Title explains it all everything is pretty qouted so the OP gets credit for all the ideas.

let's make this place a little more organized

As has been mentioned often and everywhere, the diary section needs a little (read: alot) of tidying up. Here's an idea:

Posts should be labeled whenever possible, into "Report", "Rumor", or "Idea".

For example

REPORT: Magic Sign Rashard Lewis to blah blah

RUMOR: Don Nelson likes Darko

IDEA: Trade Foyle for Shaq

Reports and rumors should have links to the appropriate sources and follow all the rules.

Ideas should be detailed and pose sufficient analysis as to why BOTH teams would do the proposed trade, or why a free agent should come here.

GSoM staff could enforce at first just by editing diary titles, but eventually after the probation period, start deleting violators.

by OptionZero on Jul 11, 2007 8:38 PM PDT

Less moderation and more self-policing There are no moderators on this site. Fantasy Junkie, DJ Fuzzylogic, Hash, Yaobuttaming, and myself are bloggers/ writers. This is not a message board. This is a blog and community.

Easy rule of thumb for everyone- follow the style of the posts we put up on the front page of this blog. Diaries are intended to be a blog within a blog- meaning it's the community's opportunity to write a high quality blog post that would be the equivalent of something one of us would write for the main blog (with your own style and perspective of course).

• Would you ever see us write something on the front page with nonsense to fill up a character limit requirement?
  
• Would you ever see us not trying our best to proofread for spelling and grammar?
  
• Would you ever see us copy and paste an article from somewhere else without a link or proper attribution?
  
• Would you ever see us make up a rumor or anything else? (although you can't hold us to this for April Fool's!)
  
• Would you ever see us have a potty mouth and jeopardize the family show we've tried so hard to maintain for over 2 years here with a profane laced blog post on the front page?

NOPE.

OptionZero's dead on- when we put up Rumors on the front page it's clearly labeled "Rumor: XYZ". There's no reason why people can't follow these tips OptionZero posted for their own diary headlines or at the very least have intelligent titles.

I personally never signed up to be a message board "moderator" and I don't care to ever babysit people here which we've unfortunately been forced to do with this community getting so large. I'm here to blog/ write and have a good time. I enjoy reading excellent diaries and great comments with different perspectives, but I absolutely detest having to moderate people's filth in the diaries and comments section.

Plain and simple- I feel obligated to always produce the best content possible for this blog. But I don't feel obligated to moderate the diaries and comments here or babysit people whatsoever. That's on the community.

Everything I write is on me- it's only as good as I make it.

All the comments and diaries here are on the community- they're only going to be as strong as the community is.

OptionZero took the right stance here by asking for everyone to self-police the diary quality here with better titles. That's what I like to see.

by Atma Brother ONE on Jul 11, 2007 10:41 PM PDT

Some GSoMers will remember this others won't.

I am only suggesting to make GSoM less clutterful There is no reason to have 3 different warriors sign maggette or Brand to philly posts if someone already posted it just add-on to that post.