# This is what gets you a warning these days? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 5, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635 "2023-05-05T20:59:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/61 "2023-05-06T17:34:43Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Maybe I’m being whooshed but what the hell happened with your spelling? The constant appearance of “Rowling’s” and “noone” caused a brain thingy. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/62 "2023-05-07T01:29:46Z")
I think you mean a brain’s thingy. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/63 "2023-05-07T01:36:25Z")
The thread was not about whether the left wing can also be transphobic. The topic was Conservative Beer. ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/64 "2023-05-07T01:50:22Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Pretty much anyone in the UK would tell you that J.K. Rowling is pretty much a standard bearer for left leaning views. But he, like several other people in the thread, are talking about this other person called Rowlings. Whoever that person is I’m sure they’re right wing, as Left Hand of Dorkness said so. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/65 "2023-05-07T09:32:29Z")
That’s only by the new username, a search on the old one returns plenty of other ones too (I think this thread is the only one duplicated on those searches): [https://boards.straightdope.com/search?expanded=true&q=%40Damuri\_Ajashi%20warning%20%20%23about-this-message-board](https://boards.straightdope.com/search?expanded=true&q=%40Damuri_Ajashi%20warning%20%20%23about-this-message-board) A couple of those are **da** talking about others’ warnings, but most are about their own (sometimes about multiple warnings, so it’s not a 1:1 thread:warning ratio), and follow exactly the same script as this one. [Since 2010](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-i-do-in-these-cases/564554). Gotta admire the consistency there. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/66 "2023-05-07T15:48:13Z")
> [@damuriajashi](#): > > I didn’t realize harmony was the goal. Yeah, I tend to agree there. Where it used to be (more or less) that if someone came in with a differing viewpoint, it might get debated, or it might get picked apart on the merits of the idea. Now it seems like there’s a “party line”, and if you come into a thread with a differing viewpoint or opinion, you and your idea get lit up for being against that, without necessarily a whole lot of debate or discussion. And the issue there is that things like you brought up, @damuriajashi don’t necessarily seem like they get a fair shake- there’s a “right” and a “wrong” viewpoint, and there’s no debate, except in the degree of wrongness. Like there’s ONE viewpoint that’s acceptable about X, and anything else is categorically wrong, and anyone espousing it needs to be shouted down. I don’t know if that’s the case, but that’s sure what it feels like for the past 6 or so years. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/67 "2023-05-07T15:55:05Z")
I think there is some degree of truth to this, but in this particular case we have a clear hijack from a poster with a long history of being disruptive. We stopped allowing posters to hijack threads to what they want to talk about instead of the OP about 3 years ago in P&E and GD. Maybe 8 months before I became a Moderator. All 3 Mods for P&E and GD are onboard with these changes. Most posters have adjusted to the new rules, some few have not. Some posters lived to derail and hijack threads to the point where debates and conversations couldn’t happened. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/68 "2023-05-07T17:01:46Z")
The first sentence in that locked thread made it clear that a mod could move the thread to a more appropriate venue. Yet it remained in P&E for some reason? Conservative beer is politics or election material? > [@About the Politics & Elections category](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-politics-elections-category/911012): > > The forum for discussion about the horse race. For discussion of elections and electoral politics, including strategy and tactics, political parties, individual races, political news, and politicians and public figures. Moderators : @raventhief@What_Exit@Aspenglow IMO most of the responses veered into imho territory. All hunky dory, no one tattled until the wrong person showed up? ---
**Author:** ![damuriajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@damuriajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/damuriajashi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/69 "2023-05-07T17:16:50Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Something’s you should have done before admitting’s your a ‘onetrickpony’. If being focused on the racially discriminatory effects of racial preferences as it is practiced today is a one trick pony, then I guess so. But this is probably not the forum to be brining that up. ---
**Author:** ![damuriajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@damuriajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/damuriajashi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/70 "2023-05-07T17:21:31Z")
I don’t see 9 warnings. I only see moderator actions that I am protesting on ATMB ---
**Author:** ![damuriajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@damuriajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/damuriajashi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/71 "2023-05-07T18:00:04Z")
I have been nothing if not consistent. I suspect that will limit my time here so I have tried to stay out of GD and PE. But given the new (or at new to my mind) intolerance of even slight hijacking, I might try a few more times. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/72 "2023-05-07T18:01:33Z")
I’ll pop into this thread not about this specific warning per se, but to say that the comment on an official warning > Do you actually return to the board to just stir up shit? Is very unprofessional and not the first time What\_Exit has been very juvenile when responding to a member qua a mod. Is there a standard mods are expected to follow when carrying out their duties? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/73 "2023-05-07T18:08:21Z")
“Moderator actions” like … [**warnings**](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-mayor-is-basically-a-democratic-version-of-trump/851257/95) upon [**warnings**](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-mayor-is-basically-a-democratic-version-of-trump/851257/85) (those are _two_ warnings referenced in [_one_ of your ATMB threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-explain-why-this-deserves-a-warning-as-an-insult/851989)) > [@damuriajashi](#): > > I have been nothing if not consistent. That hasn’t escaped notice. > [@damuriajashi](#): > > But given the new (or at new to my mind) intolerance of even slight hijacking, I might try a few more times. Well, telling everyone here that you’re intent on continuing the same trick is _an_ approach, I’ll give you that. . ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/74 "2023-05-07T18:09:50Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > very unprofessional Professionals get paid. > [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > What\_Exit has been very juvenile[…]. Is there a standard mods are expected to follow Is there a standard for posters talking about mods? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/75 "2023-05-07T18:24:33Z")
> [@damuriajashi](#): > > But given the new (or at new to my mind) intolerance of even slight hijacking, I might try a few more times. To be clear, do you understand how you broke the rule? If so, can you put it in your own words? The impression you’re giving is that you don’t understand, which means you’re likely to continue the misbehavior. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/76 "2023-05-07T19:21:43Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Is there a standard for posters talking about mods? That’s a good question too. ---
**Author:** ![damuriajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@damuriajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/damuriajashi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/77 "2023-05-07T19:56:58Z")
I think the problem with my past threads has been hijacking by other posters. So I am hopeful that this can be avoided in future threads by virtue of this rule. ---
**Author:** ![damuriajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@damuriajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/damuriajashi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/78 "2023-05-07T19:59:06Z")
The new rule as i understand it is that any and all posts on a thread have to be directly relevant to the OP. It cannot introduce controversial material that is not directly related to the OP even if it is tangetnailly referenced in the OP. Is that about right? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/79 "2023-05-07T19:59:53Z")
> [@damuriajashi](#): > > I think the problem with my past threads has been hijacking by other posters. What _you_ think doesn’t signify, the warnings given indicate the mods seem to think the problem with them was … something else. I don’t think your apparent course of annoying the mods with a campaign of spamming them with picayune hijack reports for your threads is going to work out as well for you as you seem to think. ---
**Author:** ![damuriajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@damuriajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/damuriajashi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635/80 "2023-05-07T20:03:17Z")
I think you are incorrect. If you read the posts you linked, the majority of them have to do with biased modding and thread closures. The theads were mostly close because of derailments caused by other posters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-gets-you-a-warning-these-days/983635.md?page=5)