# Explain please.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-please/786875>\
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**Created:** [May 17, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-please/786875 "2017-05-17T22:22:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-please/786875/81 "2017-05-19T15:22:42Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> Colibri’s second rule: In any ATMB thread in which more than two mods post, we will be accused of “circling the wagons.”🙂

Corollary: If Danny “Big Black” Rey\* is ever a moderator, even if no other moderators post, his post counts as “circling the wagons”…

\*according to imdb, the actor who played Bart’s father in “Blazing Saddles.”

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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-please/786875/82 "2017-05-19T16:35:11Z")

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> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#):
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> I depends on what you’d define as “disagreeing”.
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> 1. I mod noted **Miller** twice, although neither happened in ATMB.
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> 2. **Ivory** disagrees with the action a mod took in an ATMB [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20176582&postcount=2), just a week or two ago. Does that count as “disagreeing” (IMO, it should)?

And don’t forget the time Twickster slapped herself on the wrist.

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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-please/786875/83 "2017-05-20T00:13:24Z")

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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> I’m sure you guys duke it out in your “loop”, but keep in mind we don’t see that. I don’t recall ever seeing two mods disagree in an ATMB thread, but maybe I missed when it happens. Still, I’d bet good money it is extremely rare, if it happens at all. And maybe you guys have a good reason for not arguing in public, but can you not see why that might look like circle the wagons to folks here?

There is very little duking out. I hate to disappoint you.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-please/786875/84 "2017-05-20T03:56:33Z")

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> [@Loach](#):
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> There is very little duking out. I hate to disappoint you.

I’ll find a way to deal with it.

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-please/786875/85 "2017-05-20T12:10:50Z")

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I feel certain.

It’s not to say there’s not discussion and debate on the mod loop. But it’s pretty cordial at this point. Tom, Bone and I discuss policy and edge-cases among ourselves and arrive at consensus fairly reasonably. The system is running well.

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