Dear everyone,
As you may or may not have heard or seen yet, SBN has entered into a partnership with Yahoo! Sports. Each team's SBN blog now has a small widget on the Yahoo! Sports team page and some of our content will be made more visible through Yahoo! Buzz.
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Dear new people,
Welcome! We here at Lookout Landing enjoy having new voices join the community. However, please be aware that this is a long standing community with a rather large base of very frequent users, and as such, we recommend that you try to read as much as you can (except for the off-topic posts, stay away from those) first to get a feel for the tone and attitudes before jumping right in with a post. Namely, we place a high premium on self-effort here. Take the time to organize your thoughts; capitalize when appropriate; use correct spelling and grammar most of the time. If you do those, you should be fine.
Beyond that, we also have a few rules. No political discussion. None. Don't even allude to political figures, even apolitically. It just opens a door we want firmly shut, bolted and then buried at the bottom of the sea. Ditto religion. This is a sports blog after all and there are plenty of other places to go for those. Going back to the effort aspect mentioned above, we abhor chat (or text) speak. No LOL, +1, ur, u, etc. A lot of these rules are laid out in more detail here and here. We try to be open and inviting, but those are our rules and violation of them is not tolerated, nor is pleading ignorance of them. If you violate them, you will be warned. These are not tough rules to follow though so don't be intimidated by them. If you want, feel free to use this thread to introduce yourself.
Dear current LL denizens,
We might be seeing a veritable torrent of new users in the coming weeks and months. Please do your best to assist them in acclimating to our culture here. For the internet, we are pretty demanding of our comments. I know we all appreciate our collective standards and are proud of them; just try to remember that it is likely a foreign concept to most surfers. Please be courteous in your assistance and remember that while the mods may not be actively posting in a thread, we are around and you can utilize our e-mails or comment flags to alert us to issues that you think we need to handle.
0 recs | 109 comments
Hi
My name is Tommy, and I love the Mariners.
So, what’s the consensus here on Ken Griffey Jr.?
Omerta - February 25, 2009
We love the guy
but he’s old, not that productive and will probably be (at best) a big distraction or (at worse) a giant pain in the ass.
JI - February 25, 2009
I'm not sure who's whooshing who here.
Graham MacAree - February 25, 2009
What is a whooosh?
Sounds like a type of shoe.
JWAY - February 25, 2009
Nope, that's a swoosh you're thinking of
seattlebruin - February 25, 2009
That's a swoosh
JI - February 25, 2009
This is awesome.
Another step in the direction of the growing power of blogs as relevant media.
I am excited for the further exposure Jeff, Matthew, and Graham will receive for all the work they put into this site. You guys deserve it.
Wilder. - February 25, 2009
I can't wait until some heart-rending injury,
and the front page story consisting entirely of:
FUCKFUCKITYFUCKFUCK
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
It’ll make for a great headline on the Yahoo M’s page.
Faux - February 25, 2009
I will be eagerly awaiting that day
Fuzz - February 25, 2009
I'll start checking Yahoo Sports in hopes of this happening
tootthekazoo - February 25, 2009
Or you could save yourself the hassle
And just put a post-it on your monitor to remind yourself to look for it when that post inevitably comes.
seattlecougar - February 25, 2009
If you want to get a general pulse on Griffey...
I’d reccomend perusing this previous post…
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/2/11/757073/time-to-get-used-to-it
MissoulaMarinerFan - February 25, 2009
So, if the Yahoos are invading...
Are we Houyhnhnms or are we Gulliver and where is the line drawn?
JY - February 25, 2009
Nerd.
mark sobba - February 25, 2009
I'm just glad that anyone got it.
JY - February 25, 2009
That was my first thought. Sadly.
msb - February 25, 2009
So given that we're connected to Yahoo does this mean we'll have to tone-down the politically incorrect content?
Fett42 - February 25, 2009
I doubt it and have no plans on doing it myself.
Robert - February 25, 2009
How can we be politically incorrect
if we don’t recognize politics?
ralphie81 - February 25, 2009
^-- New people, note that comment
I think it rather succinctly sums up how far away from the P-word this community stays.
seattlecougar - February 25, 2009
Naw
Nigga Owens - February 25, 2009
I know this name is merely an ironic joke, but still...not cool.
esoteric - February 25, 2009
Wrong
JI - February 25, 2009
I disagree
BrettJMiller - February 25, 2009
Hahahahaha
tootthekazoo - February 25, 2009
Whether you think this crossed a line or not
I’d say it pretty effectively answers the question “how can we politically incorrect without mentioning politics?”
philosofool - February 25, 2009
I laud the owner of this account for remembering the password after 4 months since its last comment.
