# Moderator issued personal insult. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 5, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600 "2010-11-05T17:22:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/21 "2010-11-05T19:20:10Z")
I nominate **bucketybuck** to teach a [Sensitivity Training Course](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=584180)for the mods so they will learn to stop hurting everyone’s tender feelings. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/22 "2010-11-05T19:25:27Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > And you aren’t upset with Czarcasm for repeatedly posting his made-up claims? No. The OP offered up a hypothetical situation. Czarcasm offered up hypothetical excuses that would be given to dodge the tests. Excuses we’ve all heard hundreds of times in the past by the woos. Did you visit the links I provided for you? ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/23 "2010-11-05T19:36:05Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > I disagree. He posted a message with the sole intent to antagonise. He was ignored. He posted exactly the same message. He was ignored. He posted the same message yet again. And then I pointed out his misbehaviour. And this was after repeatedly using hateful language throughout the thread, i.e. comparing anyone who doesn’t share his personal belief system to female genitalia. If you believe that he broke the rules report his post. If nothing comes of that you can start a separate ATMB thread regarding his behavior. This thread is about you breaking the “don’t be a jerk” rule and getting called on it. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/24 "2010-11-05T19:52:58Z")
I think a good point has been made and I am in agreement that what this message board needs is more female genitalia. What?!:o ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/25 "2010-11-05T19:58:46Z")
AFAICT, there are several reasons to ask for a cite: [list=A][li]You are genuinely unsure that a given claim is true, and need to see that it is so[/li][li]You know perfectly well that a given claim is **not** true, and are demonstrating this, and[/li][li]Trolling, defined in this instance as “posting with intent to annoy and disrupt the conversation”. [/list]The demand for cites in sense C is annoying, and annoyingly common, and certain Dopers who shall go nameless are worse offenders than **Peter Morris**. IMO. [/li] I think everyone who read the thread got the idea - **Peter Morris** is saying that **Czarcasm** is not being consistent in his standards of skepticism. Whether that is true or not, I neither know nor care. But having made the point, you might want to consider dropping it. Having the other person admit they were wrong should not be necessary to one’s awareness that one has won the argument. Because it hardly ever happens, especially about people’s beliefs about God and the supernatural and things like that. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/26 "2010-11-05T20:02:28Z")
> [@Cyningablod](#): > > Why is that every single time I check in on ATMB, you are whining and bitching and moaning about some non-offense against you by the Mods or another member? You have a martyr complex unequaled by anyone other than my _mother_. cite? When was the last time I did so? Give specific examples. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/27 "2010-11-05T20:05:28Z")
Statement of fact: You are a jerk. (an insult) Conditional statement of fact: You might be a jerk. (possible insult) Moderator warning: Don’t be a jerk. (not an insult) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/28 "2010-11-05T20:06:15Z")
Always nice to see others paying such close attention to what I post. 😃 _:shrugs:_ Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/29 "2010-11-05T20:21:44Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > No. The OP offered up a hypothetical situation. Czarcasm offered up hypothetical excuses that would be given to dodge the tests. Excuses we’ve all heard hundreds of times in the past by the woos. Did you visit the links I provided for you? Watch using the word “woo”. I believe **Peter** has classified it as “hate speech.” **Peter** , when did **Czarcasm** : > [@](#): > > repeatedly using hateful language throughout the thread, i.e. comparing anyone who doesn’t share his personal belief system to female genitalia. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/30 "2010-11-05T20:27:44Z")
Read the thread and see. ---
**Author:** ![Cyningablod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Cyningablod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyningablod)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/31 "2010-11-05T20:33:26Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > cite? > > When was the last time I did so? > > Give specific examples. No. You’re not remotely entitled to them: What on earth makes you think that my observation on your behavior is some sort of debate proposition, which requires substantiating evidence? Besides, given what I have seen of the way you conduct yourself in discussions, it wouldn’t help matters anyway. If you can’t already comprehend (without being supplied with “cites”) your own martyr complex here at SDMB, then nothing short of long-term therapy and deep soul-searching is going to help matters any. Good luck with that. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/32 "2010-11-05T20:36:37Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Read the thread and see. I just did and I didn’t see. Can you quote a relevant posting from **Czarcasm**? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/33 "2010-11-05T20:42:06Z")
Every use of the word “woowoo” or just simply “woo.” It means female genitalia. He uses it over and over, in every thread that touches on the paranormal. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/34 "2010-11-05T20:44:04Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Every use of the word “woowoo” or just simply “woo.” It means female genitalia. It does? Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/35 "2010-11-05T20:44:33Z")
