# A board of such delicate little flowers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363 "2010-11-03T18:57:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/21 "2010-11-04T02:53:23Z")
I heartily endorse your post, **bucketybuck** , but you really should have consulted **BigT** first. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/22 "2010-11-04T03:17:34Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > This is exactly the sort of sneering derision I’ve come to expect from you mods. Scumbag! > [sub](In case anyone reading this is super stupid, that was a joke.)[/sub] Go away, or we will taunt you a second time. [sub] (This is also a joke.) [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/23 "2010-11-04T03:27:58Z")
Delicate flowers and Monty Pythong jokes - mm-hmm. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/24 "2010-11-04T03:36:31Z")
**Bucketybuck** , you contribute nothing but snark. Apparently around here that gets you a free lunch and a fucking medal. I think you are an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/25 "2010-11-04T03:36:48Z")
Monty Pythong - funny, often surrealistic but sexy underwear. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/26 "2010-11-04T03:39:44Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > The problem is that The Butthurt… That would have been in my OP, but I sold it to the four legged monkey for a blowjob. I’m taking it back. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/27 "2010-11-04T03:40:47Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > **Bucketybuck** , you contribute nothing but snark. Apparently around here that gets you a free lunch and a fucking medal. I think you are an asshole. I can live with that. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/28 "2010-11-04T03:43:10Z")
So, is that like the opposite of a suicide note? ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/29 "2010-11-04T04:01:07Z")
I’m surprised the OP could pull his head away from all the mod asses he’s been kissing to even type out this post! Yeah, I want to cuss out the mods. I freely admit it. It’s probably childish, but what are my other choices when a mod does something I disagree with? Start a Pit thread and have it locked and me get a warning? Move it to ATMB and have no one in a position of authority take it seriously and then it get locked? Wow, those options totally fucking work (not)! Know what? Venting my spleen at the dumbass who gets creative while “enforcing” the rules is about as useful as the options I mentioned above, but it would make me feel a helluva lot better than being patronized and then ignored by those very same mods. And before anyone tells me that maybe I should “treat mods with respect,” I have done so in the past: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11835182&postcount=12](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11835182&postcount=12) And got no sympathy from them anyway. They clearly don’t care about the people using this board, Tuba’s comment proved it. Needless to say, my feelings about the mods have changed from the time of that comment. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/30 "2010-11-04T04:20:31Z")
The whole goddamned board has gone to hell since Manhattan resigned. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/31 "2010-11-04T04:31:20Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Jesus fuck, do I ever wish for the old days when mods could snark on posters as they wished, posters could Pit them if they felt it was over the top and the mods could tell them to go fuck themselves in the Pit thread if they disagreed. Now it’s all tiptoeing and whining to the teacher. Annoying. Agreed. It’s not like the mods couldn’t take it. Most of them could dish it out as well as anyone. Those who couldn’t would leave. And we were all happy with that. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/32 "2010-11-04T04:36:22Z")
If I got half a chance, I’d mod this board’s brains out. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/33 "2010-11-04T04:40:38Z")
I’d have liberal jackboots with frickin’ laser beams! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/34 "2010-11-04T06:44:39Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > A Mod once bit my sister. And now she turns into a mod every full moon right? ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/35 "2010-11-04T10:57:41Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > And got no sympathy from them anyway. They clearly don’t care about the people using this board, Tuba’s comment proved it. Needless to say, my feelings about the mods have changed from the time of that comment. In other words, “Wah wah wah wah my Daddy didnt like me and now the mods are ignoring me and that aint fair cause my sisters a whore.” You’re such a fucking martyr. What are your choices when a mod does something you dont agree with? How about putting things in perspective like us grown ups can do. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/36 "2010-11-04T11:50:04Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > …what are my other choices when a mod does something I disagree with? Start a Pit thread and have it locked and me get a warning? Move it to ATMB and have no one in a position of authority take it seriously and then it get locked? Wow, those options totally fucking work (not)! How about just reading whatever the mod wrote that you didn’t like, feeling some mild displeasure for a moment, and then moving on? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/37 "2010-11-04T12:08:02Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > How about just reading whatever the mod wrote that you didn’t like, feeling some mild displeasure for a moment, and then moving on? If you want to live your life not standing up for when people do things that are wrong, that’s your prerogative. But, as far as I’m concerned, that means you’re just as guilty as the people who do wrong. The only way to make sure that those in authority do not abuse their power is to make sure someone is monitoring them, and that someone makes it inconvenient to do wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/38 "2010-11-04T12:16:43Z")
I for one was thoroughly expecting a sort of Spanish Inquisition. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/39 "2010-11-04T12:20:34Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > If you want to live your life not standing up for when people do things that are wrong, that’s your prerogative. But, as far as I’m concerned, that means you’re just as guilty as the people who do wrong. > > The only way to make sure that those in authority do not abuse their power is to make sure someone is monitoring them, and that someone makes it inconvenient to do wrong. Pa Kent would be so proud of you. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363/40 "2010-11-04T12:22:29Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > If you want to live your life not standing up for when people do things that are wrong, that’s your prerogative. But, as far as I’m concerned, that means you’re just as guilty as the people who do wrong. > > The only way to make sure that those in authority do not abuse their power is to make sure someone is monitoring them, and that someone makes it inconvenient to do wrong. These words and beliefs seem way out of proportion with what we’re talking about, and maybe that’s at least half the problem. In addition to being delicate little flowers, it seems that some people think that a minor slight on a message board is a crime against decency and humanity. Abuse their power? What power? They can suspend me or ban me from this message board, or lock a thread. BFD. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-board-of-such-delicate-little-flowers/559363.md?page=3)