Vote: Should we temporarily lock all non-Xavier threads?

[mu_hilltopper]

Today's freak out over a few sentences from Buzz not professing his complete devotion to MU spawns this question.

Naturally, we are hesitant to lock any legit thread. 

How about a pause?  Lock all these coaching threads until after the game?

Just looking for some input.

[MerrittsMustache]

Could we temporarily lock only the "Buzz is leaving!"-type threads?

[lab_warrior]

Yes, and absolutely.

[Blackhat]

If it's still like this on thursday, then I would lock all buzz job posts for a couple days.

[MURFC]

Today's freak out over a few sentences from Buzz not professing his complete devotion to MU spawns this question.

Naturally, we are hesitant to lock any legit thread. 

How about a pause?  Lock all these coaching threads until after the game?

Just looking for some input.

Too many trolls and jerkoffs, please at least lock the Buzz leaving related threads.  They are so annoying.  I wish I had the self control to not read them.

[kryza]

All discussion should be welcome, but it is getting kind of old around here.

How about moving the Buzz threads to a new forum called "Rumors" or something like that?

[BM1090]

Just lock the ones about Buzz please

[PVMagic]

Also very confused.  Did I miss Buzz saying something?  Or anything other then speculation and a few twitters from writers that they think he'd be a good fit?

[MUBurrow]

Hate to say it - but I have to vote no. I've resisted the urge to actually post on these threads, for the same reasons that we are now discussing locking them. But for better or worse we are who we are as the MU community. This one day upheaval has made me look back on how we as MU fans would look from the outside and even if I dont always like it, I think locking threads and trying to tailor that is more us wishing the discourse were different than it organically is.

[Skitch]

I say let them go for now and maybe once the games tip off on Thursday until we are eliminated (or cut down the nets  )  then its open season.

[muarmy81]

Yes

[Hards Alumni]

My suggestion is to not lock them, but instead to merge them into one super thread.

Limiting speech isn't necessary, but we also don't need a forum that is a mess with 10-15 topics talking about the same damn thing.

[GGGG]

Absolutely not.  People can ignore them if they wish.  Terrible precedent.

Furthermore, what exactly do people want to talk about re: Friday's game?  The keys to victory?  We have a thread on that...  Who's going to be there?  We have a thread on that...

And then what exactly?  I love when the people who bitch about wanting to talk about the game never seem to talk about the game.  Seriously, I have never seen a discussion board so obsessed about what is a "legitimate" topic or not.  The rumors around Buzz leaving is a legitimate MU basketball topic.

[Hards Alumni]

Absolutely not.  People can ignore them if they wish.  Terrible precedent.

Furthermore, what exactly do people want to talk about re: Friday's game?  The keys to victory?  We have a thread on that...  Who's going to be there?  We have a thread on that...

And then what exactly?  I love when the people who bitch about wanting to talk about the game never seem to talk about the game.  Seriously, I have never seen a discussion board so obsessed about what is a "legitimate" topic or not.  The rumors around Buzz leaving is a legitimate MU basketball topic.

Is it 10-15 legitimate topics though?

Thats the real point here.  Not that its being discussed... but that it floods the board.

I love our mods, but sometimes I think they let some things just overwhelm the board.

The "New Topic" button should be used a little less liberally by our posters.

[GGGG]

Hards, I can agree with that.  I don't care if the mods "merge" the topics.  However that wasn't the poll question.

[mu_hilltopper]

I love our mods, but sometimes I think they let some things just overwhelm the board.

We do .. mainly because it's just a mess when you merge two long threads together, or two rapidly growing threads.   If you can nip one in the bud with 2-3 messages and merge it with a "main" thread, you're good.  Otherwise, it's just a mess, and ruins the "good" thread.

The "New Topic" button should be used a little WAY WAY WAY less liberally by our posters.

Fixed.



.. As for the poll .. sigh.  Can't please all of the people all of the time.

[Hards Alumni]

We do .. mainly because it's just a mess when you merge two long threads together, or two rapidly growing threads.   If you can nip one in the bud with 2-3 messages and merge it with a "main" thread, you're good.  Otherwise, it's just a mess, and ruins the "good" thread.


Fixed.



.. As for the poll .. sigh.  Can't please all of the people all of the time.

I understand that it sort of ruins the continuity of the threads when you combine them... but my opinion is 'oh well'.

[rocky_warrior]

The "New Topic" button should be used a little less liberally by our posters.

I hate pluses, but +1977

[mu_hilltopper]

I understand that it sort of ruins the continuity of the threads when you combine them... but my opinion is 'oh well'.

Right .. but, I'd rather ruin the thread of the nit-wit who started his own thread, than the 'good' thread.  Baby, bathwater.

[reinko]

Hards, I can agree with that.  I don't care if the mods "merge" the topics.  However that wasn't the poll question.

So you are telling me, I shouldn't create a new thread claiming you are know-it-all-jaghole?  


I just kiddddddding.

[NCMUFan]

So what is it?  65% say stop the BS. That's pretty much 2 to 1.

[jaybilaswho?]

no... lock all the threads about open jobs and anything speculating Buzz Williams and moving vans.

[Milkshakes]

I am clearly in the minority here. However, I think it would be a mistake to block these posts. I am not saying I like them. I don't. This is a site for fans to talk about what is the hot topic. If that topic is rumors and speculation and not the tournament I think that sucks. However, I don't think it is a reason to go all Big Brother.  If you do now and then maybe on some other bothersome topic or two the site becomes less relevant.

[garekis]

I voted for locking the threads. Or better yet, if feasible, move the threads to The Superbar or elsewhere. I agree that the rumors are note- and news-worthy, but this has gotten excessive and made the board virtually unreadable. I had a Xavier friend email me:

"Went to Marq's musccop (sic) forum this morning hoping to find analysis and interesting tidbits on your squad. I'll never get that 5 minutes back. Never read so much handwringing . . . and I used to be a longtime poster on a Cinci Bearcat forum. Do you people know you have a NCAA tournament game on Friday? Hopefully your team is as distracted by the talking heads as your fans. You people are a joke - and that's coming from an X fan.  If anyone knows the paranoia that can arise from the coaching carousel, trust me, it's us."

[Skatastrophy]

I am clearly in the minority here. However, I think it would be a mistake to block these posts. I am not saying I like them. I don't. This is a site for fans to talk about what is the hot topic. If that topic is rumors and speculation and not the tournament I think that sucks. However, I don't think it is a reason to go all Big Brother.  If you do now and then maybe on some other bothersome topic or two the site becomes less relevant.

I agree somewhat.

I think that the problem is that the madness has generated 15 new threads instead of containing itself to 1 or 2 threads of coherent discussion.  It's spamming the biggest basketball game of the year off of the forums and is the reason that I didn't check the forums most of the day yesterday.

We can't ask the mods to spend all day on the forums trying to merge new topics before they blow up, so the only other course of action is to temporarily lock some of the threads.  Maybe leave two or three of the bigger better discussions on the topic so that it's still being discussed for those that are interested and lock the rest (including new ones)?