# The new Straight Dope administrator ... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 5, 2018, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353 "2018-07-05T23:58:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/21 "2018-07-06T00:49:13Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Wait, so does this mean you’re in charge now? You can do whatever you damn well please? I assume this means we’ll finally be getting the long-rumored forum, The Tuba Hole. I’m having this place wired for sound. Let me put it this way: I hope you like polkas. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OGe9EfLh-ug/hqdefault.jpg "The Dreadnoughts - Polka Never Dies") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGe9EfLh-ug) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/22 "2018-07-06T00:50:35Z")
Condolulations, my dear. You can count on my support. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/23 "2018-07-06T00:54:55Z")
yay!!! :: ballons and confetti And just think, I knew you when… ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/24 "2018-07-06T00:55:50Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > What happened to Ed Zotti? > [@Powers](#): > > I presume that Ed was let go by the _Reader_ and/or the _Sun-Times_, due to the column no longer needing editing. > Powers &8^] Please see here: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=857634](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=857634) Which leads to here: [A note from Cecil Adams about The Straight Dope](https://www.straightdope.com/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/25 "2018-07-06T01:00:14Z")
Congratulations/condolences! 😃 > [@TubaDiva](#): > > With the dimming of our Cecil Adams guiding star, and the huge Ed-shaped hole in The Straight Dope Universe, now we have to gather up our scattered sh–stuff, our scattered stuff and go forward. [Like Morty said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tGL-buZ94Y). Thanks for not fleeing in terror (yet), **TubaDiva** ; you totally fucking rock! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/26 "2018-07-06T01:00:46Z")
Ed was never forthcoming about what he did as administrator. Will you take some time and detail what the job entails? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/27 "2018-07-06T01:00:50Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > I’m having this place wired for sound. > > Let me put it this way: I hope you like polkas. > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGe9EfLh-ug](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGe9EfLh-ug) > > 😃 Niech żyje The Tuba Hole! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/28 "2018-07-06T01:01:26Z")
**TubaDiva** , Huzzah Huzzah Huzzah !! It goes to figure- you were there in the AOL Chat Room when they lit the candle and launched it, weren’t you? Awfully glad you’re steering the ship. We’re fortunate Dopers. > [@Miller](#): > > He’s… on a farm… upstate. " You know that thing we took care of ? " " Wait, the Jersey thing? " " No, the Upstate thing. They’re building condos on the land and we have to dig up the bodies and move them. " That L’il Ed, he always loved working the land. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/29 "2018-07-06T01:02:39Z")
Missed edit window: Good Luck **TubaDiva** , delegate and let the mods help you, you’re now trying to herd 3500 cats. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/30 "2018-07-06T01:05:27Z")
Congrats, TubaDiva! You deserve it! (Is that a congratulatory “you deserve it” or a damming one? Bwahahahaha!) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/31 "2018-07-06T01:13:47Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Niech żyje The Tuba Hole! But hey, maybe your first act as administrator could be changing that ridiculous name. “The Tuba Hole?” It’s like no effort whatsoever went into coming up with that. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/32 "2018-07-06T01:16:48Z")
I salute you with my official moderator whiskey mug-I can’t think of anyone more deserving, and more capable, than you for this job. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/33 "2018-07-06T01:28:12Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Ed was never forthcoming about what he did as administrator. Will you take some time and detail what the job entails? I could but then I’d have to shoot you. No, seriously, I’ll be [del]herding cats[/del] managing moderators, assisting them when necessary, and handling some of the technical issues on the user side. Like name changes, sdmb/vb customer service, that kind of thing. This is in addition to the work I do on the rest of the Straight Dope site involving content management, the weekly mailing, etc. All that continues. Even though there’s not new columns (at least not right now) please do your part to help. Read some columns. Sign up for the weekly mailing. Click on a link every now and then. Be encouraging to newbies who wander by. Bring your friends. If some of your friends are Dopers who have wandered off, ask 'em to come home. I would love to see our regular regulars, old familiar faces, and new names – and lots of everybody. Soon (not in this thread) I’m going to be asking for your opinions and advice and ideas on things we can do to keep on keeping on … I’m not kidding when I say we’re all in this together and I hope you work with me and your mods to find ways to improve and maybe make a buck or two, that would be great. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/34 "2018-07-06T01:30:05Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Congratulations/condolences! 😃[Like Morty said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tGL-buZ94Y). > > Thanks for not fleeing in terror (yet), **TubaDiva** ; you totally fucking rock! Imagonna get my shit together but I’m having trouble tying it up at the top. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/35 "2018-07-06T01:31:05Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Congratulations, I think? Do you get a new mug? No, but I have an idea about that maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/36 "2018-07-06T01:32:03Z")
Congratulations, TubaDiva!! A long time ago, I asked for your help in finding a person who stopped posting abruptly and about whom I was worried. We were unsuccessful in locating her, but you went above and beyond to try to help. I really appreciated that. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/37 "2018-07-06T01:43:50Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > No, he was a fictional character, the alter-ego of Cecil Adams, who is now retired. Wake up, Sheeple! [http://www.ipass.net/whitetho/edcecil.htm](http://www.ipass.net/whitetho/edcecil.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/38 "2018-07-06T01:44:35Z")
Are you still going to be a humble Tubadiva? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/39 "2018-07-06T01:45:03Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > No, but I have an idea about that maybe. An additional mug with different art work would be a great addition. I have the “classic mug” but one without the existing art work might sell to a new audience. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/40 "2018-07-06T02:26:07Z")
If there’s one thing that makes me feel more confident about this whole situation it’s that the administration has come into the more than capable hands of **TubaDiva**. I can’t think of anyone better equipped to take us forward. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353.md?page=3)