thriving part of the very best sports blog anywhere.
If you hadn't noticed, I made sure to state that I was considering removing a post for each time you upvoted yourself, NOT that I would do so. My statement was to serve more direct notice to you that I take my responsibilities to this community seriously. And that sometimes I'm forced to consider using slightly more unconventional tactics to achieve the goal of keeping the board an enjoyable place for the membership.
February 16th, 2024 at 8:36 AM ^
You’re welcome.
February 16th, 2024 at 9:16 AM ^
How hard does one have to "try" to not upvote themselves?
February 16th, 2024 at 1:42 PM ^
To me, self-congratulatory behavior in real life has always been rather distasteful in almost every context. I don't see why it shouldn't be the same for online behavior.
February 20th, 2024 at 2:23 PM ^
Self-upvoting is bad etiquette. I didn't think it needed to be so harshly disciplined, though. I'm more annoyed by the serial down voters. Also people who self-upvote specifically to counteract a downvote.
February 19th, 2024 at 3:26 AM ^
Locking up the Starlink - It Works thread, and heading immediately back to bed. Eff it, I ain't staying up at 3:30 am to weed out the unnecessary political sniping that heavily infiltrated the thread.
February 19th, 2024 at 8:35 AM ^
Thank you, Rob, and the other mods on this site. I really feel that you don't get the appreciation that you all deserve, especially since the job, within itself, can be a very daunting task.
Serious question: How does one become a mod? I've been a lurker since 2011 but finally created an account in 2016, however, I don't remember seeing anything in regard to a user becoming a mod or postings of this blog needing one. How did you all become one?
February 19th, 2024 at 2:14 PM ^
I volunteered to take Bry Mac's place when he stopped actively moderating. In retrospect, it was a grave mistake, but one I live with each day, and one whose consequences I don't mind all that much apparently since I am still here.
February 19th, 2024 at 9:58 AM ^
Just delete Elon is a generational genius and all his other generational political baggage will get deleted along with it
February 19th, 2024 at 1:12 PM ^
In other words, throw out the baby along with the bathwater?
No, I took a different tactic, hoping that my instincts are correct ---that the vast majority of us on the MGoBoard are intelligent and mature enough to be able to have a good discussion of starlink and the pros vs cons of Elon Musk sending up thousands of low-orbit space junk.
Devo warned us, Musk didn't listen.
https://youtu.be/Z2dcVIEQwEE?si=zt0cJq328gzWdwdD
"Well, she was walking all alone
Down the street,
in the alley
Her name was Sally
I never touched her,
she never saw it
When she was hit by
space junk
When she was smashed by
space junk
When she was killed by
space junk...
February 19th, 2024 at 5:14 PM ^
Great job Rob! Well navigated edits. It’s great to see locked threads get unlocked again instead of the conversation ending when someone feels the need to inject their political opinions.
February 19th, 2024 at 6:14 PM ^
So many upvotes for Devo. Their first couple albums are amazing.
February 19th, 2024 at 7:19 PM ^
Are we not men?
(And is that not Tom Brady on the album cover?)
February 20th, 2024 at 6:20 PM ^
It's a beautiful we live in
A sweet, romantic place.
February 20th, 2024 at 9:00 AM ^
Curious as to why my post got deleted. In what way was it offensive or "off topic". My comment literally has to do with the founder and owner of Starlink (which the post was about).
Objectively...Liberal or democrat (and I did say throw all the other crap away)....if you have your hand in starting PayPal, Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX and a boring company...it is not an unreasonable statement to make that he is a genius of his generation. There is more evidence for it than there is against it.
Furthermore, such a statement of his genius doesn't endorse him as a person or his views. Just his capabilities. Atilla the Hun was a military genius and probably a political one too of his era, but he was not an admirable person.
In goodwill, truly, it just feels like my comment was censored because someone didn't like what they brought politically to my comment...not what was inherantly in my comment.
