# So factual jr modding is OK now? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 19, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-factual-jr-modding-is-ok-now/693512 "2014-07-19T04:42:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 63
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-factual-jr-modding-is-ok-now/693512/63 "2014-07-21T15:27:04Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > Congrats, this post wins the “least connected to reality” prize of the day. Charming as ever Dex. With you as our role-model courtesy, it’s no wonder ATMB is so civilized. That said, if you’d bothered to actually read the thread in question, I was told that this post > [@Psychopaths](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychopaths/693392/25): > > You’re best off disregarding any poster who simply posts lame-ass attempts at Socratic questions and/or nitpicky questions as a substitute for actually replying. It derails the thread and you can’t actually win, because no matter what your answer, there’ll just be more lame-ass questions. was “junior modding” because the “you’re best of disregarding” stuff and stating the obvious truth that responding to a neverending string of nitpicky lame-ass rhetorical questions will derail the thread is somehow “giving instructions to other posters”. Please. :rolleyes: I can dig up dozens of threads where people were told to beware of other posters pet issues. Newbies being warned about various posters regarding religion or regarding The Amazing Randi, or about bad dreams masquerading as near-death experiences. But apparently this is _JUST NOW_ junior modding, despite years of it being ok. I’m not complaining about the mod-note: I knew that the snark-level of that post was on the line for GQ (I thought it was on the OK side of the line since I was talking about the posts and not the poster, but hey, fair enough, I guessed which way the wind was blowing that day). But there’s no possible way to squint and make that post into “junior modding” by any definition that’s existed before or since (since you claim that LHoD doing _exactly_ the same thing might garner the same warning was “disconnected from reality”) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-factual-jr-modding-is-ok-now/693512)._