No, no, no, it’s perfectly acceptable, as long as you don’t use any curse words and phrase it as such:
“I think TVeblen is a wonderful moderator and I deserved anything that she said about me. She couldn’t possibly have made a mistake about anything, therefore I am obviously in error. I humbly abase myself before the moderators of the board and ask forgiveness.”
No, you only get that if you call them a cunt when they are moderating. You are perfectly free to call tomndebb, Giraffe, Frank even TVeblen cunts at any other time (not that I would in case Veb bans me again).
It is only when the mods are acting in their offical capaicty that you can’t call then cunts.
Of course you are free to call duffer a cunt anytime you like.
I like the idea. From now on, when I moderate, I’m going to log in as Giraffe.
I think you went about it the wrong way. Instead of trying to take down the other person, you should have (IMHO) try to ‘appeal’ the warning.
This worked for me one time, someone hit the panic button on one of my posts, which I got a mod warning. After apologizing to the person of how they took my post (not how I typed it - it’s not my fault if they can’t read), I sent a e-mail to the mod stating that my post did NOT do what the accuser stated nor what the official mod warning was for and I wanted to appeal it, which I got a response that they agreed with me, though they basically downgraded it to general rudeness.
I have noticed that there are, unfortunately, some ‘tattletale’ posters who look to call a mod, usually when they can’t handle the thread.
Great day in the morning, that’s way more than I thought duffer had received!
{moderator hat on hook}
It certainly would be a shame if some moderator saw fit to give him another warning! The administration might have to bounce his dumb ass right into the recycling bin! {rubs hands with glee}
{mod hat back on}
I certainly hope he minds his Ps and Qs, of course.
You should consider getting over that. I said “WE should be ashamed of ourselves.” I was talking about how silly I thought the whole thing was, and how embarrassed I thought I should feel for watching it. In real life, if I had been part of a group of people standing out on the sidewalk listening to a young couple having their first argument, and had said, “Oh come on everybody, we shouldn’t be listening to this, we should be ashamed of ourselves,” with an embarrassed grin, you wouldn’t be nursing this grudge. You’d have given a sheepish little chuckle and understood exactly what I meant. I was accusing myself, and just including everyone else in the room almost incidentally. I did “come into the thread” just to tell you you should be ashamed of yourself. Get. Over it.
You are the last person in the world who should be suggesting anyone get over anything. You are dogmatic, inflexible, obsessive, shrill, and a royal pain in the ass. AI threads were entertaining until you decided to roll your holier-than-thou elitism into the middle and started making pronouncements. You are the most tone deaf poster I have ever encountered. You have no ability to judge your own contributions to a thread. It’s either stupidity or insensitivity to language and, frankly, I don’t give a shit which. Either way, you ruin good-natured threads with your participation, and you can’t see it. You are the Inspector Clouseau of the internets.
I like AI. I like talking in a general, good-natured way about the show. I like learning who others like and don’t like. It’s fun. Having some shrill asshole screech about his opinion of the show isn’t fun. It can be funny when the asshole is as clueless as you are, but it gets old very quickly.
I’ll state up front that if I were the type of person who felt like getting into an endless pissing match with you, I would be the type of person who found you tolerable in the first place. I don’t. I’m not. You are free to have the last word.
it’s a long standing principle that moderators are also posters, generally when making official ‘moderator’ type statements, those would be clearly deliniated. However, as a poster, anyone including a moderator can say (in the appropriate forum, of course), “duffer is a doodyhead”. Or perhaps even a big doodyhead. the relative frequency for those sorts of comments, coming from either posters or moderators is most likely a function of the signal/noise ratio, the ignorance, the inanity, the sheer flat out mindboggling stupidity of any individual poster. I’m sure some of our more mathmatically inclined posters can come up with a suitable equation.
IOW - perhaps it’s not a fucntion of the quality (or lack thereof) of the moderators that generates the number of verbal ‘smack downs’ (vs. moderator warnings) of any particular poster, and rather more likely to be the function of the quality (or lack thereof) of the individual poster.
as a test of that theory, you may wish to also count up the number of ‘verbal smack downs’ you get from other posters on a regular basis. Don’t rush, we don’t expect the report for another decade or so.
Not fair! You know I can’t retaliate, due to my refusal to participate in any action that might lead to the joke “I’ll be frank…” There are some lines I will not cross! (Not many, obviously, but some.)
Seriously, in re: my tone deafness, please find a cite for me that suggests a “shrill screech.” Seriously. If I’m that tone deaf, that a sheepish eyeroll, meant to be more self-deprecating than accusatory, comes off as a shrill screech, then, well, you know. Seriously, point me to a shrill screech.
Sheesh.
Ditto this. The last time I got stomped on by Tubadiva, it was because of a misunderstanding. I was trying for a joke, and was misunderstood. One e-mail was all it took to solve the problem. But I suppose it’s easier to whine and moan than to take constructive acts to ameliorate the problem.
Hee hee hee.
I don’t think I have any warnings; I really haven’t been trying hard enough. Maybe for my 10,000th post.
Once you get whacked, you never go back, baby! 
Hmmmmm…getting banned for your 10,000 post. Interesting idea, that. I must cogitate awhile. 
Hey, I thought of it first! Don’t you try to sneak by me with your 120 more posts than me (but who’s counting?)!
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Especially if it involves embroidering the forum stickies in gold thread on a pair of sequined lime hot-pants, donning mauve spangled go-go boots, and prancing on a table singing “Forum rules are here again!”, while suggestively flossing your crotch with a purple boa. That’s a banning right there.
No, that’s a good night out.
We’d probably comp the next year’s membership for that.
Hmm, I’m going to need to go shopping…