jimdahl

In the past we've always just talked about our conferencemates in the forums for the respective sports (e.g. WCHA in the hockey forum, Great West in the football forum, etc...). There was a proposal here that we add a Big Sky News forum. What do people think? Would that help organize things or foster additional discussion? Would that cover all sports, so the named sports forums would primarily be for discussion of UND and people interested in the conferencemates would go to the conference forum? We haven't done that in the past because we've assumed football fans wanted to read all the conference football talk in one forum, and so forth.

Yep, it's part of the moderation system. Forums with more formal moderation systems could use it to track infractions and change user statuses when they had accumulated a certain number of warning points. They way we moderate here we don't really track formal points, so the only way it will go up is if a mod contacts you for some reason, and there are no automatic status changes based on the points. And, yes, you can only see your own.

That, and a few other minor cosmetic problems, should now be fixed. Let me know if anyone is still seeing anything weird. A very minor upgrade apparently cause some problems with some of the "skins", so I rebuilt them.

As long as the committee includes a SiouxSports.com representative this time... (they conspicuously lacked such on the previous "stakeholder committees", where's the voice of the fan?) I'm available via Skype.

Sioux legend Reg Morelli, #18 scored the game winning goal for UND's first NCAA hockey championship in 1959. After the Michigan State Spartans tied it up at 3 with a goal at 16:20 in the 3rd, Morelli sent the game winner over the sprawling Spartan goaltender, Joe Selinger, at 4:18 in OT. For that goal and assist in the final game, plus 2 goals in the opening round 4-3OT victory over St. Lawrence, Morelli was named tournament MVP. 1958-59 Championship Morelli was a lifelong friend of another Sioux legend -- Ralph Engelstad. He was one of three to give a eulogy at Engelstad's funeral, along with Tom Clifford and Ed Crispell (manager of the Imperial Palace for a quarter century).

Yeah, all the skins are getting redone. The old mobile skin worked pretty well on iOS and Android, but the new one really cleans up BlackBerry and WinPhone, which I know a lot of North Dakotans use.

Yeah, I remember trying to map that out pretty much in my Sophomore year -- guessing that classes that were in the Fall/Spring in the past would be in the future, and figuring out how to get in the right prereqs to get it done. Even if you had a chosen major, graduating in four years required paying some attention to scheduling. I remember finishing in four well, because it was such a contrast from my friends at private schools. I was talking to one of them about how I had completed my coursework and so was applying to graduate, which they found baffling... pretty much everyone at their school just got sent packing with a diploma after four years. There must have been much more hands-on advising, to the point that it was impossible to have completed four years of courses and not graduated.

I noticed this while at UND, not many seem to graduate at 4 years... Public universities pushing ‘super-seniors’ to the graduation stage

Fixed.

Yep, that's the problem described here: It's annoying, but easy to work around. I think the pattern is that it occurs when you access threads created in the past week in that way. I'm going to make another push to try to get it fixed this weekend.

Yep, that's the problem described here: It's annoying, but easy to work around. I think the pattern is that it occurs when you access threads created in the past week in that way. I'm going to make another push to try to get it fixed this weekend.

A seemingly partially botched upgrade has left the forum with a few odd issues. Noticed so far-- * You may have noticed in your user profile that you have a "warn status" of 100%. (I think I've fixed this) * Clicking on a new thread title from the index page to see the newest posts results in a "cannot connect to database" error. Just avoid doing this for now, click on the forum title and navigate to the post from there instead. I'll try to get it all resolved this weekend. Enjoy your holiday!

There certainly wasn't any attempt to have anyone have any secret roles, but those titles aren't just arbitrarily assigned, they're actual security groups that convey certain powers to the people put into them. Members was the correct group for the account "The Sicatoka", because he didn't actually perform direct moderation, but instead helped keep an eye on things because he was such a frequent visitor to so many of the forums. He then discussed potential trouble with me and the mods and we'd carry out any necessary actions. If the underlying concern is one of "secret police", one rule that we all try to abide by is not directly moderating discussions that we're active in, but instead bringing them to the attention of other mods for a second opinion. That should prevent you from suffering any retaliatory moderation from coming down on the wrong side of an argument with a mod.

Oops, clearly another thing that broke. I'll look into it.

Fixed. As part of the improvements described here, I'm taking this opportunity to move SiouxSports to entirely new servers. As the first upgrade in over 5 years, its about time, and hopefully this will get us another 5 years, but I do break a few things so keep pointing them out!

The first result is in, and... Ouch. I'd like to pretend I saw it coming, but no way. However, the Caps v Rangers is going pretty much exactly as I expected. I hoped it would be more like 3-1 by now, giving us some breathing room, but Washington failed to seize countless opportunities in that 3OT. The maturity in coming back and out-blocking and getting better opportunities than NY in the following game confirmed that the players have really bought into the system and are confident, but it's still far too close for my comfort... Gotta win at least one more at the Garden.

Both USCHO and CHN have one page composite schedules you could use: CHN composite results USCHO They each get one or two games wrong per year, so you do have to keep an eye on them, but they're a lot better starting point than trying to collect the results yourself.

Well, here we go, with what I originally thought would be the opening series... NY Rangers vs. Washington coming up. As I said before the playoffs started, I'm pretty happy to play the Rangers. WAS's new defensive style was showcased well in the last series, but I think matches up particularly well against the Rangers. While not flashy or high-scoring like the Caps of old, a strong PP kill, strong box out, backchecking, etc... is what advances you in the playoffs. Finally, you can't help but think about goaltending. Thomas struggled this Spring, while Lundqvist has been pretty solid. A rookie slip by Holtby could cost the series; or a few key saves could seal it up.

All things considered, it was a really clean game.

I still stand by this -- Philly in the opening round would have been a disaster, Boston was beatable... (as likely would have been the NY Rangers)

Can't disagree, it's always a little disconcerting to see Hunter of all people complaining about cheap play. When they retired his number, they gifted him one of the penalty boxes from the old Capital Centre. But... he also hasn't been on the ice in over a decade, and it's a very different game and team from then. The razor-close Phoenix-Chicago series sure diverged and anointed a definitive winner... let's see what happens with the (still closest in NHL history) WAS/BOS tomorrow!

Ahhh... intentional misspellings of a team name and dredging up ancient history -- the true marks of a fan desperately trying to distract from his losing argument. No question Hunter was was one of the biggest thugs in the game... 15 years ago in a completely different era. What I actually said was that "Boston fans try desperately to defend their thuggy little angels", and you chimed in right on script. To continue to try to deny that Boston was one of the cheapest teams in the league this year is truly to be blinded by gold and black glasses. That aside, Boston has actually played a pretty clean series and it's been some really good hockey. Fun fact for those not watching... it's been the closest series in NHL playoff history -- never before has a series opened with six 1 goal games. Given the Caps' recent game 7 history, there probably shouldn't be much reason for optimism. But, I've really liked the defensive style they've brought to the playoffs this year, so I'm hoping they can reverse the curse and be on the other side of sending a heavily favored team to the golf course from their home ice in game 7.

You forgot Bruins fans, always trying to defend their thuggy little angels So, what's the over-under on total points for tonight's Pens-Flyers game? I'll take 12.

You should consider those all tied for 1st, and I should update the display of the table next year to reflect that. In years that we've had prizes, we've made it clear that they would be resolved by random draw if there was a tie, but it's frankly never happened because the Sioux haven't won in the 10 years or so we've had the game going.

Sioux jersey sighting... front row on the glass, zoomed in on him alone celebrating after Laich's goal (Washington's 3rd) around 14min in the 3rd.