# Catching Up **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 3, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catching-up/845894 "2020-01-03T18:52:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 51
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catching-up/845894/51 "2020-01-05T16:10:15Z")
Skip, I hate to ask but were you approached by board staff to return, perhaps with the idea you’d be made a moderator again? [They tried that last year with Gary Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=863014), it was pretty humiliating and I’m sorry to say I called it. > [@Wombat's Back and GQ's Got Him!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wombats-back-and-gqs-got-him/822086/13): > > If you didn’t already know, Idle Thoughts was fired in disgrace and no longer publicly participates here. Which bring up a question… > > Why does someone that left, if not abandoned, the boards for years get a Moderatorship almost immediately upon return? I’m not asking from a position of ‘Gary is bad’ as I do think I recall him being a good mod. Rather, it’s from the ‘wouldn’t someone more currently active be both better informed about the current state of things as well as more deserving of the privilege of elevation to Moderator?’ point of view. We were assured Gary’s ‘proven track record’ was beyond reproach. He disappeared a few days later (announcement Sept 28, last post Oct 2, 2018) and hasn’t been heard from since. He was quietly delisted along with a batch of other absentee moderators last year. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catching-up/845894)._