# Mod Snark on other Boards **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 7, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293 "2009-12-07T04:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/61 "2009-12-07T19:06:08Z")
Jumping Jesus, why in the _hell_ does anyone bother acknowledging this person? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/62 "2009-12-07T19:44:42Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > The post isn’t snark. But leaving that aside, we don’t police what SDMB posters do on other boards. I don’t remember the mods as a group ever discussing what we can or can’t say on other boards - and I’m not sure why we would need any kind of policy on that. **Gfactor** is speaking for himself to a different reading audience. If he did something and said it was on behalf of the board maybe there would be an issue. It’s virtually the same reading audience. Anyone telling themselves something else is living in fantasy land. I can understand not policing what posters do on other boards, but we’re talking about mods posting on other boards using their SDMB mod name - like I said earlier, that’s like off-duty police officers still wearing the uniform, and still being held to higher standards even though they’re off-duty. If active SDMB mods act badly towards active SDMB posters on other boards and pretend that it doesn’t come back over here, it seems like they are not acknowledging the reality of the situation, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/63 "2009-12-07T19:57:17Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Jumping Jesus, why in the _hell_ does anyone bother acknowledging this person? For me, only because it\* started making cryptic accusations against GFactor, who’s a long-time buddy of mine. I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with it before. \*I have no idea what gender it’s gender preference is, so “it” is the safest choice. It doesn’t even have to tell me it’s real gender, just what pronoun is it’s preference. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/64 "2009-12-07T20:01:28Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It’s virtually the same reading audience. Anyone telling themselves something else is living in fantasy land. I don’t think anyone is telling themselves otherwise. > [@](#): > > we’re talking about mods posting on other boards using their SDMB mod name - like I said earlier, that’s like off-duty police officers still wearing the uniform, and still being held to higher standards even though they’re off-duty. Our mod names are not badges and they don’t belong to the SDMB - they’re ours. Some of us use the same handles at other boards. This is communication in a text-based medium, so I wouldn’t attach any importance to the fact that he used the name **Gfactor**. If he’d used a different name and said “Hey, it’s **Gfactor** ,” would it make any difference? I don’t think so. You still know who it is. > [@](#): > > If active SDMB mods act badly towards active SDMB posters on other boards and pretend that it doesn’t come back over here, it seems like they are not acknowledging the reality of the situation, in my opinion. **Gfactor** didn’t act badly. He came out and addressed some things in a friendly, honest and approachable way and I think he deserves to be commended for that. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/65 "2009-12-07T20:01:31Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It’s virtually the same reading audience. Anyone telling themselves something else is living in fantasy land. I can understand not policing what posters do on other boards, but we’re talking about mods posting on other boards using their SDMB mod name - like I said earlier, that’s like off-duty police officers still wearing the uniform, and still being held to higher standards even though they’re off-duty. If active SDMB mods act badly towards active SDMB posters on other boards and pretend that it doesn’t come back over here, it seems like they are not acknowledging the reality of the situation, in my opinion. But…since it hasn’t happened\*, why worry about it? Why stress out about it? Our only example is the GFactor one above which is hardly “acting badly”? And when it comes down to it, what can the SDMB _do_? They have no ownership over a mod’s screen name, and there’s nothing to stop a mod from using a fake name on another board. Hell, none of us could be sure (until GFactor confirmed it) that the GFactor there actually was the GFactor here. Since it can’t be stopped, why make unenforceable rules? Finally, the mods have a tough enough job. How many do you think would put up with being told how/where they can post outside the SDMB? \*With the mod’s name attached. I’d bet money that at least some mods have posted on the Snackpit over the years. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/66 "2009-12-07T21:20:38Z")
> [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > Who the hell are you, and why should I take your advice? Reveal your gender, and maybe I’ll tell you. 😛 But mostly because, despite getting just as mad over (some of) the same things you do, I’ve managed not to be banned from the Pit. I’ve managed not to ever have a mod note or warning directed at me. Heck, I’ve never even leveled a personal insult outside the Pit. I am in much less danger than you are of being banned. I’m actually offering my advice out of altruism, as it wouldn’t bother me if you were banned, as your presence seems to create a level of hostility on this board that I don’t like. In fact, I’d like **Gfactor** to convert your temporary ban from the Pit to a permanent ban from any mini-rants thread. With the level of anger you have displayed here, I don’t trust you not to take it out on everyone in the mini-rants thread. But it would probably be better to at least give you a chance to be a mature adult about it, and confine your disgust into the appropriate thread (the one **Gfactor** closed). ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/67 "2009-12-07T22:52:27Z")
