# Attack of the Moderator Sycophants - Part XXX **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 26, 2001, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-moderator-sycophants-part-xxx/89830 "2001-10-26T18:33:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-moderator-sycophants-part-xxx/89830/41 "2001-10-28T15:20:05Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Yue Han \* > Aw shit, now I’m getting all nostalgic… hands up, who remembers Palidors? Krusty getting banned like 15 times before his current, apparently more long-lived incarnation? AuraSeer? ARG220? And Phaedrus_. Oh man, Phaedrus and his cash prize to anyone who could prove that Gaudere, andros and Clark Kent (I think those were the victims) weren’t the same person… and his posts in ‘Cherokee’… > > Ooh, ooh! The Finder? and then The Finder in the role of The Finder’s Boss, the enigmatic man in black… my memort blurs, The Finder was the one whose computer that forced him to type in ALL CAPS, except when he used the one in his superspycar, right? Heh. I remember them well. I even remember Capt. Ed, who I was convinced was a sock puppet, but it turned out he was just a garden-variety racist. Ah, those were the days. - Rick ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-moderator-sycophants-part-xxx/89830/42 "2001-10-28T16:44:35Z")
To me, there are many inaccurate implications in the OP. That we ban people on a whim, that we don’t provide explanations, that we are not receptive to curious or apologetic responses, or that people who question the bans always have a fundamental respect for the crap we have to put up with. But I think the implication that an Admin can actually _interrupt a poster in mid-post_ is funny too. This is a message board, not a David Mamet play. These allegorical posts are starting to get a little annoying. If you a poster’s style sickens you, whether you think he’s a mod basher or kiss ass, make that poster the subject of your rant. Provide specific examples to support your hypothesis. It’s easy to make hypothetical posters in a hypothetical situation appear however you want them to appear. But the trolley only stops in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe for so long. If you can demonstrate to the posting community that an _actual_ poster is a kiss-ass, _then_ you’ve accomplished something. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-moderator-sycophants-part-xxx/89830/43 "2001-10-28T19:14:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alphagene \* > \*\* If you can demonstrate to the posting community that an _actual_ poster is a kiss-ass, _then_ you’ve accomplished something. \*\* Links to pictures of said ass-kissing would be most appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-moderator-sycophants-part-xxx/89830/44 "2001-10-28T19:50:27Z")
> [@](#): > > But the **trolley** only stops in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe for so long. I read that as “the trollery” the first two times through. The above observation is connected to no point other than that I like fnords (used in a personal sense of “goofy misreading of a word that isn’t there” instead of the strict discordian (I like putting the words “strict discordian” together) sense), and usually find my own pretty entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Bossk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@Bossk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bossk)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-moderator-sycophants-part-xxx/89830/45 "2001-10-28T22:09:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nacho4Sara \* > > \*\*I’m a sycophant who is sick of all this anti-mod bullshit that’s a ridiculous waste of time. \*\* Yeah, yeah. Well, the world needs its ditchdiggers, too. ---
**Author:** ![pennylane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pennylane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pennylane)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-moderator-sycophants-part-xxx/89830/46 "2001-10-29T14:56:48Z")
Well, for whatever it’s worth, I found the OP hilarious, **IzzyR** … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-moderator-sycophants-part-xxx/89830.md?page=2)