# SDMB Moderators' Performance Evaluation **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 27, 2000, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848 "2000-11-27T13:13:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/21 "2000-11-27T17:25:34Z")
> [@](#): > > One solution, REVOLUTION. The mod.s will be the first against the wall when it comes. Just remember, **this** moderator is well-armed. First, you’ll have to remove my gun ownership rights. That is, if you expect me to not shoot back. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/22 "2000-11-27T17:33:33Z")
> [@](#): > > First, you’ll have to remove my gun ownership rights From your cold, dead hands? MR ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/23 "2000-11-27T17:56:41Z")
I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that when the shit hits the fan, **UncleBeer** and myself will not be the ones with cold hands 🙂 Hey **UncleBeer** , I realize I’m being presumptious in equating myself with you, but I gotta tell you, after 150 rounds through a German police trade in P7, my hands will be **mighty** toasty!! Man that thing heats up! ---
**Author:** ![Cantrip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Cantrip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cantrip)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/24 "2000-11-27T19:27:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > First, you’ll have to remove my gun ownership rights. So, you’re saying it’s going to take a while, eh? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Call\_Me\_Tech-Mex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@Just\_Call\_Me\_Tech-Mex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Call_Me_Tech-Mex)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/25 "2000-11-27T19:36:04Z")
Is there any particular reason people are answering this guy to start with? I think the mods are thick-skinned enough to ignore the OP, so just it die. If he’s an obvious sock name, so what. If he’s mild they ignore him, if he’s a bitch they ban him, either way it’s not worth all the fuss being made over him. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/26 "2000-11-27T20:40:12Z")
You boys take your guns outside. This forum has a bad history of threads about weaponry. ---
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/27 "2000-11-27T21:31:53Z")
> [@](#): > > You boys take your guns outside. This forum has a bad history of threads about weaponry. And Mark Serlin. And gay people. And random assholes on this message board. And moderators. And felching. And Mark Serlin. And the Buffalo Bills. And general jackassery. And the quoting function. And Mark Serlin. And God. And the Invisible Pink Unicorn. And creation vs. evolution. And David B especially. And renegade former agents with secure mobile uplinks to NSA satellites. And Mark Serlin. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/28 "2000-11-27T21:51:00Z")
Yessir! Rightawaysir! Gunsoutsidesir! Sorrysir! Heh. FORMER AGENT. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=6737](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=6737) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=22149](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=22149) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=22110](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=22110) > [@](#): > > David > > You will see me another day… trust me, perhaps even in real life. People like me, hand people like you their last checks with a smile… > > and yes, as Phaedrus finally found out who I am… I do have that authority. > > I laugh out loud… the opportunities you have all squandered to have asked me for secrets untold… but hey, cattle want grass to chew, not information to study and ponder. > > so let me start thinking of an excuse to remove you David… of course remember, its business not personal, and its always a matter of national security. ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/29 "2000-11-27T22:09:36Z")
Ahh . . . The good ol’ days of Former Agent. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/30 "2000-11-27T22:11:42Z")
**Tymp** , dude, where ya been??? Regards, MR ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/31 "2000-11-27T22:15:08Z")
> [@](#): > > You will see me another day… trust me, perhaps even in real life. Ugh. On second thought, bring your guns back in. Invite militia buddies if you got 'em. ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2000, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/32 "2000-11-27T23:29:25Z")
**One Cell** said: > [@](#): > > Should we (the members of this club) leave the choice of what remains in GD versus what goes into IMHO versus BBQ PIT to a questionable character that probably has his/her own biases, riding on her/his own ego? I’m gonna pretend you’re not an idiot for just a minute here, and bother to point out the obvious–it isn’t a “club,” the membership doesn’t make policy, and we don’t vote on how the moderators function. The SDMB is a privately-owned board, the admins and mods are agents of the owners when performing board functions, and if you don’t like it you can go the hell away. This horse isn’t just dead; the maggots have eaten it and it’s gone. So go the hell away. (I won’t dispute the part about “questionable character[s],” though. :D) ---
**Author:** ![VileOrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9e8a1a/32.png) [@VileOrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VileOrb)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/33 "2000-11-28T00:39:46Z")
I think Alessan’s post should be put in the FAQ. Nice. I’d like to think One Cell for inspiring that post. ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/34 "2000-11-28T01:51:30Z")
Where DO you folks get your “Purinatrollchow\” at such good bulk rates? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/35 "2000-11-28T07:04:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alessan \* > \*\*One Cell (if that _is_ your real name) you have obviously mistaken the SMDB for a Democracy, which it is not. The best way to describe our system of government would be as an Enlightened Absolute Theocracy. > > At its head stands Cecil, the God Emperor Himself. He does not involve himself in the matters of this world, but rather spends his time communing with pure Knowledge. His affairs on earth are managed by his holy triumvurate of High Priests/Proconsuls, the Administers, who hear his Word and Speak with his voices. In their hands are all matters of life and death in this Board, and their word is law. > > Yet even though they are not Cecil - for Cecil is above them as they are above us - they also cannot squander all of their time in the petty squabbles and missteps of unworthy mortals. For that they have appointed Moderators to speak for them, to carry out their laws. The Moderators are but humble citizens of the realm, like you and I, fallable, malliable and opinionated, yet when they speak, they speak with the voice of the Administrators, which is the Voice of Cecil, which is divine. > > So yes, while we may contest the rulings of the Moderators, but in the end, we must obey them, or walk into the outer darkness, never to come back. The rulers are this Board are fair and forgiving, and are accepting of a greater level of impiety than we have a right to expect them to, but never forget - we live here at their sufference. > > Their will be done. \*\* Well said. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/36 "2000-11-29T03:47:11Z")
Let’s put it this way: The SDMB is like a parochial school. The Mods are the Nuns, and the Admins are the Mother Superior. If you get out of line, you get wacked. Got it? 😃 I KNEW all those years in Catholic school would pay off for SOMETHING! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/37 "2000-11-29T03:49:54Z")
I forgot to add that however, the mods do not run around singing that one song-“Domin nika nika” or whatever… (How does that damn thing go again?) ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/38 "2000-11-29T17:15:34Z")
_Pie Iesu Domine, dona eis requiem_ _thud_ _Pie Iesu Domine, dona eis requiem_ _thud_ ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/39 "2000-11-29T20:05:05Z")
loverock ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/40 "2000-11-29T20:53:44Z")
Someone let Nickrz out of his box. He is mad. He is scaring us with the horrible past. Jesus Shivers. pat Ps: Hope your stay out of the box is a long one, Nick. Welcome back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848.md?page=3)