# Moderators seem biased \[Moved to the Pit for continued inter-poster bickering\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 3, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820 "2010-06-03T19:30:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/201 "2010-06-06T05:50:57Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Not going to get drawn into any of the sillyness going on in this thread, but I figured I’d point this out: Your link shows a map that says Israel but but when you mentioned the name of the mapmaker I gogled it and somewhere along the line I saw a version of the same map with the words occupied Palestine where it now says Israel. At first They seemed to refer to Occupied Palestine to mean the post 1967 part of Israel (or perhaps the UN partition part of Israel) but then it became less clear. ---
**Author:** ![Napkin\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8dc957/32.png) [@Napkin\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napkin_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/202 "2010-06-06T08:01:24Z")
You know, everything would be much easier, Damuri, if you would employ the technique of replying to multiple quotes in one post. It’s not necessary to individually post replies to every post. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/203 "2010-06-06T08:32:36Z")
Oh, stfu! If it’s taxing your brain power, stay out of the thread, you whinging git! ---
**Author:** ![Napkin\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8dc957/32.png) [@Napkin\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napkin_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/204 "2010-06-06T09:07:49Z")
It’s not taxing my fucking brain power, just my fucking eyes. Whiner. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/205 "2010-06-06T09:42:39Z")
Hey, I’m not the one moaning. I was just handing out some free advice. Take it or leave it. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/206 "2010-06-06T12:29:53Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > And to think I wasted time on laborious experiments in the laboratory. Nice bit of selective quoting there, ignoring the bit where I said that I even went to official documentation from the Supreme Court of Israel. But yeah, ho ho. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/207 "2010-06-06T12:33:25Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > That is what I mean when I talk about Finn refusal to admit error. He requires a standard of proof that makes debating very difficult. This is not the only thing that makes him annoying but apparently he is free to be annoying and apparently I am free to put him on ignore. I suppose that any decent points he makes will be repeated by other pro-Israeli posters (he makes a few from time to time but its hardly worth the aggravation). And when you prove him wrong he moves the goalposts and declares we had actually been talking about something else all along. I really should go back to the thread in GD and see how the pro-Israel guys are defending the shooting of people from close range (apparently less than 45cm) in the back of the head. Sounds remarkably like what a load of German guys used to do to the Jews. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/208 "2010-06-06T16:37:21Z")
> [@Napkin\_Sandwich](#): > > You know, everything would be much easier, Damuri, if you would employ the technique of replying to multiple quotes in one post. It’s not necessary to individually post replies to every post. Sorry, the multiquote function does not work from some locations because of firewalls and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/209 "2010-06-06T18:56:09Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Sorry, the multiquote function does not work from some locations because of firewalls and stuff. Eh? ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/210 "2010-06-06T19:00:07Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Sorry, the multiquote function does not work from some locations because of firewalls and stuff. > [@Gukumatz](#): > > Eh? Not _firewalls_, IME – but various corporate “virtual PC” environments (I’m looking at **you** , Citrix!) can f\*\*\* up all kinds of things – like some parts of javascript – royally. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/211 "2010-06-06T19:08:02Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Not _firewalls_, IME – but various corporate “virtual PC” environments (I’m looking at **you** , Citrix!) can f\*\*\* up all kinds of things – like some parts of javascript – royally. I also can’t use smileys so my great wit and sense of humor is less aparrent. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/212 "2010-06-06T19:20:48Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > I also can’t use smileys so my great wit and sense of humor is less aparrent. Have you tried entering the code for smileys manually (e.g., actually _typing_ “:”“D” for this guy? :D) – maybe your env. won’t let you click on the smileys on the right of the composition box, but there’s no way it can stop you from typing in the smiley’s code! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/213 "2010-06-07T11:30:23Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Yes, but FA is the person for whom words and their meaning are \*really, really, really \* significant, and an “assassin’s blade” can only be interpreted as a device used to carry out a sneaky attack on an unsuspecting person. Well, he was defending the recent assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai… ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/214 "2010-06-07T23:25:11Z")
If the Hamas leader in Dubai was a leader of the militant arm of hamas then I think he’s probably fair game. You can get pissed off about fake passports and stuff but if he is responsible for turning Palestinian frustration into the death of innocents then I don’t see the problem. If he is an elected official then things are different. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820.md?page=10)