# The Administration and Moderation around here. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 21, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143 "2005-11-21T21:30:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/81 "2005-11-22T21:20:21Z")
**Binarydrone** , you’ve been hear for over three years. So I know you’ve seen these kinds of trainwrecks before. Which means you’ve seen threads where a pig-headed poster is going on and on about how nobody understands him or everyone is out to get him or some such while everyone and their dog hands said poster his ass. You are currently in that role. You need to step back and ask yourself what it means when nearly everyone disagrees with you. I’ll help you out. It means one of the following: 1. You’re wrong. 2. You’re not expressing yourself very well, leading everyone to get the wrong idea. 3. You’re right and everyone is against you!!! Have you considered this at all? Of course, if you pick #3, you realize how this sounds, don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/82 "2005-11-22T21:53:16Z")
A question for **Binarydrone** : would you prefer the SDMB _un_moderated? ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/83 "2005-11-22T21:57:04Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > **Hung Mung** , Here is the thing: Disrespect, mockery, and distaste that an administrator would find insulting are things that I have admitted to in this thread over and over again. I will also cop to being combative, no problem. Are these things that I could do better? Probably. > > Where I have an issue is fathoming how this translates into some kind of hate on my part. It may be that I am not defining this particular word in the same way as others, but to me despising someone is not only a very strong statement, but it also implies some very personal relationship with the object of said hate. None of this is true at all. > > So tell me, is this just a semantic issue? Are we going to use disapprove and despise as synonyms? I can try to make that adjustment, but as thing stands those are vastly different emotions. I believe you that you don’t hate the mods. I also believe that you can have a chill discussion about the judgment of them mods. IMHO, what you should have done was take up that discussion with one of them in private or work on a more, shall we say, palatable OP. In that vein, I would encourage you to email one or two of the honchos and straighten this mess out. God, I’m going to shut up and take a break. I sound like a JV mod wannabe. Let’s see what’s on in CS! ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/84 "2005-11-22T21:57:27Z")
Not at all. In thinking about some of the things posted in this thread, I think that the point is well made (and I am becoming convinced) that the _moderators_ are not what I am complaining about. I think that what I am seeing is more properly directed at (some of) the Administrators ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/85 "2005-11-22T21:58:40Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#): > > …Let’s see what’s on in CS! You could stop in and reccomend some video games to me. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/86 "2005-11-22T22:07:02Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > Not at all. In thinking about some of the things posted in this thread, I think that the point is well made (and I am becoming convinced) that the _moderators_ are not what I am complaining about. I think that what I am seeing is more properly directed at (some of) the Administrators I recommend that, should you decide to address that issue, you start by refraining from any use of swear words. I think your language has been making a stronger impression than you mean it to. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/87 "2005-11-22T22:12:06Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > A question for **Binarydrone** : would you prefer the SDMB _un_moderated? You offer what’s known as false dilemma. Poor moderation and no moderation are not the only possible alternatives here. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/88 "2005-11-22T22:35:34Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > the _moderators_ are not what I am complaining about. I think that what I am seeing is more properly directed at (some of) the Administrators Oh, thank goodness. I was afraid that I would have to cry myself to sleep tonight. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/89 "2005-11-22T22:42:30Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > Oh, thank goodness. I was afraid that I would have to cry myself to sleep tonight. See? Toldja there’d be tears before bedtime. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/90 "2005-11-22T22:43:03Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > Oh, thank goodness. I was afraid that I would have to cry myself to sleep tonight. Always glad to help. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/91 "2005-11-22T22:45:25Z")
Wait, if it’s not about me anymore, can I stop reading the thread? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/92 "2005-11-22T22:54:30Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Wait, if it’s not about me anymore, can I stop reading the thread? Oh this can be about you. You want a piece? Ya feelin froggy? Just jump. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/93 "2005-11-22T22:56:54Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > You offer what’s known as false dilemma. Poor moderation and no moderation are not the only possible alternatives here. True, but they are the major ones. Other alternatives aren’t really that practical, as per what **Dex** said. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/94 "2005-11-22T22:58:27Z")
Am I twee? _Again_? I could have sworn the antibiotics cleared that up. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/95 "2005-11-22T23:07:08Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Am I twee? _Again_? I could have sworn the antibiotics cleared that up. OMG! Drug resistant twee! It’s intelligent design at work!! Og is angry and he is smashing us with twee!!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/96 "2005-11-22T23:08:26Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Am I twee? _Again_? I could have sworn the antibiotics cleared that up. I told you, you have to _keep taking them_. Just taking one won’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/97 "2005-11-22T23:09:54Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > True, but they are the major ones. Other alternatives aren’t really that practical, as per what **Dex** said. Whoa! I don’t think I ever said that the alternatives are poor moderation or no moderation. What I said is that “perfect” moderation is not possible (hey, no legal system is perfect.) The polarity that someone seems to have leaped on is “imperfect moderation” vs “no moderation.” But I dispute that “imperfect moderation” is the same as “poor moderation.” Remember, **Skip** , that these threads are started by **Binary** , but only God can make you twee. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/98 "2005-11-22T23:12:11Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > I told you, you have to _keep taking them_. Just taking one won’t do it. Yeah, but you told me they were suppositories. It only took one to stop listening to you. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/99 "2005-11-22T23:19:30Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Yeah, but you told me they were suppositories. It only took one to stop listening to you. And you see where it got you? If you’d listened to me, you wouldn’t be twee right now. (I’m pretty certain no one has ever called a man with penicillin up his ass twee.) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143/100 "2005-11-22T23:24:00Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > What I said is that “perfect” moderation is not possible (hey, no legal system is perfect.) Cool yer jets, **Dex**. That’s what I was getting at. > [@](#): > > _The polarity that someone seems to have leaped on is “imperfect moderation” vs “no moderation.”_ Hey, all I did was ask a question and **Binary** didn’t seem to mind. > [@](#): > > _But I dispute that “imperfect moderation” is the same as “poor moderation.”_ I suggest you take that up with **Beer** man. His words, not mine. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-administration-and-moderation-around-here/332143.md?page=6)