# Moderator's searching members **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 8, 2009, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-searching-members/480339 "2009-01-08T05:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirka_T_Bawa)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-searching-members/480339/1 "2009-01-08T05:26:17Z")
Ok, I was in the other room, smoking a cig, and came up with something I was wondering… When a moderator is giving someone a warning who’s name they don’t recognize, do they search the person’s name to see if they have had previous warnings? If they do, what search terms do y’all normally use? Do y’all normally search all forums, or do you search only that secret moderator forum\*? Do you change the date range that you search (only recent, or of all time)? And most of all… Are Moderators (and I guess SDSAB) limited to a search time limit (one every 30 secounds, 2 minutes, or whatever the limit is now)? \*I don’t know if it really exists, but I’ve heard rumors. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-searching-members/480339/2 "2009-01-08T05:33:29Z")
Moderators have a special forum not visible to the rest of us where they record these things. My guess is that each of us who has been warned have their own thread. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-searching-members/480339/3 "2009-01-08T05:43:15Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Moderators have a special forum not visible to the rest of us where they record these things. That’s right. And yes, when somebody gets warned we check to see if its’ happened before. > [@](#): > > My guess is that each of us who has been warned have their own thread. That’d be really cluttered. There are just a couple of threads: A-D, E-I and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-searching-members/480339/4 "2009-01-08T06:15:40Z")
Do I have a secret file? Do you have the pics of me and the goat…?! :eek: Oh wait…I mean. Nope never did anything with a goat. Never met a goat. Don’t know a goat. What’s a goat? ---
**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 8, 2009, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-searching-members/480339/5 "2009-01-08T07:46:07Z")
“Moderator’s searching members” Yes, it’s amazing the things we Moderators can do with our members. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-searching-members/480339/6 "2009-01-08T12:24:59Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > “Moderator’s searching members” > > Yes, it’s amazing the things we Moderators can do with our members. But how long does it take to find? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-searching-members/480339/7 "2009-01-08T12:34:14Z")
> [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](#): > > But how long does it take to find? 😛 **Buckner** ’s just bragging about his recent “upgrade.”