# Inappropriate moderator post

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**Created:** [November 2, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594 "2020-11-02T22:02:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-moderator-post/924594/32 "2020-11-03T00:06:08Z")

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> [@Re: SlackerInc banned for trolling](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-slackerinc-banned-for-trolling/923073/17):
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> > [@puzzlegal](#):
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> > Speaking here as a junior mod on this forum, and an experienced political mod on a prior forum… when someone says something extreme, but they actually believe it, it isn’t really “trolling”. There are various definitions of trolling, but strenuously stating an opinion you believe is at most borderline.
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> > [@Re: SlackerInc banned for trolling](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-slackerinc-banned-for-trolling/923073/17):
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> > You appear to be under the misapprehension that trolling requires that one not believe in what one is posting. This is incorrect. You can be perfectly sincere in what you post, and still be trolling.
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> The moderation of late has taken a horrible turn. Inconsistent, jumping in at little or no provocation, modding posts that they misunderstood and then going back and un-modding, not following the rules other mods have laid out in threads about hijacks and such…
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> And dont get me started on community flagging: worst idea ever…
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> just my opinion, of course.

Yeah, it’s possible to troll truthfully. But I think that’s a lot less common, and a lot more borderline. Yes, you can pick statements that you believe but that you know will trigger other posters, and you can post them not because you are trying to make a case, but because you want to piss people off… But that’s not the usual type of trolling, in my experience.

To be clear, I am not a political mod here. I mod places like “cafe society” where copyright violation is a more common problem than trolling.

And I have vast respect for Colibri, and he knows the standards of this board better than I do. But something you believe is a lot less likely to be a troll job than something you don’t believe.

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