# A certain mod is locking all my threads.Anything I can do? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 29, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087 "2004-12-29T13:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [December 29, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/41 "2004-12-29T23:33:47Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > You get 3 or 4 posts? Lucky you. I usually end up with a negative view count! You get a negative view count? The mods actually come to my house and beat me with my keyboard when _I_ start a thread! ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/42 "2004-12-29T23:56:05Z")
I was thrilled when a mod locked one of my threads. Highest view count I ever got. ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/43 "2004-12-30T00:11:21Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > You get a negative view count? The mods actually come to my house and beat me with my keyboard when _I_ start a thread! Luxury. I used to have to get out of the bed at three o’clock in the morning, clean the mods’ homes, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and an Admin would beat me around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if I was LUCKY! Then they’d lock all my threads. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/44 "2004-12-30T00:17:19Z")
Wait, wait. I think I had a post locked once. I typed it all up, hit Submit, and it disappeared. I thought “these guys are fast.” Could have been server overload though. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/45 "2004-12-30T00:22:45Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > Wow. Seeing **John Corrado** , **Bricker** and **Libertarian** regarded as newbies and rookies is, well, surreal. At least \*\*tomndebb \*\* lived up to his superlative of being mod material. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/46 "2004-12-30T00:44:34Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > Who are the most spoil sport asshole Dopers who keep telling people that Cecil is fictional? …he’s what? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/47 "2004-12-30T01:02:36Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > **Cisco** totally eats cock… In my dreams. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/48 "2004-12-30T01:08:23Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > At least \*\*tomndebb \*\* lived up to his superlative of being mod material. IIRC they asked him to become a mod a while ago, but he turned them down because of time constraints. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/49 "2004-12-30T01:12:19Z")
I had a thread locked a couple of weeks ago, and I felt simultaneously ashamed and a little proud. It was like a rite of passage or something: today I am a Doper! Oh, and it has always been my opinion that Poster C is a complete dillhole. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/50 "2004-12-30T01:12:31Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > Not sure if this lives here,but it’s starting to worry me.I’ve never really had any problem with my threads being locked…maybe the odd one or two here or there. Now I’ve had about four locked in a few days.All by the same mod(the same one who locked my earlier ones)for not particularly convincing reasons(someone else suggested this idea before and it didn’t work,I’m not too keen on this idea or even just I disagree with this thread,so it’s being locked)I’ve had ones in the wrong forum which instead of being moved have been locked up. > I’ve never had any threads locked by any other mod and now every thread I start is being locked down by the same mod.It’s looking like this mod is not closing them because there’s something offensive or duplicated or something wrong with them but just because it happens to be me starting the thread.Anything I can do? Maybe it’s that annoying punctuation-without-spaces thing. I say close them all! ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/51 "2004-12-30T01:14:42Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess “Japanese game show.” My completely uninformed WAG would be “Silly Go Lucky,” a Japanese comedy/variety show. [Yatta!](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/yatta.html) ---
**Author:** ![chukhung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chukhung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chukhung)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/52 "2004-12-30T01:26:47Z")
> [@Uvula Donor](#): > > Hey, here’s an idea: Why don’t you just start a pity party in MPSIMS? > Oh… [Never mind](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=294149). Too late now. **Cajun Man** just locked up another one! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/53 "2004-12-30T01:28:24Z")
It’s [three](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5661114#post5661114) now. And by **Cajun Man** again. Will the madness never end?! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/54 "2004-12-30T01:29:30Z")
Damn you, **chukhung**! ---
**Author:** ![Logicalkitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@Logicalkitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logicalkitten)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/55 "2004-12-30T03:23:33Z")
> [@chukhung](#): > > I like Vishnu. Yes, I do! > I like Vishnu. How 'bout you? Where have I heard that before? Whats it FROM? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/56 "2004-12-30T03:38:19Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > Oh, and it has always been my opinion that Poster C is a complete dillhole. 😛 That’s because you totally eat cock. ---
**Author:** ![chukhung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chukhung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chukhung)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/57 "2004-12-30T03:39:49Z")
> [@Logicalkitten](#): > > Where have I heard that before? > Whats it FROM? It was inspired by [the first thread of mine that was ever locked](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=172535). If you had cheerleaders in saris, what do you suppose their cheers would be like? Shiva’s got lots more class! Shiva kicks Vishnu’s ass! ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/58 "2004-12-30T04:06:11Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > That’s because you totally eat cock. Well, better than not totally eating it. There’s starving kids in China or someplace doing without cock, you know. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/59 "2004-12-30T04:14:21Z")
**Iceland Blue** , keep the quizzes coming, as far as I’m concerned. But I’m more interested in the informal ones where you juts post answers here, rather than any fancy thing with emailed responses. Part of the fun is filling in the gaps in other people’s knowledge! ---
**Author:** ![Logicalkitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@Logicalkitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logicalkitten)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087/60 "2004-12-30T04:16:29Z")
> [@chukhung](#): > > It was inspired by [the first thread of mine that was ever locked](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=172535). > > If you had cheerleaders in saris, what do you suppose their cheers would be like? > > Shiva’s got lots more class! > Shiva kicks Vishnu’s ass! No! Now I remember. Its some goofy Christian song. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-certain-mod-is-locking-all-my-threads-anything-i-can-do/282087.md?page=4)