One more thing you can’t do on Cougarboard

[MDUte]

So my 4 day CB suspension ended and I thought instead of arguing with Zoobs, I’d simply post positive information about the Utes. There are a good number of Utah fans on CB either because they are LDS and go there for non-sports related content or they are Ute fans who have chosen to attend byu-p for various reasons.
In any event, I thought I would help provide content to this underserved portion of CB. However, their moderator police squad threw the flag again claiming this too was trolling. After arguing with their mods for 1/2 hour they cut me off and banned my right to appeal for life. At this point, I was basically trying to get banned from the site for life as well but surprisingly this hasn’t yet happened. My current site suspension is for 7 days.

[RedUte14]

I’m starting to think we deserve the trolls that we get now.

[Waybackutefan]

Well as Groucho was fond of saying. “Why would I want to  join a club that would have me as a member?” Wear your badge of honor proudly. 

[PhiladelphiaUte]

Welcome to the club MDUte!  Been there, done that. 

Had they started “taunting” you in your boardmail yet, while turning off your capability to respond back, so they’ll be able to get the first, last, and ONLY words in?

Had an army of other zoob moderators come along yet, and arbitrarily extended your 7-day suspension to a 30+ day one yet?

Was Soupie the one who’d closed you down?  That’s her primary modus operandus ya know.  Zoobies know they haven’t much ammunition against Utah, so they try to control the flow of information (i.e. “data”, “stats”, “truth”, “documentation that they’re all full of sh**”), by stamping out any opinion that doesn’t flatter all things ybU-p.  And that shouldn’t surprise you, as ybU-p has long had a history of doing this very sort of thing — both internally, and administratively.  This very “tradition” at ybU-p, is one of the reasons why the AAUP censured that institution in first place.  And as ybU-p can’t/refuses to learn from the error of their ways, they’ll never break free of that censure, and will continue to churn out generations of alumni who think that their brand of censorship is both valid stewardship, and a righteous obligation.

I attended ybU-p my freshman year.  As an out-of-stater, I didn’t know any better.  Now you can probably start to see one of the reasons why I couldn’t get out of Provo fast enough.  They’re not a real university.  They’re a doctrinal daycare center for LDS members who need their thinking done FOR them, and for someone to hold their hand(s) all the way through college.

[MDUte]

Hahahaha!!! YES to all of the above!

Soupie was on me from the moment I stepped my little digital footprint into their silly site. And once El Jefe suspended my account he sent me this lame note which opened up a private discussion for all of his stupid mods to jump into and pile on. I used logic to all of their comments of “why don’t you just go away” “we don’t want that garbage here” etc but it didn’t matter. Then when I hit the appeal button to all 7 suspensions, citing a quick reason, some cougfanblue idiot mod banned my ability to appeal for life. I then tried to use the “report bad activity” feature calling their suspension unfair and unequal treatment. And to that, the same idiot mod shut down that feature for life. So I have no way to respond to them while they continue to say their stupid stuff and add time to my current suspension hahaha.

100% agree with you about their cultural predisposition towards censoring. It’s sadly part of their DNA. Logic, reason, facts…none of this matters with Zoobs. They always revert back to their silly and emotionally-based arguments. College is supposed to be about higher learning, free thinking, diversity of thought, etc. But everything is locked down for Zoobs at BYU-P. They are told how to think, what to think, and policed accordingly to ensure all conform to Zoobism.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

Censorship is the last refuge for the stupid, the insecure, and the indefensible.

[MDUte]

Now I just want my lifetime ban as a badge of honor. What do I need to do PhiladelphiaUte?

[PhiladelphiaUte]

You have to post facts, but you can’t do that anymore because you’ve been banned.  So it sounds like you’d earned your lifetime ban already!  You have no further call-to-action!  Congratulations!

[GameForAnyFuss]

I went there for one semester as well. That’s how long it took me to realize that BYU-Provo Campus is not a university. It is a giant slumber party masquerading as a university. They want everyone to be basically homogenous – look the same, dress, think the same, act the same. The Honor Code was created for that purpose.

The question is why? Well, the answer is, the “school” exists to get LDS kids married to other LDS kids. That’s why they have a bias towards LDS kids from other states/countries. The church knows that those kids don’t have a lot of options for marriage to another LDS person if they go to school close to home, so they created the BYU system as a way to gather LDS kids from places where they are a minority and put them all together. It’s just a giant episode of The Batchelor with LDS kids. Education is of secondary importance. The BYU schools’ first goal is to ensure LDS kids marry other LDS kids, thereby increasing the odds that their families and children will continue on in the church.

I saw a lot of strange behavior there, and I don’t mean the kind of strange behavior you see at other universities. Things like, girls spending hours baking cookies for the boys in the ward. And boys posting flyers with what mission they went to, what their current calling is, and their phone number. It’s like…a giant mass speed dating service.

I have a theory that this is why you see so many BYU-Provo Campus grads do these weird, ill-conceived startups straight out of school. They graduate with a wife (and maybe even kids), but without a solid education or much common sense. They often don’t have a lot of prospects to get a real job, but they do have a lot of pressure to provide for their young families. So they start their own businesses, often selling some kind of wacky, odd, or provincial (i.e. caters to Mormons) product or service. They usually fail, but the rare one will succeed spectacularly (see Ryan Smith).

It’s definitely a strange place and turns out some pretty strange people.

[Waybackutefan]

I made a wrong turn once trying to get up to Provo canyon and ended up on the BYU campus. I had a panic attack and was able to exticate myself eventually to the canyon. Thats a close as I ever came to attending BYU. 

[PhiladelphiaUte]

Well, where it comes to “flirting with disaster”….it still counts!

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