# New Moderator for this forum! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [May 22, 2000, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-for-this-forum/20231 "2000-05-22T21:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2000, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-for-this-forum/20231/21 "2000-05-24T02:09:35Z")
Arnold congratulations! I would like to welcome you to moderatorshipness… Well, I would like to but since I am only a peon poster let me just say it’s nice to have you looking in the winder at us!!! PS. And please feel free to welcome me to the board anytime you like your moderatorship. ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2000, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-for-this-forum/20231/22 "2000-05-24T03:26:48Z")
Are you leaving for good Jill? I always thought you were a good moderator 🙂 ::Silo gives Jill a warm hug:: Welcome Arnold! ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2000, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-for-this-forum/20231/23 "2000-05-24T03:35:28Z")
Oops. I meant to type in a congratulations to you, Arnold, in this post, but I forgot. Could you fix it for me and edit in one? Thanks. Oh, by the way, I’m very gracious and erudite, and so please edit in a fabulous kudos. Peace. * * * _Willing to give a new moderator itching to edit a chance to do so._ ---
**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:** [May 24, 2000, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-for-this-forum/20231/24 "2000-05-24T06:05:24Z")
**JillGat** , I hope I will be able to competently fill in your shoes. Don’t be a stranger! Don’t get mad at Green Bean, what she meant was that now I’m moderator she will need to check this forum more often to verify that everything is in order, something she never needed to do when you were in charge. (Katt, it looks like she beat us both to the punch in finding Cecil’s shortest column.) **Green Bean** , I expect to see your smiling face in her regularly. We can use your wisdom and your expertise on the verdant vegetables. **aha** , dear friend, welcome to “Comments on Cecil’s Columns!” I will greet you in the swiss fashion (be careful not to bump heads): one kiss on the left cheek, one kiss on the right cheek, one kiss on the left cheek. Of course, we swiss are very reserved, so that’s only between relatives, so I’ll pretend that you’re my long-lost cousin. **Silo** , hold your tongue, man! I’m sure JillGat will come back to visit us from time to time. **moriah** , thank you for the wishes, o gracious and erudite one. Is your name taken from “The Lord of the Rings?” I thought that there wasn’t an “h” at the end of the word. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2000, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-for-this-forum/20231/25 "2000-05-24T12:05:53Z")
Moriah is the Biblical mountain upon which Abraham didn’t sacrifice Isaac, so to speak. I dunno if that’s the source of M’s name, though. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-for-this-forum/20231/26 "2000-05-25T03:05:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Moriah is the Biblical mountain upon which Abraham didn’t sacrifice Isaac, so to speak. I dunno if that’s the source of M’s name, though. > \*\* Bingo! (That’s not my name-o.) Yeah, I get a lot of guesses of the Dwarven mines of Moria where Gandalf the Grey stood off against the Balrog. That ain’t it, though I do like to often quote, “You can not pass!” And a lot of guesses of Mariah (with an ‘a’) and get compared to a shrill wind or a pop singer – wait a second, they’re both the same thing! But it’s the nonengendered Moriah of mount fame, also often used as an angelic alter-ego in many role-playing games that has become my preferred moniker online. Better stop now before I condemn this thread to MPSIMS. Peace. ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-for-this-forum/20231/27 "2000-05-25T20:13:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Arnold Winkelried wrote: > **hold your tongue, man!** Ah, jeez, I thought you were talking to _aha_, but it was _Silo_. Now that Jill is gone, I can be more critical of the moderator. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-for-this-forum/20231/28 "2000-05-25T20:23:07Z")
RM, you can hold my tongue _any time_. - Jill ---
**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:** [May 25, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-for-this-forum/20231/29 "2000-05-25T20:57:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > **JillGat** , I hope I will be able to competently fill in your shoes. > \*\* OK, who told **Arnold** about the cross-dressing part of the newbie moderator hazing process? ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-for-this-forum/20231/30 "2000-05-25T21:21:24Z")
woohoo uh, maybe we need to add a new forum for that?? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-moderator-for-this-forum/20231.md?page=1)