# I quit. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845 "2009-02-14T18:45:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/141 "2009-02-15T02:34:19Z")
Well, damn, Giraffe. This doesn’t bode well for our future, IMHO. ☹ I’m a Pit Lurker. You Pitizens are a little too rough for me most of the time but I do enjoy the occasional train wreck. Giraffe, you did a damn fine job. Here’s wishing you the best, Mr. G. ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/142 "2009-02-15T02:34:49Z")
I will be sorry to see you go as a moderator, **Giraffe** , but I hope your time as a poster will be long and fruitful. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/143 "2009-02-15T02:36:37Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > Might I ask though, toilet sandwich? [You might](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=190370). But, you might also regret it; once you read it, you can’t unread it. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/144 "2009-02-15T02:46:15Z")
Shit, my computer’s running slow tonight. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/145 "2009-02-15T02:46:18Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > [You might](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=190370). But, you might also regret it; once you read it, you can’t unread it. Warning appreciated, but I’ve been to /b/ so I should be inoculated. Thanks for the link.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/146 "2009-02-15T03:00:56Z")
> [@CaerieD](#): > > Damn. You’ve been one of my favorite Mods _evah_, on here and any other board. It just won’t be the Pit without you and your foot long prehensile tongue in charge. Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/147 "2009-02-15T03:07:16Z")
**Giraffe** , I’m sorry to see you go. About two years ago, **Giraffe** was coming through Las Vegas and I drove down to have lunch with him. It was an interesting sight, two men over 6 1/2 feet tall waiting in line at a deli with all these short people around us. Guess _I’m_ the mod you must look up to, now… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/148 "2009-02-15T03:11:02Z")
… tell us about your tongue, Rico. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/149 "2009-02-15T03:17:31Z")
LOOK up to - not Lick… (he says nonchalantly, whilst licking his eyebrows …) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hot_Buttered_Toast)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/150 "2009-02-15T04:03:24Z")
You were a good mod, **Giraffe**. Have an enjoyable experience as a regular poster. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/151 "2009-02-15T04:15:28Z")
**Giraffe** , you’re a dildo.\* \*Now what mod am I going to be able to call that so freely? Seriously, though…I’m going to miss you as a moderator. I thought you did really great. I hope you stick around as a member for a long time to come. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/152 "2009-02-15T05:25:04Z")
Plenty of good ex mods still post. I wish you well **Giraffe.** ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/153 "2009-02-15T05:53:42Z")
> [@fluiddruid](#): > > Giraffe, > > You’ve always been one of the staff members I’ve looked up to most, and it’s been an absolute pleasure working with you. You’ve been everything a Pit mod should be. Don’t think we’ve interacted much – if at all. But that is one classy post you wrote. Good on you. * * * Someone up-thread mentioned that Ed’s going to take over The Pit now. If true, I give this place about six months to live, as by then everyone will be either banned or suspended. Damn shame. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2009, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/154 "2009-02-15T06:10:07Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > \ > Someone up-thread mentioned that Ed’s going to take over The Pit now. If true, I give this place about six months to live, as by then everyone will be either banned or suspended. > > Damn shame. Or just walked away in frustration at a good board gone bad. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/155 "2009-02-15T06:32:18Z")
Count me as yet another who thinks \*\*Giraffe \*\*was a damn good mod. This place will be the worse for him leaving. ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/156 "2009-02-15T06:47:11Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > It’s been explained to me that that’s just the way the software works. You have to ban someone before you can suspend him. And sometimes it takes time for that to work. > [@Frank](#): > > Bannings can be for varying lengths of time, from one day to permanent. That automatically changes the poster’s title to ‘BANNED’. An admin has to manually change the title to ‘Suspended’ if appropriate. > [@choie](#): > > The software allows for all sorts of things. vB has a comprehensive suspension/banning/warning system. The admins/mods don’t appear to have utilized it.\* > > Even without using the bells and whistles of the vB software, all they’d need to do is create another usergroup called SUSPENDED, based off of the BANNED group, and use that for people they suspend. Takes a grand total of five minutes … and that’s only if you’re moving sluggishly. > > - _Edited to add_: well, perhaps they have, but they’re still not using it to its full potential if they haven’t created a ‘suspended’ usergroup. One might get the impression that, after having been forced, kicking and screaming, into updating the software, the PTB aren’t even bothering figuring out how to use it effectively. Good on you, Giraffe. If ever you’re out my way, I’ll buy you a drink. Although I can’t imagine why you’d ever head out to the backwaters of Japan… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/157 "2009-02-15T07:20:51Z")
I, for one, am happy to see you go if going will make you happy. 🙂 Now, to the important stuff – how will this affect ME? So without getting into a rehash of your disputes with TPTB, should we be expecting some new rules on some new stone tablets soon? Or was this about a reinterpretation of existing rules? Are we headed to a Smurf Village Pit? I, for one, welcome our NewSpeak overlords. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/158 "2009-02-15T07:21:59Z")
Giraffe you did things the right way. You moderated, you didn’t try to rule. I probably didn’t agree with everything you did but I can’t really think of any examples. I hope you realize after reading this thread that your efforts were noticed and appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/159 "2009-02-15T07:24:41Z")
[QUOTE=Southern Yankee] I see **Sapo** was banned, although I don’t see a notice yet in ATMB. I wonder if there’s a connection? [/QUOTE] > [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > I’m speculating that **Bodoni** ,not wishing to ban **Sapo** herself, reported a “bad post” to **Giraffe** in which he declined to take action. **Bodoni** them must have gone over **Giraffe’s** head to **Dex** who complied with her. No, this isn’t as dramatic as anything like that. There was no falling out with any other mods, no dramatic arguments over a disputed ruling. (I did disagree pretty strongly with several recent actions, but the discussions were always civil and it’s far from the first time that there have been disagreements amongst the mods regarding a ruling.) Rather, it’s pretty much just the fact that I hold pretty strong views about what kind of forum I’d like the Pit to be if I’m going to moderate it, and these don’t match up with some changes **Ed** is planning to make. I’m not angry and my leaving isn’t meant to manipulate or sway anything – the job is changing, and I don’t want to do the new one. It’s like if you volunteer at a soup kitchen and all of a sudden they want you to also make sandwiches and you’re like “hell with that, I’ll just go back to being homeless and eating the soup instead of making it” so you quit and then get evicted from your apartment for some reason. Also, I have to say that the outpouring of compliments and good wishes in this thread caught me off guard. It’s a little overwhelming, in a really nice way. You guys are awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845/160 "2009-02-15T07:26:29Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Rather, it’s pretty much just the fact that I hold pretty strong views about what kind of forum I’d like the Pit to be if I’m going to moderate it, and these don’t match up with some changes **Ed** is planning to make. Oh Fuck You mean its about to get worse? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit/485845.md?page=9)