I’d rethink that one.
A moderator needs to be the calm amongst the storm. If DDG can’t handle criticism, how would she handle true conflict?
[sub]Disclaimer: I am not saying I am qualified either.[/sub]
wring, I get it. You find her contributions valuable. I find it vaguely odd she feels compelled to answer seemingly every GQ * even if she has no knowledge of the subject beyond a well done Google search*. Such is life. We’ll have to agree to disagree.
Oy vey! I didn’t link to that thread because I was “airing grievances.” As erislover said, it was a “factual aside.” It is a fact that the “junior mod” behavior was brought up to her before. (And I can’t provide evidence because the search function goes all hinky in such old searches.) It was suggested that perhaps something should have been said to her a long time ago. I was demonstrating that it was.
Evidence requested. Evidence provided.
It seems like you’re determined to read something into my words that just isn’t there.
I don’t know why you are so bound and determined to make me out to be a jerk. Save your energy for someone who is actually criticizing Duck Duck Goose. It ain’t me!
What I find odd is that’s how it seems to you! 
You’re the one selectively reading. This THREAD is vile, not just the OP.
The OP was vile, the second response (though provoked) was vile, much of the follow-up has been vile, likewise most of your input.
You have your opinion and I have mine. Agree to disagree and all that.
Concur. 100%. Well said.
Haj
My definition of vile must be different than others, I guess. I’ll admit to being snarky to BBJ but I stand by my opinion.
Different perspectives, I guess.
I sometimes tell newbies that posting drug-related stuff on GQ isn’t kosher when they ask how to make crystal meth. I really hope that isn’t making folks mad!
Also, I try and give suggestions concerning imminent bannings. You see, I was banned for doing something that violated the user agreement, and I just want to make it easier for people to realize that the best way to resolve that situation is to apologize and mean it.
Wow. This is the stupidest thread I’ve ever read. And I’ve read all the threads that I started, so that’s saying something. If I hadn’t had the TV on, I’d have felt that I really wasted the last hour of my life.
I am sure that there is something that I want to say about this thread, but I am not sure exactly what it is. This is why I don’t post all that often. The words just don’t seem to want to come most of the time.
I think this thread is very sad. jarbabyj and DDG, you both seem to have a great deal of yourselves invested in this board. I admit, so do I. My beautiful young wife is sick to death of me telling her about this, that, or the other thing that “happened on the SDMB last night.”
Where am I going with this? I dunno. But this thread, I think, points to another reason that I don’t post here very often.
…I was going to go into a story about how this all relates to me, but I will start another thread about it tonight. And I will link it here. But I work 3rd shift, and I get to go to bed soon…
Until later…
a contemplative, melancholy redguy
See… DDG read the new Judy Blume book *Are you there Cecil? It’s me, Margaret."
She has been chanting in front of a mirror: “I must, I must, increase my post count.”
Then she had the holy epiphany that Google was her way out of low post counts and could camouflage her work.
She’s quite the brain trust, if you ask me.
**
Grow some balls, spineless sock puppet.
He’s NOT a sock puppet, trust me. He’s just pissed off.
And if there’s something more dangerous than a pissed off pepper, I’m not sure I want to know what it is.
stand back everyone…I’m warning you.
hmm…I guess I should have put this in there…
You know it never occured to me to google for the answer to a posted question. If I don’t know the answer, I just skip it.
I can appreciate her concern for “all the damn newbies” and I am sure she doesn’t really mean to sound like a condescending bitch as she corrects, chides and reprimands other posters. I honestly think she just can’t help it.
I can appreciate how she is attempting to help out the poor overworked moderators by pointing out the “unwritten rules” but I don’t recall any of them asking for help. I believe there are at least a couple of mods assigned to each forum. Plus, if they needed the help, I am almost certain that a mod from another forum could be persuaded to help out in a pinch.
I don’t know how long it has been since DDG attended grade school but maybe she should remember how the only thing people hate worse than a pseudoKnow-it-all is a would be teacher’s pet.
I have to say I have enjoyed this thread if only for the opportunity to see DDG reveal her true colors and to see her write fuck and cunt.
Please, for the love of all that is holy, ask a mod to close this damn thing, jarbabyj.
Go ahead and close it mods. I had the impression from Stoid that some people still had issues to discuss, but as far as I’m concerned I think it should be done away with.
Strewth what a friggin thread.
Everyone has posts they regret, probably, and the higher the personal post count, the more likely that the poster will forget.
I find some irony here that the OP makes, what on the face of it, seems a mild first post, and then everyone else is then shocked when the second response hits hard.
This is the Jarbaby folks.
How many observing this have opened up any pit thread started by this poster to see the creative and coruscating profanities contained therein just for a bit of vicarious voyeurism ?
Well sometimes the biter gets bit, you can argue about how appropriate this is, but the shock and horror as a reaction to that fiery reply is laying it on a bit rich.
If I have a problem with a poster or a thread, I don’t open it or reply, except on occasional and unfortunate exceptions.
…and there lies the rub, you could bring up most high number posters and find a reason to rip them a new one, but the OP’s complaint is just lame.
The first reply “Bite me” was appropriate, but it seems to me that there were those just waiting for a good showdown by stating that this response was weak.
Well to all those posters, what did you get ? are you happy now?
It was not your argument but you wanted to stoke things up eh?
I think that quite a few posters here could do to look at themselves a bit more closely.
There are replies from just a few posters here I find meritworthy, there are many replies that are not, and that is my opinion and I’m entitled to it - before anyone decides to jump in and tell me that I have no place here to voice it.
pffff, enough already!!
I think if more people didn’t do this, GQ would have fewer questions. (That was for you, Stoid!)