# Hey Twickster, How was this OTHER warning justified? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 17, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-twickster-how-was-this-other-warning-justified/521649 "2009-12-17T16:33:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-twickster-how-was-this-other-warning-justified/521649/81 "2009-12-23T22:24:12Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Finally, I’m going to point out that, as an OCDer, one of my biggest faults is trying to overanalyse and find patterns that aren’t there. One word: Tranxene. Ask your psychiatrist if it could be right for you. Changed my life, from home to work to here. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-twickster-how-was-this-other-warning-justified/521649/82 "2009-12-23T22:40:13Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > That isn’t junior modding, That’s a comment on a mod’s action after it has been taken, no different in nature than posts which complain that a particular closing was unjustified. Commenting on mod decisions is one of the purposes of this forum. I’m afraid you misquoted yourself. You did not comment on the mod’s decision. Let us diagram your sentence in order to determine its subject and object. You wrote: “The closing was entirely justified.” You used a copula. You _defined_ the closing as justified. You did not even mention a moderator. You simply passed judgment on the thread and its worthiness to stay open for other sleepy people to commiserate. Meanwhile, each Monday a thread is opened for people just waking up to talk. Why is a thread that is simply the opposite of that not “justified”? It is your assessment; you should defend it — not push the blame over to a mod, as though your posts were just whispers from the bushes. Your tone came across to me as an old British fop during the American Revolution, sitting on his porch, barking orders at his servants, and complaining about the fly population while a battle rages in a nearby field. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-twickster-how-was-this-other-warning-justified/521649/83 "2009-12-24T07:30:47Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I’m afraid you misquoted yourself. You did not comment on the mod’s decision. Let us diagram your sentence in order to determine its subject and object. You wrote: “The closing was entirely justified.” You used a copula. You _defined_ the closing as justified. You did not even mention a moderator. You simply passed judgment on the thread and its worthiness to stay open for other sleepy people to commiserate. Meanwhile, each Monday a thread is opened for people just waking up to talk. Why is a thread that is simply the opposite of that not “justified”? It is your assessment; you should defend it — not push the blame over to a mod, as though your posts were just whispers from the bushes. Your tone came across to me as an old British fop during the American Revolution, sitting on his porch, barking orders at his servants, and complaining about the fly population while a battle rages in a nearby field. How is a comment that a closing was justified not an opinion on the mod decision, for all your rhetoric? And for that matter how is your insistence that this is junior modding not junior modding in itself? This way lies madness. Must I really preface everything with “in my opinion”? ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-twickster-how-was-this-other-warning-justified/521649/84 "2009-12-24T07:59:23Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Must I really preface everything with “in my opinion”? But you used a copula. A _copula_! ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-twickster-how-was-this-other-warning-justified/521649/85 "2009-12-24T08:15:51Z")
Please leave determination of junior modding to the mods. Thanks. -xash. Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-twickster-how-was-this-other-warning-justified/521649/86 "2009-12-24T14:15:39Z")
> [@xash](#): > > Please leave determination of junior modding to the mods. > > Thanks. > > -xash. > Administrator In directing the question to a mod, Colibri, I believe that is exactly what I did. I would be interested in hearing your reasoning that states that asking a mod is not leaving determination to the mod. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-twickster-how-was-this-other-warning-justified/521649/87 "2009-12-24T15:23:52Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > In directing the question to a mod, Colibri, I believe that is exactly what I did. I would be interested in hearing your reasoning that states that asking a mod is not leaving determination to the mod. You directed your question to **samclem** , not me. And you didn’t ask **sam** if **aldiboronti** was junior modding, you asked him why he didn’t cite him for junior modding, implying that the offense was self evident. In any case, you well know that if you have a problem with someone else’s post, the first recourse is to report it and let the moderators make the determination. If there was no response, or the response was negative, then you would be justified in asking in ATMB. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-twickster-how-was-this-other-warning-justified/521649/88 "2009-12-24T16:10:17Z")
Innnnteresting. Seems like the OP _still_ only likes mods who obey his every whim. Sorry Twickster, Lib is probably gonna call take-backsies on this [“Twick’s turning out to be a pretty ballsy mod. (And I mean that in a good way )”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11568584&postcount=73) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-twickster-how-was-this-other-warning-justified/521649/89 "2009-12-24T16:14:06Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > In any case, you well know that if you have a problem with someone else’s post, the first recourse is to report it and let the moderators make the determination. If there was no response, or the response was negative, then you would be justified in asking in ATMB. Your right, of course. I do well know the ordinary protocols. I’ve also seen many exceptions. But there’s no point in appealing or arguing since your collective mind is made up. It won’t be the first time that a technicality has allowed a user to slip one by — in this case, to make a pronouncement that closing a thread was “entirely justified”. But then again, who cares. Merry Christmas! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-twickster-how-was-this-other-warning-justified/521649/90 "2009-12-24T17:03:54Z")
Enough. Dammit, don’t you have homes to go to? It’s Christmas, give it a break. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-twickster-how-was-this-other-warning-justified/521649.md?page=4)