# Rico, a word please **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 14, 2008, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845 "2008-10-14T09:35:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![placebo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e274bd/32.png) [@placebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/placebo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/1 "2008-10-14T09:35:33Z")
What exactly is the problem [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=487774)? I guess I could have been more straightforward and simply request that this change be made to suit my whim, but I figured asking the hive mind would be a more diplomatic way to go about it. Maybe the subject came up before and everyone hates the idea (I did search). In any event, I was just trying to make a suggestion, not foment a revolution. I wouldn’t even know how to procure a guillotine. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/2 "2008-10-14T09:49:48Z")
> [@placebo](#): > > I wouldn’t even know how to procure a guillotine. I’m not saying I know a guy, but I might know a guy who knows a guy, you know? ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/3 "2008-10-14T10:32:53Z")
> [@placebo](#): > > … I wouldn’t even know how to procure a guillotine. In France, guillotine procures you. ---
**Author:** ![Hawkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@Hawkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hawkins)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/4 "2008-10-14T11:19:59Z")
You were obviously attempting to foment an uprising. I remind you that urging the collective to join you in combining in a mutiny could have led to disastrous consequences for you and your loved ones. Be grateful that this blatant attempt at open rebellion was stopped in time. Go, and sin no more. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/5 "2008-10-14T13:48:34Z")
Wow, sorry, **Rico** , but that was overbearing bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/6 "2008-10-14T14:17:00Z")
Overbearing, stupid, condescending and uninformative. It would have been easy to say that: There are other things going on that are a higher priority; It is suspected that there are performance issues with doing this; It wouldn’t really add much; and Further discussion at this time is not desired. Or whatever the real answer is. What you got took as long to type. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/7 "2008-10-14T14:41:55Z")
Jesus, people – oversensitive, much? The fact of the matter is this isn’t a democracy, so we don’t get to vote on what features we want. What’s unclear, uninformative, or uncourteous about saying that? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/8 "2008-10-14T14:49:30Z")
Duplicate. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/9 "2008-10-14T14:51:17Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Jesus, people – oversensitive, much? > > The fact of the matter is this isn’t a democracy, so we don’t get to vote on what features we want. > > What’s unclear, uninformative, or uncourteous about saying that? Didn’t the Game Room forum come about because folks lobbied for it? Didn’t the Barn House get moved because of a large protest? How is this any different? We may not get to vote, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a say. \*\*Rico \*\*could have done much better with his reply. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/10 "2008-10-14T17:01:39Z")
Yea, isn’t every thread suggesting changes to the board basically a poll at heart? I remember multi-page threads on adding more smileys or turning on avatars. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/11 "2008-10-14T17:11:08Z")
I am shocked - _shocked_, I say! - to learn that we have a moderator named **Rico**. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/12 "2008-10-14T19:59:26Z")
Closing that thread was completely uncalled for. The only possible reason to close it was if there is a new policy that all threads about board features are to be closed immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/13 "2008-10-14T21:16:01Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > The only possible reason to close it was if there is a new policy that all threads about board features are to be closed immediately. Would the existence of a such a policy surprise you? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/14 "2008-10-14T21:39:55Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > Would the existence of a such a policy surprise you? Yes, it would astonish me. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/15 "2008-10-14T21:44:17Z")
I’m with **twickster**. Sure it was the wrong thing for **rico** to do but… I think people are over-reacting in a way that doesn’t make them look good. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/16 "2008-10-14T22:48:33Z")
Color me 😕. I seriously don’t get it. We don’t get to ask questions about whether certain features could be or may be available to us? Wow. I guess I’m the sensitive type. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/17 "2008-10-14T22:56:18Z")
He wasn’t asking whether it was an option – he was starting a vote, which would seem to imply that the decision would be based on the outcome of the vote. Whatever. IANAM, and I’m not going to speak for TPTB. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/18 "2008-10-14T23:10:56Z")
You know what the major problem was? Look at the timestamp on my post. 2:32AM my time. I couldn’t get to sleep last night, and knew I had a big job to do today. I was annoyed by someone starting a “vote” to get a feature they wanted, after all the posts in ATMB about major things that needed to be done before the “fine tuning” could occur. In other words, I was human. I may have jumped too fast. I may have been a little brusque. I apologize. But the thread stays closed. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/19 "2008-10-14T23:15:35Z")
Thanks for the explanation. I get it now. Now let’s vote to see who the best mod is. 😉 eta: And I hope your job went well today. \*am I still here? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845/20 "2008-10-14T23:15:55Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > He wasn’t asking whether it was an option – he was starting a vote, which would seem to imply that the decision would be based on the outcome of the vote. I think it was pretty clearly joking; a poll on who would like polls. What’s the acceptable way to ask for a feature? “Pretty please, O Great’n’powerful admins, could you see your way clear to letting this scrap fall from your table?” C’mon. One of the things I like about this place is the relative lack of trigger finger modding. This was pretty itchy. Couldn’t **Rico** have just _posted_ “this isn’t a democracy” and let the thread run so people could actually argue in favour of enabling polls? Edit: pre-empted, I guess. But my post remains as it is. Sorry. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rico-a-word-please/467845.md?page=2)