# The moderation here is getting ridiculously heavy handed **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 23, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moderation-here-is-getting-ridiculously-heavy-handed/693869 "2014-07-23T19:46:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 170
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moderation-here-is-getting-ridiculously-heavy-handed/693869/170 "2014-07-24T16:11:40Z")
After review and discussion with the rest of the mods, I’ve reversed the warnings to **faithfool** , **GrandWino** , **Fenris** and **Dallas Jones**. I did interpret those as attempts to get around the Pit rule against complaining about moderation, but like I said in my edited mod note, that’s not the only way to read them - they can also be read as expounding on jokes by the OP or other posters or as jokes about posters, which is of course allowed in the Pit. The warning against **Blank Slate** stands. I think **Blank Slate** understands this and I don’t expect him to do it again. That also goes for everybody else. If you want to Pit another poster, as **Blank Slate** did in roughly the first half of his OP, you can do that in whatever direct or indirect form you like. But complaining about moderation - either decisions by the mods, or, say, how we deal with a specific poster - that goes in ATMB. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moderation-here-is-getting-ridiculously-heavy-handed/693869)._