.Taylor - February 25, 2009
I would bet even money that the owner of this account is a mod
and thus has access to everyone’s password.
either that or they saved the e-mail.
JI - February 25, 2009
So that means it's Robert, right?
Faux - February 25, 2009
Robert is too much of a loose cannon / drug addict
to be a mod
JI - February 25, 2009
I faked my death the other day
And my guess is it either being SeattleBruin or Ess.
Robert - February 25, 2009
Why me?
seattlebruin - February 25, 2009
You two use "naw" more than every other active poster
Robert - February 25, 2009
You would know stuff like that.
Do you have a spreadsheet of LL regulars with common phrases, real names, addresses, hair color etc.?
appleshampoo - February 25, 2009
It's more of a flowchart but its effective none the less.
Robert - February 25, 2009
24 times is not that many.
seattlebruin - February 25, 2009
24/15900 = .15% of my posts
Nigga Owens ~ 1/2 = 50% of his posts, so I’m going to say this is coincidence.
seattlebruin - February 25, 2009
You use it more than every other active regular
Robert - February 25, 2009
Small sample size.
I laud your ability to consistently use NAW in over .1% of your posts.
seattlecougar - February 25, 2009
22 recs. Motherfucker. I don't even have 22 recs to my name.
.Taylor - February 26, 2009
You actually do.
Matthew - February 26, 2009
God damn rec inflation.
Robert - February 26, 2009
No
Jeff Sullivan - February 25, 2009
Jeff you might want to mention that we also don't allow saying 1st! in the comments
Scruffy Lefty - February 25, 2009
In general "don't be a fucking assbandit" is the rule to follow
Graham MacAree - February 25, 2009
but what if one is unsatisfied with one's own ass and desires to steal a better one?
I guess this site’s not the place for that.
pdb - February 25, 2009
Isn't that pointed out somewhere already?
Fuzz - February 25, 2009
Have you read a yahoo sports comment thread
I think it needs to be in bold letters on the homepage.
Scruffy Lefty - February 25, 2009
I thought the proper term was Yahooligans.
Eyebrows - February 25, 2009
I believe that is Yahoo's website for children
or it was at least
Mariner John - February 25, 2009
Oh and one other welcome note for the newly Yahooed among us
Fantasy baseball discussion is not generally looked on with favor here. If you have a burning desire to discuss your fantasy team, once a year the mods put up a Fantasy Baseball Thread – this year’s is here. If you have fantasy baseball to talk about, do it there – during the season, any references to your fantasy team, to a player’s game contribution that helps or hurts your fantasy team, or any sort of fantasy team rosterbation will earn you, at first, a rejoinder of “nobody cares about your fantasy team”.
pdb - February 25, 2009
Yes, this.
And also, it will learn you a warning and can lead to further punishment if not curbed.
Matthew - February 25, 2009
So how many extra hits per day are we expecting through this?
EnglishMariner - February 25, 2009
34.7
there’s one guy who’s not sure he clicked on the right thing. so his wasn’t a full hit.
pdb - February 25, 2009
He hit the stop button before it fully loaded, and then backed out
tootthekazoo - February 25, 2009
We have absolutely no idea
Jeff Sullivan - February 25, 2009
It's like live commenting all over again!
Could be great, could be a bloodbath.
Matthew - February 25, 2009
Hopefully we'll look back on it half as fondly as we do live commenting...
I know my F5 key is appreciative of the reduced stress that’s been put on it.
seattlecougar - February 25, 2009
My C, Z, and X keys have been complaining about their workload since then, though.
appleshampoo - February 25, 2009
Z and X need all the work they can get.
Mariner John - February 25, 2009
Get the bannin' stick ready
Fuzz - February 25, 2009
You Yahoos better not start any trouble.
ThundaPC - February 25, 2009
Does the new Yahoo-LL synergy mean we can look forward to more phony new parodies being picked up by the MSM bots a la "Lowe Signs With Mariners"?
esoteric - February 25, 2009
They will no longer be permitted
Graham MacAree - February 25, 2009
As headlines, that is
Graham MacAree - February 25, 2009
Even if they start with "PARODY:" ?
The Ancient Mariner - February 25, 2009
If I ever start a post title with something called PARODY I expect one of you good souls to find a way to kill me as soon as possible
Graham MacAree - February 25, 2009
Well that comment was horribly written
Graham MacAree - February 25, 2009
See? There's a good reason RIGHT THERE.
esoteric - February 25, 2009
Okay, killing is a step too far.
