# Ed Zotti: your board is very important to many **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 8, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-your-board-is-very-important-to-many/488733 "2009-03-08T14:57:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-your-board-is-very-important-to-many/488733/1 "2009-03-08T14:57:53Z")
Ed: In your closing of the ‘Jerk is warnable now’ thread, you said > [@](#): > > Folks, this thread has turned into a train wreck, so I’m closing it. I think we all need to step back from the computer, play with the kids, take a long walk, clear our heads, give some thought to **what’s really important**. (bolding mine) While I think I know what you really meant there, it is worth emphasising that for many us, what \*is \*really important is here: the Straight Dope. If you weren’t aware of that before, I’m sure you are becoming so now. To you, and to many others, threads like that one may be irritants, uncomfortable, unnecessary or whatever, but the reason that they are so fervent and passionate is because we \*care \*about your creation. There are many threads like that one now, and however they start, they all seem to follow the same route. This is because this board, and the changes that have happened are very important to us. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-your-board-is-very-important-to-many/488733/2 "2009-03-08T21:39:15Z")
Ed, you should think about what is important and step back from the moderator role. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-your-board-is-very-important-to-many/488733/3 "2009-03-08T21:43:32Z")
I guess I didn’t see how smoothly things were going until Ed stepped in. Talk about a train wreck. I concur with the OP. Ed, your apologies are both welcome and admirable, and I have no doubt your heart is in the right place, but it takes a big man to admit his limitations. Maybe it would be best for all of us if others handled some board functions. Please…step back and enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-your-board-is-very-important-to-many/488733/4 "2009-03-08T21:52:22Z")
I don’t really understand **Ed’s** point there; I mean, surely he is as invested if not more than any of us? Just as there are people diggin in their heels on one side, aren’t there too on the other? If **Ed** didn’t care, then he wouldn’t worry about the tone of civility on the boards, either in trying to improve it or restore it to an earlier time. The fact that a concerted effort is being made would seem to indicate, at least to me, that the board and all of this affair are extremely important to **Ed**. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-your-board-is-very-important-to-many/488733/5 "2009-03-08T23:10:01Z")
> [@Revenant\_Threshold](#): > > If **Ed** didn’t care, then he wouldn’t worry about the tone of civility on the boards, either in trying to improve it or restore it to an earlier time. Yes, if only there was a place…an outlet where people could work over their frustrations with the moderators in a historically proven and entertaining way. I remember just such a place. But unfortunately… ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-your-board-is-very-important-to-many/488733/6 "2009-03-09T14:27:25Z")
> [@Revenant\_Threshold](#): > > I don’t really understand **Ed’s** point there; I mean, surely he is as invested if not more than any of us? Just as there are people diggin in their heels on one side, aren’t there too on the other? If **Ed** didn’t care, then he wouldn’t worry about the tone of civility on the boards, either in trying to improve it or restore it to an earlier time. The fact that a concerted effort is being made would seem to indicate, at least to me, that the board and all of this affair are extremely important to **Ed**. Yes, but I am wondering if the reason they are important is the same for Ed as it is for us. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-your-board-is-very-important-to-many/488733/7 "2009-03-09T15:01:36Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Yes, if only there was a place…an outlet where people could work over their frustrations with the moderators in a historically proven and entertaining way. I remember just such a place. But unfortunately… 😃 I hope Ed gets this sentiment…