# Abuse on the SDMB

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-on-the-sdmb/98434>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 15, 2002, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-on-the-sdmb/98434 "2002-03-15T07:00:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-on-the-sdmb/98434/21 "2002-03-16T21:24:23Z")

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> \*Originally posted by mhendo \*  
> Why is it that GD is not considered a suitable forum for a “great debate” over the way in which the discourses of SDMB are moderated?

Because over the course of time, the SDMB staff has found that many (most?) discussions concerning the SDMB administration veer into criticisms of the staff, so it was decided to make the BBQ Pit the forum for those discussions, to forestall having to move the thread.

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**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-on-the-sdmb/98434/22 "2002-03-17T01:32:37Z")

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The only thing I have to add is, if “gay” is now considered a derogatory term for homosexuals, I officially give up on trying to be politically correct.

Get offended less.

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-on-the-sdmb/98434/23 "2002-03-18T02:08:25Z")

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Milos, “gay” is not an offensive term for gays unless it’s used as such (“Hey McLauchlin! You’re gay! You’re so gay… you’re a fag!” To which the only appropriate response is, “Yes, …and?”)

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-on-the-sdmb/98434/24 "2002-03-18T05:58:24Z")

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[irony]  
**mhendo** , can you’re a contentious, polemical pratt, and if you had half the sense of a drunken idiot, you’d just take the 30 seconds required to learn the forum rules.

(Hey, look everybody-- I’m _flaming!_)  
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