# twickster **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 1, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008 "2013-02-01T05:24:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/1 "2013-02-01T05:24:32Z")
This was not nice or appropriate for the forum: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15940939&postcount=5](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15940939&postcount=5) > [@](#): > > Procrustus, Two Many Cats, political disagreement doesn’t give you the right to be an asshole in an MPSIMS thread. If you have a problem with the OP, take it to the Pit. > > twickster, MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/2 "2013-02-01T05:46:02Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > This was not nice or appropriate for the forum: > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15940939&postcount=5](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15940939&postcount=5) No worries. **twickster** will give herself a warning and then all will be good. ---
**Author:** ![Snerky\_Snerk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Snerky\_Snerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snerky_Snerk)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/3 "2013-02-01T06:09:40Z")
Maybe they’re right when they tell me I’m wrong. NAAAAH! I’m an asshole -Dennis Leary ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/4 "2013-02-01T06:52:03Z")
Give it up. They’ve made it clear that her idiosyncratic brand of hodgepodge moderating, for some reason, is what they want. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/5 "2013-02-01T07:00:41Z")
I know but, I mean come on, she didn’t even say their _posts_ were assholish. It’s not the moderating in this case, it’s calling them names outside the pit. Even for a mod how is this ok? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/6 "2013-02-01T07:10:59Z")
I can see the majestic Conestogas wheeling into formation even as we type. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/7 "2013-02-01T08:26:50Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > I know but, I mean come on, she didn’t even say their _posts_ were assholish. It’s not the moderating in this case, it’s calling them names outside the pit. Even for a mod how is this ok? What? Are you serious? You’ve gone and expended energy and bytes and bandwith to complain about a mod calling someone an _asshole_?? Fuck me…what is the world coming to? CALL IN THE MOUNTIES!!! 😛 (IOW, haven’t you got some more important ishoos to deal with, y’know, like grandparent-slavery or global-cooling or something??) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/8 "2013-02-01T11:42:34Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > What? Are you serious? You’ve gone and expended energy and bytes and bandwith to complain about a mod calling someone an _asshole_?? > > Fuck me…what is the world coming to? CALL IN THE MOUNTIES!!! 😛 > > (IOW, haven’t you got some more important ishoos to deal with, y’know, like grandparent-slavery or global-cooling or something??) When you think about it just about everything in the world is more important than posting anything to a message board. So what are you doing here? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/9 "2013-02-01T11:59:47Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > When you think about it just about everything in the world is more important than posting anything to a message board. So what are you doing here? I could name three things off the top of my head less important than posting on a message board. Well, maybe two. Or at least one… …nevermind, you’re right. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/10 "2013-02-01T13:26:56Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > I know but, I mean come on, she didn’t even say their _posts_ were assholish. It’s not the moderating in this case, it’s calling them names outside the pit. Even for a mod how is this ok? Yeah, but she didn’t call them assholes, she said they _didn’t have the right to be assholes_. It’s different, because… OK, I got nuthin. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/11 "2013-02-01T13:55:07Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > I know but, I mean come on, she didn’t even say their _posts_ were assholish. It’s not the moderating in this case, it’s calling them names outside the pit. Even for a mod how is this ok? **manhattan**. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/12 "2013-02-01T13:56:05Z")
You mean the same Twickster that called someone a twat in MPSIMS and then gave her own wrist a slap? The same Twickster that recently mod-noted a fellow mod? She’s obviously going nowhere anytime soon. I’m pretty sure the rest of the mods view her as the canary in the coal mine. As long as she still has a mod-hat, they know they’re safe from losing their’s. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/13 "2013-02-01T14:27:49Z")
You’re right, I shouldn’t have said that. Since no one reported the post, neither I nor, apparently, either of the other MPSIMS mods was aware that there was an objection to what I said. I will leave it to the other mods from that forum as to whether disciplinary action, in the form of a mod note or warning, is necessary. In the meantime, I will apologize to the people I called assholes. **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/14 "2013-02-01T14:39:59Z")
For future reference, one of the rules on this message board is that we are not to call other posters names outside the Pit. Typically admonishments about this come along with statements such as, “And as a poster since 2002, you know this.” FYI. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/15 "2013-02-01T14:51:40Z")
Names, schmames, she got on Procrustus’ and Two Many Cats’s cases for being political when the OP started it off by slagging on Obama. Is MPSIMS so fluffy now that we can’t even say, ‘I disagree with your statement’ without being considered an asshole? > [@twickster](#): > > Since no one reported the post, neither I nor, apparently, either of the other MPSIMS mods was aware that there was an objection to what I said. What would have been the point? ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/16 "2013-02-01T14:52:34Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I could name three things off the top of my head less important than posting on a message board. Well, maybe two. Or at least one… > > …nevermind, you’re right. Youtube comments? ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/17 "2013-02-01T14:59:19Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > You mean the same Twickster that called someone a twat in MPSIMS and then gave her own wrist a slap? The same Twickster that recently mod-noted a fellow mod? > > She’s obviously going nowhere anytime soon. I’m pretty sure the rest of the mods view her as the canary in the coal mine. As long as she still has a mod-hat, they know they’re safe from losing their’s. She modded a mod? Link, Please. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/18 "2013-02-01T15:40:44Z")
And what was that remark she made about “Even a (something) pig can…”? (Parentheses added) I believe it was supposed to be for the eyes of mods only, but was posted here by mistake. The very fact that she felt comfortable doing that behind posters’ backs told me a lot. Her M.O. now seems to be snarky and then apologize and claim that neither she nor the other mods on that forum knew that calling a person an “asshole” was offensive? Then why is she a mod? Read the rules one more time, **twickster**. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/19 "2013-02-01T15:41:29Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > She modded a mod? Link, Please. Sure, [here you go.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15751199&postcount=33) > [@Butthurt, making emberassing assholic idiotic mistakes.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butthurt-making-emberassing-assholic-idiotic-mistakes/642428/33): > > > [@Butthurt, making emberassing assholic idiotic mistakes.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butthurt-making-emberassing-assholic-idiotic-mistakes/642428/28): > > > > So, how did you come by the term “butthurt?” > > > > Since English isn’t your first language and all. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm? > > **samclem** – I believe you’re familiar with the rules against calling people trolls outside the Pit. That includes hinting at it. > > Don’t do this again. > > **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator Also came across [this other thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15535476#post15535476)where she gives \*\*mhendo \*\*a warning which she admits would have only been a note if he wasn’t such a long-term poster that should know better. > [@Why is Diamonds02 limited to starting one new thread per week?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/67): > > > [@Why is Diamonds02 limited to starting one new thread per week?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/53): > > > > Do you have to practice to be so self-righteously condescending in these threads, or does it come naturally? > > > > Why don’t you just beg for your old job back, already? It’s clear that you can’t get by without it; at least then you’d have some institutional justification for your unwarranted sense of superiority. > > I was just going to tell you to knock it off, but you’ve been around long enough to know better, **mhendo**. > > Warning issued for personal insults. > > **twickster** , for the SDMB So basically, if you’ve been around awhile you’re held to a higher standard, unless your name is **Twickster**. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008/20 "2013-02-01T15:55:14Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > For future reference, one of the rules on this message board is that we are not to call other posters names outside the Pit. Typically admonishments about this come along with statements such as, “And as a poster since 2002, you know this.” FYI. I’ve got to hand it to you: this made me chuckle. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twickster/649008.md?page=2)