# New co-moderator in Great Debates!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [February 6, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427 "2000-02-06T21:01:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/1 "2000-02-06T21:01:00Z")
I’m pleased to announce that Gaudere will now be working for us in Great Debates, alongside DavidB.
Usually I’d wait for Ed to make this grand announcement, but we want to put her to work right away.
We’re fortunate to have her as one of our laborers in the Straight Dope vineyard and I hope you all give her every consideration. I’ll be really upset if you run her off, so let your conscience and your natural feelings of self-preservation be your guide.
Welcome, Gaudere!!!
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
The Straight Dope
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### Author:  [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/2 "2000-02-06T21:06:00Z")
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> Originally posted by TubaDiva:
> **I’m pleased to announce that Gaudere will now be working for us in Great Debates, alongside DavidB.**
Since this is a GD thread, I hope I don’t have to espouse a contrary position!
Welcome, Gaudere! Congratulations; it’s well-deserved.
- Rick
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### Author:  [@John\_John](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_John)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/3 "2000-02-06T21:35:00Z")
Welcome Gaudere.
Does this mean that David is being pushed UP, or out? Is this a new movement towards dual moderation on all boards?
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. Janis Joplin
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/4 "2000-02-06T21:43:00Z")
Gaudere:
[…doing flips…]
It is the, um, perfect appointment. Congrats from Lib and Edlyn!
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### Author:  [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/5 "2000-02-06T21:45:00Z")
Excellent choice.
If Phaedrus finds out about this appointment…
Never mind. Let’s think happy thoughts. 🙂
Will I be accorded special treatment for being nice to the new moderator? 🙂
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I don’t have to do drugs to mess up my head. I went to Catholic school.
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### Author:  [@Glitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glitch)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/6 "2000-02-06T21:50:00Z")
Congrats! Now you get to be harrassed by the crazies too. What resigning already?
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/7 "2000-02-06T21:59:00Z")
Hey, Gaudere! Check out [the BBQ Pit](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000642.html)!
😃
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/8 "2000-02-06T22:01:00Z")
Thank you all. David will still be around; we’ll just be sharing duties. They are getting some more mods in on the boards, but I don’t know where or when (or who). You won’t get special treatment, Wally, but if you don’t flame or post spam or put non-GD topics in GD you will fill my heart with joy and have my eternal gratitude. I hope that will satisfy you. 😉
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/9 "2000-02-06T22:06:00Z")
Lib, as long as you put it in the proper forum (and you did), it’s cool by me. 😃
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/10 "2000-02-06T22:19:00Z")
Gaudere, give David B. a hug for me!
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/11 "2000-02-06T22:25:00Z")
Orangie, we’re co-moderating, not co-habitating. He lives quite a ways away from me–too far away to hug. 😉
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/12 "2000-02-06T22:32:00Z")
Of course, your spirits can hug. [demure smile]
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### Author:  [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/13 "2000-02-06T22:36:00Z")
Um, shouldn’t this be in About This Message Board, or MPSIMS? It’s certainly not a Great Debate. Geez, the new moderator needs to be getting on the stick. . .
(runs and hides)
Dr. J
PS: Welcome!
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### Author:  [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/14 "2000-02-06T23:09:00Z")
What, you want a great debate? Okay –
Gaudere is NOT co-moderating Great Debates, so there!
(While various people load up there ammo, I will offer my congratulations and best wishes to Gaudere. 🙂 )
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Jodi
_Fiat Justitia_
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### Author:  [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/15 "2000-02-06T23:10:00Z")
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Jodi
_Fiat Justitia_
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### Author:  [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2000, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/16 "2000-02-06T23:27:00Z")
friend gaudere:
congratulations on your new position. i am sure you will do a wonderful job!
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“don’t get strung out by the way that i look, don’t judge a book by it’s cover” (tim curry as dr. franknfurter in rhps)
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### Author:  [@fuzzy-wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzy-wuzzy)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2000, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/17 "2000-02-07T00:13:00Z")
Congratulations Gaudere…I know you’ll do a great job
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“Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda
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Senior Intern to
El Presidente
Self-Righteous Clique \*
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### Author:  [@bantmof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bantmof)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/18 "2000-02-07T00:14:00Z")
Ah. Please allow me to be the 16th (unless another post squeeks in while I’m typing this) to offer my congradulations and/or condolences, as appropriate!
–
peas on earth
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### Author:  [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/19 "2000-02-07T00:14:00Z")
Congratulations Gaudere!
Now, I _really_ have to make sure I’m spelling your name right…drat.
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“…being normal is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage.”
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### Author:  [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2000, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-co-moderator-in-great-debates/17427/20 "2000-02-07T01:04:00Z")
There is no such person as Gaudere. The existence of Gaudere is only a myth perpetrated by those who choose to believe in the written word of Man and accept her existence on faith alone. Since I can see no physical manifestation of a being known as Gaudere, she must not truly exist. Anyone who believes otherwise without some form of absolute proof must be morons.
Can Gaudere part the seas, set a bush on fire without it being consumed by the flames, inscribe her laws into stone tablets from the top of a mount? HA! Any evidence you see of her so-called powers, such as locking threads or admonishing posters who violate the rules of Straight Dopedom are to be considered coincidences only.
Non-believers must unite to educate the masses who blindly follow such baseless claims!
🙂 Hehehe - just kidding, of course. Had to try to make this thread qualify for the GD forum in which it’s posted.
Congratulations, Gaudere. And good luck in your new position. I don’t envy you your task in the least! 😃
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
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