# A possible solution to the recent uprising.

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**Created:** [July 24, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-solution-to-the-recent-uprising/693937 "2014-07-24T14:41:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-solution-to-the-recent-uprising/693937/78 "2014-07-25T21:13:11Z")

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> [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](#):
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> Having dealt with a number of HR people over the years things make much more sense to me now.
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> HR (the Mods) are there to protect the company and its image.

You’re deliberately twisting my analogy. And reversing it. My analogy was how a smart employer/boss can be critical of an employee in a non-insulting, positive way. And my implication was that an intelligent poster can be critical of mods in a non-insulting way. If you don’t like that, how about the way an intelligent teacher can be critical of a student’s decision without insulting him or belittling him. Similarly, a reasonable poster can be critical of a mod’s decision without being insulting or belittling.

And, **Giraffe** , I believe your memory of the Good Ol’ Pit is less than accurate. I hated those days, I dreaded reading anyone’s complaint about my moderation because it was inevitably accompanied by foul language and nasty personal attacks. I was so insulted by the form of the complaints that I couldn’t rationally contemplate the substance. After you’ve been called a string of obscene names, how in the world do you pay attention to whatever the complaint was? (And I remember the irony: “Hey, you mother-fucking nitwit, how the fuck to you have the gall to say that I insulted another poster?”)

It had hit a point where I refused to read any mod criticisms of me in the Pit, because they were too annoying. Sorry, **Giraffe** , I know you loved the free-for-all days because you never had to do any moderating. Let’s face it, YOU were one of the reasons those days came to an abrupt end.

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