We’re happy to announce that manhattan has been appointed co-moderator of the General Questions forum. He’ll share moderating duties with Nickrz, who plans to stick around but wants to reduce his time commitment. We plan to name co-moderators for some of our other busy forums soon. We’d have done it before now, but it wasn’t possible until this latest MB software upgrade. If you’ve already applied to become a moderator, don’t worry, we’re still slowly trolling through the applications. If you’d like to apply, contact tubadiva@aol.com for more info.
manhattan has been an active poster and we’ve been impressed by his intelligence, fair-mindedness, and unflappable sense of humor. We’re sure you’ll join us in welcoming him. And please, go easy on him. We don’t want him to quit the first day.
Let me be amongst the first to congratulate Manhattan . . . and also to commiserate.
Ain’t the easiest job, but sometimes y’all make it really really fun.
I would say “respect him like you do me,” but he deserves better.
your humble TubaDiva
“Welcome to heaven, here’s your harp.
Welcome to hell, here’s your banjo.
Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Board, here’s your scooper.”
Now you get to be the next target for the psycho poster who wants to take out his aggressions on a moderator who deigns to take a position opposite of his!
Don’t you feel lucky?
(I’d ask what the ? in front of the message means, whether it’s indicative of an uneasy nature in giving Manny this wonderful benny, but I think questioning Mr. Zotti’s typing skills is the surest way to get my butt fragged.)
JMCJ
Just confirming that my ass is, in fact, the wisest part of my body.
And to think I was kissing up to you in the posters you’d like to date thread before I even knew you were going to be a moderator! That ought to qualify me for some kind of special consideration, don’t ya think?
Just kidding, of course. Or wait - maybe I’m not kidding. [kissing up again]Manhattan, oh wise and sensible one (and sexy, charming, and adorable, too), do you think you could use your new position of power to talk the adminstrators into adding a preview option for our replies??? I’m willing to work out a trade. Just name your price.[/kissing up]
All kidding aside, I know you’ll do a great job for all the reasons stated. Congrats!
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
Hm. And here I thought I was so clever, being the “first to realize” that there was another name up by Nick’s…anyhoo, there’s a congratulatory thread started over in MPSIMS (didn’t want to sully the GQ forum with emotion).
Congratulations, Manny, quite an achievement.
PS: If they don’t hire me, can I have your coffee cup?
“…being normal is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage.”
Don’t believe a thing Nickrz has to say about me. Besides, all those posts have been deletes.
Congrat on joining the rarified stratus of blah, blah, blah, yadda-yadda-yadda, and so on.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Smilie and you smilie alone (with my contempt). – missdavis
Not to disrupt the many pleasant (and deserved) congratulations/condolences to manhattan, but was no one troubled by this remark? Will Phaedrus be our new GD moderator? NewtonsApple in charge of MPSIMS?
