# Inappropriate moderator post **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 2, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594 "2020-11-02T22:02:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/1 "2020-11-02T22:02:34Z")
> [@Biden campaign bus, cars driven by staffers attacked on highway](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-campaign-bus-cars-driven-by-staffers-attacked-on-highway/924454/16): > > You know, I should call this trolling except I agree with it. Posts like this just feed the conservative persecution complex that we see too much of already. The most predictable poster has already jumped on this in the most predictable way. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/2 "2020-11-02T22:09:55Z")
Not inappropriate. We’re voting, right? I’d like the OP to also link to the post that led to that. You know, a little context never killed anyone. White supremecists, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/3 "2020-11-02T22:12:01Z")
There’s a link to the post in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/4 "2020-11-02T22:14:47Z")
I can’t tell if he’s joking or not. I’d say it skirts the line. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/5 "2020-11-02T22:15:41Z")
The only thing readable here is the response, and your criticism. Letting it go. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/6 "2020-11-02T22:22:10Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > The only thing readable here is the response, and your criticism. I don’t know what to tell you. There’s a link to the post in context in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/7 "2020-11-02T22:22:33Z")
The post was in response to someone who said, “The GOP is a violent white nationalist movement.” It was pretty easy to find from the link given. The post was immediately above the moderator’s response. The real question is, if someone said, “The Democrats are evil baby - killing fascists,” would it have been modded? Do we even have any examples like that to compare it to? ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/8 "2020-11-02T22:23:53Z")
FWIW the cited post did raise my eyebrows when I saw it fresh. Not a wise comment to have made IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/9 "2020-11-02T22:28:58Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Not a wise comment to have made IMO. This. Now when certain types complain that conservative posts are held to a different standard, they’ll have this post to point to. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/10 "2020-11-02T22:31:21Z")
(Yeah, well, now they will.) ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/11 "2020-11-02T22:33:32Z")
Then again, something I have written more than once about myself in over 23K posts: > If you write enough stuff, you’re bound to say something stupid once in awhile. “Stupid” is the word I’ve applied to my mistakes; “cringeworthy” is probably a better term for the one we’re discussing. ISTM like most debates or complaints of unfair treatment about mistakes, warnings, etc., what’s done is done. The moving finger having writ and all that. We can bludgeon this horse into burger, or we can take note and move on. It can’t be unsaid within the terms of the Board. And I sure would not want to create a precedent of altering history by disappearing it. That would be a coverup far worse than the crime. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/12 "2020-11-02T22:34:20Z")
You have posts like this: > [@Biden campaign bus, cars driven by staffers attacked on highway](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-campaign-bus-cars-driven-by-staffers-attacked-on-highway/924454/53): > > The condemnation is real. Which is more than I’ve seen directed at the radical leftists who burn, loot, and assault people for political purposes. or this: > [@Biden campaign bus, cars driven by staffers attacked on highway](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-campaign-bus-cars-driven-by-staffers-attacked-on-highway/924454/48): > > Is this backwards day? I just said, I condemn all forms of political violence. Shame the left can’t do the same. Assertions of the vileness of the other party are pretty common, and very rarely modded. I don’t think it should have been modded, but I do agree that @Hari_Seldon, even though he was not speaking officially as a mod, gave some of the martyrs on this board something to feel persecuted about. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/13 "2020-11-02T22:49:02Z")
Do you really have any doubts that your example would have been modded? If iirc someone got warned for trolling over a relatively harmless comment made about sleepy joe. Of course it’s a clear double standard. But I’ve learned even 100% proof is insufficient. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/14 "2020-11-02T22:55:27Z")
Were you modded for the divisive things you said? ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/15 "2020-11-02T22:58:22Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Do we even have any examples like that to compare it to? We have a **Magiver** post that **Hari\_Seldon** moderated… > [@Trump Crowds vs Biden Crowds](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-crowds-vs-biden-crowds/924062/80): > > Biden hasn’t had an extensive anything. He’s completely sheltered from any meaningful questions. > [@Trump Crowds vs Biden Crowds](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-crowds-vs-biden-crowds/924062/102): > > Moderating: That’s trolling (a baldfaced lie). Official warning. But now we have reason to believe that he would not have moderated a post that he agreed with. I just think it’s a bad way to go about moderation. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/16 "2020-11-02T23:03:11Z")
I’m the one who made the comment. I regret the hijack, but to be clear: I absolutely think that the GOP is a violent, anti-democratic, white nationalist movement. I think the Republican Party is by far a greater threat to American democracy than ISIS, or any other foreign group and the thread in question is about another recent GOP terrorist act, so the motivations of the terrorists seems relevant. I was not trying to troll. ETA: I keep accidentally hitting submit on this new device. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/17 "2020-11-02T23:07:07Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I’m the one who made the comment. This thread is not really about your comment. It’s about the moderator post in reply to your comment. It’s not the hugest crime in history or anything, but it’s an inappropriate moderator post that will only serve to make some future moderator’s job more difficult. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/18 "2020-11-02T23:07:23Z")
It took me a while to see which comment exactly **Hari Seldon** was referring to. I don’t see how “the GOP is a violent white nationalist movement” should be considered trolling at all - it’s too mild a comment either way. Right wing or left wing, that’s too mild for disciplinary action. What does bother me, though, is **Hari Seldon’s** _rationalization_ - "it’s not trolling **because I agree with it."** That’s bias. That would be like an umpire saying, _“You know, that pitch was inside the strike zone but I’m going to call it a ball anyway because I like the Yankees.”_ ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/19 "2020-11-02T23:09:39Z")
I get it, I just wanted to explain that I was not intending to troll. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/20 "2020-11-02T23:13:27Z")
I took it to mean that while the previous post could look like trolling, it was essentially true on the face of it, for better or worse. Could have been worded better. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594.md?page=2)