# About This Message Board **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/about-this-message-board/8.md?page=254 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 255 --- ## [Moderators Moderating Versus Just Posting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-moderating-versus-just-posting/501913)
**Author:** [@ashman165](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ashman165)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [July 11, 2009, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-moderating-versus-just-posting/501913 "2009-07-11T09:50:18Z")
Given the recent to-do over the ambiguity that sometimes creeps up when a moderator is merely posting versus moderating and how we sometimes don’t know which hat it is they’re wearing, particularly when they do both in a… --- ## [coding question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coding-question/502497)
**Author:** [@otorophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otorophile)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2009, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coding-question/502497 "2009-07-10T12:01:46Z")
In this thread, Serenata67 links directly to a specific post in another thread. What’s the code for doing this? I could play around, but I figure this is the easiest way to find out. --- ## [Posting from my iPhone, quick reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-from-my-iphone-quick-reply/502480)
**Author:** [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-from-my-iphone-quick-reply/502480 "2009-07-09T21:06:09Z")
Just wondering if you guys have done anything with the board. Just recently I have noticed that the quick reply box at the bottom of a thread has not been displaying on my iPhone. It still shows up on my home computer an… --- ## [Hyperlink Button](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-button/502461)
**Author:** [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-button/502461 "2009-07-09T19:01:00Z")
Is it just me or is the hyperlink button in vBulletin broken? --- ## [Suggestion re:"Mischaracterized complaints"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-re-mischaracterized-complaints/502052)
**Author:** [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-re-mischaracterized-complaints/502052 "2009-07-09T12:55:33Z")
In a previous thread (which you can access by using the link in the quote): Not when the mod isn’t acting as a moderator. And I propose that any time a mod insults another poster, he is no longer acting as a moderator,… --- ## [Welcome our new MPSIMS moderator -- twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-mpsims-moderator-twickster/498765)
**Author:** [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-mpsims-moderator-twickster/498765 "2009-07-08T21:56:44Z")
Twickster is joining us as our newest moderator, working in MPSIMS. We’re pleased to have her on board and think you will be too. Please welcome her. \[del\]And we’re not mentioning the thing about the goat, okay?\[/del\] … --- ## [Regarding Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-shodan/502076)
**Author:** [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-shodan/502076 "2009-07-08T17:13:44Z")
In this post in the Pit I am admonished by Gfactor for “taking a joke too far”, the joke being that I wrote “regards Shodan” in two of my posts in the same thread. We know we can not make fun of Liberal by using any oth… --- ## [Straight Dope Chicago question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-chicago-question/502267)
**Author:** [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2009, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-chicago-question/502267 "2009-07-08T13:18:28Z")
Just a quick question- I was checking out the three fora on the Straight Dope Chicago board. The first two have the silver SD Chicago banner, while the “Questions, Comments for SD Chicago Columns” has the orange and blu… --- ## [To BANG or not to TWEET?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-bang-or-not-to-tweet/501592)
**Author:** [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2009, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-bang-or-not-to-tweet/501592 "2009-07-07T09:54:35Z")
We had a rant not too long ago about the use of “TWEET” and “BANG” as means from the mods to draw attention to their interventions when they were not issuing formal warnings. I didn’t much care for the rant then or the r… --- ## [Talking ad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-ad/501726)
**Author:** [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-ad/501726 "2009-07-07T02:15:27Z")
I’ve run into a couple of talking ads saying “Congratulations, you’ve just been selected for a free iPhone.” WTF? --- ## [Sailor is suspended for two weeks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sailor-is-suspended-for-two-weeks/502114)
**Author:** [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sailor-is-suspended-for-two-weeks/502114 "2009-07-06T19:23:25Z")
For personal insults and not following moderator instructions. --- ## [Mischaracterised complaints?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mischaracterised-complaints/501959)
**Author:** [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2009, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mischaracterised-complaints/501959 "2009-07-06T12:35:41Z")
In the Sarah Palin resignation threadcurrently in GD, there’s something of a ruckus, which I guess is to be expected. Anyway, at one point, tomndebb posts in response to Starving Artist; \[QUOTE=tomndebb\] \[QUOTE=Starvin… --- ## [Dex: premature closing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dex-premature-closing/501804)
**Author:** [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dex-premature-closing/501804 "2009-07-06T12:14:49Z")
Seems to me, as an interested observer of the just-closed ATMB thread, that you raised a point germane to the thread, or at least to ATMB, in the very post in which you closed that thread. To wit: This is the nut of th… --- ## [The SDMB forums have different purposes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-forums-have-different-purposes/501952)
**Author:** [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2009, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-forums-have-different-purposes/501952 "2009-07-06T07:49:39Z")
There is a thread in GD about the resignation of Sarah Palin. There have been two threads opened in MPSIMS about the resignation of Sarah Palin and they were immediately closed solely due to the existence of the GD thre… --- ## [Tomndebb, come. Let us reason together.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-come-let-us-reason-together/501655)
**Author:** [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2009, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-come-let-us-reason-together/501655 "2009-07-03T12:13:00Z")
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11299681#post11299681 Because they are, and perncious ones at that. I’ve seen you go rabid when lies about Catholicism (“Catholics worship the Pope” or “Catholics pr… --- ## [Displaying the Post Counts and Locations of "Guests"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/displaying-the-post-counts-and-locations-of-guests/500049)
