# Unhappy about lack of moderation **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 19, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535 "2016-01-19T00:08:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/21 "2016-01-19T19:27:27Z")
Can’t agree with the OP-- I’d rather not have the mods here act like Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/22 "2016-01-19T19:32:17Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Can’t agree with the OP-- I’d rather not have the mods here act like Nazis. You haven’t seen our [dance routines.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmYIo7bcUw) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/23 "2016-01-19T20:44:52Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You haven’t seen our [dance routines.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmYIo7bcUw) I saw that in college during one of the campus movie nights, and laughed so hard it hurt. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/24 "2016-01-19T20:52:34Z")
_Hitler on Ice_ was better. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/25 "2016-01-19T21:16:35Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Some of us have relatives who were alive at the time and remembered and related the real thing and a couple of performing children are nothing like the parades of the racist gay-bashers of the 30s and 40s. Don’t all of us have relatives who were alive during WWII? I mean, I suppose if you were an orphan in 1939, you might not, but that’s a pretty limited population. Anyway, sorry that thread bothered you so much, but there’s nothing about it that’s even remotely against the rules. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/26 "2016-01-19T21:21:45Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > A while back I reported [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=781278) which likened a performance at a Trump rally to the Hitler Youth. I am very disappointed to see that nothing has been done. Some of us have relatives who were alive at the time and remembered and related the real thing and a couple of performing children are nothing like the parades of the racist gay-bashers of the 30s and 40s. > > Whatever one thinks of Trump or the performance, this is many steps too far. My parents are Holocaust survivors and most of my family perished in Auschwitz, so I am very sensitive to terms like “grammar Nazi” and hate Hogan’s Heroes to the bottom of my core. However, as much as I would rather terms relating to Nazis not be used in a more trivial way, it has become part of the cultural lexicon to describe certain types of behavior and situations. That thread is no more (or less) offensive than many references to Nazis, and really doesn’t cross any universal lines. I get where you are coming from, but in this case, I don’t think it merits special attention. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/27 "2016-01-19T21:29:14Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > My parents are Holocaust survivors and most of my family perished in Auschwitz, so I am very sensitive to terms like “grammar Nazi” and hate Hogan’s Heroes to the bottom of my core. My Nephew asked a Survivor at poolside, “Who wrote on your arm?” I had no damn idea what to do; I cowardly walked away. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/28 "2016-01-19T21:55:57Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I’ve placed an order for a thousand cadmium rods. The OP can stick them where he sees fit. What about an inanimate carbon rod? In regards to the thread in question: Hitler had better hair than Trump. Since Hitler was a National Socialist, wouldn’t Bernie Sanders be a closer comparison? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/29 "2016-01-19T21:57:26Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > Party bureaucracy, I think you mean. I don’t know that Stalin actually held any government position until the 1940s, long after he had consolidated power. (Of course, in a single-party state, the distinction between the ruling party and the government positions its members occupy isn’t always evident.) As you noted, the Communist Party was the de facto government in the Soviet Union. Interesting trivia note: In China, the armed forces work for the Communist Party of China not for the government of the People’s Republic of China. ---
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/30 "2016-01-20T00:09:19Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I’ve placed an order for a thousand cadmium rods. The OP can stick them where he sees fit. Not that I’m a Trump fan or anything, but aren’t you kinda sorta leaving yourself open to OP sticking those cadmium rods up YOUR ass? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/31 "2016-01-20T00:25:06Z")
**Moderator Note** This is ATMB, so let’s leave all of the discussions of rods of various substances and what orifices they might be inserted into for a more appropriate forum. Let’s focus on the moderation issue here, please. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/32 "2016-01-20T00:29:43Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > **Moderator Note** > > This is ATMB, so let’s leave all of the discussions of rods of various substances and what orifices they might be inserted into for a more appropriate forum. > > Let’s focus on the moderation issue here, please. Cadmium rods are used to moderate the fission reaction in nuclear power plants. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/33 "2016-01-20T02:28:50Z")
Yes, but what orifice of the power plants do they moderate. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/34 "2016-01-20T02:43:37Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Cadmium rods are used to moderate the fission reaction in nuclear power plants. > 😃 In _We Almost Lost Detroit_ the author describes a poor fellow nail to the ceiling by a dampening rod. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/35 "2016-01-20T03:46:19Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > This is ATMB, so let’s leave all of the discussions of rods of various substances and what orifices they might be inserted into for a more appropriate forum. Killjoy! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/36 "2016-01-20T03:57:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Saint Cad** : > > Since Hitler was a National Socialist, wouldn’t Bernie Sanders be a closer comparison? Um, no, the far right is not particularly close to the left, and I’m not sure what makes you think it is. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/37 "2016-01-20T04:50:49Z")
Well, if you drive far enough south, you end up at the North Pole. There, a terrible analogy to get right by going left. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/38 "2016-01-20T05:11:43Z")
Also if you take three rights you just made a left. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/39 "2016-01-20T05:20:09Z")
Without having read the posts in question, I think the following remark is probably appropriate: The ACLU, a strong proponent of free speech under the First Amendment, but also strongly opposed to hate speech, has this slogan and philosophy: _When free speech is a problem, the solution is more free speech!_ That is, we should respond to troublesome speech with (hopefully civil and reasoned) rebuttals, _not_ with censorship. If OP has responded to the offensive post(s) with rebuttals of his own, as he apparently did, then that was very probably the right and best and most appropriate thing to do. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535/40 "2016-01-20T05:21:15Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Um, no, the far right is not particularly close to the left, and I’m not sure what makes you think it is. Far right propaganda. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhappy-about-lack-of-moderation/743535.md?page=3)