Mods censor everyone else’s posts, why not Mac.
For the record, while I rarely agree with his shock jock headlines and hit piece articles, but don’t think anyone should be censored here, Mac included.
Need clarification.
Would we still be able to ridicule?
Heck, would it even be in context to ridicule at that point.
FOR EXAMPLE:
If there is no article and someone posts, "hey, muck, hows your wife with my kid", would it work as well as if there was an article?
My problem with Mac isn't that he is biased against TCU. My problem with Mac is that he is a lazy and untalented writer.
Hey, Gil LeBreton posts PressBox DFW articles himself. As a bonus, PressBox's articles are much better written and more informative.
Rather than posting Mac's articles for him, how about we treat him evenly? Let Mac own his stuff and post it himself. It's not like he isn't lurking around here.
Hardly. Censorship is direct use of force, or threat of force, to stop the publication of or dissemination of particular content. No one is forcing you to carry Muck's garbage, just as no one is pointing a gun to your head to not do so. Additionally, anyone truly interested in his worthless opinion of the day can drop on by the Startlegram and read away. No one would be stopping them.By suggesting that links to those articles should be removed, yeah that is a censorship decision because what we are saying is that we should aggregate news articles about TCU, but not ones that we don't like the content of. I can't really get behind that sort of thinking.
I don't think there is a right or wrong answer on whether Mac's articles being here is in our best interests. I'm just pointing out it's not censorship.true, but as most of us live in a democratic republic there are times when the wishes of the many are not in the best interest of all of us going forward
I have a good compromise. Just make it that his articles have to be posted only in Killingsworth Forum or Top's Corner. Mac's articles are only superficially about sports as they are really just drama filled soap opera pieces. His main goal is political which is to run down TCU as whole. So putting him in the political section makes sense. This would make both groups content: those who don't like his stuff will be able to freely avoid it and those who do like his stuff can go to the Killingsworth Forum to view it.
The board is spammed with his clickbait articles and often times it is not clear from the thread title that it is a Big Steaming Pile article. This is only learned after people open the thread. Given his reputation and many people not being interested in seeing his articles, it should at the very least be a rule that it says Big Steaming Pile and then the title of the article. This way people can choose to ignore such threads. Or instead let one person only post those articles and then we can choose to put that person on ignore and miss Mac's articles. Or as I said before, just have his articles posted in the Killingworth Forum. If they truly are so valuable to some people here, they can go there to read them.curious how they CAN"T AVOID his articles at this time?
The board is spammed with his clickbait articles and often times it is not clear from the thread title that it is a Big Steaming Pile article. This is only learned after people open the thread. Given his reputation and many people not being interested in seeing his articles, it should at the very least be a rule that it says Big Steaming Pile and then the title of the article. This way people can choose to ignore such threads. Or instead let one person only post those articles and then we can choose to put that person on ignore and miss Mac's articles. Or as I said before, just have his articles posted in the Killingworth Forum. If they truly are so valuable to some people here, they can go there to read them.
And another question that needs to be asked given the irrational support for so many articles from Mac on this site: Is Engel paying someone on the board or giving some other compensation to post his articles on the site? Free speech claims fall flat when so many other alternatives could be utilized.
damn, some of you are waaaaaay beyond the tinfoil hat brigade on this thing
i don't ready anything he writes and don't really give a [ steaming pile of Orgeron ] what he writes as he doesn't impact my life and i don't know many who take him with any sincerity.
you want to restrict who can post a link to his articles?
what's next? only positive thoughts about gary and the program?
it would seem to me if this really bothers some of you this much you have a few options:
1) buy out the owner and implement your restrictions on mac as it is obvious they aren't nearly as bothered as some of you
2) vote with your proverbial feet and leave the site.
3) just freaking get over it.
The people on the site did vote in this thread. Why don't you respect the wishes of 2/3rds of the people of the board who don't care to see his articles?
Your post is simply a strawman that deliberately ignores several reasonable alternative solutions that I gave which would still allow people to read Mac's articles on the site. Heck another solution could be that only 1 Mac article a month is allowed. This way it would cut down on the Mac spam.[/QUOTE