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Yes, this “nonsense” again. I find it unacceptable that a Moderator is apparently mixing personal feelings with their duties of enforcing board rules.

There is a time and a place to take potshots at a poster. I just don’t think a Moderator should do that with their “mod hat” on.

There is a difference between a “conservative poster” (see: John Mace, Sam Stone, etc) who makes good arguments, backs up their points to the best of their ability, etc., and generally represents their side of the political divide well, and a “Stephe96” who simply picks up the nearest piece of GOP-branded feces and slings it into the nearest thread.

To be honest, I thought the same thing as BMax, especially after his refusal to own up to any position he actually believes in.

Wow. Just wow. “Liberal” poster* calls arch-conservative Stephe a troll. Mod reprimands “liberal” poster. This is evidence of liberal bias on part of the mods.

I swear, some days I think elucidator is right about cognitive dissonance.
*I have no idea what Bmax’s political views are in general, but in this particular thread they seem not to be pro-conservative.

What’s she done to earn respect? Outside of his impressive ability to dodge around points he doesn’t like.

I believe a common answer to this sort of whine is, “If you don’t like it, leave.” You may have heard it somewhere before…

Well, that is too fucking bad. So the mod said, “It is possible this person is very stubborn and not a troll after all” in a not very polite way. A mod is not required to be moderate, but to make sure that the rules don’t get out of hand.

Btw, time to remind you of reality.Remember the last time you made this claim?

Yes, a classic SDMB pile-on, much like this one. Excuse me if I was unable to answer 10 posters at once. Btw, time to remind you of reality.

Way to miss my point. I’m not upset that TVeblen reprimanded BMax, but the decision to insult Stephe96 while wearing the mod hat. Clearer, I hope?

Actually, I realized that just after I posted. I owe you an apology. And I even agree that it’s in poor taste for TVeblen to call Stephe an idiot whilst acting in an official capacity.

Good enough?

No, I will not excuse you. I replied to a hell of a lot more posts on that thread. Not only that, but they had a wide variety of complaints, while your thread simply repeated the fact that:

Absolutely. Apology accepted.

Well, I agree that you replied more than I did. And I formally retract my claim that this board is a liberals club. And I admit that I stormed off from that thread you linked to in a metaphorical huff because it seemed to me that little was being accomplished.

Let me rephrase and restate my main point: I think it is unacceptable that a Moderator would insult another poster while exercising their duties as a moderator. I don’t care if that poster has many failings that have been demonstrated on the board. That is not the time nor the place.

You don’t have to agree (and I doubt you do), but that is how I feel.

Which forum is this again? :dubious:

But really, you admitted to more than I would have expected, and I am glad to hear it.

That’s not the point, Scott. If TVeblen wants to call Steffe an idiot in the Pit, that’s just fine. What’s not fine is calling Steffe an idiot whilst speaking in an official capacity. That’s no longer one poster calling another an idiot, but rather a poster speaking on behalf of The Straight Dope calling another an idiot. Probably no rules against it, but it’s in poor taste. Moderation should have an air of impartiality. Even if moderators in person are biased as all hell, they should strive to keep that bias out of official pronouncements in the interests of fostering the sort of atmosphere desired on the SDMB, even in the Pit.

Did the “Can Manhattan curse while closing a thread?” thread get disappeared? Or was it lost in the crash? I can’t find it.

Dang it, we must have killed the search engine looking for it. I couldn’t find it either.
Good times. Good times.

I have to agree with this 100 percent. Official mod pronouncements aren’t the place to take potshots. If there isn’t a rule against it, I’d support making one.

Odd, I didn’t have any trouble finding it. Here you go. Maybe you only searched titles only? ‘Manhattan’ is misspelled in the thread title.

I can not seem to find it either. However, I have found this thread which seems to have come to the same conclusion. Mods will occasionally swear, when closing a thread. Big hairy deal. (Although the thread is way too long for me to tell.)

Now, I suppose he could have said, “It is possible she is not a troll, but instead simply single minded.” However, such modification of one’s normal behavior seems to have no point and asks for behavior modification, something I think we have no right to expect, mod or not.

No, I remembered it as “curse” instead of “swear”. All of my searches had “curse” in them.

Thanks!

Have you ever read the collected works of Cecil Adams? He frequenlty insults people as he sets them straight. That is the way things work around here.