# Pardon me while I kiss some ass. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 8, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823 "2013-05-08T17:36:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/1 "2013-05-08T17:36:21Z")
God knows I get my snark on plenty when complaining about rules and so on. A lot of us do. This isn’t an attempt to reverse some disciplinary action. It’s just an honest observation. There’s a thread right now in ATMB that’s a prime example of what is happening so much of the time behind the scenes. [This thread on Malware](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=690254) is a very normal non-inflammatory thread. I’m a 99’er and have watched the wars great and small during my (almost entirely) enjoyable tenure on The Dope. A moment’s kudos to both the Admin and Mods for what is more than a thankless gig. It’s a gig that involves much more behind the scenes hours of work fighting the real jerks of the Internet: Hacks, Malware, attacks and threats to the servers and therefore to the SDMB. It’s real work. It rarely involves judgement calls and debates and a public face. But anyone who has done or knows people who do the kind of pick and shovel I.T. work involved in running a board of this size knows that it’s a nonstop fight. We in fact rarely suffer the attacks and problems that some other message boards suffer. Do we have the odd issue? Yeah- and it gets jumped on pretty much as quickly as humans doing this job can jump on it. Witness **TubaDiva** ’s response in that thread. I routinely enjoy a few hours on the Dope with nary a bug, hitch or errant virus warning. That’s the result of efforts not as flashy as administering Warnings or Bannings ( and not controversial at all ), but the fact is that the backbone of a smoothly running board isn’t the stuff of the ongoing napalming we’re witnessing these months in ATMB. A Mod or Admin gets particularly prickly? Well, they’re human doing a job that they’re ( almost but not entirely ) doing without compensation. It ain’t easy. I wouldn’t do it. Very very early on I considered asking for Mod training. I have neither the personality nor the time to commit, and so didn’t go for it. A tip of the cap for the complex work done behind the scenes, as well as for the work done onscreen that we can all bear witness to- and bitch about. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/2 "2013-05-08T18:04:53Z")
On your knees, boy! 😃 And thank you for taking the time for such a nice acknowledgment. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/3 "2013-05-08T18:19:00Z")
Worst Jimi Hendrix song ever. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/4 "2013-05-08T22:46:00Z")
About time someone posted in ATMB without crying like the Cukoo’s Nest patients about their cigarettes!! Kudos to YOU! (Remember when McMurphy learned that they…were…VOLUNTARY??) ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/5 "2013-05-09T00:48:26Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > On your knees, boy! 😃 That is one username/post combo I… just… never expected to see. :eek: But I liked it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/6 "2013-05-09T04:41:36Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > That is one username/post combo I… just… never expected to see. :eek: But I liked it 😃 And post pics too! oh, oh! Now I gone done done it! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/7 "2013-05-09T11:42:25Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > That is one username/post combo I… just… never expected to see. :eek: But I liked it 😃 U2 can play “drop the needle” with your friends and family. !!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/8 "2013-05-09T12:11:05Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > On your knees, boy! 😃 > > And thank you for taking the time for such a nice acknowledgment. If one of the men had said that, they would have been given a warning for unnecessary sexual content. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/9 "2013-05-09T12:42:28Z")
> [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](#): > > If one of the men had said that, they would have been given a warning for unnecessary sexual content. No, they would not have. “On your knees, boy” is the line following “If you want to kiss the sky you better learn how to kneel” in U2’s “Mysterious Ways.” FYI. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/10 "2013-05-09T13:12:59Z")
So, it’s confirmed: the Mods do work in Mysterious Ways, their wonders to perform. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/11 "2013-05-09T13:20:15Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > No, they would not have. “On your knees, boy” is the line following “If you want to kiss the sky you better learn how to kneel” in U2’s “Mysterious Ways.” FYI. OK, sure. Yeah we were definitely talking about U2 and kiss the sky. It was right there in the thread title. There’s no possible way that anyone could read anything else into that remark. Since we’re quoting lyrics, here’s some from Bikini Kill Sister Sister, where did we go wrong? Tell me what the fuck we’re doing here Why are all the boys acting strange? We’ve got to show them we’re worse than queer Suck my left one. Suck my left one. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/12 "2013-05-09T13:33:50Z")
And we’re off. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/13 "2013-05-09T14:03:06Z")
I agree with the OP. I have spent many enjoyable hours here over the past 8 years, and the moderators have contributed quite a bit to my enjoyment. Most of what they contribute, I believe, is not even seen. Most people who post here learn rather quickly that there are rules and that the rules will be enforced. Certainly that enforcement is not perfect, but it is valuable, and its existence turns most of us in self-moderators. When I am feeling meaner or snarkier than my generally angel-like demeanor would suggest, I usually temper my own posts rather than risk an admonition from a mod. Not that I consider such an admonition some sort of dire punishment or personal affront; rather that I would prefer to not have to be reminded not to be a jerk. Thanks to the moderators. So I’m an ass-kisser too. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/14 "2013-05-09T14:10:28Z")
[Man of few word] Ditto. [/Mofw] ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/15 "2013-05-09T14:14:07Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > No, they would not have. “On your knees, boy” is the line following “If you want to kiss the sky you better learn how to kneel” in U2’s “Mysterious Ways.” FYI. If a moderator did not know that, and no mention of U2 had been previously brought up in the thread, I respectfully submit that a mod note might have been issued. ---
**Author:** ![randomface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@randomface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomface)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/16 "2013-05-09T14:50:50Z")
I was completely unaware of that reference. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/17 "2013-05-09T14:59:05Z")
Seriously? I knew immediately what was meant. Maybe it’s a generational thing, me being of the one that wore out Achtung Baby when it hit the air. I knew as soon as it came out it would be the best, most innovative album of the 90s. Ellen’s probably of the same. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/18 "2013-05-09T15:00:49Z")
> [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](#): > > OK, sure. Yeah we were definitely talking about U2 and kiss the sky. It was right there in the thread title. Well it is right there in the OP’s signature. Maybe you have sigs turned off, but some of us saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/19 "2013-05-09T15:02:25Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Worst Jimi Hendrix song ever. Nah, that’s “S’cuse me while I kiss this guy.” 😉 (I like the Mods too. Go, Mods!) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823/20 "2013-05-09T15:10:30Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If a moderator did not know that, and no mention of U2 had been previously brought up in the thread, I respectfully submit that a mod note might have been issued. And rescinded once explained. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pardon-me-while-i-kiss-some-ass/657823.md?page=2)