Emotional maiming, perhaps?
esoteric - February 25, 2009
He's English. It won't work.
Emotional maiming is the most popular parenting strategy in England.
pdb - February 25, 2009
I don't think that should be the necessary threshold
esoteric - February 25, 2009
Deal
Robert - February 25, 2009
LL's soulless corporate paymasters are taking all the fun out of life.
esoteric - February 25, 2009
I say we scapegoat the economy.
.Taylor - February 25, 2009
Booooo!
EnglishMariner - February 25, 2009
It's a dark, dark day... and not just because it's cloudy
Indigo_Satellite - February 25, 2009
We can still write fake news articles
We just have to give them more appropriate titles. The last thing SBN needs us to do is get booted from Yahoo! and Google News.
The only real restrictions we’ve been given are (A) no deliberately misleading titles, and (B) no swearing in titles. Nothing else is going to change.
Jeff Sullivan - February 25, 2009
So the "FUCKFUCKFUCK" title is out I'm assuming?
Fuzz - February 25, 2009
If the story is submitted for distribution, yes
Jeff Sullivan - February 25, 2009
I hope you can get out of SBN if you need to.
I smell a Fanhousing.
Also, this is one of the best titles ever.
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/8/14/594057/in-the-land-of-the-binocul
Faux - February 25, 2009
lemonverbena - February 25, 2009
Did you make this yourself?
Or is there a “ticket stub-izer” out there somewhere?
appleshampoo - February 25, 2009
FAAAAAAKE!!!!!
(nice job BTW)
PositivePaul - February 26, 2009
That's total bullshit
Corco - February 25, 2009
How about something like
“M’s sign righthander”
For a fake article.
JI - February 25, 2009
I think what they mean is that kind of thing is out.
But the “Yuni Betancourt forgets where he came from” one would be ok.
The Typical Idiot Fan - February 25, 2009
Nice.
Teej - February 25, 2009
That's total bullshit
Corco - February 25, 2009
welcome yahooligans!
from a long-standing lurker/occasional poster.
don’t be afraid of anyone here. it’s all in fun.
br
sirbrianwilson - February 25, 2009
I'm all for expanding the community
But I somehow feel like a partnership with Yahoo! is not the way to go about doing this.
Oh well
Corco - February 25, 2009
Despite the potential for hilarity/disaster,
I think it’s great that the contributors will be getting more exposure. And hopefully the deluge isn’t so bad that we lose control. And hey, if we make one small corner of the internet smarter, then the terrorists lose!
appleshampoo - February 25, 2009
I hope this turns into a Yahoo! message board on some days
seattlebruin - February 25, 2009
Now why on Earth would you want that to happen?
Fuzz - February 25, 2009
I would love to have a duckyou/weaton4life thread and then multiply that by 20
it would be a glorious day
seattlebruin - February 25, 2009
Plus the more traffic, the more awful posters
the more awful poster the more likely I am to be modded.
JI - February 25, 2009
Sometimes a loose cannon is the only way to clear a battlefield.
Robert - February 25, 2009
Real question is can you quit your day job soon?
Edgar for Pres - February 25, 2009
Hells no
Jeff Sullivan - February 25, 2009
Honestly I'm not worried
Until we can use our Yahoo! ID’s to post comments
Corco - February 25, 2009
also for any new people
There should not be an apostrophe there
Corco - February 25, 2009
Not necessarily
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Use_in_forming_certain_plurals
appleshampoo - February 25, 2009
If you log in with your YahooID, the mods can't box you.
Kermit. - February 25, 2009
When that day comes I will personally do everything in my power to raise the funds necessary to move LL off of SBN
Corco - February 25, 2009
I'm in the "this is a good thing" camp.
Hopefully this will result in more intelligent commentary permeating the dark recesses of the general population.
seattlecougar - February 25, 2009
I think this is a good point
to throw myself behind the “‘wait a day’ policy to be turned on” cause. Or at least for posting Diaries/Shots.
It doesn’t hamper posting as much as people think, stops quite a few spammers, and makes sure there are no more drive by assholes that tend to show up towards the end of spring training asking a single stupid question in a Diary.
Faux - February 25, 2009
Yay because we need more 13 year olds.
I cant wait for D3athPr13st0fD00m69 to challenge Graham over his eccentric attitude.
Slica - February 25, 2009
I laughed.
royalcurve - February 25, 2009
Good Lord
I drive out to Pullman and I miss this bit of news? For now, I’ll be optimistic and enjoy the prospects of an expanding community.
BrianL - February 25, 2009
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