# I pit thin-skinned moderators **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 21, 2011, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047 "2011-09-21T11:08:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/21 "2011-09-21T20:21:36Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > Check out his section on 9/11 where he blames it all on Canada.\ He knows that South Park isn’t a documentary, right? ---
**Author:** ![Jaguars](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaguars/32/5879_2.png) [@Jaguars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaguars)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/22 "2011-09-21T20:33:43Z")
Down with dinosaur hall! how dare they use my tax dollar like that! I want it spent on bigger guns! [link](http://www.revisionism.nl/Dinosaur/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm) ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/23 "2011-09-21T20:42:42Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > I just got a warning at a large general interest message board. > > The reason? “Being naughty”. Yes, those were the words used. > > The warning I can live with, but for fucks sake I am not nine years old, telling me I am being naughty really rankles for some reason. > > Fucking moderators, don’t they know I got a rep to protect. 😉 That’s **it** young man. You’re in a **time out!** ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/24 "2011-09-21T20:51:07Z")
You are all a bunch of meanies. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/25 "2011-09-21T21:26:42Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > I’m sorry, but if I’m not allowed to take potshots at creationists for being demonstrably wrong and therefore either ignorant or lying, then there is something wrong here. Of course creationism isn’t in the same league as those things! Their parents taught it to them, and their parents before them, and so on back to _God_. You’re not calling \*God \*a liar, are you? \*That’s \*what \*I’d \*call ignorant! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/26 "2011-09-21T22:47:55Z")
> [@fluiddruid](#): > > What do their rules say? Calling people, even a group of people, “insane and stupid” is something I could see falling under a rule about insults or flaming. I don’t necessarily agree with such a rule being wise or necessary, but if their rules say to keep it civil and polite and you didn’t, I don’t think they’re being thin-skinned. That was my thought, along with how many previous warnings the post had gotten. ---
**Author:** ![XRaeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f14d63/32.png) [@XRaeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XRaeth)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/27 "2011-09-22T06:03:54Z")
This is my favorite line from the site so far. "Do an experiment: take a rubber ball and suspend it above a bathtub full of water. Now slowly move the ball closer to the water. Does the level of the water change? Not even slightly. So much for the tides myth. " ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/28 "2011-09-22T20:36:40Z")
That’s nothing, I once got a warning on a different forum for ‘enjoying rape culture’. My offense? Someone said ‘[video game boss attack] will rape your face’ and instead of jumping on the hate bandwagon, I said I could take it at face value as someone using it as a euphemism for ‘[video game attack] will kick your ass’ instead of ‘[video game attack] will specifically sexually assault your face’. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/29 "2011-09-22T20:41:23Z")
Be careful, **kushiel** , or you’ll get a warning for enjoying violence culture. “Kick your ass,” indeed. Hmph. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/30 "2011-09-22T21:53:35Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Nope. > > [http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm](http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm) > > A parody. I _hope_. It is. Read the disclaimer at the bottom of the main page: DISCLAIMER: All editorial content on this website is strictly not the writer’s/author’s opinion. THE MAD REVISIONIST, located on the moon, is owned and operated by accident. The content of this page is the copyrighted property of THE MAD REVISIONIST. Any illegal copying or circulating of this page, in whole or in part, without the expressed permission of THE MAD REVISIONIST will be taken as a compliment. And no, we’re not really offering $100,000. What are you, crazy? ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/31 "2011-09-22T22:54:01Z")
I got banned once, well suspended, from a forum after someone said the US should just nuke Palestine. I called him a twat and got banned for the personal attack. He didn’t get banned for advocating genocide. Some moderators are weird. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/32 "2011-09-23T02:52:56Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Be careful, **kushiel** , or you’ll get a warning for enjoying violence culture. “Kick your ass,” indeed. Hmph. I really did want to keep it anonymous, but I know you’ll enjoy this little nugget about the _first_ warning I got from the same comm. They were talking about the Noblegarden WoW event where you have to put bunny ears on a female of each race. I was in Org to try and grab the Horde races, but was having trouble. So I posted in the discussion “[It’s like Garrosh commanded ‘hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife, they be rapin’ everybody up in here!](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/antoine-dodson-bed-intruder)”'. Yes, I got a warning for that, when the entire discussion was about a quest _where you fetishize women as Playboy bunnies_. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/33 "2011-09-23T03:33:16Z")