> [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > Oh look, attempts at evasion. It’s simply not kosher for an SDMB mod to go to a splinter board and snark on other members. Does anyone agree? I don’t. I vehemently disagree. The rules around here are ridiculously over-restrictive enough without trying to regulate peoples’ behavior elsewhere on the internet. Frankly, if the dialogue between posters and mods were allowed to be a lot more rough-and-tumble, this place would be a lot more fun, and we’d have a lot fewer idiots clogging up our tubes. And as a preemptive answer, I’m just this guy, you know? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/68 "2009-12-07T23:21:55Z")
> [@wmfellows](#): > > I hope there isn’t one, as there’s quite enough rules on this board without yet another band-aid to assuage the hyper-sensitive. I agree. Some people really need to just stay off the internet. Unfortunately, many of them post here on the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/69 "2009-12-08T00:14:56Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Reveal your gender, and maybe I’ll tell you. :p). From posts she made a long time ago, she is a housewife who does not hold employment, and takes her username from the community in which she lives with her husband. Or perhaps that persona has no base in reality. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/70 "2009-12-08T01:36:45Z")
> [@Gfactor](#): > > From here it looks like you just changed the subject in order to avoid answering a question which reflects on your credibility. S/he has credibility? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/71 "2009-12-08T03:51:28Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I don’t think anyone is telling themselves otherwise. But you just did, in your last post in this thread. > [@](#): > > \ > **Gfactor** didn’t act badly. He came out and addressed some things in a friendly, honest and approachable way and I think he deserves to be commended for that. My bad; I was not clear. I was talking about a hypothetical, if a mod was trash-talking Dopers on other boards, not that **GFactor** had already done that. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/72 "2009-12-08T05:09:25Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > What’s said in mod emails is none of your business. > > Edit: And I agree with **Fenris** about the interpretation of that post. If you don’t like **Gfactor** ’s response to your complaints, **Carol Stream** , you should probably not complain as much and as bitterly as you do. He’s a great mod and he’s extremely patient. You ride his ass to a degree that most of us probably wouldn’t tolerate. He didn’t snark on you, and I think you already knew his response to that particular complaint. Those are all personal insults. Why are you posting them here? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/73 "2009-12-08T05:19:28Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > My bad; I was not clear. I was talking about a hypothetical, if a mod was trash-talking Dopers on other boards, not that **GFactor** had already done that. I was saying the reading audiences on the two boards are similar. I don’t think this is something the mods are going to create our own policy for. But I understand that people want to know we apply the rules fairly, and that taking shots at someone on another board would contradict that. I think the whole staff understands that. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/74 "2009-12-08T05:20:58Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Those are all personal insults. Why are you posting them here? None of them are personal insults. They are discussions of her behavior, which are very much in bounds and which are relevant to this thread. Please don’t junior-mod. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/75 "2009-12-08T06:32:47Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > But I understand that people want to know we apply the rules fairly, and that taking shots at someone on another board would contradict that. I think the whole staff understands that. So why was GFactor taking shots at me on another message board? ---
**Author:** ![Fiveroptic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiveroptic/32/8257_2.png) [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/76 "2009-12-08T07:22:40Z")
Because he was asked a question and answered honestly? That would be my guess. ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/77 "2009-12-08T07:39:27Z")
Because you are eminently pot-shot-able? ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/78 "2009-12-08T08:55:41Z")
> [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > Oh look, attempts at evasion. It’s simply not kosher for an SDMB mod to go to a splinter board and snark on other members. Does anyone agree? Apparently, no. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/79 "2009-12-08T11:40:25Z")
> [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > So why was GFactor taking shots at me on another message board? I don’t see it as a shot at you. And you already knew that he disagreed that “man hands” was hate speech or otherwise against the rules. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293/80 "2009-12-08T11:45:51Z")
> [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > So why was GFactor taking shots at me on another message board? How is what he said a shot? Is any mention of your name a shot? Are you like The Candyman where if your name is mentioned, you must file an official complaint? Let’s see: Carol Stream Carol Stream Carol Stream And…are you _stalking_ GFactor? How the hell did you even know he posted there? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-snark-on-other-boards/520293.md?page=5)