# Best mod quote I have ever seen **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 6, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021 "2012-11-06T00:06:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/1 "2012-11-06T00:06:00Z")
I note that ATMB is for feedback and I don’t see a rule limiting it to negative feedback, so might I say that > [@Lust4Life: If you want to accuse me of dishonesty, bring it here.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lust4life-if-you-want-to-accuse-me-of-dishonesty-bring-it-here/639804/108): > > [Moderating]\*\* > I recognize that posing as ex-military requires one to adopt a certain attitude,\*\* but try to keep in mind that threatening other posters with violence is against the rules of the board. The quoted text above is coming a bit too close to the line. **Please try to avoid such language in your future endeavors in internet tough guy posturing.** > [/Moderating] is the most beautiful mod action I have ever seen here for the reasons I have **highlighted in bold orange**. Some of Marley’s recent decisions have also been hilarious as well and in general could I suggest more of that kind of thing? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/2 "2012-11-06T00:21:19Z")
Thread link might be nice. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/3 "2012-11-06T00:21:32Z")
Marley does come up with some good ones 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/4 "2012-11-06T00:22:33Z")
[Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=671010) I think Marley’s warning is on page 3. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/5 "2012-11-06T00:26:13Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Thread link might be nice. You can click the arrows in the quote to see the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/6 "2012-11-06T00:27:20Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > [Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=671010) > I think Marley’s warning is on page 3. These warnings were by Miller not Marley, but Marley’s done some good shit recently as well. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/7 "2012-11-06T00:30:41Z")
> [@Simple\_Linctus](#): > > These warnings were by Miller not Marley, but Marley’s done some good shit recently as well. DOH! Sorry! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/8 "2012-11-06T00:56:29Z")
As it happens, this is the best mod quote. The thread’s locked, so I can’t quote, but I can link. [As it happens, _I_ am the fucking hall monitor. - **manhattan.**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2744558&postcount=26) ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/9 "2012-11-06T01:08:39Z")
I miss manhattan. He once did a md action in verse. Sigh, he was dreamy. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/10 "2012-11-06T01:21:56Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > As it happens, this is the best mod quote. The thread’s locked, so I can’t quote, but I can link. > > [As it happens, _I_ am the fucking hall monitor. - **manhattan.**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2744558&postcount=26) that\* is\* excellent, applause! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/11 "2012-11-06T03:30:34Z")
You can’t quote? Check this out! > [@](#): > > Originally posted by **manhattan** [\>](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2744558&postcount=26) > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally posted by **Cleverman** [\>](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15664937&postcount=8) > > sailor, Hail Ants, I wasn’t talking to you. What are you, the fucking hall monitors? > > As it happens, I am the fucking hall monitor. If you don’t want help, don’t ask. You insult another user and you’re done here. That is not how we do things here. > > So knock it off. > > * * * > > “We hope that next time the rockets will be more accurate and effective in getting rid of this virus.” Walid Jumblatt on Paul Wolfowitz, October 2003 > > “This process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq… The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing.” Walid Jumblatt, February 2005 ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/12 "2012-11-06T03:46:29Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > I miss manhattan. Me too. He’s still around if you know your mixology. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/13 "2012-11-06T03:55:39Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > I miss manhattan. > > He once did a md action in verse. Sigh, he was dreamy. At the risk of making a huge faux pas, what ever happened to Manhattan? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/14 "2012-11-06T04:24:26Z")
Nothing melodramatic, he just retired and stopped hanging out here. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/15 "2012-11-06T06:11:27Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > As it happens, this is the best mod quote. The thread’s locked, so I can’t quote, but I can link. > > [As it happens, _I_ am the fucking hall monitor. - **manhattan.**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2744558&postcount=26) Actually, with a little bit of effort, you _can too_ quote from a closed thread. Like this: > [@How do I keep IE from automatically chenging the text size?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-keep-ie-from-automatically-chenging-the-text-size/143703/26): > > As it happens, I am the fucking hall monitor. If you don’t want help, don’t ask. You insult another user and you’re done here. That is not how we do things here. > > So knock it off. ETA: Okay, I see a minor glitch there. In **manhattan** ’s original post, the word _I_ is italicized in “_I_ am the fucking hall monitor” and that little font change got lost. Still, basically, you can do it. Who’da thunk it? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/16 "2012-11-06T06:24:35Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Actually, with a little bit of effort, you _can too_ quote from a closed thread. Like this: > > ETA: Okay, I see a minor glitch there. In **manhattan** ’s original post, the word _I_ is italicized in “_I_ am the fucking hall monitor” and that little font change got lost. Still, basically, you can do it. Who’da thunk it? OK? 😕 It would have taken way more effort than what I did. I’m lazy, that’s more of an effort than I like to make. Especially on an iPhone. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/17 "2012-11-06T06:32:34Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > You can’t quote? Check this out! Okay, I see **Monty** approximately figured this out too, just a little ahead of me! Just giving credit where credit is due. Note, though, that there’s something just a little bit, uh, _odd_ about **Monty** ’s quotes: They don’t look quite normal. Can you see what’s _different_ there? Also: Normally when you click on the little arrow to view the original post, you get a page with the entire thread (or one page thereof), but positioned to the post in question. When you click on **Monty** ’s funky little arrows, you get a page showing _only that one post._ **Monty** , you’re _really really close_ to getting it right. Just _one little extra step_ to get the link to the original post so that the whole thread shows instead of just the one post (but positioned to the post in question), and a few extra steps to make the little arrow look and work like the real thing. (On preview: I see on preview that **cochrane** has a comment on this, but I’ll go ahead and post this now, then read what **cochrane** has to say.) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/18 "2012-11-06T06:37:10Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > OK? 😕 It would have taken way more effort than what I did. I’m lazy, that’s more of an effort than I like to make. Especially on an iPhone. Okay, I take it from this comment that you know the trick too. Maybe everybody does? Hey, I just figured it out myself, so that made me think I’m spiffy smart! :rolleyes: Yeah, you’re right, it’s just a bit of a PITA to do. I wouldn’t even think of doing fancy stuff like that on an iPhone. Note also that **Monty** got a quote-within-a-quote there too. (ETA: It’s up in Post #11, FYI.) A lot of Dopers know how to do that too, because I see it done a lot. But yeah, it is something of a PITA. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/19 "2012-11-06T08:20:18Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > [As it happens, _I_ am the fucking hall monitor. - **manhattan.**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2744558&postcount=26) This was the first one to come to mind when I saw the thread title. I read it when it happened, and it gets my vote. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021/20 "2012-11-06T11:38:05Z")
Manhattan’s is legend. Euty did some great stuff as well. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mod-quote-i-have-ever-seen/640021.md?page=2)