# Mod comings and goings - welcome and farewell **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 27, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020 "2015-01-27T17:17:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/1 "2015-01-27T17:17:12Z")
Please join me in welcoming two new moderators to the Straight Dope Message Board, **Asimovian** and **IvoryTowerDenizen**. **Ivory** reports she has a fever at the moment and is laying low, but **Asimovian** will be jumping in right away. He’ll be co-moderating the In My Humble Opinion forum and the new Thread Games forum. **IvoryTowerDenizen** will help moderate Café Society and MPSIMS. We also announce with sadness the retirement of several veteran moderators, \*\*TubaDiva, C K Dexter Haven, Gukumatz \*\*and **twickster**. **Tuba** and **Dex** have been around virtually since the day we opened our doors as a content provider on America Online, which was, God help us, going on 19 years ago. We extend our warm thanks to the retirees (who remain members of the SDMB community) for their many years of volunteer service; they helped make this place what it is. I don’t know what I’d have done without them and wish them all the best. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/2 "2015-01-27T17:22:03Z")
Welcome indeed. > [@](#): > > We also announce with sadness the retirement of several veteran moderators, **TubaDiva, C K Dexter Haven** ,\*\* Gukumatz \*\*and **twickster**. Wow. Thanks for your service to the boards and the fight against ignorance. You will be missed. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/3 "2015-01-27T17:23:18Z")
**TubaDiva** , don’t go! (Damn, thought I was getting somewhere) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/4 "2015-01-27T17:24:28Z")
Welcome, **Asimovian** and **IvoryTowerDenizen**! ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/5 "2015-01-27T17:25:44Z")
Welcome new mods, and good luck! Goodbye to the old mods, and enjoy a cushy retirement! What kind of pension benefits does the SDMB offer, by the way? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/6 "2015-01-27T17:31:27Z")
> [@Ed\_Zotti](#): > > Please join me in welcoming two new moderators to the Straight Dope Message Board, **Asimovian** and **IvoryTowerDenizen**. **Ivory** reports she has a fever at the moment and is laying low What? The best moderation occurs in a fever delirium or drug-induced fog! 😃 I for one welcome our new moderation overlords! But I can haz many sadz that so many of our long-time and much-beloved mods are becoming moderator emeriti\*. Thanks for your vigilance and overall sanity. \*Do you get to keep the jackboots? Reservation rights for the goat? How 'bout the squid? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/7 "2015-01-27T17:31:36Z")
Many thanks to the retiring mods, most of whom I’d had the fortune to interact with personally over the years. You always were a pleasure to chat with. Welcome to the new also, I think the choices are excellent. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/8 "2015-01-27T17:31:44Z")
I’m sure IvoryTowerDenizen will do a great job. That Asimovian fellow, though, sheesh. Where did you find HIM? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/9 "2015-01-27T17:32:18Z")
Whoa, **TubaDiva** is retiring? I never thought I’d see the day-- She’s a fixture of this place. Who’s taking over Threadspotting duties? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/10 "2015-01-27T17:33:36Z")
_hack, cough_ Thanks for the welcome. Sorry to see the others go… _hack_ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/11 "2015-01-27T17:33:47Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > That Asimovian fellow, though, sheesh. Where did you find HIM? Was he _the one_? Oh dear. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/12 "2015-01-27T17:37:29Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I’m sure IvoryTowerDenizen will do a great job. > > That Asimovian fellow, though, sheesh. Where did you find HIM? I think his tenure has some real possibility. Clearly, he would moderate in accordance with Asimov’s Three Laws of Moderobotics: > [@Not really Isaac Asimov](#): > > [ol] > [li]A moderator may not injure a poster or, through inaction, allow a poster to come to harm.[/li][li]A moderator must obey orders given it by posters except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.[/li][li]A moderator must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law, or becomes inconvenient to a Poster.[/li][/ol] Right? Right? No? Foo. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/13 "2015-01-27T17:38:13Z")
My apologies and sympathies to **IvoryTowerDenizen** , who now is stuck being associated with me through no fault of her own. I wish her strength. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/14 "2015-01-27T17:38:24Z")
Thank you, TubaDiva, C K Dexter Haven, Gukumatz and twickster, for your many years of service and dedication to this board. Your work here was appreciated. Welcome, Asimovian and IvoryTowerDenizen! ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/15 "2015-01-27T17:39:37Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > What kind of pension benefits does the SDMB offer, by the way? It’s based on a percentage of our salary. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/16 "2015-01-27T17:45:07Z")
Not to shine a light on something best left unexamined but, may I inquire what it is you’re using to lure these new mods into the job? I mean I get why the others are leaving! (And I’m impressed with their fortitude for having gone the distance, to be sure!) But they get no respect and I know you’re not paying them, so what is it? (It’s not chocolate, the mods were always begging for that! ) Whatever it is, it must be mighty powerful! Or magic! (I’ve been thinking about it and now I’m wondering if perhaps they revealed too much, somewhere on these boards, and now they’re being blackmailed into filling the most thankless position known to man?) Oh, and good luck to all our new Mods! ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/17 "2015-01-27T17:46:04Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Whoa, **TubaDiva** is retiring? I never thought I’d see the day-- She’s a fixture of this place. Who’s taking over Threadspotting duties? Tuba continues to work behind the scenes. She updates the home page Monday through Friday, including Threadspotting. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/18 "2015-01-27T17:46:51Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > My apologies and sympathies to **IvoryTowerDenizen** , who now is stuck being associated with me through no fault of her own. I wish her strength. Two minutes in and I screwed up. I hit edit instead of quote on your post. :smack: This does not bode well. What I was _trying_ to say was… We could get matching rings and get a _Wonder Twins_ thing going. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/19 "2015-01-27T17:47:38Z")
I have had some differences with Tuba and Dex over the years but it’s safe to say that few if anyone have been more dedicated to the boards than the two of them. Gukumatz did a fine job as well. Thanks to all of you. The new guys are very solid choices. Well done. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/20 "2015-01-27T17:47:53Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > It’s based on a percentage of our salary. Thread winner, right here. Welcome **Ivory** and **Asimovian**. Let’s all pretend I said something witty that made you feel embraced with open arms. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020.md?page=2)