# Personal views in a Mod Post.

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**Created:** [December 4, 2009, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-views-in-a-mod-post/519968 "2009-12-04T08:30:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-views-in-a-mod-post/519968/5 "2009-12-04T16:33:57Z")

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> [@Revenant\_Threshold](#):
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> That said, it seems a bit unreasonable to me for a mod to put forth their own personal views on a debate in a post marked as moderation. When the mod hat is on, posts of, essentially, “I agree with you in part, but stop being a dick about it” seem a wee bit too much of mixing of roles.

I almost always avoid making those kinds of comments when I’m moderating. I made an exception here because I felt the characterization was correct, and even **Chief Pedant** wasn’t arguing with it, and because if I’d made no acknowledgment of the content of the posts it would have lead to a longer argument about the rules.

**brickbacon** was asking, in essence, if it’s okay to call a poster a racist in Great Debates if it’s true, or if the poster acknowledges it. I think **tomndebb** and I agree that in both cases, it isn’t because it’s still a personal remark.

I think your understanding of the group insults idea is correct. But vaguely saying “many” people are racists is too vague to be a personal insult in my opinion.

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