Dear (insert name here) Bigirl,
Congratulations on being made a moderator/administrator. I’m sure you will do very well in the job and we welcome you to our little Straight Dope family.
Sincerely,
Ed
D-R-I-N-K-Y-O-U-R-O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E???
What the hell?
my junior moderator ring is making my hand itchy and red
Mine turned my finger green.
And I specifically asked for the Moderator Hat[sup]TM[/sup] with the propeller on top. I want my money back.
BWAAAHAAAHAAAAHAAA!!
(snif)
Jesus, I’ve missed this place. I love you guys. Thanks for the rib breaking laughter!
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In a classless society we’d all be moderators. Or else none of us would be.
Either way, here’s to being no-class.
Cheers! burrrrrrrrp
Happy
A Junior Mod?
Isn’t that like a Junior mint?
Not at all. Only the real mods get coated in chocolate.
Unless they also com in mint chocolate, I’m not havin’ any!
[huff]
Yeah, I’d like a box of chocolate mods.
Whaddya mean you only have them in Jawbreakers?
Chocolate mod jawbreakers? Is that some new Japanese candy, like Pocky?
Monty
Get help, dude.
Joe_Cool is cool. While I don’t agree with all he says, he in no way played mod in either thread. I have to agree with grendel72.
Wait til you all get a load of my “Unban Perkydan!” thread. Mwahahahaahaha.
I agree with Monty - in both threads I read the same snarky attitude into Joe’s comments, i.e., “you’re not supposed to post in here.” But that’s just IMHO - YMMV. I wouldn’t go so far as to call him a “junior mod,” but the attitude of there being supposedly “the right people” who can only post in a thread (i.e., only people involved) seems rather ridiculous when the forum in which we are participating is a public message board. I learned a long time ago that if you post it, they will respond.
But, maybe it’s just me…
Esprix
Well, Exprix, you can read whatever you want into whatever you want, but that doesn’t make it so. I didn’t realize snarkiness, in response to a comment from a junior moderator telling me I’m not allowed to post on whatever topic I choose, is typical junior moderator behavior.
I don’t care a whit if you like me or not, but don’t make crap up. If you think I was an ass for telling DDG and AudreyK that I’ll post whatever I want about whatever I want, and anybody who’s not a moderator should keep comments of that sort to themselves, that’s fine. But I don’t have any interest in DDG’s or AudreyK’s opinions regarding whether my thread was appropriate. THAT is junior mod-wannabe behavior.
For crying out loud, grendel72 can’t stand me (understandably), and as much as I’m sure he’d love to jump on the bandwagon and agree with what a jerk I am, even he sees that it wasn’t what I was doing.
Come on. Dislike me all you want. But at least be honest about the things you’re accusing me of.
Joe_Cool
In my first post to that thread, I finished a sentence by saying that I “didn’t see the point”. The point I didn’t see was what you hoped to gain in soliciting opinions. You took it as me questioning your right to start threads. Now, I wouldn’t deny anyone the right to start whatever threads they want. At the time, I wasn’t thinking in terms of “whether Joe_Cool should have started this thread”; it was more “I don’t see what Joe_Cool thinks might be accomplished in this”. I’m not sure I can accurately describe the difference I see between these two points of view, but I certainly didn’t mean to come across as the way I evidently came across.
For what it’s worth, I did kinda feel like you were telling me I couldn’t participate in that thread since I “didn’t need to see the point”. But, eh, whatever.
Second, in hindsight, I think that my ‘zero business’ remark, though provoked, went over the line… my line, at least, if not the staff’s. I apologize for the junior-modding.
I’d certainly be interested to know how many atomic reactors women of the 1970s will use for styling their hair.
Tell you what - why don’t we all accuse each other of being Communists when we’re all done here?
If Dopers continue to attack each otherfor nood good damn reason, then the Junior Mods have already won.