# Being harrased by a moderator **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 15, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518 "2013-07-15T00:44:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/21 "2013-07-15T02:28:10Z")
> [@matt357](#): > > I posted my opinion bases on the facts that I have read, which is my right. Hardly “completely false medical information” What your saying is irreverent anyways because I was never warned against posting “completely false medical information” and is a red herring towards the real issue here. 1. No, it is not “your right”. 2. irrevererent? Stop embarrassing yourself. 3. Yes, you were warned. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/22 "2013-07-15T02:30:28Z")
> [@matt357](#): > > If I had said those things to somebody I would have been banned. And if you handcuffed someone in order to detain them against their will for years, you’d be in jail. Yet cops do it all the time without consequence. It’s a funny world we live in, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/23 "2013-07-15T02:33:24Z")
> [@matt357](#): > > I suspect he might be of aztec descent and was offended by my comment. Someone who is so emotional and is going to abuse their powers should not be a mod. Further, Marley is a reverse vampire, which explains why he’s never out in the moonlight. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/24 "2013-07-15T02:33:26Z")
> [@matt357](#): > > I suspect he might be of aztec descent and was offended by my comment. I’m pretty sure he isn’t. He objected to your comment on the grounds that it was unsupported by facts and dumb. > [@](#): > > Someone who is so emotional and is going to abuse their powers should not be a mod. He’s not being emotional or abusing his powers. Perhaps you should try listening to instructions from the mods instead. ---
**Author:** ![matt357](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@matt357](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt357)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/25 "2013-07-15T02:36:09Z")
This email to me also proves that he was insulted by the genetic link I suggested and then closed the thread to try to prevent further discussion about it and he further insults me in it calling me "ridiculously stupid " “I don’t have a personal vendetta against you. However, your last post in the Aztec thread as I said was ridiculously stupid and ignorant. You’re not interested in “discussion,” since you evidently have failed to even try to understand any of the information people have given you about why a genetic link between Aztec practices and the present is not reasonable.” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/26 "2013-07-15T02:42:06Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I’m pretty sure he isn’t. He objected to your comment on the grounds that it was unsupported by facts and dumb. > > He’s not being emotional or abusing his powers. Perhaps you should try listening to instructions from the mods instead. If he’s not going to listen to answers to his questions in GQ, why would he listen to instructions from the moderators? ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/27 "2013-07-15T02:42:31Z")
This word, ‘proves.’ I do not think it means what you think it means. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/28 "2013-07-15T02:45:30Z")
> [@matt357](#): > > This email to me also proves that he was insulted by the genetic link I suggested Yes, but I’m starting to suspect that knowing which things prove other things may not exactly be your forte. You may want to rely on others for that. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/29 "2013-07-15T02:47:18Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > And if you handcuffed someone in order to detain them against their will for years, you’d be in jail. Like, just he’d be in jail, or any of us that did that would be in jail? Not that I’d do that or anything, ha ha! I mean, who would do that? That would be crazy! _Completely crazy!_ Seriously, though, that’s just him, right? ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/30 "2013-07-15T02:48:43Z")
Wow. This thread is getting epic. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@Tequila\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/31 "2013-07-15T02:53:12Z")
> [@matt357](#): > > You said I “didn’t know what I was talking about” said what I posted was “bullshit” and you “neither cursed you nor insulted you” I don’t think so. If I had said those things to somebody I would have been banned. In your emails to me you also said I was “ridiculously stupid” and “ignorant” Since he is a GQ mod, it sounds like all he was doing is being factual. Also, is there something wrong with you? How else could you not understand things this simple? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/32 "2013-07-15T02:54:09Z")
> [@matt357](#): > > This email to me also proves that he was insulted by the genetic link I suggested and then closed the thread to try to prevent further discussion about it and he further insults me in it calling me "ridiculously stupid " He called your comment ridiculously stupid, not you as a person. Since you insist on pressing the issue, let me confirm to you that it was ridiculously stupid. Neither of us is an Aztec. ---
**Author:** ![sangfroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sangfroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sangfroid)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/33 "2013-07-15T02:57:52Z")
> [@matt357](#): > > I suspect he might be of aztec descent and was offended by my comment. Dude, does [this guy](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/10115.html) seriously look Aztec to you? Just sayin’. Plus, his board name is a a genus of [hummingbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violetear). Hummingbird, I say. Just how malevolent do you think he could be as a mod? The jackboots alone would have to be, like, really teeny tiny… ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/34 "2013-07-15T03:00:38Z")
> [@matt357](#): > > I posted my opinion bases on the facts that I have read, which is my right. if your facts are _wrong_, your opinion is worthless. ---
**Author:** ![matt357](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@matt357](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt357)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/35 "2013-07-15T03:02:37Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > He called your comment ridiculously stupid, not you as a person. Since you insist on pressing the issue, let me confirm to you that it was ridiculously stupid. Neither of us is an Aztec. So if that’s just a harmless comment why did I get a warning for ASKING if someone was 12 after they said something extremely childish sounding comment. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/36 "2013-07-15T03:03:48Z")
> [@sangfroid](#): > > Plus, his board name is a a genus of [hummingbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violetear). > Hummingbird, I say. Just how malevolent do you think he could be as a mod? The jackboots alone would have to be, like, really teeny tiny… Pound for pound, hummingbirds are vicious creatures. If I got on **Colibri** ’s bad side I’d be watching my back. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/37 "2013-07-15T03:04:18Z")
> [@matt357](#): > > So if that’s just a harmless comment why did I get a warning for ASKING if someone was 12 after they said something extremely childish sounding comment. Because that’s directing the comment toward the poster. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/38 "2013-07-15T03:05:23Z")
Oh, so his name means “hummingbird,” over there on the left hand side of the screen? Sort of a “hummingbird on the left” as it were? Well, [AZTEC CASE CLOSED](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huitzilopochtli), “Colibri”! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/39 "2013-07-15T03:06:45Z")
> [@matt357](#): > > So if that’s just a harmless comment why did I get a warning for ASKING if someone was 12 after they said something extremely childish sounding comment. I think you actually got a warning for something else, and **Colibri** told you at the same time not to insult people: > [@Breathalizer test](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathalizer-test/662919/104): > > **Moderator Warning** > > **matt357** , insults are not permitted in General Questions. You also have been instructed to not keep bumping your own threads with non-factual information. This is an official warning. Do not do this again. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/40 "2013-07-15T03:08:20Z")
> [@sangfroid](#): > > Dude, does [this guy](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/10115.html) seriously look Aztec to you? > > Just sayin’. > > Plus, his board name is a a genus of [hummingbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violetear). > Hummingbird, I say. Just how malevolent do you think he could be as a mod? The jackboots alone would have to be, like, really teeny tiny… Yup Aztec for sure.\* \*He looks like a guy that would drive an Aztec. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518.md?page=3)