# That wasn't "theadshitting" Marely23 **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 22, 2013, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-wasnt-theadshitting-marely23/669476 "2013-09-22T22:57:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-wasnt-theadshitting-marely23/669476/27 "2013-09-23T15:53:09Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > This is a change in the standards of moderation. Please don’t insult our intelligence by pretending it is not. What I would like to know is, why the change has come about without any notifications to **Der Trihs** or the board in general. This was no different from hundreds of his previous announcements that Republicans want to starve most poor people to death and then shoot the rest, or that anti-abortionists want women to suffer, or any of the rest of his nonsense. As far as I know, you are the only poster who believes that’s what we said. Thus, I’m not insulting the intelligence of the group. I’m pointing out that you have drawn the wrong conclusion and repeated it over and over. I have already tried to explain to you what’s actually going on. That hasn’t worked, but it’s worth pointing out again that you’re wrong so nobody else gets confused. To that end this quote might be useful: > [@Curious when enough is enough? \[Der Trihs\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-when-enough-is-enough-der-trihs/658461/144): > > The point I was trying to make is that he has received warnings from the mods (I think at least one poster said otherwise) and that we don’t overlook this behavior when we feel it clearly breaks the rules. **When it’s borderline or poses more of an attractive nuisance as a thread hijack, we’ve opted for mod notes because we’ve felt that’s the appropriate response to a post that’s potentially inflammatory or could cause a hijack or provoke people but which is not on by itself a personal insult or completely off-topic or completely jerk-ish.** The post was completely off-topic and jerkish even compared to some of **Der Trihs** ’s other posts, so I gave him a warning. And I didn’t contradict any earlier “rules” that gave him a free hijack once per thread. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-wasnt-theadshitting-marely23/669476)._