# I need a ruling on Insults Outside the Pit **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 13, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-ruling-on-insults-outside-the-pit/429861 "2007-12-13T14:54:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-ruling-on-insults-outside-the-pit/429861/61 "2007-12-14T03:48:31Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] I can honestly say that I’ve closed/moved a thread which had an OP that was outrageous/trolling/etc. _and_ just glanced at the other posts to the thread. It’s virtually impossible to read every response to every OP. [/QUOTE] I probably would not have read the whole thread just to make sure nobody was breaking any rules in there. I might scan it, but if there was a complaint about the thread’s topic, I’d look at the OP. We don’t have to read all of the posts in a thread every time we act. > [@](#): > > I sometimes wonder how the moderators in Great Debates/BBQ Pit do it. Me too. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-ruling-on-insults-outside-the-pit/429861/62 "2007-12-14T03:53:42Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] Is there some way for we peasants to know when that attractive exclamation point has been made use of? [/QUOTE] Nope. I don’t think any of the mods have a problem with a few extra emails, though. I don’t in any event. The button is there for you to push. Don’t be shy. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-ruling-on-insults-outside-the-pit/429861/63 "2007-12-14T04:29:14Z")
Yep, what **Gfactor** said. We’d rather get a dozen reports of the same problem than not get any. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-ruling-on-insults-outside-the-pit/429861/64 "2007-12-15T06:57:38Z")
And we all know what happens when one assumes… ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-ruling-on-insults-outside-the-pit/429861/65 "2007-12-15T07:16:28Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] Here’s my quick reading of things: 🙂 [/QUOTE] Seems fair to me. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-ruling-on-insults-outside-the-pit/429861/66 "2007-12-15T15:21:32Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] Yep, what **Gfactor** said. We’d rather get a dozen reports of the same problem than not get any. [/QUOTE] To elaborate a bit, here is what comes to the mods when you report a thread: > [@](#): > > **Gfactor ( [mailto:gfactor999@gmail.com](mailto:gfactor999@gmail.com) ) has reported this post:** > > **How do I figure out how old my house is?** > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=9273093#post9273093](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=9273093#post9273093) > > **This is part of this thread:** > How do I figure out how old my house is? > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=447839](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=447839) > > **This is the reason that the user gave:** > Help. I’m a rock! > > This message has been sent to all moderators of this forum, or all administrators if there are no moderators. > > Please respond to this post as applicable. The report goes to all forum moderators. Admins don’t automatically see it unless they happen to be a moderator of that forum; neither do moderators of other forums. You can help us by filling in some detail in the message box. Some things are self explanatory. If I get a report that says Spam, please delete duplicate post (#16), or wrong forum, I’ve probably got all I need. OTOH, if I get a report that’s blank and is really about a perceived rule violation, I’ve got to look at the thread a lot more carefully to figure out what the sender’s concern was. So it helps to take a few seconds and put something into the message box. As far as duplicates go, Gmail threads the reported post emails together for me. If I’ve been away from the computer for a while, I usually start with the last one first because it’s common for the others to be resolved. If I’m sitting at my computer, I just start working down the list of reported posts. It takes me less than a second to see if two posts are about the same thread, and a second and a half to see if they’re about the same issue. Not a big deal. I’d rather have to wade through 30 duplicates than have eveyone assume that somebody else sent the report. And by the way, I seldom respond directly to the person who made the report. Rest assured, we get every one of them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-ruling-on-insults-outside-the-pit/429861.md?page=3)