# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/101 "2013-07-15T15:36:01Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > it will be noted, now and forever, that **jackdavinci** was the one, the only one, who stood up for **matt357** At first they came for the trolls, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a troll. They they came for the socks and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a sock. Then they came for the those who ignore mod instructions, and I didn’t speak out because I don’t ignore mod instructions. I had thought that at some point I must start to speak out, or there will be none left to speak for me, but then I realized that this whole board leans left. So fuck it. I’m not speaking out for anyone. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/102 "2013-07-15T15:50:59Z")
> [@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. Your post is bullshit! **Colibri** lives right near the old Aztec Empire in Panama, so therefore, he could be an Aztec, which would explain his propensity for issuing violent warnings. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/103 "2013-07-15T15:53:58Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Your post is bullshit! **Colibri** lives right near the old Aztec Empire in Panama, so therefore, he could be an Aztec, which would explain his propensity for issuing violent warnings. His warnings will rip the heart right out of ya! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/104 "2013-07-15T17:02:52Z")
Saw the thread title from the board menu, thought “Well, it can only be one of about a hand full of people…” Yup, I was right. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/105 "2013-07-15T17:52:53Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Your post is bullshit! **Colibri** lives right near the old Aztec Empire in Panama, so therefore, he could be an Aztec, which would explain his propensity for issuing violent warnings. Even as a joke, that fails. The Xonoconochco colonized territory was only as far south as what is now Guatemala. Panama was nowhere near Aztec land. Stick with the fierceness of hummingbirds. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/106 "2013-07-15T17:59:26Z")
I always thought **Colibri** was just into being stylish while starting fires. I swear to Bob I learn something new here every day. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/107 "2013-07-15T20:30:28Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > A cop once told me that he would blow up a balloon and would tell suspected offenders that the sobriety test included catching the balloon when he released the air. I told him that was ridiculous, even sober people couldn’t catch one and he said that was the point, a sober person would tell him it was crazy, a drunk would get ready to try to catch it. They’re trying to trick the drunk into saying “I couldn’t do that even if I _wasn’t_ drunk! Wait… d’oh!” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/108 "2013-07-15T21:26:15Z")
Can I just say that the phrase “Hummingbird Vendetta” has a _frisson_ of badass espionage maneuver to it? Kinda like the trope that _real_ badass assassins often use .22 caliber weapons for their wet work. Small, efficient, deadly. I wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of a Hummingbird Vendetta - nosirree 😉 ---
**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, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/109 "2013-07-15T21:27:15Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Hummingbird Vendetta Band name. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/110 "2013-07-15T21:35:26Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Band name. Robert Ludlum book title. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/111 "2013-07-15T21:45:31Z")
[quote=“matt357, post:19, topic:663518”] > [@Colibri](#): > > No you wouldn’t, because as I pointed out those remarks were not against the rules. > So saying that is not against the rules but me asking if someone was 12 was a “personal attack”. What you have been saying and doing to me is a blatant personal attack. You have been giving me repeated warning for not breaking any rules trying to get me banned., insulting me, cursing at me, and closing almost any thread I open. You should have you mod revoked. So you’re saying that his comments were bullshit? ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/112 "2013-07-15T22:06:48Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Can I just say that the phrase “Hummingbird Vendetta” has a _frisson_ of badass espionage maneuver to it? Kinda like the trope that _real_ badass assassins often use .22 caliber weapons for their wet work. Small, efficient, deadly. > > I wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of a Hummingbird Vendetta - nosirree 😉 A friend of mine has, as his nom de plume, “Black Hummingbird of Death.” His logo has tiny chain guns mounted under the wings. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/113 "2013-07-15T22:52:13Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > A friend of mine has, as his nom de plume, “Black Hummingbird of Death.” His logo has tiny chain guns mounted under the wings. He has to eat his weight in death _every day!_ ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/114 "2013-07-15T23:01:04Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > “You’re entitled to your own opinion. You’re not entitled to your own facts.” > > Attributed to Sen Daniel Patrick Moynihan. I like Harlan Ellison’s version better yet "You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. –HARLAN ELLISON" ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/115 "2013-07-16T02:23:37Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Can I be sexually harassed by a moderator? > > Sometimes I get lonely. Is a leer and a wink sufficient, or do you need to be groped, too? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/116 "2013-07-16T02:52:45Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I always thought **Colibri** was just into being stylish while starting fires. I swear to Bob I learn something new here every day. But… but… what about, 'throwing stuff in the… nah, not gonna do it. 😉 D&R ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/117 "2013-07-16T02:59:32Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > A friend of mine has, as his nom de plume, “Black Hummingbird of Death.” Maybe something like [this guy.](http://71.18.4.194/images/000-947/Black-bellied%20Hummingbird.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/118 "2013-07-16T04:24:16Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Next he’ll be telling us how to cut out hearts for sacrifices. All those illustrations show going in from the top/through the rib cage. Personally, I’ve always found going in from beneath the rib cage and angling up to the heart to be much easier. No pesky bones getting in the way. Do you have any idea how much force is required to crack ribs? And you have to get that heart out \*quickly \*so it’s still beating! There’s a knack to it, but it takes forever to learn. You go through so many sacrifices that just aren’t acceptable. [There’s plenty of incentive to learn before you use up your allotment, though; if you do ruin too many, you’re next!] What? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/119 "2013-07-16T04:29:55Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > As an incidental note, learning the alphabet backward is pretty easy since it breaks down into handy rhymes: > > ZYX and WV, > UTS and RQP. > ONM and LKJ, > IHG, FED and CBA. > > I learned that when I was ten. With practice, you can drop the “ands”. Back in grade school (maybe high school) I was bored one day, so I wrote the alphabet backwards and memorized it over the course of the next hour or two and can still recite it backwards. Oddly, it comes in pretty handy. It’s really nice for flipping thorough dictionaries or phone books, not that I have to do that all that often anymore, but being able to work my way through them backwards as well as forwards is nice. ---
**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518/120 "2013-07-16T06:14:47Z")
I taught my four-year old daughter to sing the alphabet backwards using the same Twinkle Twinkle tune that was popularised by Sesame St. Works better with the Anglicised “Zed” than Zee. Zed Y X “double Yoo” V U T S R Q P O N M L K J I H G F E D C B A Now I know my CBA The alphabet is fun this way. Waaay off the OP but I don’t think this thread was going anywhere fast anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-harrased-by-a-moderator/663518.md?page=7)