# Engineer\_comp\_geek needs to brush up on his moderating skills **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 23, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/engineer-comp-geek-needs-to-brush-up-on-his-moderating-skills/938467 "2021-03-23T00:22:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**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:** [March 23, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/engineer-comp-geek-needs-to-brush-up-on-his-moderating-skills/938467/20 "2021-03-23T14:53:00Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > People get frustrated if they respond in good faith to a question not posed in good faith. I think it’s fine to have a thread like that, if there’s disclosure upfront. If **Bootb** started a thread about 9/11 CTs (which I think is not even allowed anymore, but anyway…) and later came in and said, “Ha! Just kidding, I don’t really believe that crap. I just wanted to see how this would play out,” that seems like obvious trolling to me. This thread was pretty close to that. Yeah this is the issue. The OP was not made in good faith. This is especially true for the GD forum, where [the rules state](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rules-for-great-debates-and-elections-january-2020/845726) that a thread should be a debate on a topic “clear and specific”. This thread was by the OP’s admission a bait-and-switch. That is in addition to trolling behavior (which wouldn’t be okay anywhere). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/engineer-comp-geek-needs-to-brush-up-on-his-moderating-skills/938467)._