# "If this was in the Pit".... is this a personal insult? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 30, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267 "2016-09-30T03:46:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/21 "2016-09-30T20:20:39Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > I don’t think “mod” is a verb. > > 😉 Sure it is, meaning to modify or to moderate. Mod can also be an adjective, like the mod squad. So the mod mods can mod. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/22 "2016-09-30T21:54:06Z")
Mod mods can even mod a mod. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/23 "2016-09-30T23:04:59Z")
Only with an upgrade, though: Modded mod mods mod mod. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/24 "2016-09-30T23:18:39Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Only with an upgrade, though: > > Modded mod mods mod mod. In my experience, the cool moderators whose behavior is corrected by other cool moderators in their turn regulate the behavior of other cool moderators. Which is to say, mod mods mod mods mod mod mod mods. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/25 "2016-09-30T23:25:18Z")
This seems to work: Mod mods Mod mods mod mod Mod mods. Where “Mod” is an adjective (as in Mods & Rockers) mods = noun, moderators mod = verb, modify or moderate It follows exactly the same syntax as [Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo) i.e. “Certain Mod moderators that are moderated by (other) Mod moderators, (in turn) moderate Mod moderators.” ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/26 "2016-09-30T23:29:04Z")
You people are despicable. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/27 "2016-09-30T23:29:37Z")
Dammit, ninjaed. ETA, hold on, can ninja be an adjective as well as a noun and a verb? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/28 "2016-10-01T01:04:11Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > You people are despicable. For some reason I am hearing a Sylvester the Cat voice when I read this. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/29 "2016-10-01T01:07:59Z")
That’s funny, I hear Daffy Duck. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/30 "2016-10-01T01:39:53Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Dammit, ninjaed. > > ETA, hold on, can ninja be an adjective as well as a noun and a verb? Yes. See “ninja edit.” It means something like “fast and sneaky” and is more often applied to the action than the person (but there is “Ninja editor,” someone who gets in and edits something right as someone was about to complain.) ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/31 "2016-10-01T03:30:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Mod mods can even mod a mod. Not on this board. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/32 "2016-10-01T05:43:11Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > That’s funny, I hear Daffy Duck. Suffering succotash? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/33 "2016-10-01T06:19:39Z")
If this were in the Pit I would do such things, what they are yet I know not, but they would be the terrors of the Earth. I can see why the mods might not look kindly on the phrase. If addressed to me I might well take it, depending of course on the circumstances, as an insult, albeit implicit. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/34 "2016-10-02T18:12:39Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > “If this were the Pit I could say what I really think” - Grey area. I could see it being modded either way. I was once Mod Noted for saying that. Best just not to go there. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/35 "2016-10-03T00:49:21Z")
I could do it, but I would explain it so boringly that the mod would fall asleep before… Yeah, like that. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/36 "2016-10-04T13:53:47Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > That’s funny, I hear Daffy Duck. [Me, too.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfsTk5i7mPw) ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267/37 "2016-10-04T15:44:25Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Suffering succotash? 🙂 [Now _that’s_ Sylvester.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkhPuH8G5Hg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-was-in-the-pit-is-this-a-personal-insult/767267.md?page=1)