# Rick Jay waits a week to acknowledge/moderate a post?! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 30, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-jay-waits-a-week-to-acknowledge-moderate-a-post/675168 "2013-11-30T23:05:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-jay-waits-a-week-to-acknowledge-moderate-a-post/675168/81 "2013-12-03T20:01:09Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > **MODERATOR NOTE** > > If it’s not clear to everyone here, let me make it so – trying to convince someone who will not be convinced of something is pointless. Save your energy for something meaningful and **stop counseling/lecturing/explaining to Little Nemo on the subject of Mod Notes and Warnings.** But that’s what the topic of this thread is about. If that’s what you want, why not just close the thread? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-jay-waits-a-week-to-acknowledge-moderate-a-post/675168/82 "2013-12-03T20:30:53Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > But that’s what the topic of this thread is about. If that’s what you want, why not just close the thread? No, the topic of this thread is Rick Jay’s moderating in the boxing thread. Little Nemo hijacked the hell out of this thread, and Rick Jay has yet to respond to the actual topic… ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-jay-waits-a-week-to-acknowledge-moderate-a-post/675168/83 "2013-12-03T20:39:39Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Should we expect a warning to **Nemo** for continuing the argument after you told everyone to drop it? iMHO, my vote is no… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-jay-waits-a-week-to-acknowledge-moderate-a-post/675168/84 "2013-12-03T21:05:58Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > No, the topic of this thread is Rick Jay’s moderating in the boxing thread. Little Nemo hijacked the hell out of this thread, and Rick Jay has yet to respond to the actual topic… You’re right. I posted in haste. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-jay-waits-a-week-to-acknowledge-moderate-a-post/675168/85 "2013-12-03T21:46:58Z")
To the OP: If he said “Boxing sucks!” Or something like that, then, yes, that threadshitting. But I don’t see how agreeing with something the OP said in his OP could be threadshitting. He didn’t make fun of boxing, he just said it’s a dying sport. Which, when compared to the cult of Football, could be understood. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-jay-waits-a-week-to-acknowledge-moderate-a-post/675168/86 "2013-12-04T20:19:54Z")
Looking back on the thread, I feel my note was justified. Sorry, but the argument that the OP mentioned the sentiment doesn’t wash. The OP clearly mentions the “boxing is dying” sentiment _as being the opinion of other people_ and makes the wish very clear that the discussion should be about boxing. It was not a “mistake” to open with that line. My mod note was, in my opinion, perfectly reasonable. **etv78** ’s post was not appropriate but did not deserve a formal warning. The note was LATE, but it’s just a reminder of the rules and I see no reason why that’s not better late than never. As to the hijacking of this bizarrely long thread, well, it’s not my forum to moderate. Obviously opinions may and do differ. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-jay-waits-a-week-to-acknowledge-moderate-a-post/675168/87 "2013-12-04T20:32:11Z")
I apologize for taking this thread off the original topic. I’ll drop the discussion. But I do want to respond to one post: > [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Give it up, folks. > > Little Nemo, you’re either being intentionally obtuse for whatever purpose or you’re showing a world-class inability to understand some very simple points. Given that this same set of issues has been gone around before in 2011 I’m leaning towards pendantic jerkishness, myself. Apparently I am seeing an issue that other people are not. Obviously, I like to think that the issue I’m seeing is real and those of you who don’t see it are missing the point. But objective self-reflection forces me to acknowledge the possibility the majority is right and I’m the one who’s wrong here. However, I do want to repeat that I believe there is a real issue here and I am sincere in what I wrote. I was not merely posting to cause an argument. However, as I said above, I see no point in continuing the argument. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-jay-waits-a-week-to-acknowledge-moderate-a-post/675168.md?page=4)