# I pit MordecaiB **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 13, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419 "2021-07-13T20:31:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/41 "2021-07-13T23:09:39Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > This already reads like an ATMB thread. Please, more scorn heaped on mordechai! Fine. I will agree that the specifically cited post was super self important. Would I have pitted him for it? Probably not, but he was making it seem really, really personal with W.E., and it’s way out of line for ATMB. And the fact that no one posted after him . . . how often are we told _NOT_ to rise to the bait? I’ve seen Mods commend threads for letting crap like that sit fallow until they could respond to flags. Otherwise though, while I often disagree with MordecaiB, he’s not particularly irritating, well, at least not any more so than the rest of us. 😜 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/42 "2021-07-13T23:21:29Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > How many flags are required from ordinary users to hide a post? Didn’t know this was a thing. Great. 🐝 ---
**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:** [July 13, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/43 "2021-07-13T23:25:00Z")
For what it’s worth, Mordecai’s a fuckin jackass. Awhile ago I was talking to him about an author, and mentioned parenthetically the author’s racism and misogyny, but also said a whole bunch of other stuff. Dude went the fuck off on me, until a mod eventually made him shut up. Made an impression, that did. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/44 "2021-07-13T23:38:02Z")
I find it strange how he sort of appeared out of nowhere highly concerned about the board’s downfall. I was curious enough to look at posting history. The guy had some activity in the early 'oughts, lurks for like ten years with one or two posts a year. He’s either been paying since I was a baby, or he took advantage of one of the charter drives before the switch to Discourse. After years of keeping a low profile, in 2020 it’s SDMB mania, multiple posts a day. He instantly shows up in ATMB, ‘man has the moderation gone to shit we’re never going to attract new posters’! Look dude, if bad moderation are scaring posters away why are you suddenly active here? We must have been doing _something_ right to lure you back! Right? A curious case, maybe there’s a PM scene or something and he’s been active the whole time… ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/46 "2021-07-13T23:56:09Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > How many flags are required from ordinary users to hide a post? > [@puzzlegal](#): > > I feel like it’s typically 2-3 flags One. Taoo, Three. Three flags to get post hidden 🦉 🎓 ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/47 "2021-07-14T02:39:29Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > How many flags are required from ordinary users to hide a post? > [@DemonTree](#): > > I suppose if groups of users start abusing flagging to hide posts the mods can stamp on them. Flagging accuracy would eventually come into play. Whenever the mods agree with your flag, your accuracy goes up. Whenever they disagree with it, your accuracy goes down. Get low enough an accuracy score, and your reports don’t count toward hiding the flagged post (at least on the boards I’m familiar with). So a cadre of people flagging posts for the helluvit would eventually find that their tactic stops working. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/48 "2021-07-14T04:01:50Z")
God, what a fucking dipshit. From “Threads With Men as Objects of Lust” in ATMB: Yookeroo: “There are times I would welcome (people expressing sexual attraction to me) and times I would not.” MordecaiB: “Are you saying that anyone, man or woman, could grab you by the dick at any time and you’d be fine with that?” Pretty classic example of his argumentative technique. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/49 "2021-07-14T04:06:30Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > I tested it too, just now Jane. It may get hidden again. Its been 6 hours, the post is there and I didn’t get an auto-message this time. I’m not feeling neglected and ignored, but thought you would want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/50 "2021-07-14T04:10:07Z")
He first came to my attention in the thread last month about why some people have trouble being punctual. He was aggressively demanding that anyone who claimed to have ADD post their complete medical history so he could render judgment on whether the claim was valid or not. Starts going off the rails about [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-you-always-late/942631/191), continues until he gets two consecutive modnotes from different mods! ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/51 "2021-07-14T04:31:27Z")
Oh, and nobody has yet linked [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-conflict-of-interest/946316) in which he accuses hajario of, um, something really horrible involving Giraffe Boards, which he can’t provide any details about for, um, reasons. In the end it turned out that hajario’s crime was apparently to post moronecai’s SDMB join date, which is public information available to anyone, in the GB thread mocking him. mordecai apparently thought he had used some Giraffe mod hacker ability to obtain this extremely personal information and then publicized it in order to ruin his life. Or something. Again, this is the guy who thinks he has the right to demand other people post their medical records in order to satisfy his curiosity. (I hope this post isn’t read as an attempt to start a board war; I’m trying to provide context for mordecai’s rant against hajario, which happened on this board and would be less funny if you didn’t realize the incredibly trivial nature of his actual complaint) And as a bonus, the thread has some classic DrDeth moments! Read it if you dare. ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/52 "2021-07-14T04:45:45Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Oh I’m pretty sure y’all keep your bonfire for board wars flaming all day and night over there but we’re not supposed to mention it here at all. Except you did just mention it. So, you’re stupid. Also all you cowards who are so “Concerned” about the unmentionable place yet constantly whine like babies about it still have your Constitutional Rights to go over there. But you don’t because you’re cowards. So you keeping whining about it claiming they are trying to start “board wars” when everyone knows it’s you idiots trying to start “board wars”. And what do think will happen if an actual “board war” occurred? I mean I know you have the IQ of a mentally challenged empty tub of butter but what probably will happen is that the Sun Times or who ever is losing money on this place will just shut it down. And then where will you troll? Not the unmentionable place. You’ve already proven you’re too cowardly to go over there and troll because you know you’ll get called on your idiocy and can’t bully the mods with your endless rules lawyering bullshit. So stop being cowardly pieces of shit and go over to the unmentionable place already and hang out and be regular pieces of shit. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/53 "2021-07-14T05:00:29Z")
I endorse all of the above post except for the suggestion that chela should go post over there. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/54 "2021-07-14T05:18:06Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > From “Threads With Men as Objects of Lust” in ATMB: > > Yookeroo: “There are times I would welcome (people expressing sexual attraction to me) and times I would not.” > > MordecaiB: “Are you saying that anyone, man or woman, could grab you by the dick at any time and you’d be fine with that?” > > Pretty classic example of his argumentative technique. Actually, by you removing the sentences he wrote before and after the quite, you completely changed the meaning of what **MordecaiB** wrote. > I don’t think we are talking about what you are. Are you saying that anyone, man or woman, could grab you by the dick at any time, and you are fine with that? Cuz, that’s what we, or at least me, are talking about. Nobody here has a problem with consensual touching. It’s a totally different subject. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/55 "2021-07-14T05:44:44Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > I’m not feeling neglected and ignored, but thought you would want to know. Brazen Cafe Flirt! ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/56 "2021-07-14T06:54:37Z")
I don’t think I changed the meaning, I just made the bullshit clearer by editing out some word salad. The thread was about “objectification”, which can mean a lot of things, from leering at sexy photos to catcalls on the street to actual sexual harassment or worse. This little shitstain unilaterally moved the goalposts to define “objectification” as meaning only “violent sexual assault”, and then attacked Yookeroo for not having read his mind. Also in that thread, I said that sexual harassment of men was less common than harassment of women. He claimed I said sexual harassment of men was “no big deal” and that “men love being grabbed by the ass, they should be flattered”. I mean, I think he was saying I said that. He was replying to me at the time, and since neither I nor anyone else had actually said anything remotely like that, I think I was the one he was lying about at that particular time. But his posts are too disorganized and ungrammatical to really be sure what he’s trying to convey. If you want to act as his defense attorney, maybe you could point to any evidence that _anyone_ else in the thread was using the phrase the way he was. Fuck him, and fuck you for defending him. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/57 "2021-07-14T06:55:55Z")
> [@Enjoy\_Slurm](#): > > Also all you cowards who are so “Concerned” about the unmentionable place yet constantly whine like babies about it still have your Constitutional Rights to go over there. After seeing **Broomstick** ’s story I can well understand why no one wants to go there. Some people are scum. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/58 "2021-07-14T07:12:34Z")
I don’t know what Broomstick’s story was, but she’s fucking crazy and a pathological liar, so… Oh, wait, this was the one about how she allegedly got some threatening PMs on the SDMB from an SDMB member and decided it was somehow GB’s fault? But has never been able to present any evidence supporting that? ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/59 "2021-07-14T12:28:18Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > I don’t think I changed the meaning, I just made the bullshit clearer by editing out some word salad. I know this is a thread pitting MordecaiB, who has been posting a _lot_ of crap lately, but this is some absolute bullshit. The context needscoffee added absolutely changes the meaning. Your quote looks like an outrageous in-your-face strawman attack. The more complete one is a slightly dickish, in-your-face you’re-in-the-wrong-thread attack. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/60 "2021-07-14T12:40:37Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > Please, more scorn heaped on mordechai! I don’t know what we’re arguing about, but okay. **MordecaiB** , I scorn thee! ---
**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:** [July 14, 2021, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419/61 "2021-07-14T12:52:13Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > After seeing **Broomstick** ’s story I can well understand why no one wants to go there. Some people are scum. Not to pass judgement on BS’s story, but if someone did what she claims Giraffe posters did today (and that would have been waaaaaaaay before my time), mods here can read PMs if they are reported, and the perpetrators would be banned. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mordecaib/946419.md?page=4)