> [@Cyningablod](#): > > Why is that every single time I check in on ATMB, you are whining and bitching and moaning about some non-offense against you by the Mods or another member? You have a martyr complex unequaled by anyone other than my _mother_. This kind of thing belongs in the Pit, not ATMB. Please tone it down. > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Every use of the word “woowoo” or just simply “woo.” It means female genitalia. He uses it over and over, in every thread that touches on the paranormal. That is not what “woo” means, and this issue is closed. C-L-O-S-E-D. It was discussed at absurd, ridiculous length in the other thread, and you’re not going to trot it out again here. ---
**Author:** ![Cyningablod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Cyningablod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyningablod)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/36 "2010-11-05T20:45:54Z")
> [@](#): > > **Peter Morris** : Every use of the word “woowoo” or just simply “woo.” It means female genitalia. He uses it over and over, in every thread that touches on the paranormal. By the way, **Peter** , my first and earliest recollection of you being on here at SDMB is a thread in which you tried to field the ludicrous argument that… :::drum roll::: [“Woo” is hate speech](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=567685&highlight=peter+morris). I guess some things never change. (How’s that for a “cite”!) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/37 "2010-11-05T20:46:01Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Every use of the word “woowoo” or just simply “woo.” It means female genitalia. He uses it over and over, in every thread that touches on the paranormal. _Every_ thread that touches on the paranormal? Really?? Cite, please, of my using the term “woo” in _every_ thread that touches on the paranormal. edited to add: Forget the cite-didn’t see the moderator note before I posted…although that would have been one hell of a cite, you’d have to admit. ---
**Author:** ![Cyningablod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Cyningablod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyningablod)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/38 "2010-11-05T20:46:59Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > This kind of thing belongs in the Pit, not ATMB. Please tone it down. You’re right. I’m sorry. Will tone it down. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/39 "2010-11-05T20:47:32Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > It does? Cite? > [@Czarcasm](#): > > _Every_ thread that touches on the paranormal? Really?? > > Cite, please, of my using the term “woo” in _every_ thread that touches on the paranormal. Just to emphasize: we’re not re-doing the “woo” thing in this thread. Or any other thread in ATMB, as far as I’m concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600/40 "2010-11-05T20:47:56Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Every use of the word “woowoo” or just simply “woo.” It means female genitalia. He uses it over and over, in every thread that touches on the paranormal. Check on the Urban Dictionary: [woo](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woo) and [woowoo](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woowoo). Your meaning is not the only one found thre, and not even the most common. > [@](#): > > 1. > > ``` > woo ... > > ``` > > n.(or adj), the way a person is when they uncritically believe unsubstantiated or unfounded ideas. Short for “woo woo”.(See Russell’s definition of woo woo) > Shirley believes that in a past life she was the Jolly Green Giant of Rainbowland. Shirley is very woo. > [@](#): > > 1. > > ``` > woowoo ... > > ``` > > Paranoid conspiracy theorist. > “The moon landings were faked, and my tinfoil hat protects me from mind-controlling flu shots!!!” screamed the woowoo. > by pau Dec 10, 2003 share this > > 1. > > ``` > woowoo ... > > ``` > > origin- derived from the ‘woowoo’ sound used in science fiction background music, particularly The X-Files. > > noun- A conspiracy theorist who focuses their paranoia on ‘Big Pharma’ and modern medicine for hiding the cures for all major diseases, and the government for suppressing energy technologies, most of which are of alien origin. Often are also passionate about chemtrails and mind control That seems to me to be how **Czarcasm** is using the words, not your interpretation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-issued-personal-insult/559600.md?page=3)