# Moderator meetings? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 10, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746 "2003-01-10T15:17:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/1 "2003-01-10T15:17:45Z")
While this is about the administration, it’s in no way mean spirited, so I felt it best to put it here rather than in the Pit. Please forgive me if it’s the wrong forum! So the moderators all work as a team to keep the peace. I’ve heard mods mention before that a matter was discussed at length, or that in talking to the other mods, they agreed on a decision, etc. I know you guys are from all over the world, so obviously a round table discussion or a board meeting would be out. How do you guys “meet”? Is there a big AOL private chat every week where you’re not allowed in unless you know the password? Secret telegrams sent via little elves? Just plain instant messages? It’s not all that important of a question, but I was just curious. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/2 "2003-01-10T15:47:14Z")
99% of the discussions about board matters take place via e-mail. And whilst they’re rare, moderator meetings around a real life table do happen as well. Having been to one of them myself, I can tell you our staff is quite a diverse and interesting crowd to hang out with. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/3 "2003-01-10T23:32:32Z")
Email CF? Isn’t that rather an old idea? On a board I modded we used a special forum only available to us! Where we could talk about members & policies. Also, the mods had their own special mod chat room & private mod messaging. Maybe its time for an update here ? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/4 "2003-01-10T23:39:28Z")
handy - how little you know us! We are the group of people that even resist smilies as being too newfangled. If it was up to C K Dexter Haven and Ukulele Ike we would be communicating by encasing hand-written notes in a plastic cylinder and sending them via pneumatic tube. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/5 "2003-01-10T23:42:50Z")
\<\< If it was up to C K Dexter Haven and Ukulele Ike we would be communicating by encasing hand-written notes in a plastic cylinder and sending them via pneumatic tube. \>\> And what’s wrong with quill pens? … but I wouldn’t use pneumatic tubes, the telegraph is satisfactory. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/6 "2003-01-10T23:44:33Z")
Unfortunately, Lamont Cranston wanted to charge an arm and a leg for the pneumatic system he already had set up. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/7 "2003-01-11T03:42:22Z")
I always thought it was the elves method myself… ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/8 "2003-01-11T05:17:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > \*\* > And what’s wrong with quill pens? … \*\* Nothing, if you enjoy plucking poultry–which I _really_ don’t want to dwell upon at length or in detail. [sub]::pitful _squaaawk_ echoes from the background::[/sub] A carefully tended, steel-nib fountain pen should do veddy well indeed, thenk yew veddy much, for any communication needs that may arise. If you would all just pay attention to your hand writing! Your collective serifs suck. Veb ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/9 "2003-01-11T05:33:09Z")
Oh, man, you guys _don’t_ want to rely on my handwriting to make important decisions. “OK, MEBuckner says we need to immediately ban…um…can you make that out? I _think_ it says ‘Phaedrus’. Or maybe ‘Pammipoo’. Or possibly ‘Polycarp’. It definitely starts with a ‘P’. On second thought, I think he’s just saying we should all order a pizza.” ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/10 "2003-01-11T06:47:02Z")
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**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/11 "2003-01-11T07:12:57Z")
SIERRA-OSCAR-UNIFORM-NOVEMBER-DELTA-SIERRA[STOP] LIMA-INDIA-KILO-ECHO[STOP] ALPHA[STOP] PAPA-LIMA-ALPHA-NOVEMBER[STOP] ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/12 "2003-01-11T16:57:33Z")
When we get signed in as moderators, the Chicago Reader sends us a really cool Picture-Phone…somehow they lucked into all the working models from the 1967 World Exposition. The trick is in scheduling confabs for a time when we know **David B** is in the shower. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/13 "2003-01-11T17:46:39Z")
We tried smoke signals for a while, but then I burned my blanket, and smoked with a lisp. This led to about 45 bannings of perfectly fine posters, as well as a rather unfortunate incident involving a Bavarian nunnery, twelve giraffes, and a truckload of apple sauce. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/14 "2003-01-11T21:18:59Z")
And I don’t know why you think that I could have rescued the apple sauce when I was wrestling with the giraffes. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/15 "2003-01-11T21:39:11Z")
You still claim that you were _wrestling_ with the giraffes? That’s not what the nuns told me! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/16 "2003-01-11T22:59:18Z")
Geez. Every time I bring up the topic of **David B** naked, you guys find a way to change the subject. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/17 "2003-01-11T23:36:26Z")
We were dwelling with fond nostalgia on **Dext** , naked except for a light coating of applesauce, wrestling with the giraffes. IIRC it resulted in a rather incoherent staff report on the length and prehensile quality of giraffe tongues. **DavidB** merely showering has a long way to go to top that one, admit it. Veb ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/18 "2003-01-12T03:51:46Z")
I was **not** naked, I was in a swim suit. It was a 1920s antique swim suit, and the museum curator was not happy about the applesauce stains when I returned it. What would nuns know about wrestling anyway, it’s not like they made a habit of it. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/19 "2003-01-12T07:34:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > \*\*What would nuns know about wrestling anyway, it’s not like they made a habit of it. \*\* Bad pun. Must not attempt to harm an admin… must not attempt to harm an admin… Just kidding C K. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746/20 "2003-01-12T17:40:56Z")
Pun? What? I made a pun? oh. Oh. OH. I see. I get it. Habit, ah ha ha. No, must have been inadvertent. [/sneer] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-meetings/147746.md?page=2)