# Getting tired of the moderators **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 18, 2001, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795 "2001-05-18T05:59:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Studoggie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@Studoggie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studoggie)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/1 "2001-05-18T05:59:02Z")
In the general questions area. I posted that I was an accounting student looking for a summer job and wanted to know if someone could make a suggestion(Perhaps my wording wasn’t the best, but it wasn’t like I posted a resume or anything). I then get my message kicked off the board and told not to write any such message ever again. Geez c’mon, I realize noone wants this to become some sort of employment board, but does anyone really think that would happen? I wasn’t even really expecting much of a response(I only got one sarcastic one about McDonalds) I suggest to you that if my question was invalid then any technical questions (such as computer technical problems) are also invalid.(Who wants this to be a tech board?) I’m sure that noone would respond anyway as I kinda got mad at Lynn, but I mean Geez, can’t anyone get a life? Is it really that big of a deal? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/2 "2001-05-18T06:08:43Z")
What makes you think that the person who suggested McDonald’s was being sarcastic? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/3 "2001-05-18T06:08:51Z")
three…two…one… ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/4 "2001-05-18T07:30:16Z")
I just read your [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=71283)… Yes, **Lynn** was a little terse (can’t blame any of the **mods** or **admins** for that… they probably get tired of closing/moving threads, warning people to behave, etc.) but IMO you over-reacted a bit… I can’t comment on how appropriate the OP was, as it was edited before I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/5 "2001-05-18T07:34:02Z")
Hey, I made the mistake of insulting McDonalds workers in this forum recently and was soundly slapped. And rightfully so. Besides, working at McDonald’s requires a level of people-interaction skills, something that Mssr. Doggie could use some work on. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/6 "2001-05-18T07:38:33Z")
“My kingdom for an original Pit thread!” Stu, you’re new, so I’ll restrain myself… but you’re an idiot. You’re asking for job suggestions at an online message board, and you tell US to get a life? Methinks you should reconsider your whole employment strategy. In addition, I would recommend that you not try to burst in on the scene and try to tell people who have been here for two years how to do their job. Employers frown on THAT, also. Also, you really should learn how to read, as we have a forum known as IMHO if you want to get people’s input about a matter of opinion (hence the title “In My Humble **Opinion** ”). Literacy will also go a long way towards gaining employment. Finally, you seem to have a chip on your shoulder. Calling someone a “control freak” because they’re following policy would probably also be frowned upon at any job you may hold in the future. For example, if you started taking money out of the cash register, and your manager asked you not to do that, would that make him a “control freak”? I hope these little tips help you both with your employment opportunities and with your continued posting here at the SDMB, you sack of distilled monkey cum. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/7 "2001-05-18T11:35:07Z")
OK, one simple technical question, not having been able to read the OP in the thread in question… Would his thread have been OK in MPSIMS? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/8 "2001-05-18T11:53:45Z")
I beg to differ. This Board is a GREAT place to explore employment opportunities. Why, in the last week alone, **DAVEW007** made me a sign to hang around my neck that reads “Will Edit for Food,” and **Eve** put in a good word for me down at the factory where they make the little straw hats for horses. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/9 "2001-05-18T11:57:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Studoggie \* > \*\*I then get my message kicked off the board and told not to write any such message ever again. Geez c’mon, I realize noone wants this to become some sort of employment board, but does anyone really think that would happen? \*\* So in other words, your thesis is “I should be able to post my want-ad, but I don’t expect or want anyone else to do the same.” Swell :rolleyes: THAT’s the sort of rigorous logic and clear thinking that I look for in an accountant. Your future looks bright, my lad. \*\* > [@](#): > > I suggest to you that if my question was invalid then any technical questions (such as computer technical problems) are also invalid.(Who wants this to be a tech board?)