# Moderator Notes and Warnings **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 2, 2013, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161 "2013-02-02T23:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/21 "2013-02-03T19:43:16Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > A “Say ‘what’ one goddamn more time” is the last warning you’ll likely get. I might be willing to get behind this. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/22 "2013-02-03T19:50:24Z")
Is there a hall of fame for picayune ATMB threads? I guess if you’re in high school and for the past 10 years people have been flogging the idea that you DO NOT want something to go on your Permanent Record the distinction between spheres is difficult to see. Semantics is also a tough thing to master. We end up with some posters who never quite mature out of it, but in general if you can grasp the distinctions and see that the system is functioning, it’s _okay_ to give up some vagueness and accept that your possible interpretation of terms defines a possible, but not actual reality. Lastly, try and see through inconsistencies as something to complain about for the sake of complaining. There have been very few borderline bannings/suspensions here, and none were for not understanding what was expected (not conorming is a different case). Don’t get tangled up in the petty insistence that all mod action must be uniform. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/23 "2013-02-03T20:14:23Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Dude, go discover the wonderful world of masturbation. It would be a much better use of your time. Tsk tsk, play nice. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/24 "2013-02-03T20:25:45Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Tsk tsk, play nice. What? Is the OP pre-pubescent? If so, my apologies. Masturbation is not fer kids. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/25 "2013-02-03T20:39:52Z")
Better yet, **Ambivalid** , save that kind of comment for the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/26 "2013-02-03T20:44:50Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Better yet, **Ambivalid** , save that kind of comment for the Pit. Sorry. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/27 "2013-02-03T20:49:56Z")
This is one of the reasons the SDMB only gets 38% of my quality content, I simply don’t understand this term “warning”. If I felt more comfortable with the system, you could be receiving the other 62% of my quality content, as it is I route it to youtube comments. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/28 "2013-02-03T22:24:13Z")
I too see it as confusing but I would also like to hazard a guess that the number of people who got suspended or banned for misunderstanding the terms warnings and notes resembles a big fat goose egg. I would support a change in terminology and I would also support Little Nemo being king of America in general. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/29 "2013-02-03T23:05:00Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It’s also not logical to complain about something that you’ve said you understand, clearly isn’t a significant problem, and that we’ve made clear we don’t think is worth the hassle of changing. 😉 That’s a pretty silly attitude. Are you claiming that any issue which isn’t unbearable, isn’t worth mentioning? I think there should be room for people to suggest changes for improvements. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/30 "2013-02-04T00:36:18Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > That’s a pretty silly attitude. Are you claiming that any issue which isn’t unbearable, isn’t worth mentioning? I think there should be room for people to suggest changes for improvements. It hasn’t been merely “mentioned,” it was discussed at considerable length in the previous thread. **Anonymous User** has made no new arguments, merely regurgitated the previous ones. Now he’s continuing to rehash those points again and again. This is just a waste of everyone’s time, including his own. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/31 "2013-02-04T02:07:59Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It hasn’t been merely “mentioned,” it was discussed at considerable length in the previous thread. **Anonymous User** has made no new arguments, merely regurgitated the previous ones. Now he’s continuing to rehash those points again and again. This is just a waste of everyone’s time, including his own. Lots of threads discuss issues that have already been discussed in past threads. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/32 "2013-02-04T02:21:45Z")
As an aside, while I’m not emotionally crippled by the “mod note” thing, I think the older version of it was clearer: \< Mod Hat On \> So-and-so, dial it back a few notches–you’re approaching pit-type territory \< / Mod Hat Off \> I simply think it sounds better and is somewhat clearer. Mod-note _does_ sound more…“warning-like”. That said…I don’t really care all that much, so…no big deal either way. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/33 "2013-02-04T02:29:59Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > If I felt more comfortable with the system, you could be receiving the other 62% of my quality content, as it is I route it to youtube comments. So _that’s_ why youtube comments are so fascinating and insightful… Mods? We _must_ make this change! ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/34 "2013-02-04T03:15:10Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > So _that’s_ why youtube comments are so fascinating and insightful… > > Mods? We _must_ make this change! Bieber!!! ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/35 "2013-02-04T03:19:23Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Sorry. ☹ At least you didn’t get a warning ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/36 "2013-02-04T03:55:23Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Lots of threads discuss issues that have already been discussed in past threads. This isn’t beating a dead horse, it’s flogging a dead hamster. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/37 "2013-02-04T04:19:01Z")
We do still use tags like [mod hat] sometimes. We don’t really care how the mods make it clear they are modding as long as they make it clear somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/38 "2013-02-04T04:23:36Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > Like I and **Little Nemo** said, it’s silly that you have “warnings” and “WARNINGS”. It’s not logical. Since you aren’t making headway on this issue, I think it’s time to up the ante. I suggest you write to your local department of transportation and point out that people drive on parkways and park on driveways. That isn’t logical at all, and it probably confuses people all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/39 "2013-02-04T04:24:12Z")
Colibri, you’re a moderator. Do you know how you come off when you say, with a straight face, that a moderator shouldn’t even have to listen to suggestions that he might possibly be wrong. This board has long established that the moderators have absolute power and are completely unanswerable to the membership. But can you at least allow us to mutter our dissatisfaction under our breath? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161/40 "2013-02-04T05:29:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Colibri, you’re a moderator. Do you know how you come off when you say, with a straight face, that a moderator shouldn’t even have to listen to suggestions that he might possibly be wrong. This isn’t a matter of right or wrong. I’ve actually agreed that another system would make more sense. But I’ve also explained why we’re not going to change the current system. Only one or two posters (in two years) have agreed with you that the system needs to be changed. What exactly does continuing to argue about it accomplish? I’m at a loss to understand why you continue to be so concerned about such a trivial issue. > [@](#): > > But can you at least allow us to mutter our dissatisfaction under our breath? That’s perfectly fine with me. But you keep typing it out… 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-notes-and-warnings/649161.md?page=3)