# Marley, you're letting your opinions and interactions as a poster influence your modding. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 5, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-youre-letting-your-opinions-and-interactions-as-a-poster-influence-your-modding/549312 "2010-08-05T18:59:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-youre-letting-your-opinions-and-interactions-as-a-poster-influence-your-modding/549312/7 "2010-08-05T19:26:38Z")
I get that people don’t want the moderators to put their fingers on the scale to give an advantage to their side of an argument. I try not to do that, but at the same time if I see a potential rules violation in a thread, I don’t think it’s necessary for me to ignore it and potentially let it get out of hand while I wait for another mod to check the boards. I don’t think that’s a practical approach. If this were a paid gig and some moderators were always online, I’d be fine with it. And in some cases I will bow out of a moderating decision and leave it to others. But in general I think it’s okay. The other posts were three mod notes to **Don123** , all about posting very long quotes from other sites (sometimes with attribution that was a little confusing), and these two notes about personal comments: > [@Has Obama spent a million dollars to hide his birth certificate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-obama-spent-a-million-dollars-to-hide-his-birth-certificate/505877/427): > > > [@Has Obama spent a million dollars to hide his birth certificate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-obama-spent-a-million-dollars-to-hide-his-birth-certificate/505877/420): > > > > Can the Moderators just give these lunatics a custom label (like “Racist Moron” or something similar) when it becomes obvious what they are? It would save a whole lot of skimming. > > Comments like this belong in the Pit, not here. Or ATMB if you’re making a semi-serious suggestion. 😉 > [@Has Obama spent a million dollars to hide his birth certificate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-obama-spent-a-million-dollars-to-hide-his-birth-certificate/505877/462): > > This goes for everybody: considering this thread is probably a waste of time to begin with, I will shut it down if the insults continue. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-youre-letting-your-opinions-and-interactions-as-a-poster-influence-your-modding/549312)._