# TSD needs chat hosts, board moderators **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 14, 1999, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702 "1999-05-14T16:18:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 1999, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702/1 "1999-05-14T16:18:00Z")
What with growing traffic on our Web message board and the usual turnover, the Straight Dope needs chat hosts and board moderators. Interested parties should write to [tubadiva@aol.com](mailto:tubadiva@aol.com) for an application. You must be over 18. A fast computer and modem, a steady head, and lots of free time are big pluses. Not to mention the patience of a saint. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 1999, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702/2 "1999-06-01T13:51:00Z")
Are these paying jobs? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 1999, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702/3 "1999-06-02T05:41:00Z")
Cheese, you’d be in the forefront of the battle against ignorance. All the glory you’d want. Spiffy uniforms too. * * * Ranger Jeff The Idol of American Youth Always drink\* upstream \* from the herd. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 1999, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702/4 "1999-06-02T05:48:00Z")
Yes, but…are these paying jobs? I can’t buy cheesy-poofs with glory! Betsy ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 1999, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702/5 "1999-06-03T01:49:00Z")
No. Cecil squeaks by, he gives Li’l Ed a pittance, and there aint nothin’ left for Li’l Ed to pass on except the thrill of taking up a stance against ignorance. Oh, and free copies of the Chicago READER. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 1999, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702/6 "1999-06-03T02:00:00Z")
Ranger Jeff Member posted 06-02-99 12:41 AM > [@](#): > > Cheese, you’d be in the forefront of the battle against ignorance. All the glory you’d want. Spiffy uniforms too. You mean I was supposed to be _dressed_ during all those chats?! Chip (aka montereygo, aka sdhostego) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 1999, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702/7 "1999-06-08T01:38:00Z")
How about a hat or a coffee mug to feel official? Do we have to be sober? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 1999, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702/8 "1999-06-08T02:42:00Z")
[[How about a hat or a coffee mug to feel official? Do we have to be sober?]] I would say sobriety could work against you. Jill ps – I want a hat, too. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 1999, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702/9 "1999-06-08T05:09:00Z")
If you throw in a complimentary Official SD Dodge Viper, I’ll do it. * * * “Anything is peaceful from one thousand, three hundred and fifty-three feet.” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 1999, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702/10 "1999-06-08T14:24:00Z")
If they threw in the offical snack food of Straight Dopers (would that be an oxymoron?) I’d do it. (but my key board would be orange.) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 1999, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702/11 "1999-06-08T15:24:00Z")
> [@](#): > > If they threw in the offical snack food of Straight Dopers (would that be an oxymoron?) I’d do it. > (but my key board would be orange.) Aw, come on – Circus Peanuts don’t leave **that** much residue. * * * “What can be more deluding, or even dangerous, than false comfort that blinds our vision and inspires passivity?” – Stephen Jay Gould, _Rocks of Ages_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 1999, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702/12 "1999-06-08T18:16:00Z")
Oh, man, Circus Peanuts make my teeth hurt just thinking about them. And I don’t even have any fillings. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 1999, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsd-needs-chat-hosts-board-moderators/702/13 "1999-06-08T19:29:00Z")
I have LOTS of fillings, and my teeth have never hurt due to eating a Circus Peanut. My stomach, perhaps, after a large Circus Peanut binge, but never my teeth. * * * “The best medicine for misery is neither myth nor miracle, but naked truth.” – Richard Walker, _The Running Dogs of Loyalty: Honest Reflections on a Magical Zoo_