# Unprofessional Moderation **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 28, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504 "2024-03-28T13:20:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/21 "2024-03-28T20:21:57Z")
Jack boots are unprofessional? Color me surprised. šŸ‘¢šŸ˜Š ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/22 "2024-03-28T20:42:41Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > One thing is for sure: Son\_of\_a\_Rich would never have been modded if trump was president. Right, because his board would no longer exist. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/23 "2024-03-28T20:50:03Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Do you want the autobots that some sites have? Iā€™d kind of like to have moderation done by Grimlock. [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71zA4j+opoL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71zA4j+opoL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg) ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/24 "2024-03-28T20:52:01Z")
Weā€™re considering this guy: [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Hal_9000_Panel.svg/162px-Hal_9000_Panel.svg.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Hal_9000_Panel.svg/162px-Hal_9000_Panel.svg.png) ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/25 "2024-03-28T20:53:06Z")
I hope you donā€™t do that Dave. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/26 "2024-03-28T20:56:18Z")
@Riemann for mod? I always assumed his avatar was HAL 9000. ~Max ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/27 "2024-03-28T20:58:33Z")
Way off topic now, but I donā€™t think his avatar is HAL9000. Take a closer look at it. I think it is an [Einstein Ring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_ring). That specific picture is from the Hubble, pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/28 "2024-03-28T21:03:58Z")
Oh, I guess youā€™re right. Thatā€™s why they pay you the big bucks! ~Max ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/29 "2024-03-28T21:27:16Z")
Iā€™d forgotten how closely the HAL logo resembled the IBM logo at the time. And of course, much was made of the fact that the letters H-A-L are each one removed from the letters I-B-M. But who knows. Much was also made of the fact that the initialism of the new operating system Windows NT was ā€œWNTā€, each letter one removed from ā€œVMSā€, the name of DECā€™s flagship operating system at the time for the VAX/VMS series of computers. The primary architect of VMS was Dave Cutler, who was later hired away by Bill Gates to work on the next-generation Windows OS. Which came to be known as Windows NT. And as much as the story might be bunk, there are strong cultural similarities between VMS and modern Windows in terms of terminology and constructs like ā€œprocessā€, ā€œcontextā€, and ā€œservicesā€. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/30 "2024-03-28T22:30:18Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > The primary architect of VMS was Dave Cutler I worked at DEC during those years, it was intentional. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/31 "2024-03-28T22:59:59Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > But who knows. I read a forward by him where he says it was total coincidence, but a pretty good one since he was composing said forward on a computer that IBM had given him as a gift. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/32 "2024-03-29T00:28:38Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Iā€™d kind of like to have moderation done by Grimlock. If you think itā€™s bad when posters are complaining about insufficiently tone-policed moderation, wait to you see the complaints when the diction pedants and their ilk get a hold of a Grimlock style warning: ā€œMe Grimlock laugh at small creature who make big problems.ā€ ā€œMe Grimlock ban small poster for 6 months!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/33 "2024-03-29T01:11:28Z")
Chalk me up as another one that doesnā€™t understand this. Itā€™s not even a warning itā€™s just a mod note. Read it and move the hell on. Anyone who recognizes me probably knows like 90% of my posts on the board are humorous asides and jokes. And yeah Iā€™ve been modded for making jokes in inappropriate forums when Iā€™ve lost track of where Iā€™m at. It happens, it happens to everyone. Itā€™s understandable thatā€™s why the mods are generally lenient about things like this. If people think the current moderation is strict they would have hated this board circa 2004-2005. David B or miller would have slapped the hell out of some of these trolls. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/34 "2024-03-29T14:22:33Z")
You wouldnā€™t want The Mods to lose their amateur standing, would you? Then they couldnā€™t compete in the Olympics! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/35 "2024-03-29T14:25:19Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Help. Help. Iā€™m being repressed.ā€ Bloody peasant! ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/36 "2024-03-29T19:49:43Z")
Come and see the violence inherent in the moderation. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/37 "2024-03-29T22:12:58Z")
This thread makes me snicker. I just came back from spending a few days on the Letsrun forum, following an ultramarathon cheating thread. Good place to go to talk about running, but a _seriously_ toxic community. Makes me appreciate our mods all the more. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504/38 "2024-04-01T02:56:16Z")
Hey, just donā€™t tell him to lie to us about something, pretty please! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unprofessional-moderation/999504.md?page=1)