# Moderators: How do you moderate? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 7, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-how-do-you-moderate/545889 "2010-07-07T20:02:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-how-do-you-moderate/545889/21 "2010-07-08T19:02:46Z")
After I retired from moderating, it was years before I was able to stop myself from clicking on threads just because they looked like they might be problematic. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-how-do-you-moderate/545889/22 "2010-07-08T19:45:49Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:19, topic:545889”] Okay, **Colibri** , you win. [/QUOTE] Only because **Marley** hasn’t posted a picture of him on his Throne of Spammer Skulls yet. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-how-do-you-moderate/545889/23 "2010-07-08T20:08:08Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Only because **Marley** hasn’t posted a picture of him on his Throne of Spammer Skulls yet. [This one?](http://www.grimdark.com/images/pileofskulls.jpg) ---
**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:** [July 8, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-how-do-you-moderate/545889/24 "2010-07-08T20:39:07Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [This one?](http://www.grimdark.com/images/pileofskulls.jpg) Somehow I’ve always thought of **Marley** as being, well, taller… And there aren’t anywhere near enough skulls. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-how-do-you-moderate/545889/25 "2010-07-08T20:41:23Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > When dealing with spammers, I prefer to don the garb of [Huitzilopochtli](http://www.sfmission.com/gallery_files/site_pics/Mexico/Art_and_History/Huitzilopochtli-sacrifice.jpg), the Southern Hummingbird, Aztec god of war and blood sacrifice. Oh good, new wallpaper. I’ve titled it “The QA Meeting”. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-how-do-you-moderate/545889/26 "2010-07-08T23:50:33Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > When dealing with spammers, I prefer to don the garb of [Huitzilopochtli](http://www.sfmission.com/gallery_files/site_pics/Mexico/Art_and_History/Huitzilopochtli-sacrifice.jpg), the Southern Hummingbird, Aztec god of war and blood sacrifice. (That’s me on the upper right, and a spammer on the upper left.) At last - a moderator I can literally _worship!_ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-how-do-you-moderate/545889/27 "2010-07-09T18:52:02Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Only because **Marley** hasn’t posted a picture of him on his Throne of Spammer Skulls yet. > [@Miller](#): > > [This one?](http://www.grimdark.com/images/pileofskulls.jpg) That’s kind of an old picture, and that bean bag chair design didn’t work out. [It looks like this now.](http://media.photobucket.com/image/skull%20throne/crew-666/skull-throne.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-how-do-you-moderate/545889.md?page=1)