# Ed, WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 23, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650 "2009-01-23T15:46:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/281 "2009-02-06T02:13:26Z")
Well, there’s no need to keep this thread alive after this . I see that **Ed Zotti** hasn’t bothered to moderate or post in the pit since January 23. He’s gone back to his true love, The Chicago Dope. I hope he’s none the worse for the weather. ---
**Author:** ![HolyFreakingMoly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ba0ec/32.png) [@HolyFreakingMoly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HolyFreakingMoly)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/282 "2009-02-06T03:10:37Z")
Damn! This is what I hate about being a noob and miss about my old board… I don’t “get” all the drama! Fuck! ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/283 "2009-02-06T05:23:15Z")
> [@HolyFreakingMoly](#): > > Damn! This is what I hate about being a noob and miss about my old board… I don’t “get” all the drama! > > Fuck! Butthurt much? ---
**Author:** ![HolyFreakingMoly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ba0ec/32.png) [@HolyFreakingMoly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HolyFreakingMoly)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/284 "2009-02-06T13:15:39Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > Butthurt much? Must be some inside joke… I don’t get that either. :dubious: ---
**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:** [February 6, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/285 "2009-02-06T13:34:20Z")
> [@HolyFreakingMoly](#): > > Must be some inside joke… I don’t get that either. :dubious: It is what set off this entire thread from the prior thread. Thus why **RedFury** thought even a new member would get the joke. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/286 "2009-02-07T02:04:16Z")
Holy freaking moly, lookit the turnip truck! Hostile Dialect, Hostile Dialect, Narcissist ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/287 "2009-02-08T02:20:51Z")
> [@](#): > > **Tomndebb** : Maybe there really was some wonderful point to be made, here. If so, it could be couched in polite lannguage and submitted to the ATMB. I have to read enough churlish posts in GD without taking on the task of reading everything in the Pit as well. There are nine stickies at ATMB. Is that the reason there are only six posts? That is one of the reasons that I wouldn’t want to post my comments and criticisms of the mods – you, specifically – there. I also think that people are more likely to be frank here. That doesn’t have to translate as “churlish.” The last time I tried to communicate with you, I didn’t do any namecalling or make any sarcastic remarks. I rarely do. Nevertheless, you let me know 1) that you found my communication boring and 2) you don’t really know the most basic thing about who I am and why I continue to stay around the SDMB after six years and 11,000 posts (more or less). Many of those posts have been in Great Debates where I have completely given up reporting any personal attacks on me. (And I am not talking about attacks on things that I _said_.) You want us to be respectful despite your unnecessary disrespect of us. And besides, what was it that got you over to this thread? By your own admission it was namecalling. > [@](#): > > I am guessing that the same complaints were lodged that are always lodged by the same posters that always lodge them. So once again, without your reading the thread, you make assumptions about certain posters saying certain things. And you make your usual snide comment because you are just too above it all to fool with posters until we can entertain you. This post is my first one to this thread. Surprise! Boring threads don’t usually get this long. Just because you are bored doesn’t mean that Dopers are the reason. Stop taking it out on us, **Tom** If we get a little repetitive in our complaints, there might be one very good reason: a lack of responsiveness. (Nitpicking about how mental health issues and mental illness issues are not the same does not make a reasonable response.) Maybe I did engage in namecalling. I may have called you a bully. You were not always like this. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/288 "2009-02-08T09:40:42Z")
This thread just won’t die. Zoe, if you are seriously concerned about that, send Tom a PM or something. I really doubt he will see your comment here. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/289 "2009-02-08T11:16:57Z")
Well said, **Zoe** ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/290 "2009-02-08T11:49:15Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > This thread just won’t die. > > Zoe, if you are seriously concerned about that, send Tom a PM or something. I really doubt he will see your comment here. The mods pretend that they are above the complaints of the common masses and that they could not care less but I have it from reliable sources that they see everything and take names. Later they will pay back in their passive-aggressive usual manner of ignoring reported posts, etc. What really slows down the boards is the part of the database where the mods keeps the points and ratings against each poster. It is massive and the mods consult it continually before taking any action. There is the semi-secret part where they have the warnings, etc. but then there is the ultrasecret part where they keep all their petty grievances against individual posters. That’s what happens when you want to play being Homeland Security but can only afford a Pentium 4.75 with a wind-up disk and three elderly hamsters. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/291 "2009-02-08T14:55:01Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > What really slows down the boards is the part of the database where the mods keeps the points and ratings against each poster. It is massive and the mods consult it continually before taking any action. There is the semi-secret part where they have the warnings, etc. but then there is the ultrasecret part where they keep all their petty grievances against individual posters. You’re saying this with tongue in cheek, right? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/292 "2009-02-08T17:45:39Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > You’re saying this with tongue in cheek, right? I think the second paragraph indicates so. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/293 "2009-02-08T17:46:16Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > but then there is the ultrasecret part where they keep all their petty grievances against individual posters. You must really have no life. This is just about the lamest conspiracy theory I’ve ever heard of. Hostile Dialect, Hostile Dialect, Narcissist ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/294 "2009-02-09T08:29:42Z")
> [@](#): > > **Sapo** : Zoe, if you are seriously concerned about that, send Tom a PM or something. I really doubt he will see your comment here. Thanks, **Sapo**. Private messages have been a disaster with **Tom** lately. (I’m referring only to my experiences.) Maybe there is something that I am doing wrong, but I don’t usually have this much trouble communicating. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/295 "2009-02-09T08:40:42Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > Thanks, **Sapo**. Private messages have been a disaster with **Tom** lately. (I’m referring only to my experiences.) Maybe there is something that I am doing wrong, but I don’t usually have this much trouble communicating. Recently I PM’d a Mod and got no response. I posted in ATMB and was told that most mods rarely checked their PMs, and that I was most likely to get a response by emailing them. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/296 "2009-02-09T09:05:44Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > What really slows down the boards is the part of the database where the mods keeps the points and ratings against each poster. It is massive and the mods consult it continually before taking any action. Actually ordinary posts don’t place too much of a load. It’s the secret forum where they exchange hi-def goat porn movies that’s the real problem. ---
**Author:** ![Krav\_Manga](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krav_manga/32/3153_2.png) [@Krav\_Manga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krav_Manga)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/297 "2009-02-09T09:09:50Z")
In this thread ([What part of "NO DOGS" do you not understand??? - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504939)), phall0106 wrote: > [@What part of "NO DOGS" do you not understand???](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-part-of-no-dogs-do-you-not-understand/484317/5): > > **Mangetout** , come a little closer…a bit closer so I can bop you on the nose…😃 Where was his warning? ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/298 "2009-02-09T09:48:31Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > You’re saying this with tongue in cheek, right? Why? is there a tongue-in-cheek checkbox in your database that you are not sure you need to check for this post? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/299 "2009-02-11T06:22:47Z")
> [@Krav\_Manga](#): > > In this thread ([What part of "NO DOGS" do you not understand??? - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504939)), phall0106 wrote: > > Where was his warning? You need to report the bad post in order to initiate a warning. Its too late now. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/300 "2009-02-11T06:33:51Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > Recently I PM’d a Mod and got no response. I posted in ATMB and was told that most mods rarely checked their PMs, and that I was most likely to get a response by emailing them. Sometimes we go on vacation, or our internet connection is down for several days, or something like that, too. We’re more likely to be able to access our email than a PM, sometimes. And sometimes we just aren’t going online, for whatever reason. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650.md?page=16)