Just a quick follow up – at the top of GQ there is a sticky called “General Questions Rules”.
Rule #6 reads:
(bolding mine)
Your job as a mod is to enforce the rules. That you don’t know that (or don’t know what the rules are) is disturbing. You really need to either learn to do your job properly or resign.
Let’s go!
Um, that answer is entirely correct. Sorry, Sparky, try again. Perhaps you missed post #9 in that thread or, more likely, it was too technical for you to grasp.
Very weak. I used a term in a nonstandard (but popularly understood) manner; unless you have a more substantive refutation of my posts in that thread, I don’t see how you can honestly count that.
A comparatively minor reversal of detail. Although admittedly a factual error, it does not detract from the major point of my post, which was that the described symptoms are consistent with a broken dip tube. Ironically, if I had used Google to check myself instead of posting from memory, I wouldn’t have made that mistake.
That thread is in MPSIMS, not GQ. Also, I dispute your claim that it’s an incorrect statement.
I’ll give you that one, except to note that it was summarily retracted. Note, too, that neither this nor any of the others appears to support your other assertion that I use the first Google hit to answer with and, in fact, this last one uses a Google result to correct myself.
Say what? What makes you say that? Please link to where mention of that incident “sets me off.” Y’know, since you’re so set on factual accuracy, and all.
You conveniently bolded the wrong part. I’ve fixed that for you. Also, I’ve contacted the moderator who compiled those rules, GFactor and asked him to post here regarding your claims. Since the word of one GQ mod apparently isn’t sufficient for you.
Bolding altered
You had me untill this part:
Dude, there is such a thing as overkill.
Well, why aren’t you doing your bit? Honestly, if you are not interested in doing your part in GQ, why bitch about it?
While I am not a fan of Q.E.D., I am neither a fan of GQ, and I don’t give a shit what he does there.
As you are also someone who does not habitually post in GQ, I don’t see why you should give a shit either.
Perhaps, but if smacking someone fails to make him see reason, it never hurts to use something bigger and it’s not as though I’ve requested any other GQ mods to post here. Besides, if leander wants to lawyer the rules, who better to explain them to him than the lawyer who wrote them?
In any case, G is perfectly free to respond or not as he chooses.
Sometimes you just have to nuke it from orbit, cause it’s the only way to be sure.
Nah. I admit I have no great affection for dweebs like you who play third-grade games in GQ, but it hardly rises to the level of “touching a nerve,” as much as you would like to think so.
What’s pretty obvious is that what you actually lack is the knowledge to tell whether he’s wrong or right yourself.
You didn’t “call him out,” which would have meant starting a Pit thread. You didn’t have the guts for that, so instead you decided to engage in petty harrassment.
More nonsense. Handy alone must have made at least 10,000 erroneous posts in GQ without manhattan taking action on them. It’s never been a GQ moderator’s job to evaluate whether posts are correct or not.
You’re right that GQ standards have become a bit more forgiving in some ways. Manhattan likely would have summarily banned you for pulling the crap you did in GQ.
What he said. That rule gives the moderation staff expansive discretion in managing this sort of thing. We did that on purpose because we wanted that kind of flexibility, and we’ve never routinely fact-checked posts. And of course, nothing in the rule justifies any of your bullshit from the other night.
And let me come out of the closet for you. I Google. Sometimes many times a night. Many of my best answers, even in my own areas of expertise, are written under the influence of Google. I even Google at work. I’m really fucking good at it. My father uses Google and so does my daughter. That’s right–I’m a Googler.
Oh, and shut the fuck up. You’ve got no idea what my job is or what instructions I’ve been given. Nor do I report to you.
You really are pushing for moron of the month, aren’t you?
As has been explained already, the most relevant part is what Q.E.D. bolded, not what you did. In the examples you linked to, his replies were at worst educated guesses, not speculation.
But of course, you’re unable to tell the difference.
Oh good, Google boy has summoned more mods to circle the wagon. I don’t think we’ve ever seen this before! 
I believe you. I really do.
Well, according to you guys I don’t need knowledge – just mad Google skillz!
Slight understatement. It’s become a joke. I know you boys hate hearing any criticism, but you need to hear it. See also What Exit?'s post.
Well, since this is the pit I guess I won’t “shut the fuck up”. Instead I’ll tell you that you should clean up that mess.
Also, you both seem to have missed this:
Finally, I’ve given 5 examples of Google boy being wrong. The first may be correct, but was so incomplete that it required 2 other posters to clarify in detail and provide a “real” answer. Smacks of “I was here first” BS that Google boy is so proud of. The other 4 are pretty indisputable – and that was only 30 mins of searching over the past month!
So how many do I have to come up with to prove my point? 10? 50?
That loud explosion you just heard was my irony meter overloading.
Come on, admit it – you have a man-crush on me, don’t you? 
Lord are you dumb. That’s not jr modding, Google boy, that’s called criticising the mods.
Frank, you are probably dead on here. I shouldn’t give a shit what they do – they’re not going to change and they’re unable to take criticism. I guess if they’re satisfied with what a shithole GQ is then that’s their business.
Personally I think it’s a shame, but from the 2 mods reactions it’s pointless.
Q.E.D. is not, in fact, a mod, nor has he ever been a mod.
No, but he plays one on the imaginary tv in his Google head.
You seem to think it’s your business. Why not are you then contributing?
Seriously, I don’t get it. I bitch about GD, because I post in GD, and contribute in my own way to GD, and wish to see GD remain something I want to continue to be a part of.
You bitch about GQ, why? You don’t post there, you don’t contribute there. What’s your point?
No. There’s a distinction between criticizing the mods and telling them what their job is and how they should interpret the rules. The latter has been recently defined as junior modding.