We are on commit watch.

Submitted by awful waffle on

Per Sam Webb on Twitter. Shaun Crawford? Brian Cole? Damien Harris?

"More big #Michigan commit news on the way. Domino falls as predicted. Stay tuned"

Mercury Hayes

July 29th, 2013 at 1:27 PM ^

Just had my first MgoBlog comment removed. Not sure why. I don't post here a lot but frequent other boards. I definitely did not say anything innapropriate or violate any terms of service this site may have. My joke was cheesy but is that a crime?

Just curious why stuff like that is removed. Isn't this an open community?

LB

July 29th, 2013 at 3:29 PM ^

I thought is was funny. You need to give it some time, people will hate it and downvote, people will love it and upvote, people will ignore it.

Since you questioned what happened, I am going to offer up a couple of points of advice. 1 - thicker skin, find some 2 - seldom does anything good come from talking about points.

justingoblue

July 29th, 2013 at 7:31 PM ^

assuming you mean your comment in this thread (this one) it was downvoted, not removed. You can change your preferences to display comments at certain thresholds at the top of any thread. If  you set the threshold to -1 you won't see any posts as greyed out. Right now it's sitting at +2, so I'm guessing the solution would have just been to "wait it out" and watch the score rise. You can display greyed out comments by clicking on them.

The policy (not the policy, but the one LSA and I have adopted) for deleting comments has quite a high threshold, even most remarks that get a poster sent to Bolivia don't get deleted in order to leave a record of each action. The vast majority of deleted comments have a) some kind of slur that we just don't want anywhere on the site or b) someone's personal information being outed or c) are getting a ton of replies that violate board rules, such as someone making a comment about the president that gets a bunch of political responses.

saveferris

July 29th, 2013 at 2:00 PM ^

Nope if just hides them if your threshold setting isn't set to view comments in the <2 range.  Go through the drop down menus at the top of the comments section and change the minimum threshold to "-1" and you'll see all the stuff that got downvoted.