# To Mods: Guidelines for having a thread closed if you are the OP **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 28, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471 "2003-01-28T14:16:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/41 "2003-01-31T01:02:33Z")
You noted that the thread you wanted closed hadn’t had anyone posting to it for a while (“the other posters honored my request”) which means, then I would think, that the thread has fallen off the front page. Locking a thread takes up more mod time/bandwidth etc (IIRC from other discussions) than merely posting etc. So, if the thread’s fallen off the front page, isn’t active, it’s probable that they opted to not slow down the board to officially lock it. emailing a mod always gets a quicker response to requests such as ‘please lock this’. as for “report this post”, I think I’ve gotten maybe one response from that (vs. an email - I usually would get a response to that). and sometimes, they’ve apparently agreed w/me that the post was offensive or the poster was a troll, and I see that by actions later, and other times, they’ve not agreed (apparently). C’est la vie. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/42 "2003-01-31T01:03:10Z")
and **Suspenderzzz** , if you show up here now mockingly claiming that your job is done because we pay so much attention to you (gee… we have a word for provocation for its own sake, don’t we…?) , well, you can… you can… …you can go \*\*get married and become a stay-at-home mother. \*\* sorry, guys, I had to use what I knew would be the vilest words known to her… 😉 ---
**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:** [January 31, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/43 "2003-01-31T01:04:40Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Suspenderzzz_ > **Mods are supposed to be impartial. You may not like my opinions – a badge of honor for me, don’t get me wrong, but I deserve the same courtesy as anyone else who posts here.** Why on earth do you think this? Your equal rights as a citizen don’t extend to the SDMB. The people who run this message board have the _right_ to do just about whatever they want, with regards to closing threads and deleting posts. You only have the right to remain silent. [sub]Which you’ve obviously waived…[/sub] > [@](#): > > **Your level of maturity is mind-boggling. I can see why they made you a moderator.** Who exactly do you think “they” is? You seem to have the idea that the moderators were sworn in at some secret ceremony at the Justice League, where they vow to do only good and true things on the Internet. (In actuality, I’m told it’s more of an informal ceremony in the alley behind a porn store, involving a bottle of Mad Dog and some sort of “shower”. But I could be wrong.) ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/44 "2003-01-31T01:06:49Z")
FWIW, Lynn graciously closed a thread I started in here a few months ago…after I e-mailed her about it, of course. I let her keep the chocolates 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/45 "2003-01-31T01:09:35Z")
Oh boy. You know, if they hadn’t been biased towards her before, I wouldn’t blame the mods ONE BIT if they were now. Cry me a river, build me a bridge, and get the fuck over it, all right? ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/46 "2003-01-31T01:17:20Z")
I think it’s funny that Suspenderzz can come in here and insult everyone who is married, a stay at home mom, reports child abuse, posts to a message board and has friends that our bourgeois, but say one thing about her child and she’s reporting offense. Cripes, I thought my spine was weak, and I’ve got fucking herniated discs. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/47 "2003-01-31T01:18:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Giraffe \* > You only have the right to remain silent. I, for one, wish you’d exercise that right, **Suspenderzzz**. Rather than just assuming the mods hadn’t seen your request to close the thread, you assume they’re playing favorites and deliberately not closing it out of spite. Are you this paranoid about everything? ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/48 "2003-01-31T01:27:55Z")
Was there a big sale recently on life-size crosses that I didn’t hear about? ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/49 "2003-01-31T01:32:29Z")
Let’s not forget that Suspenderzzzzzzzzzzzz has admitted to [baiting people by posting exactly the opposite of how she feels](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=144017) One can only hope this is what she was doing when she compared THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT to HAVING ONE’S THREAD LOCKED ON A FREE MESSAGE BOARD good CHRIST. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/50 "2003-01-31T01:44:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Atreyu \* > \*\*Was there a big sale recently on life-size crosses that I didn’t hear about? \*\* Right when we needed the timber, too. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/51 "2003-01-31T02:02:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anthracite \* > **After all, there’s 2[sup]32[/sup] - 1 other IP addresses you can go to that probably don’t hold you in contempt.** Heh… Until **Suspederzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz** open’s it’s mouth and posts, whereupon it’ll get the same warm reception as it’s gotten here. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/52 "2003-01-31T02:09:29Z")
