# Junior Modding **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 10, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junior-modding/927802 "2020-12-10T23:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junior-modding/927802/17 "2020-12-12T14:13:21Z")
I’m going to speak to his defense. **DrDeth** thought sometime last year a Mod mentioned in an ATMB thread that a polite nudge to get back to the Op was allowed. I let him know I wasn’t aware of it but that might have been for GD and P&E, but not for ones like The Cafe. He asked about starting this thread and I said it couldn’t hurt, I was interested if anyone found it too. So the inspiration for this thread was from that modnote I guess but it is not directly related to that modnote. I don’t think we have a rule allowing jr. modding even in GD. We have a specific rule that counters it if anything. > [@New Rules for Great Debates and Elections – January 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rules-for-great-debates-and-elections-january-2020/845726/1): > > **Junior Modding.** It is not the task of posters to enforce the rules. Doing such can derail debate. If you feel a post is breaking a rule, report it and allow staff to determine if this is a issue and how to deal with it. The staff may or may not agree with you. So best to flag threads going off target, choose the Something Else reason and just explain the thread needs a mod to get the thread back on Topic. If a post is glaring as the cause of off-topic, this would be the exception where “off-topic” will work. * * * As **Colibri** answered, Cafe threads will lose focus often after answered and become conversational. That is fine, I do it myself. > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Getting back to the OP, I have some insight into the Sad Puppy debacle, given my close personal friendship with their leader. Here’s that story… > > (Also, that stuff about Warhammer is super-cool–maybe it’d do better in its own thread?) IMHO, this is a good example of trying to nudge a thread back to the original focus. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junior-modding/927802)._