# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/61 "2015-01-27T20:49:48Z")
Hmm, not some bad mod additions. These two have always struck me as reasonable people… heh, for now. Seriously though, folks, welcome aboard. Pleased with these changes all around. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/62 "2015-01-27T20:51:10Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Even though he was found to associate with some shady characters he was able to barely squeak by on his background check. Well honestly, if \*\*Hal Briston \*\*and his sheepgate scandal made it… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/63 "2015-01-27T20:55:41Z")
thanks to TubaDiva, C K Dexter Haven, Gukumatz and twickster. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/64 "2015-01-27T21:00:14Z")
Hmmph. Gotta break in another group of rookies. Let me be the first to say, this board’s gone to hell since the veteran mods retired. Hmmph. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/65 "2015-01-27T21:34:30Z")
Wow. Thanks to the outgoing mods for all they done for the boards. Great choices with the incoming mods. Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/66 "2015-01-27T23:28:06Z")
Gotta say congratulations (or is it condolences?) to the new mods, and many thanks to the retiring ones. In particular, I have exchanged emails with Tuba and Dex on several occasions, and they have always been pretty reasonable about things. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/67 "2015-01-27T23:51:01Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Let me be the first to say, this board’s gone to hell since the veteran mods retired. Like **manhattan.** ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/68 "2015-01-28T00:55:41Z")
But…but…but with **Tuba** gone who do I go to begging for reinstatement the next time I’m suspended? Why yes, it is about me. Everything is about me, and it’s time for all of you to accept it. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/69 "2015-01-28T01:14:22Z")
> [@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 Clearly she has a fever and is not thinking right if she wants to be a mod. She has read ATMB at some point, right? > [@Ed\_Zotti](#): > > We also announce with sadness the retirement of several veteran moderators, \*\*TubaDiva, C K Dexter Haven, Gukumatz \*\*and **twickster**. Guku and I never crossed paths that I remember but the other three will be in my prayers and thanks for ages to come. As posters and mods, they made me welcome and made this place fun. We ever meet up anywhere, the food and beer are on my tab. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/70 "2015-01-28T01:19:01Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > _hack, cough_ Thanks for the welcome. > > Sorry to see the others go… > > _hack_ So that’s how they got you to be a mod — hacked your computer and agreed for you. Tricky!!! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/71 "2015-01-28T01:56:55Z")
Hello and Goodbye! Allow me to echo the thanks to our outgoing group of moderators. \ ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/72 "2015-01-28T01:59:55Z")
The two new mods–good choices. I pray for their souls. The retirees–You done good. Enjoy the freedom. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/73 "2015-01-28T02:31:49Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Hmm, not some bad mod additions. These two have always struck me as reasonable people… heh, for now. Seriously though, folks, welcome aboard. Pleased with these changes all around. Please try not to break the new mods. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/74 "2015-01-28T02:35:51Z")
Congrats and welcome to the two new mods! I didn’t know **Tuba** or **Dex** in the beginning, but I really appreciated and admired their patience and persistence in explaining things to people tirelessly in more recent days. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/75 "2015-01-28T03:13:35Z")
_Ave atque vale._ ---
**Author:** ![LouLou7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@LouLou7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouLou7)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/76 "2015-01-28T04:07:09Z")
With all the celebrations, shouldn’t someone serve cake? I really think we ought to have cake. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/77 "2015-01-28T04:48:42Z")
> [@LouLou7](#): > > With all the celebrations, shouldn’t someone serve cake? > > I really think we ought to have cake. ☹ Or given our supposed intellectualism, maybe pi? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/78 "2015-01-28T04:50:45Z")
Congrats to the new Mods, at least until they piss me off. 😉 I’m sad to see some of those veterans leave. I know **twickster** took a lot of flak here, but she’s the only Mod the wife and I have met in person, in Philadelphia three years ago, and I have no problem with her (despite a thread of mine she closed that time!). **Tuba Diva** was always helpful in private communications. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/79 "2015-01-28T04:52:07Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > 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! Hear, hear! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020/80 "2015-01-28T06:39:23Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > 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! I’ll second this. You who are leaving have done a great job, and you who are arriving have big shoes to fill. I’m sure you’ll do just as good a job though. I will say that I’ll miss seeing **twickster** ’s “Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Moderator” tag. You new folks–get creative! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-comings-and-goings-welcome-and-farewell/711020.md?page=5)