**Author:** [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Replies:** 129\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2009, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/displaying-the-post-counts-and-locations-of-guests/500049 "2009-07-03T08:26:53Z")
I’ve sung this song before, but it’s been a couple of months and I feel a gentle reminder is in order. Hiding the Post Count and Location of users registered as “Guests” serves to reduce the functionality of the board f… --- ## [Suggestion: rescind the rule forbidding mod/rule complaints in the Pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-rescind-the-rule-forbidding-mod-rule-complaints-in-the-pit/501094)
**Author:** [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Replies:** 93\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2009, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-rescind-the-rule-forbidding-mod-rule-complaints-in-the-pit/501094 "2009-07-03T08:04:07Z")
I think Liberal’s recent Pitting of tomndebb is a perfect example of why these types of threads work better in the Pit than ATMB. Liberal had complaints about an action of tomndebb’s, and in a perfect world they would c… --- ## [Pages not updating](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pages-not-updating/501690)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pages-not-updating/501690 "2009-07-02T16:09:51Z")
It’s 06:34. The pages display no new posts since 06:07, though I know there is at least one new post since then. The post does appear in the thread, but the forum is not updated (i.e., thread did not move to the top, t… --- ## [Am receiving errors on every page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-receiving-errors-on-every-page/501577)
**Author:** [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-receiving-errors-on-every-page/501577 "2009-07-01T16:45:01Z")
For example, on this page, the error I get is: Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.45… --- ## [How did I get downgraded from Charter Member to Guest?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-get-downgraded-from-charter-member-to-guest/497936)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-i-get-downgraded-from-charter-member-to-guest/497936 "2009-06-30T15:23:18Z")
What am I, chopped liver? I have taken great pride in being a Charter Member, having read Cecil in the Reader from the inception of the column, and having actually had two letters published in two of the Great Master’s … --- ## [Hijacking spyware ad?!?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacking-spyware-ad/501153)
**Author:** [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijacking-spyware-ad/501153 "2009-06-29T02:35:58Z")
I navigated to a thread, and up the whole page changes to one of those fake Windows Explorer screens with a “virus check” and a message that I need to install a virus to save me from all the other viruses. Wtf, SDMB. Wt… --- ## [Board acting unstable](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164)
**Author:** [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164 "2009-06-28T21:53:57Z")
Feels like a prelude to crash- server doesn’t respond. Infrequent thread updates. FYI --- ## [Hoo, boy, my flamboyant "sig" v. the rules:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoo-boy-my-flamboyant-sig-v-the-rules/501196)
**Author:** [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoo-boy-my-flamboyant-sig-v-the-rules/501196 "2009-06-28T19:09:53Z")
According to a rule mentioned in a post in this thread… HERE I have been oblivious to yet another point of being a good member of this community. While I have been leery of possible future problems such as making too… --- ## [Emerald City of the South features the Straight Dope](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emerald-city-of-the-south-features-the-straight-dope/501150)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2009, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emerald-city-of-the-south-features-the-straight-dope/501150 "2009-06-27T13:47:33Z")
As the title says. TheLittle Rock, Arkansas free press publication caught my eye at the liquor store today with the headline, “Return of the Straight Dope” I can’t find a current link; I suspect they are back in busines… --- ## [Mr Dear Mr. Tomndebb -- Double Pitting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dear-mr-tomndebb-double-pitting/501016)
**Author:** [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-dear-mr-tomndebb-double-pitting/501016 "2009-06-26T16:07:29Z")
In Which U.S. President had the best policy re: Native Americans?, you left this particular Official Mod Post… Everyone back off the personal comments and the attempts at sarcasm that are not effectively reaching the in… --- ## [test](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test/500861)
**Author:** [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 24, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test/500861 "2009-06-24T18:58:36Z")
http://amazon.com --- ## [Hello, is this thing on?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-this-thing-on/500848)
**Author:** [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 24, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-is-this-thing-on/500848 "2009-06-24T17:57:59Z")
Hmm, no new posts showing since about 10:50 am CDT. (And also, oddly enough, I can attempt several “New Posts” searches in a row without getting the “Wait X seconds” warning.) It’s now about 11:20 am CDT. Does posting ne… --- ## [Problem deleting thread subscriptions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-deleting-thread-subscriptions/500710)
**Author:** [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 23, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-deleting-thread-subscriptions/500710 "2009-06-23T16:46:49Z")
A heads up for TPTB. I just tried deleting subscriptions from 2 different threads, and while I got the message saying they were deleted, the subscriptions remain. Is this an early hint of board problems to come? --- ## [Your Information](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-information/500348)
**Author:** [@Stoned-365](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoned-365)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 23, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-information/500348 "2009-06-23T15:36:47Z")
Hello, sorry if this has been asked before, I searched the forum but no to avail. I was just curious as to how you answer all these questions, like where does your information come from, and how do you know its always a … --- ## [Last Post oddity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-post-oddity/500381)
**Author:** [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 23, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-post-oddity/500381 "2009-06-23T14:45:24Z")
On the main forums page, under “Last Post” for this forum it says: But clicking on that gives me an error: …What’s up with that? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/about-this-message-board/8.md?page=253) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/about-this-message-board/8.md?page=255)