# Bone - please explain this moderation note **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 22, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161 "2019-10-22T22:59:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/21 "2019-10-22T23:40:04Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > Seems to be a trouble maker. I’ll take care of it. Send him to Sweden. It seems most appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/22 "2019-10-22T23:44:09Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Send him to Sweden. It seems most appropriate. I suspect that being flayed alive would be a less harsh punishment for this hacker than being condemned to live in that hellhole. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/23 "2019-10-22T23:57:01Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > But which one is the real one? Quick, someone ask a question that only Bone would know! Who is stitifier? ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/24 "2019-10-22T23:58:04Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > I say if the impostor manages to ban the original, he’s earned the right to take his place. It’s like Klingon promotion ritual. The title is difficult to spoof, and I rather like mine so I have that going for me. The person took the trouble of copying the avatar too. At least a few minutes of work for such limited return, while we can sit here and mock them for all time. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/25 "2019-10-22T23:58:50Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Who is stitifier? I know that name from an old board I used to post to. How do you know it? ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/26 "2019-10-23T00:02:41Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Gee, I wonder which poster banned by Bone today that might have been?.. Ooh! Oooh! I know! ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/27 "2019-10-23T00:04:44Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > I know that name from an old board I used to post to. How do you know it? Well, from an old board I used to post to. And no, I’m not stitifier. But it’s a question only Bone would know the answer to… :shifty eyes: ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/28 "2019-10-23T00:05:05Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > Ooh! Oooh! I know! With that hacking prowess, must be someone who works at the NSA right? ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/29 "2019-10-23T00:09:30Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Well, from an old board I used to post to. > > And no, I’m not stitifier. > > But it’s a question only Bone would know the answer to… :shifty eyes: He was a mod at an offtopic gaming forum for a long time, then we posted together quite a bit at a splinter board. I miss that guy. The real question is how would you know that I would know? most curious. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/30 "2019-10-23T00:18:31Z")
Seems kind of original. I mean, create a new account similar to a mod and then just give out almost warnings to a random thread? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/31 "2019-10-23T00:36:36Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Gee, I wonder which poster banned by Bone today that might have been?.. > [@Isosleepy](#): > > Ooh! Oooh! I know! Bill Barnaby or something, IIRC… ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/32 "2019-10-23T00:53:24Z")
Intrigue. How fun! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/33 "2019-10-23T01:07:52Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > > [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > > > Yep, that ain’t Bone. Looks like the “o” is special character. > > Apparently it’s Unicode Character “ο” (U+03BF) - Greek Small Letter Omicron Thank you for that. I was wondering how that was done. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/34 "2019-10-23T01:50:34Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > He was a mod at an offtopic gaming forum for a long time, then we posted together quite a bit at a splinter board. I miss that guy. > > The real question is how would you know that I would know? most curious. Well, as it happens, I too was a poster on a certain off-topic forum, a long time ago, for a certain… computer game (or rather its sequel), and I also ended up on that splinter board. Until it… fell on hard times. My current username is an abbreviation of my old one, though, and I have only had this avatar a few years. Rest assured people, he’s the real Bone. And if you can’t trust the guy who showed up and started posting three months ago, who can you trust? ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/35 "2019-10-23T02:38:12Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Seems kind of original. I mean, create a new account similar to a mod and then just give out almost warnings to a random thread? Yes. It is both clever and funny. I sorta feel like a kid who had a buffalo following him home. I know I can’t keep it, I understand why, and I know in the end the buffalo would just leave steaming piles of buffalo dung everywhere, but for a second, just a second, I wished we could keep it. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/36 "2019-10-23T03:02:35Z")
Don’t give up all hope–there are more mods with "o"s in their names. Maybe you can see Chronos suddenly start posting links to Armenian duck porn. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/37 "2019-10-23T03:03:34Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > But which one is the real one? Quick, someone ask a question that only Bone would know! How’s [this](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/50/ea/3c/50ea3c0686e86f0f7752f91cf75ea3dc.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/38 "2019-10-23T03:16:28Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Don’t give up all hope–there are more mods with "o"s in their names. Maybe you can see Chronos suddenly start posting links to Armenian duck porn. That could be ambiguous though. It could be the real Chronos responding to suggestions in the other thread to make mod posts more prominent. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/39 "2019-10-23T03:19:46Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > Yes. It is both clever and funny. I sorta feel like a kid who had a buffalo following him home. I know I can’t keep it, I understand why, and I know in the end the buffalo would just leave steaming piles of buffalo dung everywhere, but for a second, just a second, I wished we could keep it. It’s the random “mod note” on some harmless thread that makes it pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161/40 "2019-10-23T09:34:05Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Ah yes, we have either a hacker, or a moderator-impersonator on our hands. > > The comment about someone getting “their ass punted back to Sweden” didn’t sound in the least like Bone’s real vernacular, either. [Sweden, you say](https://cinemashame.wordpress.com/2018/01/02/january-prompt-2018-shame-statements/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-please-explain-this-moderation-note/842161.md?page=3)