# Ok, I'll do it (Twickster thread closing thread closed)

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**Created:** [May 15, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-do-it-twickster-thread-closing-thread-closed/621963 "2012-05-15T03:49:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-do-it-twickster-thread-closing-thread-closed/621963/92 "2012-05-15T21:11:26Z")

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> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#):
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> I think both of those things are probably worse than calling someone a twat. My particular situation was handled just about exactly the way this one has been handled - a mild slap on the wrist. My point is, I’m not sure this particular situation has really been handled all that differently than if it had been a long-time poster who made the gaff.

I think, as a matter of general principle, you’re right. I’ve seen plenty of times when people have stepped over the line in non-Pit threads and simply been told to cool off. As you say, a mild slap on the wrist.

A while back, i made an inappropriate post in an MPSIMS thread because i was posting in multiple threads and forgot that this particular thread was not in the Pit. I realized my error, reported my post, and made an [apology](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13226895#post13226895) for my mistake, and everything was fine. Here’s what i actually said once i realized what i had done:

> [@pkbites gets ripped off \[edited title\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pkbites-gets-ripped-off-edited-title/563114/53):
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> Crap!
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> I’ve been jumping back and forth between forums, and i was sure this thread was in the Pit. I only realized that it was in MPSIMS after the edit window had closed, so i couldn’t fix my post.
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> Apologies to the mods and to **lindsaybluth**. My argument stands, but i apologize for and retract the insults.

That’s actually the thing that gets me most about this whole situation. I’m not arguing that **twickster** should get anything more than a slap on the wrist for this. What i’m arguing is that the whole thing was handled poorly from the start. Here’s what **twickster** wrote when she realized that she had insulted someone outside the Pit:

> [@"I went to school in Boston"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-school-in-boston/620794/20):
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> [mod] **twickster** , you know better than to call another poster a twat in an MPSIMS thread – and, yes, saying that he or she is “coming across as a twat” amounts to saying he or she is a twat. Don’t do this again.
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> No warning issued.[/mod]

This sort of self-admonition just comes across as disingenuous and insincere. What would have been far more appropriate is a simple and genuine apology for the fuck-up.

Here’s what a reasonable moderator might have said under similar circumstances.

> [@](#):
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> I just realized that i called someone a twat in an MPSIMS thread. I forgot what forum we were in, and posted an inappropriate insult.
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> I’m sorry to everyone for doing that; as a moderator, i should follow the rules. And i’m sorry to **living\_in\_hell** for insulting her.

If **twickster** had posted something like that, i would have shrugged, put it down to the sort of mistake that plenty of people have made in the past, and moved on. Simple, really.

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