# Mods/Admins and forums **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 10, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637 "2003-01-10T00:12:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637/1 "2003-01-10T00:12:18Z")
Do the moderators and administrators of the SDMB only regulate the posts in the forum they are assigned to? For example, can **manhattan** close a thread in the Pit, or is **manhattan** only given mod rights in GQ? ---
**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, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637/2 "2003-01-10T00:15:37Z")
We have rights in all fora. Due to time constraints, we usually moderate in the forum we’re assigned to, with the possible exception of ATMB. But should the situation warrant it, we also help out in other fora. In case of spammers or obvious trolls, for example. ---
**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, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637/3 "2003-01-10T00:17:19Z")
Well, none of us is online 24/7, and none of us is able to be in multiple places at the same time. Thus, while there are specific mods and admins in charge of each forum, we all help each other out. Any mod has full authority in any forum. In cases where we have discussions or differences of opinion, of course, the moderators of the forum involved are the ultimate decision makers. ---
**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, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637/4 "2003-01-10T19:58:49Z")
Which is why no one will ever make fun of Switzerland in my forum. That’s Winkelried Rule # 1. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637/5 "2003-01-10T21:25:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > \*\*Which is why no one will ever make fun of Switzerland in my forum. That’s Winkelried Rule # 1. \*\* Making fun of the Swiss is allowed, though. ---
**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 10, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637/6 "2003-01-10T21:54:13Z")
So. Horst and Franz are walkin’ down the Hohenbuhlstrasse, and Franz turns to Horst, and _he_ sez… ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637/7 "2003-01-11T02:50:40Z")
This is unique, only Mods and Admins have answered, no smart-alec posters have popped up. Neato!! ---
**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, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637/8 "2003-01-11T02:55:00Z")
Well, some smart-alec Mods and Admins have popped up. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637/9 "2003-01-11T03:02:51Z")
> [@](#): > > This is unique, only Mods and Admins have answered, no smart-alec posters have popped up. Neato!! Well, until you broke the record! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637/10 "2003-01-11T03:04:27Z")
Ah, but he was the OP – without him, there would be no question for us to answer. So, really, it was until _you_ broke the record! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637/11 "2003-01-11T03:23:56Z")
Better make **Polycarp** a moderator stat; this record is too cool to lose. 😃 ---
**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, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637/12 "2003-01-11T05:24:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Achernar \* > \*\*Better make **Polycarp** a moderator stat; this record is too cool to lose. 😃 \*\* Okay, we’ll let him in on a technicality. **Poly** is now hereby, officially and honorarily ::trembles:: SWISS. Veb P.S. **Poly** , the lederhosen thing? Try corn starch. ---
**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, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-admins-and-forums/147637/13 "2003-01-11T15:00:11Z")
… and as soon as he does the knock knock joke with “little old lady”, he loses his Swiss identiy, under the Geneva Convention.