# Hey Chronos, please stop being a dick to new posters **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 22, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047 "2019-08-22T11:39:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/21 "2019-08-22T15:18:55Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > So did I. My first one ever. > > So many mod notes regarding forum placement or forum content begin with, “you’ve been here long enough to know…” > > Here is a guy who clearly has not been here “long enough to know” and he still gets a rap on the knuckles. > > Sorta makes all the YBHLETK rationales meaningless. > > I hope \*\*edgar \*\*sticks around, but I won’t blame him if he doesn’t. > mmm [PWUA (People Who Use Acronyms) and terms they assume people will know (spoiler: they don’t)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=880795) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/22 "2019-08-22T15:24:42Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > [PWUA (People Who Use Acronyms) and terms they assume people will know (spoiler: they don’t)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=880795) Yo, Buddy! Here Lies Edward The King. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/23 "2019-08-22T15:27:01Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > [PWUA (People Who Use Acronyms) and terms they assume people will know (spoiler: they don’t)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=880795) You’ve Been Here Long Enough To Know what YBHLETK stands for. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/24 "2019-08-22T15:27:15Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > [PWUA (People Who Use Acronyms) and terms they assume people will know (spoiler: they don’t)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=880795) That doesn’t really apply, he explained the acronym earlier in the post (as you should!) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/25 "2019-08-22T15:34:02Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > That doesn’t really apply, he explained the acronym earlier in the post (as you should!) OK, my bad. I missed that. ---
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/26 "2019-08-22T15:47:03Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > It’s actually a 12-hour period and in keeping with the apparantly now-established policies of this board, your minor error stemming from insufficient research prompts me to heap scorn upon you in a dismissive and sneering manner likely to decrease the odds of you continuing to be an active participant. > So… sneer, etc. I guess you’re not going to buy me a lunchbox, either. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/27 "2019-08-22T15:51:27Z")
I agree that the mods shouldn’t be snarky to newbies. That’s _ **our** _ job. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/28 "2019-08-22T15:53:19Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > OK, my bad. I missed that. I think what you meant to say was OMBIMT. mmm ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/29 "2019-08-22T15:53:21Z")
> [@thudlow boink](#): > > you’ve been here long enough to know what ybhletk stands for. iitywimwybmad? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/30 "2019-08-22T15:55:48Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I agree that the mods shouldn’t be snarky to newbies. That’s _ **our** _ job. > > Regards, > Shodan But I’d question whether _you’re_ not the man for those duties. A newbie might naively assume that your signoff signified polite formality. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/31 "2019-08-22T16:09:46Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > But I’d question whether _you’re_ not the man for those duties. As my wife says when I ask if she wants to have sex, “it’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it.” > [@](#): > > A newbie might naively assume that your signoff signified polite formality. Bless your heart, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/32 "2019-08-22T16:15:12Z")
**Moderator Note** > [@cochrane](#): > > Be careful that **Scylla** doesn’t challenge you to a sneer-down. 😃 > [@tricoteuse](#): > > I guess you’re not going to buy me a lunchbox, either. ☹ Let’s keep other threads and issues out of this. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/33 "2019-08-23T03:36:56Z")
> [@Fiveroptic](#): > > That doesn’t make it acceptable. **Chronos** ’ rudeness was egregious. The reaction in this thread is what’s egregious. For heaven’s sake, Chronos gave him an acceptable, mild reproof. If the poster can’t take that, he has even more problems in the real world. Apology? T-shirt? SERIOUSLY? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/34 "2019-08-23T05:44:02Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > The reaction in this thread is what’s egregious. > > For heaven’s sake, Chronos gave him an acceptable, mild reproof. If the poster can’t take that, he has even more problems in the real world. > > Apology? T-shirt? SERIOUSLY? :rolleyes: So you consider mocking someone’s reading ability a “mild rebuke”? Because I would expect to be moderated for it outside the Pit. And that’s not including shutting down the entire thread over such a small thing. Even regular posters here don’t get their threads shut down for posting in the wrong forum, outside of extenuating circumstances (e.g. they appear to be trolling, or have been doing it repeatedly). New posters usually get a kind welcome and an explanation for why the post didn’t fit in the forum they put it in, and what forum is better. Despite what **Chronos** says, it’s not even so clearly the wrong forum. The first paragraph is asking a factual legal question. The second is more hypothetical, but I could see someone calling it a factual question given a certain premise. The third is a factual question about the rules of a movie. Yes, I know it doesn’t fit GQ. But, given how the forum descriptions are written, I could see a first timer making that mistake. It’s not remotely uncommon at all for people to put a thread that should be Cafe Society in GQ their first time. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/35 "2019-08-23T06:02:19Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Maybe contact the dude with an explanation/apology along with a tshirt or something? Retroactively I’m requesting my tee-shirt. Mainly becoz I need tee-shirts and I hate shopping. Red, size medium. But, really becoz a moderator beat me down when I was a crazy noob. Well, I’m still crazy, just not near as noob-ish. God, I feel old. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/36 "2019-08-23T08:19:20Z")
I’m not even convinced CS is the right place for it. I have not seen any of those movies and don’t plan to. But I would find a theoretical discussion of this thought experiment an interesting one. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/37 "2019-08-23T08:34:26Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > The reaction in this thread is what’s egregious. > > For heaven’s sake, Chronos gave him an acceptable, mild reproof. If the poster can’t take that, he has even more problems in the real world. > > Apology? T-shirt? SERIOUSLY? :rolleyes: Chronos was out of order, especially to a newbie. There are many message boards to choose from. If a new poster is told they are either illiterate :smack: or lazy :eek: , they will go to another board. And your pile on (that the newbie has real-life problems) is also disgraceful. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveroptic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiveroptic/32/8257_2.png) [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/38 "2019-08-23T10:20:58Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > The reaction in this thread is what’s egregious. > > For heaven’s sake, Chronos gave him an acceptable, mild reproof. If the poster can’t take that, he has even more problems in the real world. It wasn’t acceptable. It was rude and unnecessary. > [@](#): > > Apology? T-shirt? SERIOUSLY? :rolleyes: Have you met **Kayaker**? He rarely posts without ensuring that his tongue is planted firmly against the buccal membranes of his mouth. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047/39 "2019-08-23T11:09:11Z")
**Moderator Action** > [@Fiveroptic](#): > > It wasn’t acceptable. It was rude and unnecessary. Chronos has apologized, and the thread has been re-opened and moved. Continuing to rehash this isn’t going to serve any useful purpose, so I think we’re done here. Thread closed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-chronos-please-stop-being-a-dick-to-new-posters/839047.md?page=1)