Please give QED a pass.
I believe he’s an ass, and he believes I’m an imbecile.
Our love battles on.
PS: we’re both probably right.
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I’ve noticed this myself, but thought maybe it was just me. Obviously, it isn’t.
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Ditto.
[QUOTE=Giraffe]
I’m not sure what the best solution would be, though. Changing the SDSAB title to something like “SDSAB Member” to emphasize the regular member status? Forbidding Q.E.D. from posting in non-Pit administrative threads? (Note that I have absolutely no say in any of this, but am just throwing ideas out there.)
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Yeah, give him the handy treatment!
How about “Chief Googler” – can you put that under his name?
He posted a completely accurate answer to a question. I think some people here have way to thin a skin, and a hair trigger on the offended button.
You guys would have never survived in my department at my last job. 
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It was not a pointless question and some of us are waiting for the answer. You jump in and decide be be a dick.
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Maybe, but he’s OUR dick.
[QUOTE=bbs2k]
I believe he’s an ass…
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And OUR ass.
[QUOTE=Musicat]
Maybe, but he’s OUR dick.
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I’m not gonna touch that. 
[QUOTE=Giraffe]
Yeah, this has been a common misunderstanding about the SDSAB title, and I’m not really sure what to do about it. I can see why the SDMB administration wants to give some public recognition and incentive for those who research and write staff reports, as it is an important contribution. At the same time, when Q.E.D. acts like a douchebag in response to administrative questions it does a lot more damage than it would if he were a regular member. I’m not sure what the best solution would be, though. Changing the SDSAB title to something like “SDSAB Member” to emphasize the regular member status? Forbidding Q.E.D. from posting in non-Pit administrative threads? (Note that I have absolutely no say in any of this, but am just throwing ideas out there.)
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It does seem as though 9 times out of 10 when someone assumes “SDSAB” means more than it does, it’s because QED is acting like an asshole. Others may junior-mod as much as he does, but since they are more apt to be Members or Charter Members, it’s usually way more obvious that they’re not speaking ex cathedra.
I’d support a change to SDSAB Member as a good compromise between acknowledging someone’s contributions yet making is clear that he or she is a member, not a mod.
I can’t believe that this thread was started! I was looking at the response the OP referred to and got ready to post something saying, basically, the exact same thing. Mine, though, would have had about 1000 cites, because I have noticed that almost every post I read of QED’s is of that same smarmy tone.
I then realized that the asshole isn’t worth that much time/effort.
So, I will echo the person who said this earlier: QED, get over yourself. You aren’t (and I don’t think it is possible for anyone to be) nearly as smart as you think you are.
– a concerned citizen
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Your interpretation seems a little…loose. I’m pretty sure I didn’t say anything like that. It was, perhaps a tad on the snarky side, but anyone who sees it as outrage-inducing rudeness needs, frankly, to grow a skin. <snip>
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I was thinking about this as I was cleaning my house (there you have it - proof that I actually do clean occasionally), and I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t agree with this attitude. It isn’t the responsibility of everyone else to have thicker skins; it’s the responsibility of the person being a jerk to quit being a jerk.
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Forbidding Q.E.D. from posting in non-Pit administrative threads? (Note that I have absolutely no say in any of this, but am just throwing ideas out there.)
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How about we start by forbidding him to post, in general? No other member of the SDMB would get away with so much trollery and so many pointless FPBs–especially when most of them are masquerading as factual answers to questions in GQ. Seriously, who did Q.E.D. suck off to get the immunity he has?
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It does seem as though 9 times out of 10 when someone assumes “SDSAB” means more than it does, it’s because QED is acting like an asshole. Others may junior-mod as much as he does, but since they are more apt to be Members or Charter Members, it’s usually way more obvious that they’re not speaking ex cathedra.
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I wouldn’t go so far as to say Q.E.D. is acting like an asshole when he junior mods, but he certainly doesn’t have the good sense to use a warm and friendly tone with people asking good-faith questions, which is pretty broadly what I see the real-life mods do. Of course, our mods and members can be pretty snarky or worse when they believe that questions are out of line, most of us cut people a break when they see that a question is being asked out of ignorance (which we’re all supposed to be fighting here), and our actual mods are pretty relaxed about dealing with these.
Q.E.D., on the other hand, is both quick to be dismissive of other posters and quick to junior mod. Were he just an ordinary member, that would be merely irritating, and I suspect that even those posting ignorant questions would think a non-SDSAB Q.E.D. response was just the braying of an officious ass and move on. The problem is that he has this shiny badge of “SDSAB” under his name. Now, those of us who’ve been around a while realize that his “SDSAB” badge gives him all of the authority of a shopping mall rent-a-cop, but many less-experienced posters (the type that would tend to post the ignorant questions about board procedures) don’t realize that he has no more enforcement authority than any other ordinary poster.
As a result, I would recommend that the Board Administration try to keep junior modding by SDSAB members on a much tighter rope than they do for regular members. I suggest they act (presumably behind the scenes) to make sure that the SDSAB members clearly identify that they actually have the just the knowledge and authority of just an ordinary member when discussing matters of board administration and procedure. That would minimize the need for Dex and the others to make notes pointing out that Q.E.D. is just talking out of his ass when he shows up all pompous.
The alternative is to allow Q.E.D. to strut around like a rent-a-cop determined to assert the meager authority he has, and that is just pathetic.
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(Bolding mine.)
No, an admin showed up with a courteous answer. You, however, once again played the snarky “I’m so fuckin’ smart” card. You need to get over yourself.
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Aww, give him a break. It was just excited to have an answer to something where he didn’t have to use Google.
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect]
How about we start by forbidding him to post, in general? No other member of the SDMB would get away with so much trollery and so many pointless FPBs–especially when most of them are masquerading as factual answers to questions in GQ. Seriously, who did Q.E.D. suck off to get the immunity he has?
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Links to substantiate these kinds of claims would be nice.
-FrL-
Frylock, just cruise GQ one of these days. I don’t spend much time there anymore, but when I do, it seems like every (or nearly every) thread has an FPB by our hero, Google Man. Its tone is generally somewhere between “You’re so lucky that I, God’s gift to ignorance, am here to save the day” and “Wow, you’re fucking stupid. How come you couldn’t figure that out on your own?”
Like the poster upthread who started to write this very same pitting with cites and then stopped when he realized he was wasting time on QED, I care too little about Google Man to compile a list of offenses with links.
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect]
Frylock, just cruise GQ one of these days. I don’t spend much time there anymore, but when I do, it seems like every (or nearly every) thread has an FPB by our hero, Google Man. Its tone is generally somewhere between “You’re so lucky that I, God’s gift to ignorance, am here to save the day” and “Wow, you’re fucking stupid. How come you couldn’t figure that out on your own?”
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I’ve just scanned through the first forty or so threads in GC. He has posted in three, for a total of eight posts or so. None of which are remotely as you have characterized them to be. Perhaps something is coloring your perception?
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]
Perhaps something is coloring your perception?
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You know that expression, “you’re so full of shit, your eyes are brown?” I should think that condition would color one’s vision, as well.
[QUOTE=Musicat]
Maybe, but he’s OUR dick.And OUR ass.
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If he could also be a vagina everyone would be happy.
Hmm, apparently that’s true of 90% of the others posting in this thread. Strange, that. If it were me, and one of the people saying I’m obnoxious is actually a mod (especially a sensible one like Giraffe), I’d buck my ideas up, mate.
Hostile Dialect, what’s an FPB? I’m thinking “First post, bitch!” … is that right?
He clearly has sand somewhere.