# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/41 "2016-03-03T03:31:11Z")
This seems very kind of you under the circumstances. ☹ ---
**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, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/42 "2016-03-03T03:32:59Z")
> [@CannyDan](#): > > Good job! He’s been making similar posts in other threads as well. ---
**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 3, 2016, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/43 "2016-03-03T03:37:31Z")
A bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/44 "2016-03-03T04:44:22Z")
Suicide by mod. Textbook example. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/45 "2016-03-03T04:48:50Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Suicide by mod. Textbook example. Induced coma. The patient might survive. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/46 "2016-03-03T04:49:45Z")
Colibri and I get into heated debates, but I have never had much of a issue with him as a Moderator. Obviously we have widely differing opinions on what is “funny”, but that’s most likely me. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/47 "2016-03-03T05:45:40Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Obviously we have widely differing opinions on what is “funny”, but that’s most likely me. What is the purpose of the quotation marks around the word _funny_? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/48 "2016-03-03T13:45:24Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > What is the purpose of the quotation marks around the word _funny_? To make it “funnier”. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/49 "2016-03-03T14:06:33Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Induced coma. The patient might survive. Prognosis terminal, he kicked the bucket. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/50 "2016-03-03T14:23:23Z")
The guy’s having an existential crisis. This is closer to physician assisted suicide. Hope he read sleestak’s thread. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/51 "2016-03-03T15:47:43Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > 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. But he did sing the best song on that album (the first Styx song, of many, that I fell in love with was “Haven’t We Been Here Before”). ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/52 "2016-03-03T15:59:57Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Hey! Why don’t _ **I** _ have posters who concede like that to me with offers of fulfilling my every whim? You’re not running the Death Pool yet. Just wait until next year. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/53 "2016-03-03T17:05:23Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > 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. Yikes! With a moniker like Huitzilopochtli you need to provide a pronunciation guide (Weetz-ee-loh-POSHT-lee). I still can’t say it out loud. Does she respond to Weetz? ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/54 "2016-03-03T17:10:22Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > **Moderator Warning** > > I have no idea of what brought this on, but this is an official warning for insults in ATMB. Maybe he’s hitting on ya? (It could happen.) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/55 "2016-03-03T17:24:34Z")
Given the mod swarm in this thread, a question occurred to me: Has a mod ever modded a mod? As in given a warning to another mod? Is that even a thing? ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/56 "2016-03-03T17:31:25Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > 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. IMHO, the main stream media becomes the lame street media when they spin, twist, distort, or lie about the facts of a story. And that applies to any and all media outlets. **Colibri** the Kind and Understanding (aka the God of War in Central America) and I disagree about whether the term “LSM” is political or apolitical but to paraphrase Robert De Niro paraphrasing Alphonse Gabriel Capone, you can get farther with a kind word and a moderator’s position than you can with a kind word. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/57 "2016-03-03T17:35:52Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > IMHO, the main stream media becomes the lame street media when they spin, twist, distort, or lie about the facts of a story. And that applies to any and all media outlets. **Colibri** the Kind and Understanding (aka the God of War in Central America) and I disagree about whether the term “LSM” is political or apolitical but to paraphrase Robert De Niro paraphrasing Alphonse Gabriel Capone, you can get farther with a kind word and a moderator’s position than you can with a kind word. Dude, the term is infantile and beneath even you. It’s akin to saying something like “poopy pants politicians.” Give it up. It’s also based entirely on a right wing myth. What I think you mean is that some media outlets cover stories differently than you would prefer. That, my friend, is just the way it is. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/58 "2016-03-03T17:39:02Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Given the mod swarm in this thread, a question occurred to me: Has a mod ever modded a mod? As in given a warning to another mod? Is that even a thing? There would be no reason to do so in public what with their carrier pigeons, code rings, winks, nods, and secret handshakes. Whatever happens in the Fortress of Solicitude would stay in the Fortress of Solicitude. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/59 "2016-03-03T17:50:44Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Dude, the term is infantile and beneath even you. It’s akin to saying something like “poopy pants politicians.” Give it up. It’s also based entirely on a right wing myth. What I think you mean is that some media outlets cover stories differently than you would prefer. That, my friend, is just the way it is. I like saying, “poopy pants politicians”. **Colibri** , brother to the hummingbird, moderator, and the God of War in Central America has spoken. I shouldn’t use the term “LSM” in one of these forums. Meanwhile, what I think I mean is that media outlets have been known to spin and twist stories and sometimes they even lie. I see no reason to give a MSM outlet a break when it’s obvious that they aren’t doing their job. Your view may differ. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/60 "2016-03-03T17:55:57Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > I like saying, “poopy pants politicians”. > > **Colibri** , brother to the hummingbird, moderator, and the God of War in Central America has spoken. I shouldn’t use the term “LSM” in one of these forums. > > Meanwhile, what I think I mean is that media outlets have been known to spin and twist stories and sometimes they even lie. I see no reason to give a MSM outlet a break when it’s obvious that they aren’t doing their job. Your view may differ. I think the point is that the “General Questions” forum is for posting factual answers, not political views and opinions. [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=2) [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=4)