I got banned from a porn site for telling the mods off politely. One day, I went to find some new material and Firefox went berserk, saying I was visiting a KNOWN ATTACK SITE OMG YOUR COMPUTER HAS AIDS! I checked the forums carefully. I checked all the usual places where one would find an announcement about security software tripping. I looked at responses from mods to other posters who were expressing concerns. The mod responses were basically, “here’s our year-old thread about general security threats. You’re stupid and you’re banned for asking.” I decided to give them a lecture on communication. Instead of dropping the ban-hammer on every single user this was affecting, why not simply update the security threats thread to say day/month/year- we are having issues that affect Firefox? Like take five seconds out of your day to let people know you’re aware of the problem and they will stop bugging you constantly! So of course, one of the mods writes a very long screed telling me how stupid I am and how he’s not going to hold my hand in the wilderness of the internet and how they get attacked too often to post about it every time… and then the son of a bitch bans me. Soon after that, hackers destroyed the site altogether and it isn’t coming back. Good riddance. If you’re a mod at a porn site you’ve got nothing to complain about except your aching balls! How the fuck can someone in that position be a grouchy asshole? Especially when the number one problem (users bitching about the same stuff over and over) can be fixed with one fucking sentence! ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/34 "2011-09-23T04:12:54Z")
If you are at a board that frowns on flaming, then don’t flame. I see no basis for complaint if a board endeavors to enforce its rules, norms or culture. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/35 "2011-09-23T13:24:01Z")
**DWMarch** , that sounds like security through hostility. Regardless of the forum’s intent or content, a forum moderation style (or I fear policy) that bans people _for reporting problems to the moderators_ deserves to get shut down permanently. (Preferably by everybody getting fed up and leaving, not by being cracked into oblivion.) ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/36 "2011-09-23T14:11:44Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Oh boy. Hey, maybe they’re from that school of philosophy who wonder if anything actually exists or if we’re all just figments of our own imaginations. > [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > Well, I don’t know about me, but I’m sure that _you_ are just of a figment of _my_ imagination, and the moon is just a figment of _your_ imagination. You both think, thus you both exist. Or you might just be two dreaming butterflies. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/37 "2011-09-23T15:03:28Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > So I posted in the discussion “[It’s like Garrosh commanded ‘hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife, they be rapin’ everybody up in here!](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/antoine-dodson-bed-intruder)”'. That’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/38 "2011-09-23T15:40:20Z")
I got perma-banned once because of a discussion in a sub-forum specifically given amnesty from bannings, because I wouldn’t stop asking for proof that I looked down on people specifically for their writing style. It was a mod who accused me during a discussion with someone else, and she banned me because I wouldn’t let it slide. (It was along the lines of, “I know he tends to look down on people who don’t write in full sentences, but he’s not that bad despite it.”) To be honest, I was a right little obnoxious shit who thought he was God’s gift to that board, but I was innocent of that _specific_ crime, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/39 "2011-09-23T15:47:05Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > That’s nothing, I once got a warning on a different forum for ‘enjoying rape culture’. > > My offense? Someone said ‘[video game boss attack] will rape your face’ and instead of jumping on the hate bandwagon, I said I could take it at face value as someone using it as a euphemism for ‘[video game attack] will kick your ass’ instead of ‘[video game attack] will specifically sexually assault your face’. Are you sure that wasn’t _this_ board? We do take rape very seriously here after all. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/40 "2011-09-23T15:56:49Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > I just got a warning at a large general interest message board. > > The reason? “Being naughty”. Yes, those were the words used. They take that very seriously on the Santa’s Workshop Message Board. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047.md?page=3)