# 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, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-do-it-twickster-thread-closing-thread-closed/621963/96 "2012-05-15T21:53:14Z")

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> [@"I went to school in Boston"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-school-in-boston/620794/20):
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> 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:
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> > [@"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]
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> 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.
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> Here’s what a reasonable moderator might have said under similar circumstances.
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> > [@](#):
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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.
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> 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.

I don’t have a dog in this hunt, and usually don’t have any complaints about the moderation, but I do agree that **twickster’s** note on herself came across as insincere and snarky. If she had posted a genuine apology owning up to her error, either in the original thread, or in **living\_in\_hell’s** ATMB thread instead of hiding or ignoring it, this entire three-thread shitstorm could have been avoided.

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