# "Proper" use of mod powers to steer a thread in GD?

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**Created:** [January 23, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proper-use-of-mod-powers-to-steer-a-thread-in-gd/526144 "2010-01-23T18:39:32Z")\
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> [@CircleofWillis](#):
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> If this were an actual rule, then **elucidator** would’ve been banned a long time ago.

Give me a list of threads where **elucidator** was the OP and then refused to participate and I will go back and give him Warnings for all of them in GD.

KLR 650 was the OP.  
ZPG Zealot was the OP.

Starting a thread in which your only contribution will be one liners designed to evoke angry or “hysterical” reactions is pretty close to the definition of trolling.  
Making an attempt, lame or successful, to be a court jester is not trolling. (I’m curious, BTW, why you picked only on **elucidator** instead of mentioning some or all of the other posters whose behavior is the same.)

(ZPG Zealot did not resort to one liners, but she utterly refused to attempt to explain any rationale behind her lengthy diatribes, which amounts to the same thing.)

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