# Is Colibri following the rules of the SDMB or is he just throwing his weight around? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 2, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736 "2016-03-02T15:17:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/21 "2016-03-02T18:44:46Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Hey! Why don’t _ **I** _ have posters who concede like that to me with offers of fulfilling my every whim? Whoa, hold on there pilgrim. I didn’t say anything about your whims. Your whims might make a grown man shudder. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/22 "2016-03-02T19:12:45Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Because Colibri (hummingbird) is a God of War in Central America and idle thoughts are. . . not. Indeed, [Huitzilopochtli, the Southern Hummingbird](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Kodeks_tudela_21.jpg), is my alter ego. (That’s a spammer on the upper left.) ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/23 "2016-03-02T19:16:40Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Because Colibri (hummingbird) is a God of War in Central America and idle thoughts are. . . not. OK, curiosity has gotten the better of me. “Hummingbird”??? Favorite food? Tattoo? Can’t remember the words? Is this one of those “if I tell you, I have to kill you” kind of things? How did you answer my question before I asked it? You are truly amazing. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/24 "2016-03-02T19:21:47Z")
“Colibri” is a genus of hummingbirds. And **Colibri** is Death on Wings to political jabs in GQ. Ask me how I know. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/25 "2016-03-02T19:55:01Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Indeed, [Huitzilopochtli, the Southern Hummingbird](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Kodeks_tudela_21.jpg), is my alter ego. (That’s a spammer on the upper left.) I don’t even want to contemplate what you all do with trolls. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/26 "2016-03-02T19:59:00Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > I don’t even want to contemplate what you all do with trolls. Trollskins are excellent for jackboots. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/27 "2016-03-02T20:18:25Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Hey! Why don’t _ **I** _ have posters who concede like that to me with offers of fulfilling my every whim? Someone is hinting for a ride on a Harley. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/28 "2016-03-02T20:43:27Z")
Dropping a political bomb in GQ is sort of like putting one of those feeders out on your back porch with sugar water in it. More then likely it will attract the attention of a Hummingbird. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/29 "2016-03-02T21:21:43Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > And **Colibri** is Death on Wings to political jabs in GQ. Ask me how I know. You got better. Now I feel inadequate. “Jonathan Chance” is just a character in a terrible Styx album. Tommy Shaw played him. So I got that going for me, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/30 "2016-03-02T21:28:38Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Now I feel inadequate. “Jonathan Chance” is just a character in a terrible Styx album. Tommy Shaw played him. So I got that going for me, I guess. If you want to be scarier, try changing your name to [Mr Roboto.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TUJuGN82b9g/maxresdefault.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/31 "2016-03-02T22:11:33Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > It’s not a political jab. When the MSM repeatedly fails to do it’s job properly, it becomes the LSM (ie. the lame main street media). And with this doorhinge loses the fight. At least I would have claimed that L(eft)SM was appropriate in GQ as it is factual that they are making the issue of Thomas possibly looking to replace Scalia as the leader of the Conservative Side. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/32 "2016-03-02T23:16:42Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > And with this doorhinge loses the fight. At least I would have claimed that L(eft)SM was appropriate in GQ as it is factual that they are making the issue of Thomas possibly looking to replace Scalia as the leader of the Conservative Side. I’d say either version of LSM is generally an attack on the media in general for being too left-wing, not a term for mainstream left-wing media. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/33 "2016-03-02T23:20:24Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Is **Colibri** following the rules of the SDMB or is he just throwing his weight around? I assume there is little graft available to a mod, so what other reason would somebody have for becoming one if he can’t throw his weight around? I have renamed one of my horrid little dogs Huitzilopochtli. She likes blood. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/34 "2016-03-02T23:52:31Z")
A skilled Moderator is able to do both simultaneously – enforce the rules _and_ throw his/her weight around. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/35 "2016-03-03T01:23:34Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Political jabs are not permitted in GQ. You did not say MSM, you said LSM repeatedly. As I am sure you well know, “LSM” typically is used to indicate [“Lame Stream Media” or “Left Stream Media.”](http://www.acronymfinder.com/Slang/LSM.html) (I considered it unlikely you were using it to mean “Long-Stick Midfielder” or “Little Sex Machine.” If you actually meant Little Sex Machine please explain your intention. 🙂 ) I considered this to be a jab at what you consider to be liberal media. Considering we were talking The Supremes my first thought was the case brought by the Living Stream Ministry. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/36 "2016-03-03T03:07:52Z")
Colibri can eat a dick. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/37 "2016-03-03T03:10:12Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I’d say either version of LSM Edited to clarify: eat a big goddamn bucket of dicks. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/38 "2016-03-03T03:15:31Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Colibri can eat a dick. > [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Edited to clarify: eat a big goddamn bucket of dicks. **Moderator Warning** I have no idea of what brought this on, but this is an official warning for insults in ATMB. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/39 "2016-03-03T03:26:35Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > **Moderator Warning** > > I have no idea of what brought this on, but this is an official warning for insults in ATMB. Since the poster has posted two other threads in MPSIMS that suggest he is posting under the influence, he’s been temporarily suspended to avoid a further meltdown. > **[HMS Irruncible is an alcoholic dickbucket](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=785838)** > > Thought it was time for another one of these threads. Let me emphasize there is no coaching nor advice that will make it better. People fiddled while Rome burned, and there is no record of anyone halting nor ameliorating the situation. Collapse... > **[They're trying to suppress the speech of an alcoholic](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=785846)** > > There, I said it. ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/40 "2016-03-03T03:30:55Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Since the poster has posted two other threads in MPSIMS that suggest he is posting under the influence, he’s been temporarily suspended to avoid a further meltdown. > > [HMS Irruncible is an alcoholic dickbucket - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=785838) > > [They're trying to suppress the speech of an alcoholic - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=785846) Good job! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736.md?page=3)