# Can the moderators please err on the right side? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 8, 2019, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-moderators-please-err-on-the-right-side/836702 "2019-07-08T07:56:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-moderators-please-err-on-the-right-side/836702/61 "2019-08-09T06:23:42Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > I find your effort to divide hostile posts between those of Nazis and others to be troubling. Are you arguing that we have a special rule that allows the insulting of Nazis, but not others? Why are there nazis here? ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-moderators-please-err-on-the-right-side/836702/62 "2019-08-09T07:12:58Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > **False.** No name calling occurred. Are we voting? Because if we are voting, I’ll vote against the ideas expressed in your post, starting with that one. I very seldom agree with the moderation I see: I always agree with the overall effect it has on this board. I’m willing to put up with first in exchange for the second. But if we are going to give up on moderation, and go for voting instead, I’m voting against the ideas expressed in your post, starting from the top. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-moderators-please-err-on-the-right-side/836702/63 "2019-08-09T12:19:11Z")
Wondering why this otherwise dormant thread was reopened ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-moderators-please-err-on-the-right-side/836702/64 "2019-08-09T12:26:15Z")
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize how far back this was. Mea culpa. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-moderators-please-err-on-the-right-side/836702/65 "2019-08-09T14:37:28Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > He’s just giving the traditional “insult the post, not the poster” thing. There’s an old guard here that basically think a Queensberry rules type thing is sufficient for guiding a fun debate. What message board has no set of rules? What is it that you propose? That the remaining inmates run the asylum? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-moderators-please-err-on-the-right-side/836702/66 "2019-08-10T23:39:30Z")
When I wrote the OP, I didn’t intend to troll. I sincerely meant it. With that said, reading the thread here, I had a deep belly laugh and possibly emitted a troll-like squeal. The…way the posts in here insist breathlessly that I _have_ to be talking in a “secret code” to other wanna-be-Nazis and thus an immediate banning of me is just and right along with revocation of the poster’s warnings was hilarious to me. Frankly I just saw reasoning error after error. A few of the big ones: a. I posited that possibly a _tiny percent_ of the soldiers _drafted and assigned to the concentration camps_ might have had Jewish relatives. That turned into “blaming the Jews for the holocaust”. b. I noticed that posters would get angry at the moderation on a post, then some old post of mine would get dredged up and read out of context, and the poster would say “nevermind, the moderation is ok because the poster is a _bad person_”. Which, well, is ironic that it relates to some holocaust memes. Now that the moderation of this forum has became far tighter, and several bannings have been issued for posts that aren’t obviously against any specific rule, the quote “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out…” becomes rather apropos. “First they came for the poster who made a reference to conservative’s having massive arsenals, and I did not speak out…” Just much lower stakes, is all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-moderators-please-err-on-the-right-side/836702.md?page=3)