# 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:** 4
**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, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/61 "2016-03-03T18:06:40Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I think the point is that the “General Questions” forum is for posting factual answers, not political views and opinions. Right. Besides that, even a discussion of MSM in that particular thread would have been a inappropriate hijack. ---
**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, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/62 "2016-03-03T18:07:42Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > **Colibri** , brother to the hummingbird, moderator, and the God of War in Central America has spoken. You could probably shorten that to “Demi-god of The Darien Gap”. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/63 "2016-03-03T18:12:59Z")
> [@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. It wasn’t the LSM thing; it was your reference to a certain Operation, shall we say, Speedy and Irritated that was the political dig. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/64 "2016-03-03T18:23:16Z")
> [@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? Yes, it’s happened recently too. Miller gave a mod note to both a poster and another mod at the same time. I don’t have a cite right now, but I do remember it happening, so it’s somewhere there. ---
**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, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/65 "2016-03-03T18:31:06Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > It wasn’t the LSM thing; it was your reference to a certain Operation, shall we say, Speedy and Irritated that was the political dig. > > Regards, > Shodan He got a note for the first, and a warning for the second (since he had already been cautioned on political digs in the same thread). ---
**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, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/66 "2016-03-03T19:00:31Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > It wasn’t the LSM thing; it was your reference to a certain Operation, shall we say, Speedy and Irritated that was the political dig. > > Regards, > Shodan According to **Colibri** , who is kind to orphans and puppies, a warning warning was issued issued for referring to the current President as a “rogue president” in the _General Questions_ forum. I assume that the rest of the post was acceptable. And thanks for the heads up about the Speedy and Irritated issue. I hadn’t viewed that thread or read my Private Messages yet. I assumed the PM was from yet another ardent suitor. Who knows what trouble I could have found myself in? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/67 "2016-03-03T19:11:09Z")
Yeah, you had _no idea_ that warning was coming. ---
**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 3, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/68 "2016-03-03T20:32:36Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Colibri can eat a dick. > [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Edited to clarify: eat a big goddamn bucket of dicks. For future reference, would this earn one warning for both, a warning each (two warnings) or a big goddamn bucket of warnings? ---
**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 3, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/69 "2016-03-03T20:36:20Z")
Honest question here: If calling out LSM is a warnable political jab in GQ, are jabs against the right-winged Fox News for their alleged conservative bias likewise warnable? ---
**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, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/70 "2016-03-03T20:39:37Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Honest question here: > If calling out LSM is a warnable political jab in GQ, are jabs against the right-winged Fox News for their alleged conservative bias likewise warnable? Of course. Why would you think otherwise? I suspect I’ve probably issued at least notes for that. (Note that the jab against LSM got a note rather than a warning.) ---
**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, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/71 "2016-03-03T20:40:47Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Honest question here: > If calling out LSM is a warnable political jab in GQ, are jabs against the right-winged Fox News for their alleged conservative bias likewise warnable? Was it done in GQ? ---
**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 3, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/72 "2016-03-03T20:42:59Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Of course. Why would you think otherwise? I suspect I’ve probably issued at least notes for that. (Note that the jab against LSM got a note rather than a warning.) I’ve never seen a warning for it. But then again most of the users lean to the left and would never report it and TBH this is the first warning I’ve seen for insulting any media. ---
**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, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/73 "2016-03-03T20:51:55Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > I’ve never seen a warning for it. But then again most of the users lean to the left and would never report it and TBH this is the first warning I’ve seen for insulting any media. There was no warning for the “LSM” remark. I issued a note for that. I later issued a warning for a jab at President Obama. I was not responding to a thread report on the first remark; I saw it because I was following the thread. (I don’t recall if it was reported at some point.) I regularly get reports of anti-right-wing remarks, and act on them if needed. ---
**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, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/74 "2016-03-03T20:53:23Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Yeah, you had _no idea_ that warning was coming. Why would I expect a warning? I strive to stay within the rules and never, ever, suggest dietary supplements to moderators. It was my fault that I allowed myself to be led astray by another mods general instruction to “stick to the facts” without first double checking which facts he was referring to. Don’t I feel like a horse’s patoot. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dvmFmlN0_TQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Chris Farley Horses Patoot") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvmFmlN0_TQ) ---
**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, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/75 "2016-03-03T20:59:02Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > I’ve never seen a warning for it. But then again most of the users lean to the left and would never report it and TBH this is the first warning I’ve seen for insulting any media. This happens in General Questions? ---
**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, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/76 "2016-03-03T21:02:56Z")
[Here’s an example](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15684284&postcount=20)of when I issued a mod note for a jab against Fox News. ---
**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, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/77 "2016-03-03T21:08:24Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Why would I expect a warning? You should have expected one if you paid any attention at all to the rules about political remarks in GQ, especially since we had just been discussing them here. There was absolutely no excuse for the remark about Obama. I suggest that if you have such an exceedingly poor grasp of the rules in GQ that you would be better off not posting in the forum. ---
**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 4, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/78 "2016-03-04T02:18:16Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > 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? As much as she responds to any name, which is entirely dependent on whether I have food. ---
**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 4, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/79 "2016-03-04T10:59:16Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > 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? Maybe Weezie, like in _The Jeffersons_. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colibri-following-the-rules-of-the-sdmb-or-is-he-just-throwing-his-weight-around/747736/80 "2016-03-04T16:48:07Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Trollskins are excellent for jackboots. Seems obvious what you use socks for, then. [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=3) [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=5)