# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [December 15, 2019, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/121 "2019-12-15T03:11:16Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Of which you’re a major contributor. And now he’s heading towards suicide by mod, at least IMHO. ---
**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 15, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/122 "2019-12-15T03:15:23Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > And now he’s heading towards suicide by mod, at least IMHO. You think I’ll reach the 19 warnings of BPC or the 10 warnings of BigT first? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ElderSign](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eldersign/32/8263_2.png) [@ElderSign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElderSign)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/123 "2019-12-15T18:33:14Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > For fun, I’ll sometimes listen to CSPAN on my short commute. This morning a Trump supporter said the following: > > 1. Trump won by a landslide. > 2. He turned the economy around from Obama’s administration. > 3. He’s done everything he promised he would do. > 4. He tells it like it is. > > I’ve no doubt he was genuine. A genuine delusional idiot. > > What purpose does it serve to defend the congenitally dumb who construct an alternative world that has no connection to facts and reality? Why is it good to represent the credulous and the gas-lighters? 1. Yes, he did not. 2. I’m glad you agree the economy is good. 3. He tried to. 4. “It” being what conservatives think. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/124 "2019-12-15T18:54:08Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > And he must preen! Well done! Made me chuckle. Ellison would probably have been banned by now, too, if he ever posted here. ---
**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 15, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/125 "2019-12-15T19:15:56Z")
> [@eulalia](#): > > Well done! Made me chuckle. Ellison would probably have been banned by now, too, if he ever posted here. Oh, Ellison would have lost patience with us in a matter of minutes. I’m pretty sure I would have made a point of needling him just for my own amusement because the angry yet articulate fireworks of contempt would be like combining the first, second, third _and_ fourth of July. “So, Harlan, you really liked that _Outland_ movie, I heard.” _BOOM!_ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/126 "2019-12-15T20:03:57Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Oh, Ellison would have lost patience with us in a matter of minutes. I’m pretty sure I would have made a point of needling him just for my own amusement because the angry yet articulate fireworks of contempt would be like combining the first, second, third _and_ fourth of July. > > “So, Harlan, you really liked that _Outland_ movie, I heard.” _BOOM!_ That Terminator movie is the most original story I’ve ever seen! Where does James Cameron get his ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/127 "2019-12-15T21:16:02Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > That Terminator movie is the most original story I’ve ever seen! Where does James Cameron get his ideas? “Demon With a Glass Hand was probably the shittiest Outer Limits episode ever, right?” ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/128 "2019-12-15T21:18:49Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Let’s just say intellectual dishonesty, lack of integrity, willful cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy and the worshiping of Humpty Dumpty as guidance for philosophy is a feature of the forums not a bug. 🙂 By the way, please understand that I can’t always give you an attuned response. – But, please go on. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/129 "2019-12-15T21:22:58Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > And how many warnings and suspensions earned by the others? Any idea on this? ---
**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 15, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/130 "2019-12-15T21:53:58Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > “Demon With a Glass Hand was probably the shittiest Outer Limits episode ever, right?” How can a city be on the _edge_ of forever? Doesn’t “forever” go on, like, _forever_? How can it have an edge? Doesn’t it having an edge mean it ends at some point? Huh? Huh? Forever? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/131 "2019-12-15T22:00:24Z")
Bad puns based on _I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream_. Love you guys to pieces. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/132 "2019-12-15T22:06:38Z")
Maybe somebody else _could_ have made _Dangerous Visions_ happen, but nobody else _did_! All his sins, forgiven. ---
**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 15, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/133 "2019-12-15T22:10:17Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Bad puns based on _I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream_. Love you guys to pieces. On reflection, this discussion of being glad to be rid of certain trolls has led to how some of us would deliberately troll Harlan Ellison, had he been a poster here, if we take “trolling” to include needling an individual as opposed to just trying to randomly inflame a group. Truth be told, I’d be happy to tolerate the hypothetical member Ellison getting lots of leeway in insulting other posters in Café Society because he’d be likely to do so in a highly entertaining fashion. I’m sure some posters (myself included) would be happy to provoke him just for that purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/134 "2019-12-16T03:08:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > On reflection, this discussion of being glad to be rid of certain trolls has led to how some of us would deliberately troll Harlan Ellison, had he been a poster here, if we take “trolling” to include needling an individual as opposed to just trying to randomly inflame a group. > > Truth be told, I’d be happy to tolerate the hypothetical member Ellison getting lots of leeway in insulting other posters in Café Society because he’d be likely to do so in a highly entertaining fashion. I’m sure some posters (myself included) would be happy to provoke him just for that purpose. I once saw Ellison at a conference. A misguided “fan” tried to goad him. Said “fan” was insulted and berated by H.E. so badly, that he ended up leaving the room, never to return. It was a thing of beauty. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/135 "2019-12-16T03:10:34Z")
In fact, as I recall, the only person in the whole place that Ellison showed any respect to whatsoever was A. E. Van Vogt. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/136 "2019-12-16T05:00:04Z")
I was insulted by him, and it was a high point of my life. He kept calling me an idiot because I didn’t jump at the chance to get his autograph. He was going on about how it’d be worth a lot on eBay after he died, which would probably be any day now. We were amusing everyone else there, so I kept telling him about things I’d rather do than get his autograph: “That vasectomy with half the anesthetic I should’ve had? That was more pleasurable. And when all the grandkids had to kiss my elderly Granny Lorraine’s powdered jowls…?” After all that, I couldn’t ask him for his signature, so I told him that on my way home I’d buy an empty frame (which I did!), and tell people that it’s my most prize possession: the blank piece of paper that looks better without Harlan Ellison’s autograph. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/137 "2019-12-16T10:59:22Z")
If half the stories about Ellison are true, he’d have gotten himself banned quite quickly without any needling required. As eloquent and creative as his abuse may have been, the odds of him unleashing it in GD on a regular basis would have been high. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699/138 "2019-12-16T20:14:59Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I was insulted by him, and it was a high point of my life. > > He kept calling me an idiot because I didn’t jump at the chance to get his autograph. He was going on about how it’d be worth a lot on eBay after he died, which would probably be any day now. > > We were amusing everyone else there, so I kept telling him about things I’d rather do than get his autograph: “That vasectomy with half the anesthetic I should’ve had? That was more pleasurable. And when all the grandkids had to kiss my elderly Granny Lorraine’s powdered jowls…?” > > After all that, I couldn’t ask him for his signature, so I told him that on my way home I’d buy an empty frame (which I did!), and tell people that it’s my most prize possession: the blank piece of paper that looks better without Harlan Ellison’s autograph. I’d be willing to bet that this was the high point of his week, if not his month. He probably told others about this story with glee. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-mods/844699.md?page=6)