\*\* Tech questions tend to have general applications that anyone can use (“I get a message about “invalid system disk” when I boot. Am I doomed?”) whereas Want Ads (HI! I’m a professional nose picker who majored in puppy-juggling in college and I’m looking for work in Saskatoon as an underwater basket-weaving performance artist") are of no use to anyone but the poster. Personal employment ads are spam. They’re purely commercial postings. And they’re boring to EVERYONE. \*\* > [@](#): > > I’m sure that noone would respond anyway as I kinda got mad at Lynn, but I mean Geez, can’t anyone get a life? Is it really that big of a deal? \*\* Boy, you’d make a great employee: “Yeah, I came in a couple o’ hours late, and the books don’t quite balance, but I mean Geez, can’t you get a life? Is it really that big a deal?” \*\* [/quote] May I suggest that if you ARE “tired of the mods”, that you find a different board where the mean-ol’-mods won’t upset your delicate constitution? Perhaps you could form your own board where all spammers could post in peace and freedom. And as for calling Lynn a “control freak”, may I suggest that A) the sting is probably diluted by the fact that you are somewhat less literate than a chimpanzee, (if your accounting is remotely as sloppy as your writing, your future clients will be in a lot of trouble.) and B) your head is so far up your ass that you can adjust your tie by clenching your sphincter. Fenris (who’s really getting sick of these “Mods won’t let me poop in the sandbox. I hate them!” threads.) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/10 "2001-05-18T12:01:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > **HI! I’m a professional nose picker who majored in puppy-juggling in college and I’m looking for work in Saskatoon as an underwater basket-weaving performance artist.** I just wanted to say that this cracked me the fuck up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/11 "2001-05-18T12:01:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*I beg to differ. This Board is a GREAT place to explore employment opportunities. > > Why, in the last week alone, **DAVEW007** made me a sign to hang around my neck that reads “Will Edit for Food,” and **Eve** put in a good word for me down at the factory where they make the little straw hats for horses. \*\* Heeeyyyyyyy, is \*\* THAT\*\* what you were wearing at the Upper West Side Dopefest??? I thought that was your Frat Pin 😃 😃 Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/12 "2001-05-18T12:03:26Z")
The absolute irony is that had you phrased your OP differently and placed it in the appropriate forum, you would almost certainly have received from other posters not just useful links but a number of personal contacts to follow up. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/13 "2001-05-18T12:33:57Z")
What the flying hell is “noone”? What, you want to work lunchtime at your local Ren Faire? It’s “ **no one** ”, as in “No one is going to hire a keyboard banging, drooling, random chromosome missing pillock who brays “Get a life!” whenever he’s met with a little criticism.” Thank you. I await your instructions to mellow out and aquire a pulse, or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/14 "2001-05-18T13:16:47Z")
I am also REALLY fucking sick of the moderators!! They are always _moderating_ and stuff! Gee whiz! Fucking SHOW OFFS!! Doing their _jobs_ all the time. Rude rude rude. They should be slackers like the rest of us! Thats what we need - **slack mods** - so everyone can complain about THAT for a change!! So Stu doggie, or Stud oggie, or however it breaks down… you can piss and moan all you want, but if you can READ at all, you will see nobody feels very sorry for you. I sure dont. And the ‘get a life thing’ works both ways too you know. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/15 "2001-05-18T13:18:27Z")
> [@](#): > > (bolding mine) > So get a life, censure me if you must **(it’s not like it’ll be that hard to get around it anyway)** :rolleyes: Yeah, let me recommend _you_ to my boss right away! Idiot. Nothing like hiring someone who doesn’t want to do things right the first time, complains when they are corrected/admonished and makes not-too-subtle insinuations to subvert the rules/contract/member-agreement of the very institution they were coming to, hat in hand. It just screams _“Winner!”_ ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/16 "2001-05-18T13:32:05Z")
Fenris! You may come over and poop in MY sandbox anytime!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/17 "2001-05-18T14:32:31Z")
Hey, what I would like to see is a pit thread started by the mods, complaining about how they are getting tired of US…because I am sure they ARE, quite frequently. Scotti ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/18 "2001-05-18T15:18:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > > **HI! I’m a professional nose picker who majored in puppy-juggling in college and I’m looking for work in Saskatoon as an underwater basket-weaving performance artist.** > > I just wanted to say that this cracked me the fuck up. 😃 \*\* I liked the “…and Eve put in a good word for me down at the factory where they make the little straw hats for horses.” too. Okay, unlike some people I DO have a job, so it’s off the message board and back to government work for me. - Jill ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/19 "2001-05-18T15:46:40Z")
Wow, **Stu** , been here a whole three months and you’re already tired of our mods? I mean, I’ve been here that long [sub]EGADS![/sub], and I find them to be more and more amusing everyday. Another 200 posts under my belt, and I’ll even start callin’ **Coldie** by that other name. [sub]ClogMod, you silly, not the “N” word![/sub] Maybe you need to post a list of how they could better amuse you, 'cos, believe me, your enjoyment is their number one job. Hell, all of us feel that way. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tired-of-the-moderators/65795/20 "2001-05-18T17:53:39Z")
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