Everyone can sit there and lecture MDOT21 for name calling, but maybe start with the person that continues to arrogantly make this topic personal over and over. This is specifically the approach that destroys this board. It's one thing to disagree on this topic, it's another when the same individual starts attacking who people are because of this topic. MDOT's language and name calling harms the culture of this board, but so does allowing this approach to be accepted over and over.
MB -you don't know a thing about me. We went to one basketball game together. That's it. You know absolutely nothing about what an irrelevant topic has done or not done to me. Collegiate sports are a minimal part of my life and my family and my business and spending my effort making people's lives better is the where my energy goes. I'm an Ignatius man. Few on this board will understand, but "Men For Others" is where i'm built and where my energy is. Exactly why I'm on here far less than I ever was because my energy is spent in areas I can make the lives of people i encounter better. Feel free to use your energy to use Cheater and try to frame people as shitty humans if they're Michigan fans. It's not a reflection of me in any regards.
I think this is a reasonable point. It has certainly gotten personal in some cases here, when it doesn't need to be.
I once was chased around all over the predecessors to this message board by C-Dubb, who absolutely insisted on turning every single thread into a "Texas is the cause of all things evil in college football" thread. Not only was he completely wrong because obviously Michigan is the cause of all things evil in college football, but it was also an absolute beating and made the entire message board a miserable place for all of us who were Texas Longhorn fans.
I think it's reasonable to ask that individuals on this board, not make everything completely miserable for other individuals on this board.
That said-- this specific thread is obviously about the alleged evils of Michigan. So, a Michigan fan that doesn't want to read about such stuff, probably shouldn't click on this thread.
And what goes along with that, is that people restrict their single-mindedly hate-filled posts to threads that are appropriate for it, so that not every single thread becomes a miserable and unreadable piece of shit.
In other words, everybody needs to grow the fuck up and act like adults, not 8 year old schoolchildren on a gotdamn playground.
Make sense? Does everyone think they can do it? Great, I knew we could.