# Is this considered Junior Modding

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**Created:** [September 26, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-considered-junior-modding/766907 "2016-09-26T03:49:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-considered-junior-modding/766907/35 "2016-09-26T22:27:37Z")

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> [@watchwolf49](#):
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> There’s a hard line here … if Junior Modding crosses this line then it become _impersonating_ a mod … and that’s _really_ bad. Even in the Pit, we can’t tell other posters what they can or cannot post. If there’s a problem, then report it to a real mod and let them take care of it. We are always out-of-line telling other posters what to do.
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> However, we can call other posters dirty names in the Pit … we just can’t pretend to be mods in the Pit

In my comments that pissed everyone off, I told people what to post or not post on my thread, but even while doing it I knew, and everyone else knew, that I had absolutely NO WAY of enforcing it. No matter how strongly worded, if you’re not a mod, it’s only a request with no teeth in it. So I don’t see what the big deal is. The people reading the thread are free to agree to the request or completely ignore it, and _I’m fine with that._ Why? Because that is reality.

OTOH, when a mod says post/don’t post or “this is unacceptable,” a mod can warn you and eventually ban you. A mod is all-powerful in the SDMB world, and that is as it should be, as I said in [this post.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19652437&postcount=49) A board like this needs to be moderated or it deteriorates into chaos and 10,000 post threads that no one can navigate.

So, in practice, the difference between so-called “junior modding” and real modding is infinite, like the difference between 0 and 1.

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