# Has a Mod ever created a thread to pit a member? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 9, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578 "2004-01-09T04:03:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OneYogini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@OneYogini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneYogini)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/1 "2004-01-09T04:03:32Z")
I’m new around here, so I don’t know if this has ever been asked and I didn’t quite know how to go about doing a search for this info. But do you know if it has happened…has a Mod ever created a thread (in the BBQ Pit of course) to pit a member? (I hope this is where this kind of question gets asked, if not, I hear it will be moved. lol. And I’m not asking to have it done to me, as a first, as an example, whatever; I was just curious (and couldn’t sleep dammit.) ) Yogini 😃 ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/2 "2004-01-09T04:05:58Z")
Yes, but if I recall, they were acting as a regular member and not a mod. Unfortunatly, I don’t remember the details. It may have been **Coldfire**. Crap. I’m really striking out in GQ lately. Anyhow - maybe someone else remembers the thread I’m thinking of? ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/3 "2004-01-09T04:07:29Z")
Oh, and speaking purely as a member, and not in any way, shape or form as a mod, your sig is too long. 4 lines max. Just a friendly FYI. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OneYogini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@OneYogini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneYogini)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/4 "2004-01-09T04:12:14Z")
Someone else mentioned that to me - and I asked how to make the font smaller so it wouldn’t appear so big. Can you help with that? If not, I’ll have to amend my profile shortly as I’m sure it will be commented on more frequently (and not so nicely…depending on the member! lol!) Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/5 "2004-01-09T04:14:26Z")
Changing the font won’t matter - it still takes up too much bandwidth, and our poor overworked hamsters are forced to do overtime. Currently, your sig reads as 8 lines (including spaces, and yes, I believe they count) on my screen. You’ll probably have to ditch one of your longer quotes. Perhaps you could just rotate them and have one at a time up? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/6 "2004-01-09T04:25:59Z")
**C K Dexter Haven** –an administrator–pitted **Persephone** , IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/7 "2004-01-09T04:38:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OneYogini \* > \*\*Someone else mentioned that to me - and I asked how to make the font smaller so it wouldn’t appear so big. Can you help with that? If not, I’ll have to amend my profile shortly as I’m sure it will be commented on more frequently (and not so nicely…depending on the member! lol!) Thanks. \*\* While what **Alice\_in\_Wonderland** said probably has a major bearing on the rule (I _think_ both appearance and bandwidth considertions are factors in the four-line max. rule), what you ask about can help if a sig line wraps with only a few words on the second line, and is useful in other circumstances as well. To shrink your text, you type (size=1) before the material to be shrunk and (/size) after, of course using square brackets where I used parentheses. Here’s text in normal (size=2) size. Here’s text in reduced (size=1) size. Here’s text in large (size=3) size. Here’s text in giant economy (size=4) size. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/8 "2004-01-09T04:40:45Z")
Somewhere in the dim recesses I think I can recall the thread that **alice** mentioned. I think **Coldfire** pitted **bj0rn**. ---
**Author:** ![OneYogini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@OneYogini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneYogini)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/9 "2004-01-09T04:45:33Z")
Thank you Polycarp for that info. I wonder if anyone will have any links to any threads? (I was just given the link recently to an old thread created by Cervaise, a member not a Mod, about telemarketers that was hilarious!) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/10 "2004-01-09T04:50:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jervoise \* > \*\ ***C K Dexter Haven** –an administrator–pitted **Persephone** , IIRC. \*\* And wasn’t _that_ a fun experience. :shivers: ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/11 "2004-01-09T04:50:47Z")
Manhattan pitted Bosda once, a while back. I don’t remember if it was before he was a mod or not. Something about the crime rate of New York compared to Murfreesboro, TN. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/12 "2004-01-09T06:02:57Z")
**OneYogini** , questions about the message board (it’s rules, people, culture, software, etc.) belong in About The Messsage Board. I’ll move this for you to ATMB. Please reduce the length of your signature to 4 lines or less (including spaces). We request members to do this in order to save on bandwidth and load on our servers. We do our best to make the boards faster to access, and appreciate the support of our members in this regard. Thank you for your cooperation and welcome to the boards. - **xash** General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/13 "2004-01-09T06:10:36Z")
I suggest you rotate your signature, changing every couple of weeks. It can get pretty boring reading the same quote week after week. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/14 "2004-01-09T06:26:40Z")
Yeah, like me. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-mod-ever-created-a-thread-to-pit-a-member/223578/15 "2004-01-09T16:19:49Z")
Subsequent to the events described above, we changed the rules for Moderators to prohibit them from starting a thread that pits a member. Since no one wants to rake up all those now-dead incidents, and since the question has been answered (it is no longer permitted), I’m closing this one.