# Mods can't ban? I'm crushed... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 15, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742 "2001-09-15T01:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Raven\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@The\_Raven\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven_1)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/1 "2001-09-15T01:48:16Z")
Howyadoin, You poor souls. You have to deal with the likes of **meeshkeen** and **peewee\_RotA** , but it takes an admin to pull the plug? Gack… That makes less sense than the Designated Hitter rule. You all have my sympathies. -Rav ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/2 "2001-09-15T01:52:20Z")
Thanks. It’s been a long day. I read your post to say “Designated Hitler” at first. Couldn’t figure out what sport _that_ would be related to, for some reason. 🙂 Moderators are like English policemen. We can slap them around, but we can’t kill them. Oh well. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/3 "2001-09-15T01:56:35Z")
Ya know, I was just halfway-seriously contemplating starting a Pit thread entitled “Give the Mods banning powers!” As the Brunching Shuttlecocks would say, “Weird. Eerie.” Of course, we can’t have the Mods being on a higher level, or even the same level, as the Admins. So, we give the Mods the power to ban people, and we give the Admins the power to have them summarily executed. Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/4 "2001-09-15T02:14:58Z")
While the word “sumarilly” implies instantaneously, I think that is giving them too much time. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/5 "2001-09-15T02:38:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\* > It’s been a long day. I read your post to say “Designated Hitler” at first. Couldn’t figure out what sport _that_ would be related to, for some reason. 🙂 > > Moderators are like English policemen. We can slap them around, but we can’t kill them. Oh well. \*\* I read it as “Designated Hitler” too. I don’t know if that says something about me or about the mods. But like English policemen? “'ello 'ello ‘ello. Doing a spot o’ trolling, are we sunshine? Righto, you’re nicked… er I mean banned.” ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/6 "2001-09-15T02:42:37Z")
“Bit late a’night for spammin’, eh, Guv?” 😉 And BTW, don’t they have a Designated Hitler in Aussie rules footie? ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/7 "2001-09-15T04:48:49Z")
HEY! Lay off the Ozzie Rules! Goooooo, Lions! [sub]Althought, admittedly, I couldn’t tell what HALF the people on the field were doing.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/8 "2001-09-15T05:36:19Z")
Jesus. He took you to an Aussie Rules game? And you’re still speaking to him? Next time LMK and we can go shopping ;). That’s how real Aussie women get by. ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/9 "2001-09-15T05:58:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*And BTW, don’t they have a Designated Hitler in Aussie rules footie? \*\* Yes indeedy. His name is Tony Liberatore 😉 :d&r: ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/10 "2001-09-15T06:04:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Primaflora \* > \*\*Jesus. > > He took you to an Aussie Rules game? > > And you’re still speaking to him? > > Next time LMK and we can go shopping ;). That’s how real Aussie women get by. \*\* What? And miss the perfection that is Alastair Lynch? Whadda hottie! WOO! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/11 "2001-09-15T06:16:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > I read your post to say “Designated Hitler” at first. Couldn’t figure out what sport _that_ would be related to, for some reason. 🙂 Oh, please; Coldie. You durn well that the sport in question is obviously moderating the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![jaimest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jaimest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaimest)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/12 "2001-09-15T06:29:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*Thanks. > > It’s been a long day. I read your post to say “Designated Hitler” at first. Couldn’t figure out what sport _that_ would be related to, for some reason. 🙂 > > \*\* Sweet Momma! I read it the same way. And, while I am not a psychologist, I believe it is a reflection of all the crap going in the world. Is this the same mental process that transforms an off-course weather baloon from Alamogordo wafting across a trailer park full of bored retirees into a rash of UFO sightings?? I believe the “Designated Hitler” rule comes into play when you are down to the last strike - yet only have one ball. [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2\_128b.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_128b.html) ---
**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:** [September 16, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/13 "2001-09-16T22:14:30Z")
Back to the topic, though, the mods do have a lot of say in banning people. If a mod sends an e-mail to Lynn or Tuba saying “Ban this idiot”, that idiot will usually get banned. Meanwhile, I’m really wondering whose side Godwin is on in this thread… ---
**Author:** ![AM\_PM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AM\_PM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AM_PM)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/14 "2001-09-17T17:52:33Z")
Who’s Godwin? ---
**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:** [September 17, 2001, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/15 "2001-09-17T21:44:38Z")
**Archie Godwin.** Ace private eye and leg-man for Nero Wolfe in the immortal detective fiction series by Rex Stout. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/16 "2001-09-17T21:51:52Z")
Goodwin. your humble TubaDiva who actually went to W. 35th Street just to see. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/17 "2001-09-17T21:56:40Z")
I KNEW that. Sheesh. (grumble, bitch, gripe) Shoulda misspelled “Wolfe” and “Stout,” too, to make the joke clear… ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/18 "2001-09-17T21:58:21Z")
A second reading shows I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. Can I go home now? Jenny your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![No\_Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba8739/32.png) [@No\_Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Bones)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/19 "2001-09-18T00:08:00Z")
What a strange twist! I’m a fan of Nero’s, but I thought he never left the house except when his orchids were kidnapped. Or maybe it’s supposed to mean “Meanwhile, I’m really wondering whose side _God_ is on in this thread…”😕 ---
**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:** [September 18, 2001, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742/20 "2001-09-18T00:17:38Z")
Well, I’m still waiting to see what Godot says. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-cant-ban-im-crushed/81742.md?page=2)