# Moderation gone mad: Miller

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**Created:** [September 29, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderation-gone-mad-miller/732910 "2015-09-29T02:48:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderation-gone-mad-miller/732910/22 "2015-09-29T16:24:25Z")

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Anyway.

**Colibri** mostly covered my response. Yes, **Tibby** ’s post was a joke. Here’s the first mod note I posted in the thread, with added emphasis:

> [@Snowboarder Bo: Enough with the fucking quarry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowboarder-bo-enough-with-the-fucking-quarry/732525/146):
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> [Moderating]  
> Alright, everyone. Enough with the jokes about throwing **Bo** , or bits of **Bo** into quarries. Threatening to harm other posters, **even in jest** , is against the rules. Let’s stick to less violent insults from now on, please.  
> [/Moderating]

There were two follow-up notes to that, one specifically addressed to **Tibby** after she indicated that she thought the first note didn’t apply to her. (Spoilers: it did.)

As to the idea that **Tibby** wasn’t talking about **Bo** , sorry, that doesn’t hold water. “Hypothetical person B” was clearly a rhetorical stand-in for **Bo**. **Tibby** echoed the “lop of your head” language she had used earlier when talking about **Bo**. She then followed it up with:

> [@Snowboarder Bo: Enough with the fucking quarry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowboarder-bo-enough-with-the-fucking-quarry/732525/363):
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> And, of course, now that I’m a Bo-ist, I’d take person B’s head to the quarry after the movie and throw it in.

So, yeah. She’s talking about **Bo** , and playing games with seeing how close she can get to the line without getting a warning for it. I’m okay with that. I respect that game. But it’s not a real game unless there are consequences for playing badly.

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