# Consulting miderators re: further action **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 10, 2023, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358 "2023-10-10T13:18:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/21 "2023-10-10T23:44:21Z")
So, just for the record I went and clicked on the OP’s second link, ya know, because they want it in support of their argument. A quote: > One of the most popular videos, which was published on January 29, 2023, currently sits at 1.1 million views. It’s clearly intended as a humorous joke, causing shock to the audience that Obi-Wan Kenobi would really say such things about Ahsoka. > > Due to the copypasta text’s sexually explicit NSFW content, I won’t be including the full text or any video in this article. So yeah, even they admit NSFW, which, as mentioned would have required our two click rule. Miderator, schmidorator, take the note and be glad it wasn’t a warning. FTR, the FIRST link includes quotes of the offensive text as well, so I’d ask a miderator, or better yet, a moderator to blur the hell out it or post a NSFW warning on it! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/22 "2023-10-10T23:52:40Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > That’s why we have humans as miderators instead of robots. Mind you, with AI, ribits might give miderators a run for their money. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/23 "2023-10-11T00:07:38Z")
Something being widespread and popular doesn’t make it inoffensive. Catcalls are widespread and popular too, and they make a lot of women feel shitty. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/24 "2023-10-11T04:20:51Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > But I really like “miderators”. It’s like a cross between moderators and midwives! Moderators with Midichlorians ETA: I just went back and watched the video. I can take misogynistic jokes. Hell, I used to do stand-up in the late 90s into the 2000s. I’ve _told_ misogynistic jokes before (and I recognize that those jokes haven’t aged well, and I’m embarrassed to have written or told them). But all that aside, it committed the cardinal sin: it just wasn’t funny. And that bit is from January of this year, per the upload date? It wouldn’t have been funny even back in more misogyny-tolerant times. I’m embarrassed for society that (according to the YouTube comments) some people actually found it amusing. It was horribly unfunny. Without the misogyny, which makes it even worse ---
**Author:** ![cincinnatus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cincinnatus/32/7990_2.png) [@cincinnatus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cincinnatus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/25 "2023-10-11T08:12:32Z")
I would like to see what is so bad, but I can’t. The link has been removed. That’s odd. Is this analogous to books being removed from the library? ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/26 "2023-10-11T08:31:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > A hundred smiles in four years! **Over** a hundred smiles! Folks, we’re in the presence of **meme royalty.** The _crème de la mème_ ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/27 "2023-10-11T08:43:09Z")
@cincinnatus , I’m going to PM you a link to the video ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/28 "2023-10-11T11:24:01Z")
I didn’t remove it, i inserted a space so it doesn’t work. You can copy it into your browser and manually remove that space if you want. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/29 "2023-10-11T11:35:09Z")
There’s a link to it in the Know Your Meme page linked in the OP. I got exactly 19 seconds in before I got embarrassed on behalf of everyone who’s ever giggled at the stupid fucking thing and turned it off. It’s gross. ---
**Author:** ![cincinnatus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cincinnatus/32/7990_2.png) [@cincinnatus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cincinnatus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/30 "2023-10-11T12:57:21Z")
Thanks, I didn’t know that. Very subtle. Now I will go look. Late edit: Yeah, I didn’t have to see that. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/31 "2023-10-11T13:31:25Z")
> [@cincinnatus](#): > > I would like to see what is so bad, but I can’t. The link has been removed. > > That’s odd. Is this analogous to books being removed from the library? > [@cincinnatus](#): > > Now I will go look. > > Late edit: > Yeah, I didn’t have to see that. This cautionary tale is like the legend of how Barbara Streisand came to open Pandora’s Box. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/32 "2023-10-11T14:20:46Z")
I’m a Star Wats fan to the extent that [Haden Blackman](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/W._Haden_Blackman) once called me a geek online for knowing too much Star Wars trivia. Yet I’ve never heard of this meme, and I still haven’t seen it even after reading this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/33 "2023-10-11T17:43:02Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > But all that aside, it committed the cardinal sin: it just wasn’t funny. Some people find offensive things funny for their own sake. I’m not one of them. It seems lazy to me. Some things are funny in spite of being offensive, but it’s not their offensiveness that makes them funny, it’s their funniness. I like a good provocateur but it has to be thoughtful. Now I’m pretty sure this is Zoomer humor so maybe there are layers of meaning I’m not getting, but it doesn’t come off as thoughtful, just peurile objectification. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/34 "2023-12-06T18:24:56Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Of course it’s a subjective judgement. That’s why we have humans as miderators instead of **robots**. Droids. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358/35 "2023-12-06T21:10:14Z")
> [@cincinnatus](#): > > That’s odd. Is this analogous to books being removed from the library? No, since the SDMB is not a public resource. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consulting-miderators-re-further-action/991358.md?page=1)