# Thank you, mods **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2019, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699 "2019-12-11T06:46:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/61 "2019-12-12T03:08:44Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Good one. Here’s another: > > **octoputz** , you wouldn’t recognize intellectual honesty if it stuck its dick in your ear and fuck-started your brain. No need to involve me with your deviance. Not that I’m judging in the newer kinder pit. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/62 "2019-12-12T03:10:03Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > I think each of them had value or at least potential. Especially HD IMHO. > > And they crossed acceptable lines many times despite being warned about those lines. > > Their value did not offset the harm. Yeah wouldn’t want someone like HD or WillF harming all these fine, upstanding folks with words such as statist or Hillary Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/63 "2019-12-12T04:10:52Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Agreed. He was a long-time troll. So sometimes people just had enough and called him what he was. We just saw it well before the mods. Perhaps change the warnings into gold stars. Come to think of it, why DON’T we have gold stars? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/64 "2019-12-12T04:20:32Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Oh, he was a different voice, alright. The voice of a troll. Or as we called it in the old days, a gadfly. Originally a gadfly was an annoying fly that buzzed around and bit livestock, but it gradually morphed into meaning an annoying person, especially one who provokes others into disreputable action by incessant criticism. I have no personal issues with conservative posters like Sam Stone, or Bone, with whom I disagree politically on almost everything. But Ditka never seemed to have anything useful or substantive to contribute. This. The checklist for me is as follows: - are this poster’s posts usually true? - if true, are this poster’s posts usually something that I wouldn’t be likely to see from another source? When someone’s posts tend to fail both of these tests, I tend to hit the PLONK switch. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/65 "2019-12-12T04:22:53Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Yeah, it’s somewhat bittersweet that the ban ended up being personal insults or whatever, rather than a definitive statement about a years-long campaign of trolling in the form of sealioning, JAQing off, and, well, trolling. > > I expect fairly soon we’ll see the emergence of a new account sporting all those delightful behaviors. Watch for the conservative whose main contribution is threadshitting with liberal-hostile questions. Keep an eye out for **Cyclone Belachik** … ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/66 "2019-12-12T04:27:49Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Your critique of other posters would have merit if you weren’t so blatantly partisan with your bias. How about slinging some snark towards worthless **left wing** posters such as _ **kaylasdad** _, steveG, etc? :eek: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA \< **kaylasdad99** stops to catch his breath\> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/67 "2019-12-12T04:44:15Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > :eek: > > HAHAHAHAHAHAHA > > \< **kaylasdad99** stops to catch his breath\> > > HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Not sure what you’re laughing about. That you are not someone affiliated with the liberal/progressive side of politics? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/68 "2019-12-12T04:54:55Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Yeah wouldn’t want someone like HD or WillF harming all these fine, upstanding folks with words such as statist or Hillary Clinton. The harm was preventing meaningful discussions. The tools were dishonest tactics, constant hijacks of threads(or at least attempts of), and what was functionally trolling even if the mods did not so label it. Wells that could have been plumbed 🙂 were poisoned instead. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/69 "2019-12-12T05:29:51Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Your critique of other posters would have merit if you weren’t so blatantly partisan with your bias. How about slinging some snark towards worthless left wing posters such as kaylasdad, steveG, etc? > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > :eek: > > HAHAHAHAHAHAHA > > \< **kaylasdad99** stops to catch his breath\> > > HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! > [@Velocity](#): > > Not sure what you’re laughing about. That you are not someone affiliated with the liberal/progressive side of politics? Proud to be affiliated with the liberal/progressive (or as sane and decent human beings people call it, the “reality-based) side of politics. The hilarity is based on **octopus** ’s conflation of that with “left wing. Please accept my apologies for being so clumsy as to fail to adequately articulate **that point.** ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/70 "2019-12-12T05:59:43Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Proud to be affiliated with the liberal/progressive (or as sane and decent human beings people call it, the “reality-based) side of politics. > > The hilarity is based on **octopus** ’s conflation of that with “left wing. > > Please accept my apologies for being so clumsy as to fail to adequately articulate **that point.** Wishing for death for political figures is pretty far from sane. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/71 "2019-12-12T06:14:53Z")
I will graciously point out that there are outlier cases where it meets the ethical criterion of “greatest benefit/least harm.” I’m pretty confident that I’m firmly within the boundaries which encompass that criterion. ETA: Also, _painful, lingering death_. Get it right. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/72 "2019-12-12T06:19:17Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I will graciously point out that there are outlier cases where it meets the ethical criterion of “greatest benefit/least harm.” I’m pretty confident that I’m firmly within the boundaries which encompass that criterion. > > ETA: Also, _painful, lingering death_. Get it right. 😛 Which would be fine if there wasn’t a double standard where mentioning Clinton’s cankles risks a lecture and a banning. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/73 "2019-12-12T06:34:25Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Which would be fine if there wasn’t a double standard where mentioning Clinton’s cankles risks a lecture and a banning. I don’t recall having lectured OR banned anyone for anything even remotely like that. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/74 "2019-12-12T07:25:19Z")
Tornado Taylor? Rain Arians? Flash Flood Flores? Chinook Shurmur? Breeze Brees? (yeah, I know) ETA: Landslide Landry? Windstorm Walsh? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/75 "2019-12-12T07:50:57Z")
Can we start to list ways in which octopus would fail to recognize intellectual dishonesty? Octopus couldn’t recognize intellectual dishonesty because… -intellectual dishonesty had on its Clark Kent glasses. -intellectual dishonesty had just gotten a new haircut. -intellectual dishonesty was leaning at a slight angle. -intellectual dishonesty was wearing a loud jacket. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/76 "2019-12-12T07:56:17Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Which would be fine if there wasn’t a double standard where mentioning Clinton’s cankles risks a lecture and a banning. We’ve got a fail safe for that. When someone lectures someone about mentioning Clinton’s cankles then you lecture them. They lecture you back. Eventually the conversation implodes. See, that’s recursive. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/77 "2019-12-12T08:30:36Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Can we start to list ways in which octopus would fail to recognize intellectual dishonesty? > > Octopus couldn’t recognize intellectual dishonesty because… > > -intellectual dishonesty had on its Clark Kent glasses. > -intellectual dishonesty had just gotten a new haircut. > -intellectual dishonesty was leaning at a slight angle. > -intellectual dishonesty was wearing a loud jacket. -intellectual dishonesty was wearing the gag glasses+fake nose+moustache disguise -intellectual dishonesty was using a fake Uzbek accent -intellectual dishonesty had the White House Easter bunny costume on. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/78 "2019-12-12T13:00:37Z")
**octopus** , take this from somebody who is very non-partisan when it comes to American politics. You should really try to be a bit more introspective on what people are telling you. Try to take a step back and really reflect on it, because much of what people are posting about you is fairly accurate. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/79 "2019-12-12T13:14:51Z")
Hey now. Why don’t you take your [friendly advice](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=886566) elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/80 "2019-12-12T13:20:56Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Hey now. Why don’t you take your [friendly advice](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=886566) elsewhere. You’re not the boss of me (now)! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699.md?page=5)