# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/61 "2016-01-27T17:27:47Z")
I’ve been a moderator on other boards. I didn’t mind it for the most part as the structure was I could moderate at my own convience. This board is much to busy, I don’t think I’d want to devote the time, seem people would expect moderators to actually devote time to the job. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/62 "2016-01-27T18:11:47Z")
I’ve moderated a politics forum on a website for people into kinky sex. I can survive _anything_. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/63 "2016-01-27T18:43:55Z")
Nah. Don’t have the time for it these days, and I don’t think I’d be a very good mod anyway. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/64 "2016-01-27T18:50:49Z")
Absolutely not. I wouldn’t have that job at gunpoint. Why would I sign up for so much stress and angst? It’s not as if I didn’t already have my own private jackboot collection, and I like my current coffee mugs just fine. On a moderately\* related topic, does boasting about how you’d hypothetically moderate stuff run the risk of accidentally hypothetically junior modding? 😕 \*YSWIDT? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/65 "2016-01-27T18:57:15Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > It’s dark down here. And cold; so very cold. Hey, you’re the one who moved east in time for a major blizzard! Quitcher griping! 😃 ---
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/66 "2016-01-27T20:11:31Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I’d have to think about it - would I get to choose which forum I got to mod? Do I get one free, no questions-asked bannination as a welcome gift? Are there vegan jackboot options? > > Only one of those is an actual serious question - _do_ the mods get to choose which forum they mod? Moderators don’t get to choose the forums that they moderate. We are assigned forums based on where moderators are needed, where that moderator spends his or her time as a poster, and the moderator’s personality and skill set. Moderators are expected to participate in the forums that they moderate. That way we know the culture of that particular forum and we know how the rules have been enforced in that forum over the years. If for example you’ve spent all of your time in the Pit and have never even posted in GQ, you’re not going to get asked to moderate GQ. You won’t have the right personality fit or skill set for that forum. Likewise, I personally would make a very poor Pit moderator. I’ve spent so little time in the Pit over the years that I really don’t have a good handle on how that forum should be moderated. Vegan jackboots we can probably work with. Fuzzy pink slippers are definitely a no-no. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/67 "2016-01-27T20:21:03Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Hey, you’re the one who moved east in time for a major blizzard! Quitcher griping! > 😃 You make one giant, glaring, horrendous mistake, and people never let you forget it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/68 "2016-01-27T20:26:47Z")
Moderation in all things, except moderation. None of that shit. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/69 "2016-01-27T22:28:53Z")
I fear I have some fundamental differences with current moderators and their approach to moderation, differences sufficient to mean I wouldn’t fit in with the current staff. > [@Bone](#): > > Barring weird yet unknown rules I probably would say yes. 😕 You haven’t been asked yet? Mods, get on that–Bone would be great! (edit–in case there’s any question about whether my first comment is connected to my second, there’s not; I’m sincere in saying Bone has an evenhanded steady temperament and sense of fairness that would make him an awesome moderator). ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/70 "2016-01-27T22:35:27Z")
Agreed. Bone for moderator! ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/71 "2016-01-27T22:48:09Z")
I’ve no interest in applying and I assume they have no interest in offering. Like Eliahna, I wouldn’t mind an opportunity to see the mod forum and all the secret conversations they’ve had over the years. Look back at the various board splits over the years and compare the public and private comments of the moderators, that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/72 "2016-01-27T22:52:05Z")
I’d do it, mostly because I tend to be around late night when the spammers come out and not many mods are on. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/73 "2016-01-27T22:56:39Z")
Now that, that I would do. I’d love to be able to delete the shit out of spammers. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/74 "2016-01-27T23:00:38Z")
I’ve had a similar position with another major website that’s been mentioned several times on SDMB. By the time they asked me to “moderate” (edit, actually), my enthusiasm had waned, but I said yes out of a feeling of some obligation. It became clear that most of my peers were spending hours every day on the site, while I could barely be arsed to check in every day, or even every other day. I’m embarrassed to say that I more or less ghosted them. I cannot imagine that I’d do any better with the SDMB, I’m afraid. There might be an initial flurry of enthusiasm, but I wouldn’t be in it for the long haul. I’ve learned about commitment as I’ve gotten older. I used to be quick to buy in, but I’ve learned enough about myself now to be much more gun shy. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/75 "2016-01-27T23:55:42Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > You make one giant, glaring, horrendous mistake, and people never let you forget it. **Marley** , is that you? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/76 "2016-01-28T00:07:02Z")
Moderate a bunch of namby-pamby Dopers for no cold cash?!? Hardly! I’d give a hearty “_thumbs down_” to that proposition! However… …I heard…_“around the grapevine”_…that SDMB moderators enjoy a \*particular \*_“fringe benefit”_ that, _if true_, could possibly coerce me to re-think my position on this matter. If it’s true, as my reliable sources relate, that SDMB moderators are recipients of frequent, extreme gratuities of a sexual nature…well then, draw up a contract and let’s get the balls rolling! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/77 "2016-01-28T00:15:53Z")
All very well and good…until it’s your turn in the barrel. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dajn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@Dajn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dajn)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/78 "2016-01-28T01:04:44Z")
No. Same reason I should never be on a jury. I wouldn’t be fair at all. ---
**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 28, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/79 "2016-01-28T01:06:24Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > And there are… > > things. > > With dead, cold, eyes. Grues? Are you likely to be eaten by a grue? ---
**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:** [January 28, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345/80 "2016-01-28T01:31:57Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Absolutely not. > > I’d be far too polarizing a figure as a moderator; the effort would be doomed to fail. Someone had asked this question before, and I couldn’t think of a way of articulating why I would say no. But this is perfect. Though I also wouldn’t like the stress, either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-asked-to-be-a-moderator-here-would-you-accept/744345.md?page=5)