# Clarification from Moderators, Please **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 10, 2011, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-from-moderators-please/584964 "2011-06-10T11:54:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-from-moderators-please/584964/21 "2011-06-10T18:12:50Z")
> [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](#): > > Do you know how to post links to other websites? I’m sorry but not knowing how to post a link(especially after a decade long membership) and claiming to want to “drive the ignorance out” is like not knowing which end of a hammer to use and claiming to be a carpenter. Why? I write what I want to say. I rarely have any interest in quoting anyone or referencing anything outside the thread where the discussion is happening. Us old folks can be a bit Luddite and stuck in our ways. They tell me that my portable phone has a camera, but I never bothered to learn how to use it. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-from-moderators-please/584964/22 "2011-06-10T18:16:22Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > For future reference, if you click the number by the report this post button, it will open the single post in a new window and you can use that url as your link. Thank you. I will use that the next time I want to link in from a different thread. If I remember it in 2023. ---
**Author:** ![mutantmoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mutantmoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mutantmoose)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-from-moderators-please/584964/23 "2011-06-10T18:26:24Z")
That raises an interesting point. I just plain don’t believe you - that you don’t know how to link to a thread. I’m not calling you a liar, it’s just that I lack the necessary level of credulity to believe what you are saying. Is that an insult? I would say no because it’s a fault of me not you. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-from-moderators-please/584964/24 "2011-06-10T18:31:56Z")
I just had one of the kids here at work look at my phone. I have over seventy pictures of the inside of my pocket saved on it. Live and learn. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-from-moderators-please/584964/25 "2011-06-10T18:39:54Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Thank you. I will use that the next time I want to link in from a different thread. If I remember it in 2023. Well, at the very least you can always just copy and paste whatever is in the address bar in your browser when you are on the page you want to share and post that. The board software will automatically parse it as a link. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-from-moderators-please/584964/26 "2011-06-10T18:44:14Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Well, at the very least you can always just copy and paste whatever is in the address bar in your browser when you are on the page you want to share and post that. The board software will automatically parse it as a link. The last time I tried something like that, the url was about three lines along and all the cool kids were laughing at me. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-from-moderators-please/584964/27 "2011-06-10T18:56:48Z")
**John Mace** turned me into a Newt!! I demand justice. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-from-moderators-please/584964/28 "2011-06-10T21:42:42Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > **John Mace** turned me into a Newt!! I demand justice. Justice? Why, you’re looking better already! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-from-moderators-please/584964/29 "2011-06-11T03:56:45Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > If, hypothetically, one poster performed a rite of exorcism on another poster, would that be outside of Great Debate guidelines? I believe I came up short of actually accusing XXX19 of being a tool of Satan, but if you find it beyond the pale please delete the post. It looked, to me, like a humorous effort to call the attention of XXX19 to the ludicrous nature of his assertions without resorting to direct name-calling. Even after I quit chuckling, I felt no impulse to weigh in as a Mod on the exorcism. (If the exorcism had been successful, however, I would have begun hounding you to apply to be a Moderator.) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-from-moderators-please/584964/30 "2011-06-13T04:40:58Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Justice? Why, you’re looking better already! I got better? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-from-moderators-please/584964/31 "2011-06-13T07:37:46Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > I got better? [Somebody online](http://jodyfisher.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/newt.jpg) seems to think so. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-from-moderators-please/584964.md?page=1)