# Rude moderators **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849 "2003-01-20T20:10:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/21 "2003-01-20T20:50:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Progressive\_left’s “question” was: > > > [@](#): > > > > Why are Latinas soooo hot? > > You really thought that was a question with a factual answer? Personally, I think Manhattan went easy on you. I’ll say. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve asked my Latina stripper friend why she’s so hot, and I haven’t gotten a factual answer yet. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/22 "2003-01-20T20:51:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*So then, you should have said, after realizing your mistake-“Mods, I posted this in the wrong forum-please move, my appologies.” > > :rolleyes: \*\* I think your post would have hit the nail on the head without the rolleyes. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/23 "2003-01-20T20:52:26Z")
The responses were amazingly GQ worthy, given the vagueness of the question. Though probably all that could be said was. Note that the question could be phrased appropriately for GQ - A higher proportion of Latinos seem attractive (cite non-anecdotal evidence at … ) Does anyone know why? And I thought “Where can I find this island” was pretty funny. Shade, devil’s advocate since 2002. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/24 "2003-01-20T20:53:41Z")
Is anyone else hearing the phrase “rude moderator” as though Sade was singing it instead of “smooth operator”? ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/25 "2003-01-20T21:12:18Z")
Oh Sauron…that’s priceless. Someone MUST have a song for that. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/26 "2003-01-20T21:12:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sauron \* > \*\*Is anyone else hearing the phrase “rude moderator” as though Sade was singing it instead of “smooth operator”? \*\* I _ **wasn’t** _. Jerk. Just had to share, didn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Progressive\_left](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@Progressive\_left](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Progressive_left)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/27 "2003-01-20T21:20:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El\_Kabong \* > \*\*You really thought that was a question with a factual answer? Personally, I think Manhattan went easy on you. I’ll say. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve asked my Latina stripper friend why she’s so hot, and I haven’t gotten a factual answer yet. \*\* [/QUOTE] Read the OP of this thread, then read my reply to blowero Hopefully then you will see that your post is based on a false assumption. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/28 "2003-01-20T21:35:23Z")
Keep digging, Sparky. It’s gotta be easier than sucking it up and admitting you were wrong, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/29 "2003-01-20T21:35:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Well, I think manny was WAY out of line closing it. The poster asked a factual question regarding the body temperature of Latino people. Surely there’s an answer to that! Well, **Zette** , he restricted his concern to female persons of Latino heritage. While I must say that I consider his concern for gender equality to be a step above a certain other poster of calendric nomenclature’s, this brings into the question the aspects of the implications of the menstrual cycle and the natural body-temperature fluctuations resulting therefrom, among a variety of other concerns. Surely, though, we can essay an answer in rough form to benefit him. Seriously, **PL** , the board as a while and the staff take very seriously the forum descriptions, simply because it’s nigh onto impossible to keep up with the number of threads and posts on nearly every conceivable subject that flood this board in a 24-hour period. You might have gotten some interesting responses to that OP in MPSIMS – but people reviewing GQ are looking for factual answers to questions that have them, or at least have consensus-of-informed-opinion quasi-answers. (E.g., “Is there one God in three Persons?” is an opinion question suited for GD; “What’s the orthodox Christian doctrine of the Trinity mean?” is a question with a more-or-less-factual answer suitable for GQ – while it may require some personal-opinion posting as to the “meaning” of the Trinity, and there is no assumption that there _is_ a Trinity, the question is seeking out a definitive statement about what Christians as a whole have to say about a dogma in which they believe. ) Matters of taste belong in CS or MPSIMS – our gay male posters, for example, are unlikely to share your view that “Latinas are soooo hot” (though they may hold a similar view on Latin **o** s) – and there may be Lesbian posters who find them equally as hot as do you. And, of course, there may be those whose sexuality is oriented towards blondes-with-big-boobs who find Latinas less than desirable. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/30 "2003-01-20T21:40:01Z")
OK, so you were dumb in a different way. Big deal. Get over it and move on. And, as others have said, count yourself lucky that **manhattan** went EASY on you. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/31 "2003-01-20T21:52:20Z")
> [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by Manhattan_ > > He’s right – I find it difficult to work up a properly snarky response if I haven’t at least been invited to felch something diseased and non-human. > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > \*\*I thought all moderators had to do that during their initiation. \*\* Well, yeah, that’s why it caught his attention: personal experience. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/32 "2003-01-20T21:56:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SCSimmons \* > I _ **wasn’t** _. > > Jerk. Just had to share, didn’t you? Hey, my college roommate played that frickin’ frackin’ song over and over. Along with “Dancing Queen” by ABBA. If I had to suffer from it, you do too. Now that I think about it, though, “ **manhattan** ” fits just as well with “Dancing Queen.” \*You are my **manhattan** You the man Threads go in the can … Oooo he can mod He can close Threads down with barely a nod … Oooo watch that man Close that thread Dig it, my **manhattan** ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/33 "2003-01-20T22:10:39Z")
::meekly raises hand at **Sauron** ’s question:: I can’t believe there are two of us with that stupid of a thought process. ---
**Author:** ![Progressive\_left](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@Progressive\_left](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Progressive_left)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/34 "2003-01-20T22:13:27Z")
Polycarp, I agree my question was posted in the wrong board. I did not read the description for general questions, my mistake. You seem to be under the assumption that I thought my question belonged in general questions, if so you would be wrong. My rant was prompted by the rude response of the moderator. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/35 "2003-01-20T22:14:16Z")
Not only was the question inane, but the subject was “I have a question”… a thread in the forum “General Questions”… “I have a question”… folks, we may not be dealing with the high priest of Mensa here. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/36 "2003-01-20T22:18:36Z")
Moderators are benevolent dictators. When are you people gonna learn that? Heil Manhattan! ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/37 "2003-01-20T22:20:27Z")
Pray you don’t ever meet my wife, **Enderw24**. She has long since stopped being amazed, or even amused, at the way my mind works (or doesn’t work, as the case may be). Now, if she asks me what I’m thinking about, and I say “You don’t want to know,” she doesn’t ask anymore. She knows that if she persists, I’ll reveal that I was thinking about the new Sade song, “Rude Moderator.” And she’ll sprain her eyeballs from rolling them so hard. **I** think I’m hilarious. My wife thinks I’m one step above paramecium. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/38 "2003-01-20T22:27:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Progressive\_left \* > \*\*My rant was prompted by the rude response of the moderator. \*\* You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. **manhattan** went surprising easy on you. If your feelings are so easily hurt, this place may be too rough-and-tumble for you. (And BTW your OP didn’t even come close to a rant.) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/39 "2003-01-20T22:31:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Polycarp, I agree my question was posted in the wrong board. > I did not read the description for general questions, my mistake. > You seem to be under the assumption that I thought my question belonged in general questions, if so you would be wrong. > My rant was prompted by the rude response of the moderator. Ah. **Manny** was rude because your post represents the (on a good guess) 4,387th OP that didn’t belong in GQ, under the forum definitions that we’re expected to abide, by to come along and require his action to either close or move it in the 2+ years he’s been moderating that forum. Does that put a little better perspective on why he might have been just a mite tetchy in his comment closing it? ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849/40 "2003-01-20T22:31:28Z")
Hey, at least he spelled **manhattan** , right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-moderators/149849.md?page=3)