# Comments on mod actions in IMHO **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 23, 2008, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-mod-actions-in-imho/474079 "2008-11-23T05:31:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-mod-actions-in-imho/474079/1 "2008-11-23T05:31:07Z")
> [@A Day in the Life of a Mod](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-mod/473821/49): > > Did I fucking stutter, or do you think I’m stupid? In case I was not clear before, this is a formal warning to knock it off, **Frank**. Comments and complaints on mod actions go in ATMB or the Pit. Stop crapping up this thread. I probably shouldn’t be the one to start this thread, but it seems to me that [comments on mod actions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10485309&postcount=46) in a [thread asking about mod actions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=494028) would be acceptable. Would that not be the case? ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-mod-actions-in-imho/474079/2 "2008-11-23T06:34:09Z")
A former poster here would occasionally, but often enough to notice, take strong exception to what in his opinion was threadshitting. So, he’d write an essay about a one-line post telling everybody that the one-line poster was a threadshitter. The ‘threadshitter’ would sometimes return and suggest that the complainant should chill (or at least somebody would suggest it). The complainant would then publish a paper about that post as well. The complainant becomes the culprit. A post like **Frank** ’s _snort_, irrespective of its validity in that thread, is gone in 60 seconds. People forget it. It shouldn’t matter. **Marley** should have kept his powder dry. Of course, there could be some history. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-mod-actions-in-imho/474079/3 "2008-11-23T06:55:46Z")
I note also that **Frank** himself has addressed the matter [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=494295). ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-mod-actions-in-imho/474079/4 "2008-11-23T06:59:15Z")
There’s a little bit of history. **Frank** was trying to needle me by referring to a complaint he’d made a few weeks ago, in private, about my modding in other forums. A question about why we do something or “I think you do too much of this” would’ve been organic to the thread, but he was making reference to his own beef there. Like I said, comments on mod performance go here or in the pit, which **Frank** knows. Does that clear it up at all? ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-mod-actions-in-imho/474079/5 "2008-11-23T07:17:08Z")
Well, it clears up the history part. Thing is, **Marley** , it’s sometimes better to let a comment slide by you if a response to it risks derailing the thread in the manner previously described. You retain the option to go for **Frank** if he persists in needling you, either later in that thread or in another one. In so doing, you can tell him what a nice guy you have been in giving him a pass on the first comment. Whereas you told **him** to stop crapping up the thread, I fear it is you who will be seen by many as having done it yourself. C. Guevara, Junior Mod. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-mod-actions-in-imho/474079/6 "2008-11-23T07:20:51Z")
Eh. I asked him to leave it be without making an issue of it, and he couldn’t. I don’t feel responsible for that. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-mod-actions-in-imho/474079/7 "2008-11-23T07:23:10Z")
A JUNIOR MOD! Ban him immediately! ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-mod-actions-in-imho/474079/8 "2008-11-23T07:37:18Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Eh. I asked him to leave it be without making an issue of it, and he couldn’t. I don’t feel responsible for that. Yeah, but _snort_ doesn’t screw the thread whereas this does: > [@](#): > > You’re welcome to your opinions on my modding, just like everybody was welcome to their opinions on yours, but keep it out of here. One would think you’d be more aware of the rules than that. If you refrain from that comment the IMHO thread stays level and there’s no need for a pitting. You made it an issue with that post. That said, it seems the pitting would probably have happened anyway. It’s just been brought forward. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-mod-actions-in-imho/474079/9 "2008-11-23T07:40:43Z")
> [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > If you refrain from that comment the IMHO thread stays level and there’s no need for a pitting. You made it an issue with that post. I disagree. If the thread’s toast, which it probably is, I’m sorry about it- but like I said, I didn’t make the situation happen. Letting small stuff slide in general is a good point, though. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-mod-actions-in-imho/474079/10 "2008-11-23T13:15:29Z")
I don’t know whether you folks already have one, but some sort of an **exit process** for former moderators might be a good idea. Some former mods have disappeared for a while or for good. Some have stayed and adjusted well to being ordinary posters. Having your place on the Boards and its priority in your day change dramatically must be quite a thing. Having a few others who have been through the experience (and coped without departing or finding the place tedious) write it down might help ease the transition. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-mod-actions-in-imho/474079/11 "2008-11-23T13:22:28Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I disagree. If the thread’s toast, which it probably is, I’m sorry about it- but like I said, I didn’t make the situation happen. Letting small stuff slide in general is a good point, though. If you don’t mine just an opinion, I think you overreacted to a single “snort” with your first response. Which is somewhat funny as in the same thread \*\*Frank \*\*overreacted to what I really thought was a very obvious joke. But his overreaction was only to ensure the truth was known and your was a minor slap followed by a nastier than usually (especially for you) Mod Warning. It honestly looks bad for you. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Library\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@Library\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Library_Boy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-mod-actions-in-imho/474079/12 "2008-11-24T07:01:43Z")
It does not look bad to everybody. Frank was taking a shot at how Marley moderates in an IMHO thread and got rightly called on it. Then he kept at it in the thread and got smacked. No problem.