# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/41 "2011-09-23T16:23:54Z")
> [@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’. > [@bucketybuck](#): > > Are you sure that wasn’t _this_ board? We do take rape very seriously here after all. Welll, during Rape Month (Feb - Apr) we do… ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/42 "2011-09-23T16:25:29Z")
So this is a blanket pitting of all moderators? ---
**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 23, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/43 "2011-09-23T16:37:41Z")
> [@Floater](#): > > You both think, thus you both exist. Or you might just be two dreaming butterflies. That’s probably it. I got an admonishment for telling someone who was spouting gibberish on another board, “I see. And have you _tried_ making sense?” Well, _I_ thought it was funny. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/44 "2011-09-23T16:42:15Z")
> [@Double\_Foolscap](#): > > I was innocent of that _specific_ crime, dammit! I hear that a lot from my patients. 🆒 ---
**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, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/45 "2011-09-23T16:47:37Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > So this is a blanket pitting of all moderators? Speaking personally, I’m a thick-skinned moderator. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/46 "2011-09-23T16:58:33Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Speaking personally, I’m a thick-skinned moderator. Maybe try an exfoliant? ---
**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, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/47 "2011-09-23T17:39:07Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Are you sure that wasn’t _this_ board? We do take rape very seriously here after all. Oh dear, until you enter internet fandom, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Women in fandom have basically turned equality into a hipster trend. You think feminazis are bad? Ha ha ha. I got into a discussion once where someone said using the word ‘nigger’ in historical fanfiction was inappropriate because it offends people today. So, if you wrote a story about Tom Sawyer and used the word ‘nigger’, people would freak out on you. There was also the time someone said they weren’t on top on all the terminology and such of transgender people and asked for someone to explain, wherein they proceeded to get flamed over their lack of knowledge. Mind you, they asked for people to correct them, but no! Not inherently knowing that the PC term today is ‘transgender’ as opposed to ‘transgendered’ will get you internet attacked! Any deviation from the social justice script and you are automatically labelled a troll. ---
**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, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/48 "2011-09-23T21:48:38Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Maybe try an exfoliant? And turn into the kind of douche who takes everything personally? No thanks. > [@kushiel](#): > > There was also the time someone said they weren’t on top on all the terminology and such of transgender people and asked for someone to explain, wherein they proceeded to get flamed over their lack of knowledge. One of the joys of LGBTQetc. folks and allies being human is that there’s just as much chance of meeting an asshole! Thereby doing all kinds of damage to the side. Hooray! ---
**Author:** ![New\_Deal\_Democrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Deal_Democrat)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/49 "2011-09-25T09:50:17Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > I just got permanently banned at one of my favorite sites. Kinda came a shock to me too, because I was pretty sure I had been on my best behavior. So I look to see what I got banned for… > > Quote: > Creationists are insane and stupid; it’s a damn shame that they’re not of the same caliber as Flat-Earthers and Moon Denialists. > > …_THAT_ is banworthy? 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. And I don’t think I was even insulting anyone on the site, either, because the number of YECs on that site is what, 3? This really bothers me because that was one of the sites I spent most of my time debating on, mostly because it was about on par, intelligence-wise, to SDBM, but with less people, making the debates a lot easier to follow. > > But yeah, anyways, fuck you stupid thin-skinned moderators. You may go eat a dick. It is one thing to post facts and insights. It is something else to post attitudes of contempt. You posted an attitude of contempt. Moreover, you posted it concerning a religious issue. When discussing religion on on internet forum, or anywhere else for that matter, one should discuss religions one does not practice as though one is talking to friends who practice the religions. Now, I have had my problems with moderators here for discussing my belief that genetics and genetic differences are relevant to the human predicament. It is one thing to say that, and to say why one thinks so, and something else to tell crude racist jokes. Nevertheless, an internet forum belongs to the administrators and mods. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/50 "2011-09-26T14:10:25Z")
> [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](#): > > Now, I have had my problems with moderators here for discussing my belief that genetics and genetic differences are relevant to the human predicament. You misspelled “…for dragging by belief that genetics and genetic differences are relevant to the human predicament into every thread regardless of relevance”. (Kudos, though, for being willing to do so even when it shoots down your overarching thesis, as in the case of [the India thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=625462) – they only discovered agriculture in India circa 1977, right?) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/51 "2011-09-26T14:35:10Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > We do take rape very seriously here after all. I take my rape with pancakes, thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047/52 "2011-09-26T14:36:50Z")
If you violate [the rules](http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/codeofconduct) it’s [possible to be banned](http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.313834-How-do-creationists-explain-dinosaurs#12724519). In this case the rule > [@](#): > > “Flaming > Calling people names (or groups who may visit The Escapist), this includes calling others a troll” seems pretty clear cut and hard to miss. Since Creationists probably visit the forum, calling them “insane and stupid” is a pretty blatant violation. While I may agree 100% with your sentiments, learning to play by somebodies rules in their sandbox is a fundamental skill in life. Just saying. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thin-skinned-moderators/597047.md?page=2)