February 20th, 2024 at 1:22 PM ^
This is the post in question, correct?
https://www.mgoblog.com/comment/245263126#comment-245263126
I don't remember the exact wording of your comment, but I do recall it was the first in a long stream of threaded comments that took XM's thread topic way off track.
I had a few MGoUsers who suggested I delete either the entire sequence that began with your comment, or even delete the entire thread. Deleting the entire post would have meant taking down a good post that did nothing to earn that fate, so that option was immediately eliminated. And (after getting more sleep and then morning coffee) I did briefly consider the first option but instead opted for "surgical removal" so that those who voiced their opposition to the injection of politics wouldn't have their posts deleted.
Yours was one of two posts in which I removed the wording and replaced it with my moderator commentary; all the other approximately two dozen or so missing posts that were removed were several posts that directly violated the "no politics" rule (and the threaded reactions to those particular comments). I don't recall your post being overtly political but it was controversial and did set off a chain reaction. So without being able to see or recall your exact words, that's why I erased it but left my comment in its place.
If anything, I might be guilty of being overly creative and spending too much time on it. I guess that's what I get for sometimes thinking outside the box. But in retrospect I believe my approach was correct.
February 20th, 2024 at 1:49 PM ^
I get it. You guys have a tough job. I appreciate all that you all do. I’d buy you a beer or a whisky if I could.
Just sad that we have come to a place where people politicize everything. If someone had said “George Soros was a top business man and a titan of industry unlike many others.” I would not immediately run to what I thought about him politically or personally. I’d be like “Yeah…he is.” Regardless of how i felt about him personally. But I guess I’m in the minority.
February 21st, 2024 at 7:16 PM ^
Rob,
Except you left up some political bath water. All my follow up posts on that post were to remove the politics.
Sure you have the right to disagree and you are the mod. You get all the power.
The challenge is I actually went through some training (officially a non partisan, non profit) on this stuff so that we can recognize it, get past it, and have conversations that bridge the divide. (Those types of conversations are not possible on the board because it requires discussions of specific issues). Nonetheless, my radar could easily be more attuned than others.
The cost of leaving it up is that it perpetuates a false truth along with mgoboard and Brian advocacy. That broad message creates a belief system that undermines the conversations people could be having (again not on here but elsewhere in their lives). And I have to get through this crap if I do outreach. Even if they changed it to “some people … and some people…”, which is more true, it still undermines the conversations good people are trying to bridge.
But you are the mod and I am by choice just an anonymous poster. If you have a DM or a Twitter (i have an account but am not active), I can send you the training details if you’re interested.
February 20th, 2024 at 1:30 PM ^
Mineral King just earned himself a 48-hr timeout, and I believe that if he's honest with himself, he'll know exactly why.
February 20th, 2024 at 2:48 PM ^
You need to upvote that post ;)
February 20th, 2024 at 3:10 PM ^
Damn, what did I miss?
February 20th, 2024 at 6:21 PM ^
MK has been a problem child for a while now.
February 20th, 2024 at 10:07 PM ^
Key word: child
February 20th, 2024 at 10:10 PM ^
Nick Sheridan hired at Alabama
... again.
February 21st, 2024 at 3:48 PM ^
Caleb Downs
Apparently unfollowed OSU on instagram. Don't know what to make of it, but this post was so bad it had to come down.
February 21st, 2024 at 5:36 PM ^
Is that what that mess was?
Also, helmet sticker? Nice!!!
February 23rd, 2024 at 9:32 AM ^
I don't know what was up with you last night so I changed your password. Email me with a good explanation to get your account back.
February 25th, 2024 at 3:39 PM ^
I get that basketball is disappointing, but this is too much, imo:
Erick All now likes his Michigan coaches
Article is good, framing by OP was bad. All left because Michigan's docs wouldn't approve a crackpot doc who had a treatment for All's back. The experimental surgery included some sort of NIL deal, but M docs we're adamant he didn't need it, and had strong reservations about All marketing it because it could lead to more surgeries on healthy young backs.
