# If you were asked to be a moderator here, would you accept? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 27, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345 "2016-01-27T03:35:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/1 "2016-01-27T03:35:11Z")
Curious (idle) minds want to know. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/2 "2016-01-27T03:36:36Z")
Hell…no… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/3 "2016-01-27T03:37:59Z")
No, but only because I don’t think I could spend the necessary time. Once I get a bit closer to retirement from my day job, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/4 "2016-01-27T03:38:13Z")
Sorry, no. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Moderating corrupts, uhh, moderately. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/5 "2016-01-27T03:39:17Z")
Sure! (Just my luck, I get the slot, and then get hired – I’m currently unemployed – and stop being able to spend a lot of time here! Irony is rampant!) ---
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/6 "2016-01-27T03:42:31Z")
I’m actually going to move this to ATMB. Just occurred to me it probably fits that forum better. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/7 "2016-01-27T03:53:42Z")
Absolutely. I’d love to. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/8 "2016-01-27T03:57:48Z")
Last thing I need is another excuse to sit here on my ass in front of my computer and NOT go out an engage with the world. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/9 "2016-01-27T04:00:57Z")
I moderate a couple of forums on Reddit. Fortunately they are mostly well-behaved ones. If I can handle that I think I could handle this. Of course, this forum is a hell of a lot more nit-picky about rules than Reddit is. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/10 "2016-01-27T04:14:51Z")
I’d have to find a way to convince my family that I’m not as available as they think I should be now that I’m retired. How much time does the average mod spend on it, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/11 "2016-01-27T04:26:21Z")
I’d accept. And for my first official act as moderator I’d give Idle Thoughts a warning for [violating the rules of ATMB.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17841734&postcount=4) ---
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/12 "2016-01-27T04:35:46Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > I’d accept. > > And for my first official act as moderator I’d give Idle Thoughts a warning for [violating the rules of ATMB.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17841734&postcount=4) Ah, well, I didn’t know about that rule. I’ll just move the topic back, then. My mistake. [My last topic about it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=341043) stayed in IMHO, after all, so this should be okay then. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/13 "2016-01-27T04:37:49Z")
Absolutely not. I’d be far too polarizing a figure as a moderator; the effort would be doomed to fail. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/14 "2016-01-27T04:45:25Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > No, but only because I don’t think I could spend the necessary time. Once I get a bit closer to retirement from my day job, maybe. This ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/15 "2016-01-27T04:54:35Z")
Absolutely not. I would just be rubbish at it. I’m actually very impressed by the mods here and how well they do their jobs. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/16 "2016-01-27T05:00:01Z")
Hell no (not that I’d ever be asked). I’ve been a moderator on a different forum so I have a glimpse of what it entails. While it was fun elsewhere (a much smaller forum with a tighter focus), it would be annoying as hell here. There are too many posters that are argumentative, think they are smart, really ARE smart (much smarter than me, for starters), and love to engage in convoluted dialogues over the most trivial of details. I’m simply not interested in the kind of pedantic hashing over of rules and postings that moderation would involve here. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/17 "2016-01-27T05:03:21Z")
Christ, no. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/18 "2016-01-27T05:34:55Z")
I was asked once several years ago, but couldn’t. I might consider it at some point under the right circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/19 "2016-01-27T06:24:37Z")
I’d have some interest in seeing the inner workings of the board but overall I figure the job wouldn’t be worth the hassle. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/20 "2016-01-27T06:27:53Z")
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