# 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:** 16
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/301 "2009-02-11T08:31:28Z")
And sometimes they simply deliberately ignore their messages depending on who they come from. There is no other explanation when mods are taking action in some cases and not in others. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/302 "2009-02-11T08:39:51Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > You need to report the bad post in order to initiate a warning. Its too late now. Maybe there’s still hope. Fill out the form in triplicate, attach a passport sized photo, copies of your tax returns for the past three years, a notarized certificate that you have kissed the ass of a mod and fucked a goat (or is it the other way around? I’m not sure now.), put all this in a Kraft paper envelope with a good wad of unmarked $20 bills and some prime Belgian chocolate and give it to Vinny Daman who knows how to get it where it counts. Then pray three Hail Marys and hope someone else did not put more cash or chocolate in their envelope. If you are lucky you will see action within a few days. ---
**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 11, 2009, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/303 "2009-02-11T09:14:21Z")
**sailor** , if this is the most important thing going on in your life, it must suck to be you. I’m not saying I disagree, necessarily, I’m just saying I’m glad I don’t have to be you. Hostile Dialect, Hostile Dialect, Narcissist ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/304 "2009-02-11T09:20:35Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > **sailor** , if this is the most important thing going on in your life, it must suck to be you. > > I’m not saying I disagree, necessarily, I’m just saying I’m glad I don’t have to be you. > > Hostile Dialect, > Hostile Dialect, Narcissist Where did you get that idea, Hostile Dialect, idiot? ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/305 "2009-02-11T09:35:46Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > …a notarized certificate that you have kissed the ass of a mod and fucked a goat (or is it the other way around? I’m not sure now.)… Knife fight! ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/306 "2009-02-11T09:37:09Z")
🙂 > [@Sapo](#): > > Why? is there a tongue-in-cheek checkbox in your database that you are not sure you need to check for this post? Leave poor \*\*Sammy \*\*alone! He’s still butthurt from defending his bestest amigo. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/307 "2009-02-11T09:46:14Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > Why? is there a tongue-in-cheek checkbox in your database that you are not sure you need to check for this post? Heh, I missed this one. Good one! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/308 "2009-02-11T12:15:14Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > And sometimes they simply deliberately ignore their messages depending on who they come from. There is no other explanation when mods are taking action in some cases and not in others. ::: puts checkmark in **sailor** ’s _logic_ checkbox in seekrit forum::: :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/309 "2009-02-11T12:21:25Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > ::: puts checkmark in **sailor** ’s _logic_ checkbox in seekrit forum::: :rolleyes: I thought I told you to piss off already. Or do you still want to try to defend your little \*\*butthurt \*\*amigo Colibiri? ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/310 "2009-02-11T12:40:58Z")
> [@leander](#): > > I thought I told you to piss off already. > > Or do you still want to try to defend your little \*\*butthurt \*\*amigo Colibiri? Whoah. Butthurt about something yourself, leander? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/311 "2009-02-11T15:01:46Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > It is part of the latest shitstorm. If you are modded in the Pit and you want to grill the mod for it, you cannot do it in the thread where you were modded. You need to start your own thread. It actually makes some sense, except that it results in this kind of lame threads that are some sort of a two-click rule for talking back to the mods. Maybe Ed’s getting paid by the thread? That’d explain why he started up the Barn House and Chicago forums. Only slightly kidding. ---
**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, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/312 "2009-02-11T18:08:29Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > And sometimes they simply deliberately ignore their messages depending on who they come from. There is no other explanation when mods are taking action in some cases and not in others. You know, I had a three page reply typed out. Then I realized that it’s no use. No matter what I say, it’s not going to change many minds. Anyone wanting more of an explanation should feel free to contact me by email. ---
**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, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/313 "2009-02-11T18:59:34Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > 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. > [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > You know, I had a three page reply typed out. Then I realized that it’s no use. No matter what I say, it’s not going to change many minds. Your right. Getting half your “report bad posts” completely ignored defies convincing acceptable explanation. Some of us around here don’t feel particularly respected by certain mods, and having a complaint competely ignored can be quite galling. Recently I reported an insult to myself in GD or GQ, which was completely ignored until I responded several days later with foul language to to a repeated offence by the same poster. Within a couple of hours a mod jumped in giving me a warning and merely a suggestion to the offender to back off. There was a time when if I reported a bad post I would get action every time even if it was an e-mail giving reasons for no reprimand. That is the way it should be IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/314 "2009-02-12T17:35:36Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > You know, I had a three page reply typed out. Then I realized that it’s no use. No matter what I say, it’s not going to change many minds. Anyone wanting more of an explanation should feel free to contact me by email. I sent you an email asking for it. I did from my gmail account, which I would prefer over my hotmail account on my profile, although that would work too. Thanks ---
**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 13, 2009, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/315 "2009-02-13T06:52:06Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > I sent you an email asking for it. I did from my gmail account, which I would prefer over my hotmail account on my profile, although that would work too. > > Thanks Could you give us a book report on **Bodoni’s** 3 pager? Two hundred words or less ? ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/316 "2009-02-13T09:24:29Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > Could you give us a book report on **Bodoni’s** 3 pager? Two hundred words or less ? Haven’t gotten it yet. Funny since it is about unresponded emails. ---
**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 13, 2009, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/317 "2009-02-13T09:31:15Z")
Due to his history of antagonizing the staff, I have declined to give him any further “gotcha” ammo. [QUOTE=Sapo] Still, I will remain a persistent asshole for as long as I stay. Not about this one, which as I said is water under the bridge, but about the next one. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/318 "2009-02-13T09:35:13Z")
Can’t we all just get along now? I’ll bring some pie if that helps. ---
**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 13, 2009, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/319 "2009-02-13T09:44:50Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > Your right. Getting half your “report bad posts” completely ignored defies convincing acceptable explanation. Some of us around here don’t feel particularly respected by certain mods, and having a complaint competely ignored can be quite galling. > > Recently I reported an insult to myself in GD or GQ, which was completely ignored until I responded several days later with foul language to to a repeated offence by the same poster. Within a couple of hours a mod jumped in giving me a warning and merely a suggestion to the offender to back off. > > There was a time when if I reported a bad post I would get action every time even if it was an e-mail giving reasons for no reprimand. That is the way it should be IMHO. While it would be NICE to be able to respond to every report, sometimes it’s just not possible, especially when one is overwhelmed by a great number of reports. The way it should be and the way things are sometimes conflict. In this specific case, I would ask you if you noted the reason for the report. When we get an email, it just says who reported something, and the reason given. I would also advise asking all the mods in that particular forum why the action was or wasn’t taken. In looking over the case, it seems that someone insulted your opinion, and not you, whereas you told him to go fuck with himself. You got a mild dis about your opinion, not yourself. I seem to recall that posters are allowed to insult opinions, but not other posters. However, I don’t play in GD very much. However, I am not one of the mods who made that decision. I’m second guessing here, and as far as I know the subject didn’t come up in the general email loop. So don’t take this as the Final Word on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650/320 "2009-02-13T09:49:03Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Due to his history of antagonizing the staff, I have declined to give him any further “gotcha” ammo. :rolleyes: FOAD [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650.md?page=17)