Feel like this comment by WindyCityBlue in the Ryan Field thread is rally pushing the no politics envelope.
Those Mens/Womens signs are going to be collectors items
/ducks
Braylon Edwards Saves 80 Year Old Man's Life
again
Braylon Edwards Stops Guy From Assaulting 80-Year-Old Man
When the same man is saving the same person from the same assault three times in the space of a week, it can only mean one thing:
Or ... it could mean we're again about to meet up with guess who?
Just curious. Has the blog ever considered reordering the MGoBoard posts by latest post/replies? A lot of times, super fun/active threads get buried quickly and it can be a pain to find them.
Great job, everyone. Love this place.
Might take a gander at Guy Fawkes' "contributions" to the Sherrone Moore/SoTU thread. Salvatorre's aren't much better, but stop short of straight up shitting on the no politics rules.
Came in here to make sure these got looked at.
Thanks for the heads up, 'Hanlon' and 'blanx'. I'll take a closer look when I have time later this evening, but in the meantime, the accounts of both 'Fawkes' and 'Salvatore' are suspended. At first glance, Fawkes is more likely than not to be a permanent banning.
Sal here.
I responded to someone referencing January 6th. That person too should be suspended.
Which one of your responses are you referring to? There's more than just one comment by you in the thread in which you skirt politics.
More importantly, shouldn't someone with your intelligence level be able to NOT take the bait?
It appears you're saying you responded to a comment by '1VaBlue1', Sal.
Pulleeeze...exactly WHAT in his comment are you claiming as a reason he should be suspended?
Why reference January 6th when it had no relevance to the subject being discussed? It was a blatant political reference. But what’s done is done. I am not going to protest further.
Bigger issue is I was again sent a harassing email from a board member mocking me for my suspension. This bizarre, juvenile behavior is kind of disturbing. This person can’t seem to let go of whatever grievance they have with me.
[email protected] is the email account. I suspect that this is a disguised email account so I don’t think there is anything anyone at MGoBlog can do about it. But it’s worth letting you know so you are aware of the conduct in case someone else receives weird emails.
I can't help you with that Sal. I don't know of any access that would allow me to look up anyone's MGoAccount by their email address. I'm able to see on my moderator page the email address an individual used when they created their account. Beyond that, I don't have further access.
Your account has been reinstated. My advice to you is this: tread into politics at your own risk. When you're tempted to take the bait (as you perceive it), think before you go down that road.
Understood.
March 11th, 2024 at 11:55 AM ^
FYI might want to take a peek at the Joel Klatt thread. MK is using it as a chance to spread his faith to the great unwashed.
March 11th, 2024 at 12:17 PM ^
Yeah. Probably a good idea to check out how I was responded to after watching the posted video I posted that I bellieved that our players were unique and stayed in the design that humans were made for instead of how culture makes us all selfish and how this translates to football. Good grief that you would post in here that I did anything wrong. I was accused of trying to convert people to which I responded i wasnt, I simply made an observation from a video posted through my world view. Am I not allowed the freedom to relate the two and share openly?
It's a little unbelievable that you don't understand why injecting your strong religious beliefs into conversations about football wouldn't draw the kinds of responses it regularly does.
The First Amendment protects the obnoxious proselytizers screaming at the crowd on the street on the way to the Rose Bowl.
No such protection applies in this blog. It is tiresome, self-righteous blather. I urge the moderators to act.
I screamed? Look how others reacted to me. If I had tied this metaphor of the team into a different religion would you care? I have zero self righteousness, anything Good from me, surely doesn’t come from me.
The answer is this - yes, if someone had tried to knit together a paragraph through the lens of Hindu, Buddhism, Shinto, Baha'i, and so on, it would still be removed. Please do not pull the "woe is me" card for a faith shared by just short of one-third of the world's population (last estimate, I believe). That's simply unbecoming.