only bourgeois pigs use excessive z’s, Fenris ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/53 "2003-01-31T02:22:02Z")
We treat posters like adults here. People are perfectly free to pose whatever topic they like, as long as they stay within loose guidelines and forum description. _How_ people present topics, and themselves, is entirely their choice. But they’ve also chosen to participate in a highly public venue. If the presentation is inappropriate–too flirty, hostile, in-your-face, inane, whatever–it was still willingly put right out there. We don’t–and can’t–scurry around after people, trying to protect them from themselves. _Anyone_ starting a controversey or taking a hostile stance should be prepared for a reaction. Don’t start fires if you can’t stand heat. Sometimes threads go awry after a harmless start, and that’s a different matter. But tossing molotov cocktails and running is quite another. **Suspenderzzz** , you may regard having your opinions disliked “a badge of honor” but grow a spine to hang it from already. We aren’t convenient shields for you to hide behind, or weapons for your use against others. What a transparently contemptible performance you’ve put on. And yes, petty as well. TVeblen ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/54 "2003-01-31T02:26:58Z")
Now, people, don’t be so excessive. Raising a healthy chip requires a certain amount of shoulder strain, and chips will just never thrive if they’re not aired out for the public to ooh and aah at. > [@](#): > > We treat posters like adults here. But that’s not faaaaaiiiiiiirrrrrr! ---
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/55 "2003-01-31T02:30:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by porcupine \* > \*\*I get Lindt Extra Dark and Scharffen Berger Nibby bars from the staff all the time. Well, from at least from one of the staff. I must be one of the favorites. \*\* Can I put in a order for some [Fannie Mae](http://www.fanniemay.com/) the colonial assortment. It’s my favorite and they don’t sell it anywhere in this state. But I know they do in Illinois.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/56 "2003-01-31T02:34:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*Let’s not forget that Suspenderzzzzzzzzzzzz has admitted to [baiting people by posting exactly the opposite of how she feels](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=144017) > > One can only hope this is what she was doing when she compared THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT to HAVING ONE’S THREAD LOCKED ON A FREE MESSAGE BOARD > > good CHRIST. \*\* If she truly believes that moderator spite is equal to colored water fountains, she’s truly off the deep end. If she’s doing it for the “'intellectual exercise, and to try to better understand the opposite side of the issue,” as she said in her OP of the linked thread, she has a grave misunderstanding of both what the other side is and what “intellectual” means. Either way, the result is the same: the most assinine logic I’ve ever seen this side of Area 51. ---
**Author:** ![Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/57 "2003-01-31T02:46:19Z")
No, I think Suspenderzzz is right here. No, really. It’s clear that the mods spend most of their free time thinking and gossiping about Suspenderzzz–that only figures, since she’s certainly the only member of this board to hold any unconventional views whatsoever, and we all know that the mods make a policy of examining each post minutely and keeping close track of all thirty thousand of us, just so they know who to slight. And don’t you people realize that her foremothers fought and died so she could have a priveleged, bohemian life? She’s not a loser like the rest of us. From her elevated station, she can see all of our flaws, and has the right, nay, the duty, to point them out to us. We, of course, being losers, can’t ever aspire to criticize _her_, and she’s right to tell us so. And how could we be so cruel as to wound her artistic soul? Of course it’s a question of civil rights! My goodness, have the members here no sense of proportion? > [@](#): > > …you can go get married and become a stay-at-home mother. And bake cookies. You forgot the cookies, JR. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/58 "2003-01-31T02:47:24Z")
I cannot believe that this many well-respected posters would engage in this kind of a blatant pile-on. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Thunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@Thunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thunder)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/59 "2003-01-31T03:20:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manhattan \* > \*\*Blow it out your ass, you worthless piece of shit. I don’t have to put up with shit like that from you. > > I apologize to shit for the unfavorable comparison. \*\* Can Manhatten Swear when Moving a Thread from ATMB? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471/60 "2003-01-31T03:30:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Thunder \* > \*\*Can Manhatten Swear when Moving a Thread from ATMB? > > 😃 \*\* Can he ever! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-mods-guidelines-for-having-a-thread-closed-if-you-are-the-op/151471.md?page=4)