Yes, that was some pretty fancy misdirection there.
That never stopped him from making those kinds of posts when he was a mod. Why would giving his modship change anything?
Like most people in her situation, it appears that she only regrets that she got caught, not that she did something wrong.
It may seem to be an unfair assumption, but it has to be the presumption. What she wrote was on purpose, cc’ing was by accident. Her response in this thread even indicates that she apologized when she realized that she’d cc’d picunurse, not when she suddenly realized that her comment was mean and uncalled for.
I have a strong feeling I would have received my first warning if I’d posted that in ATMB.
I’d rather this didn’t turn into a hijack about me. I’ve said my piece about what happened and about what I perceived to be a misunderstanding of the unfortunate phrase used.
But she didn’t lash out at the poster and it wasn’t in the course of ‘routine moderation’. The mods were letting off steam among themselves. That the poster saw the comment was purely accidental. I don’t for one second believe that twickster would have intentionally addressed that remark to **picunurse. **
To take this as a ‘sign that the job isn’t for her’ strikes me as surprisingly harsh and suggests you have other reservations about her moderation. Which may or may not be well-grounded, all I’m saying is that this incident alone signifies nothing but that mods are human.
“Blind pig” was common parlance for a bar selling illegal booze, especially during Prohibition. I always thought the phrase came about because really bad/adulterated whiskey could cause blindness, but apparently some bar owners took it literally (according to Wikipedia):
“In desperate cases (the bar) has to betake itself to the exhibition of Greenland pigs and other curious animals, charging 25 cents for a sight of the pig and throwing in a gin cocktail gratuitously.”*
Naturally there are a whole bunch of bars around the country currently calling themselves “The Blind Pig”.
*this suggests an idea for marketing Straight Dope memberships, but I think I’ll leave it at that.
On Bing you only get TWO, one of them being this board, the other talking about car brake problems. I am gobsmacked. I’d have never thunk such a common phrase would be so rare on a search engine.
- This is a hijack of the existing thread and has nothing at all to do with the subject matter.
- AGAIN, if you have a problem with a poster, take it to the Pit. That is not an appropriate subject for ATMB.
The next time I have to say that in this thread I am issuing formal Warnings and closing this thread
Yes, but there is clearly frustration, and I’m completely baffled by how she could be so bothered by picunurse (of all people) reporting a flipping thread. We’re all annoyed by other posters at times, so no one expects moderators to be exempt from this, but annoyance at her for something so innocuous? Wtf? “Damn fucking puppies crawling in my lap. Fuck!” Maybe she needs to take a chill tablet if the duties as a mod have worn on her so much that this is getting under her skin.
It’s the quotes. That particular form of the phrase is not used. I think it’s mostly the -ing on “look”, but I’m not going to experiment to find out.
This is one of the most sensible posts in the thread, certainly sums up my opinion.
Fair enough, “lash out” was not the most accurate way to say what I was trying to say. What I was trying to say was: if a mod is talking shit about someone contentious or controversial, I’d file it under “letting off steam” and not think too much about it. But to be so scornful about one of the nicest posters for doing one of the most mundane, well-intentioned things (reporting a thread for forum change) to me reflects a more fundamental problem, regardless of whether the poster in question ever saw the remarks.
Imagine you volunteered at a soup kitchen and ran across the blog of a fellow volunteer, talking about what disgusting human garbage all the people who came in were. You’d be disturbed, right? Even if none of the homeless people ever saw it, that’s not really someone who is a good match for that particular volunteer activity.
I don’t think it’s harsh at all. It’s not like I want her banned from the board or put in the stocks – realizing that a particular volunteer activity is not for you is not the end of the world. I do have other reservations about twickster’s moderation, but they’re all along the same vein: she seems quick to snap at people and annoyed by the core responsibilities of the job. She reminds me of a police officer who likes wearing the uniform, but hates dealing with criminals.
This is the strangest thing to me. I can think of quite a few posters who, were a mod to make a snide comment about them, you’d go “well, that was inappropriate, but given who it is, understandable.” But what did picunurse ever do?
That’s the part that’s surprising about this. I’ve seen many a thread where people get spoken to for Junior Modding and the mod comment is something to the effect of, “How many times do we have to tell you guys to report posts rather than junior mod?”
I found some huge acorns under a giant oak on the banks of Lake Arthur a few years ago. I stored them in the refrigerator in a zip-lock bag with a barely damp towel for the winter. In spring, I planted one in a small pot of soil.
A fucking chipmunk dug it out and hauled it away.
So anyway, that’s my experience with acorns.
It was done by accident. Picunurse was not meant to see the comment, it was meant to go to someone else.
I’m wondering why the comment was made in the first place. What did picunurse do that was so bad? I thought we were supposed to report things.
Are you reading the same thread as the rest of us? That’s the only explanation I can come up with for why you keep responding with non sequiturs.
Picunurse didn’t do anything wrong. We do ask the community to report what they see. It was an offhand comment that was not supposed to go to picunurse but by accident it did. It’s an unfortunate thing. Twickster has apologized.