# Posting as a poster, or a moderator, or a spokes-moderator?

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**Created:** [May 16, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-as-a-poster-or-a-moderator-or-a-spokes-moderator/853945 "2020-05-16T22:21:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-as-a-poster-or-a-moderator-or-a-spokes-moderator/853945/1 "2020-05-16T22:21:36Z")

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I rise to a point of order.

When [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=22279502#post22279502) was closed, Colibri wrote that Engineer\_Comp\_Geek had provided the moderators’ answer in post 49. Here is the part that Colibri quoted.

> [@Engineer\_Comp\_Geek](#):
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> You personally might be offended by the names, but you are going to have a hard time convincing me that the names themselves are offensive when they are the names of real establishments.
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> This was why I did not moderate the thread. If the real names weren’t called out as such, you wouldn’t be able to tell most of the fake names from the real names, and some of the fake names suggested are in fact names of real gay bars.

When ECG speaks of why he did not moderate the thread, and uses the phrase “you are going to have a hard time convincing me” it makes it sound like his personal opinion, either as a poster or as a moderator, or as both. There is zero indication that he is speaking for the moderators as a group.

It was not a very nice way to close the thread, Colibri. You might have said “the moderating staff stands by ECG’s post #49” and then quoted it, without implying that later posters were at fault for having missed it.

p.s. I did not say that TubaDiva had to be the one coming back with the decision, just that something should be posted. I too prefer not to be mis-quoted or mis-attributed.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-as-a-poster-or-a-moderator-or-a-spokes-moderator/853945/2 "2020-05-16T22:47:59Z")

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**engineer\_comp\_geek** was the moderator of the forum concerned, as well as the primary ATMB moderator. He posted after **TubaDiva** did, so it really should have been clear that that was the position. If it were not, then the thread in question would have been moderated.

**Moderator Instructions**

You said you accepted the moderators’ decision. It appears to me that you are using any excuse to keep the discussion going. I’m instructing you to drop the subject with regard to that thread, or any comments within it. Do not open another thread about that thread.

Colibri