# Mystery Moderation **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 26, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-moderation/949570 "2021-08-26T16:06:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-moderation/949570/61 "2021-09-02T04:08:23Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > We try to maintain a fairly high level of transparency, much more so than most message boards. But you (the staff as a whole, not you personally) didn’t here, which is why this thread is still going. > [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > As for accountability, we are accountable to our admin. Do we even have an admin these days? I mean, besides Ed, who is basically a non-entity around here 99% of the time. I’m pretty sure being accountable to Ed and having no accountability are nearly synonymous. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-moderation/949570/62 "2021-09-02T05:58:07Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > How have you been harmed? Knowing that there’s a vengeful renegade mod running wild keeps me up nights popping pills and guzzling gasoline. Also, it makes me not want to come here as much. Nor recommend it to others. ---
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-moderation/949570/63 "2021-09-02T06:30:26Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > > [@Czarcasm](#): > > > > How have you been harmed? > > Knowing that there’s a vengeful renegade mod running wild keeps me up nights popping pills and guzzling gasoline. > > Also, it makes me not want to come here as much. Nor recommend it to others I think that if mods are here to enforce the rules, they should be doing so as even-handedly and fairly as possible. Something like the action taken in this case by @Hari_Seldon seem out of place, and arbitrary and out of character for mod actions (ones I’ve paid any attention to, at least). Even if this is a very minor action it seems to have increased worries and concern, likely from fears that more serious actions will be following this behavior. I know I’d appreciate an answer to why the moderation was made. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2021, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-moderation/949570/64 "2021-09-02T07:39:50Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Y’all are doing fine. People need to chill, reassess what’s important, get vaccinated I agree with all of this. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-moderation/949570/66 "2021-09-02T08:27:55Z")
That’s nice. Also, I am satisfied that the level of transparency we get from the moderation staff is, on the whole, about right. There are always specific exceptions but they seem to get dealt with. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-moderation/949570/67 "2021-09-02T08:47:33Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Maybe save the pitchforks for when you think warnings or bannings were wrong, and when no harm has been done (just a mod note) and there’s an actual question of what it means, try to keep the pitchforks in the barn? I didn’t bring any pitchforks. If it wasn’t for @Max_S I’d still have no idea at all what the note was even about, and we’re still just going on assumptions. I think it’s pretty damn poor to get no response whatsoever from the mod in question. ---
**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-moderation/949570/68 "2021-09-02T12:37:25Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > If it wasn’t for @Max_S I’d still have no idea at all what the note was even about, and we’re still just going on assumptions. I think it’s pretty damn poor to get no response whatsoever from the mod in question. I agree with this. > [@kayaker](#): > > Y’all are doing fine. People need to chill, reassess what’s important, get vaccinated I also agree with this. For me, this mod note and the lack of follow up or clarification is largely out of character for the moderation around here, so I was really hoping for some response. But it’s minor in the big scheme. Just an unintelligible (and possibly wrong) mod note. No harm no foul if this doesn’t become a pattern. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-moderation/949570.md?page=3)