# In Praise of Good Moderating **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 31, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134 "2009-12-31T02:35:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [December 31, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/1 "2009-12-31T02:35:41Z")
> [@How do I report a PM?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-report-a-pm/522706/14): > > I, too, would like to thanks the Mods/Admins, in this case, **twickster** and **xash** for their help with an offensive PM. > Their help and reassurance make me happy to be a poster. You know what? I think we could use a thread for things like this. I’m sure mods sometimes feel like nobody appreciates them since so many threads about things people disagree with. But, since it probably won’t engender much discussion, a single thread is probably enough. I know I’ll be adding my own as they come up again. Moderating need not be a thankless job. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/2 "2009-12-31T02:37:36Z")
Dude, they’re still not going to let you have “charter member.” ---
**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:** [December 31, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/3 "2009-12-31T02:38:58Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Dude, they’re still not going to let you have “charter member.” 😃 Obviously not my intent. I think it would be better for everyone to have mods that feel appreciated. People who like their jobs do them better. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/4 "2009-12-31T02:45:38Z")
There are lots of message boards out there and while the board itself attracts a great clientele, if it weren’t for the moderators, it would be just another internet mess. There are a lot of behind the scenes things that go on that we don’t see, spam and the like, that remain filtered from our time. So thanks go out to the past, present, and future mods who have been patrolling our borders. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/5 "2009-12-31T03:01:53Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > There are lots of message boards out there and while the board itself attracts a great clientele, if it weren’t for the moderators, it would be just another internet mess. There are a lot of behind the scenes things that go on that we don’t see, spam and the like, that remain filtered from our time. So thanks go out to the past, present, and future mods who have been patrolling our **borders**. (Bolding mine) Or patrolling our boarders. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/6 "2009-12-31T03:09:05Z")
Mods here get a lot of flack, much of it undeserved. During “the unpleasantness” last spring, I contributed my share…perhaps more…of that flack. Still, they allow dissent, and even respond to well reasoned complaints. Warnings can and have been rescinded, rules changed, etc. There’s plenty of places on the internet where that doesn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/7 "2009-12-31T19:54:28Z")
Hip hip mods. I think they do an awesome job. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/8 "2010-01-01T19:23:51Z")
Agreed. Bravo and thanks to all for a job well done. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/9 "2010-01-01T19:38:24Z")
I agree. They do a good job. Of course, I help, in as much as I am very easy to moderate. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/10 "2010-01-01T19:58:25Z")
Let me single out **GFactor** and **samclem** for excellent work. They are exemplars for moderators everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/11 "2010-01-01T21:11:54Z")
My thanks have been expressed. Thanks, **BigT**. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/12 "2010-01-01T21:28:58Z")
I generally think the mods here do their jobs very well, and moreover, I think it’s fantastic that there is a part of this board where we can discuss and even debate mod actions. Huzzah, SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/13 "2010-01-01T21:38:43Z")
I must say that over the past 10 years I’ve been hanging around here, I’ve seen the level of jerkery, trainwrecks and downright hostility significantly decrease, and I credit the overall mature and effective moderation and administration of this board. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/14 "2010-01-01T22:34:59Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > Let me single out **GFactor** and **samclem** for excellent work. They are exemplars for moderators everywhere. [sub]Your check’s in the mail, bro. Don’t cash it 'til the current stuff dies down. [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/15 "2010-01-02T06:13:41Z")
I’ll jump on here and say that I’ve become more appreciative of some of the patience shown here by the mods. Thanks for doing an often thankless job. ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/16 "2010-01-02T20:29:36Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > I must say that over the past 10 years I’ve been hanging around here, I’ve seen the level of jerkery, trainwrecks and downright hostility significantly decrease, and I credit the overall mature and effective moderation and administration of this board. I would say that pay-to-post had a lot more to do with driving down trouble-maker traffic than any mod decisions. I for one miss the mods we had back in the day - there seemed to be a lot more human interaction between the mods and posters a few years ago. Everything seems too stuffy these days. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/17 "2010-01-02T20:35:59Z")
Thay can’t be that good, they let me post here. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/18 "2010-01-02T22:30:36Z")
> [@lightingtool](#): > > I would say that pay-to-post had a lot more to do with driving down trouble-maker traffic than any mod decisions. I for one miss the mods we had back in the day - there seemed to be a lot more human interaction between the mods and posters a few years ago. Everything seems too stuffy these days. Perhaps we can let this thread stay a complementary thread, as the OP intended. Other threads are available to critique mod actions. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/19 "2010-01-02T22:44:48Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Perhaps we can let this thread stay a complementary thread, as the OP intended. Other threads are available to critique mod actions. Perhaps you mean we need to let this thread stay a complimentary thread and **lightingtool** can start a complementary thread. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134/20 "2010-01-02T23:52:15Z")
Well, the three Mods/Administrators I know personally are all great fellows. Ditto the several ex-Mods, who survived the experience with little visible scarring. Otherwise, what **Fear Itself** said. 😛 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-good-moderating/523134.md?page=2)