# Moderator Actions in polls should affixed to the OP **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 6, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-actions-in-polls-should-affixed-to-the-op/591702 "2011-08-06T05:24:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 39
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-actions-in-polls-should-affixed-to-the-op/591702/39 "2011-08-06T18:23:30Z")
Since nobody seems to have banned my ass yet, this should be addressed: > [@Bullshit modding in the IMHO avatar thread (yeah, you knew it was coming)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-modding-in-the-imho-avatar-thread-yeah-you-knew-it-was-coming/591393/150): > > Okay, here’s what we’re going to do: > > 1. We are keeping the original IMHO thread closed. If you wish to comment about avatars on the SDMB, please go to the ATMB thread on the subject. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=618021](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=618021) > > You are invited to make your comments/state your opinion in this thread, as was requested to begin with. > > Please remember that ATMB is not the Pit; personal insults and intemperate behavior will not be appreciated. > > The purpose of the thread is not to bash other people who hold differing opinions nor to slap at management for how they run things. If you feel that way, open a separate thread in the appropriate forum as necessary. All fine and good, since none of that was ever even an issue. > [@](#): > > 1. The thread in IMHO will not be reopened. We need to figure out how to set up situations where there can be polls and not posts – it works the other way around but apparently with our current software you can’t just have a poll without supporting postings. So… you’re planning on having a whole bunch of opinion-less polls in the future? What, exactly, would be the point of that? > [@](#): > > In retrospect, we should have policed that IMHO thread stronger and more aggressively earlier. We’ll try to be better about that in future. The thread garnered four Warnings in the space of half an hour–how much more damn policing do you want to do? > [@](#): > > 1. The warnings issued in IMHO will stand. > > Refusal to read all relevant posts in a thread and being ignorant of posted moderator instructions is no excuse. > > Posters are obligated to read and comply with moderator instructions, even if they disagree with them. If you have a problem, complaints can be made in ATMB. You seem to be still laboring under the impression that anyone actively disagreed with the Mod Note. Nobody even read the damn thing. That’s the way people vote in polls. To sum up: Every one of you Mods know perfectly well that those who got warned hadn’t read the Mod Note. You all know know perfectly well that there was no reason for them to have read it, given the nature of polls. We can dispense with **Czarcasm** ’s attempts to hijack these threads with his “oh, but the title might get too long!” commentary. Don’t get off track. The problem–the whole problem–was **Czarcasm**. He decided to change the normal poll process–indeed, the very rules for posting–halfway through the thread. Then he started handing out Warnings all willy-nilly to people who he knew hadn’t seen his on-the-fly Mod Note. What’s that? Maybe he didn’t know? Well, he knew the hell out of it the next day. So did the rest of you. He was wrong in every single decision he made over the course of that entire thread. And you people support him? You say that it’s a technical problem and that there should have been more eyes watching. No. You should have grown a pair of ladyballs and shut **Czarcasm** ’s ass down as soon as he started getting all stupid with the Warnings. I don’t care how long he’s been here or who he’s friends with or how much he really, really hates being shown to be wrong–there is no excuse for that kind of behavior. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-actions-in-polls-should-affixed-to-the-op/591702)._