# I turned on avatars today.

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**Created:** [August 8, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255 "2018-08-08T00:29:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/421 "2019-04-23T02:59:03Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> I can’t imagine why you would think so. There is no “rule” that moderators aren’t allowed to moderate in other than their assigned forums. We generally defer to forum mods on judgement calls within their forums, but that’s a matter of professional courtesy, not a formal limitation. In any case, if you’ve read ATMB for any length of time you’ll have seen various mods express their opinions and give instructions.

**Colibri** , it’s unusual for me to take up an argument with you, as I’m usually in agreement with you on most issues, but it appears that the assigned moderator of this very forum disagrees with you:

> [@Why is this thread no moved to the Pit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-thread-no-moved-to-the-pit/832606/7):
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> First, we moderators are assigned to specific forums. While we can kill spam and ban trolls in any forum, we otherwise do not moderate forums other than the ones that we are assigned to.

Ruminating further on this general topic, I wish we had more moderators like **Bone** , which in a way is a strange thing for me to say, since we politically disagree on almost everything – to the point of being almost polar opposites. But **Bone** has worked hard since becoming a mod both to ensure fair and reasonable moderation and discussions and to clarify many of the rules and try to ensure consistency without being either heavy-handed or condescending. It’s appreciated. By “condescending” I mean recognizing that most posters here are mature adults and don’t need to be addressed like a class of fifth-graders (without resorting to repetitive invectives like “I hope that’s clear”). That latter point about **JC** has been brought up before, I’m not the first one to note it.

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