Moderator Action Sticky 2019

Submitted by Seth on March 9th, 2019 at 1:37 PM

Welcome to the offseason; new mod sticky. 

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WHY WAS MY THREAD DELETED? Read thishttp://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/mgoboard-faq

WHY IS MY ACCOUNT LOCKED? Read thishttp://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/mgoboard-faq

WHAT IS THE APPEAL PROCESS? Post here (start a new account if you were banned), or email David (all or our emails are our names at mgoblog.com). David will then ask "Why is this person emailing me?" and we'll be like "Just handle it" and he'll say "But how? I don't want to be the guy doing this" and I'll say "When it comes to dealing justice, trust the guy who doesn't want the job, that's what I always say," because I always say that.

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.

BIGWEENIE

July 9th, 2019 at 11:12 AM ^

I am to stupid to post a pic but have a really cool one from about 1973 or so I think people would like to see. Anyone I could send it to with some info to see if it’s ok? Thanks

Seth

July 9th, 2019 at 1:35 PM ^

Deleted a comment from user Marvin in the gun thread. Didn't get political but felt politically motivated and was extremely dickish besides. Longtime, established user dropped back to 1793 points as a warning.

Overall pretty impressed with the users in this thread. Totally expected it to become a shit show, but people stayed on topic or stayed away.

Original comment:

Your gun will no keep you safe from "home invasions," as if these ever fucking happen anyway. All your gun does is shore up your vulnerable masculinity. It's fun to own them and hold them and talk about them with other men -- "my Sig," "Love my Glock," "Can't beat my homemade blah blah blah." Listen to yourselves. Utterly pathetic. 

ppToilet

July 16th, 2019 at 11:23 AM ^

The "OT: Noose found at UM Hospital...Not actually a noose." thread is going to devolve quickly into pointless back-and-forth trollism. Would seem best to lock it before more shenanigans ensue.

 

Seth

July 19th, 2019 at 10:48 AM ^

Edited the M to play Rutgers at MSG thread. The OP misunderstood who scheduled this and how much Warde had any control over it.

Seth

July 31st, 2019 at 12:05 AM ^

New medical journal study...trans athletes

This is why I recommend NEVER posting from a political site. This was an opinion from doctors in a small-time medical journal, not a study, and their conclusion was to get rid of gender separation in sports. The OP represented it as a study, and piled on with "Powerfully" in the title.

As expected, Immediately became a one-sided political shit show, with a few truly vile transphobes who started accounts tonight to egg it on. Not worth cleaning up. Banning the worst offenders. OP loses posting priveleges.

Smells.Like.Victory

August 2nd, 2019 at 7:21 AM ^

https://mgoblog.com/users/ezekiels-creatures

Read the Mineral King diary post for more backstory but this guy will continue to post Milton needs to transfer (or others) moving forwards. I can't link to older posts because you can't see back past 7/26

https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/2021-qb-jj-mccarthy-state-champioship-game…

8/01/2019  My thoughts? Joe Milton needs to transfer out before McCarthy gets here.

One from the Spring 

https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/early-enrollees-numbers-few-changes#commen…

"Joe Milton having to give up his #3 to Christian Turner may not mean as much as Joe Milton will be transferring. But it does show that Joe Milton is not as important to the program as some think he is. And it also may be showing that Christian Turner may be more important to the program than some think he is. But maybe I'm reading too much into it. Maybe I'm not."
 

Seth

August 3rd, 2019 at 10:31 AM ^

Looks like someone got to it. Long story short is we've been under assault lately from some Trumpian online group. Most of it's this kind of trolling; they've also been spamming my work email address. It seems their primary goal is to fire up other conservatives on the board to get them to cross the line, get kicked off, then feel like they're being victimized for their politics, and maybe get some liberals to do the same. Nothing has been a major threat yet and we're usually able to catch the activity within a few hours.

I'mTheStig

August 3rd, 2019 at 8:10 PM ^

Listen, this is a fully emotional intelligent disclaimer on my part... my posts don't always meet board standards and I've been known to use salty language directly at someone (partially because I hate stupid people and have no patience for them but I digress).  

I'm also of the opinion that free speech means sometimes someone will get offended and they need to get over it -- so I've never made a mod post before.

But check out:

https://mgoblog.com/comment/243462907#comment-243462907

you're still a penis breath ass clown 

and

Quite [sic] being part of the problem, just because you dont [sic] want to admit you love the dick.

"Penis-breath"? Is this clown 10 years old?

redwhiteandMGOBLUE

August 7th, 2019 at 8:19 AM ^

Total political, off the rails comment in the Excursion trip thread

The US President has literally raped women and children, Under his "leadership" we now have children dying in US-run concentration camps.

I've been to Dachau and Treblinka and saw the cruelty of nazi concentration/labor camps.

There is no reason for this poster to bring this clearly political comment to the board. 

Seth

August 7th, 2019 at 11:16 AM ^

Took down the thread. The first sentence was enough to violate 'no politics'. You're doing the same by trying to argue the definition of a concentration camp here. If you'd like to email me to chat about it, this is an issue I'm pretty well versed in--studied it at Michigan, it's the history of my family, and I serve on the board of the organization that speaks for Jews of Metropolitan Detroit, where we've recently had experts come to speak on the nuances of this exact argument.

Seth

August 7th, 2019 at 11:44 PM ^

Short version is the AJC is against interring civilians in camps against their will and without a trial, whatever you call the camps. Personally, I think that the word is being used correctly in a technical sense, but that the connotation is there intentionally, and that's not a good look. Like with the Harbaugh thing last month: heart's in the right place, idea's something worth being voiced, but we also know what you're trying to infer even though you're not inferring it, and stop it.

mich_wolv95

August 8th, 2019 at 6:31 PM ^

It's taken like six messages to sniff out Maizen this time. 

https://mgoblog.com/users/lfgblue

I'm guessing he'll show up here soon to defend himself, claim that he's aware of the mod sticky post because he's been a long-time lurker who just created an account, will say it's a shame that we can't handle other people's opinions, but that it's the "mgoway."