# How often do mods check a thread **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 16, 2001, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-mods-check-a-thread/50306 "2001-01-16T11:41:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-mods-check-a-thread/50306/1 "2001-01-16T11:41:23Z")
I assume you have to look at all the threads in your area. But how do you keep up on neverending threads? Do you get emails from dopers warning you of a heated arguement in MPSIMS? Do you have some 6th sense on these things? How the hell do you get your power! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-mods-check-a-thread/50306/2 "2001-01-16T11:57:50Z")
Prescience. I _knew_ you were gonna ask this. Our vocal skepticism on the paranormal and psuedoscience is subterfuge. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-mods-check-a-thread/50306/3 "2001-01-16T12:22:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blur \* > I assume you have to look at all the threads in your area. Basically, yes. > [@](#): > > But how do you keep up on neverending threads? If we can’t keep up, it’s time to close them. But rest assured, there’s a good chance that a “Threadkillers” kind of thread (soon to be extinct, BTW) isn’t reviewed after page 3 unless something happens. Which brings us to the following point: > [@](#): > > Do you get emails from dopers warning you of a heated arguement in MPSIMS? I do, and I’m happy to be assisted this way. It’s good to know a lot of people care just as much about the wellbeing of this MB as we do. > [@](#): > > Do you have some 6th sense on these things? No, but a little intuition does enter into it, I suppose. Hard to explain, but sometimes trouble arises in very predictable corners of the MB. > [@](#): > > How the hell do you get your power! Me, I fell into the kettle of Magic Potion when I was a baby. The others have to drink their daily dose of it, lest they lose their abilities. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-mods-check-a-thread/50306/4 "2001-01-16T12:23:34Z")
I _knew_ you were gonna post that, Coldy. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-mods-check-a-thread/50306/5 "2001-01-16T12:28:31Z")
Only _one_ cup a day, Unc. Dammit, don’t make me tell **Bodoniacacourcix** about this! [sub]I’m pretty sure these references are too obscure for non-Europeans… right?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-mods-check-a-thread/50306/6 "2001-01-16T12:44:55Z")
Nah, that just reminded me to take my wild boar off the spit, Coldfire. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-mods-check-a-thread/50306/7 "2001-01-16T13:04:12Z")
😃 Funny lads, those Romans. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2001, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-mods-check-a-thread/50306/8 "2001-01-16T18:09:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*Only _one_ cup a day, Unc. Dammit, don’t make me tell **Bodoniacacourcix** about this! > > [sub]I’m pretty sure these references are too obscure for non-Europeans… right?[/sub] \*\* Not necessarily. How are the menhir deliveries going then? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-mods-check-a-thread/50306/9 "2001-01-16T19:04:45Z")
Huh? ---
**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:** [January 16, 2001, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-mods-check-a-thread/50306/10 "2001-01-16T21:45:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*Huh? \*\* Coldy’s talking about characters in the _Asterix the Gaul_ books. I see that prescience doesn’t imply omniscience. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-mods-check-a-thread/50306/11 "2001-01-16T21:54:11Z")
The menhirs are running smoothly, saleswise. Especially since we dug that tunnel to Britanica. See, the Caledons fancy a good menhir, ya know 😉