# Welcome our newest moderator **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 18, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841 "2010-05-18T00:01:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [May 18, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/41 "2010-05-18T13:39:50Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > So **Spithy** is either upright ape-man terrorist moderator or an upright ape-man superhero moderator, or something entirely different. > > Oh, yeah. Congratulations. Or an uptight moderate terrorist? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/42 "2010-05-18T16:21:21Z")
Dear Spectre of Pithecanthropus, [del]Are you nuts? What do you think you’re doing? Have you no sense of self-preservation, man?[/del] Congratulations. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/43 "2010-05-18T16:44:59Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I’m not sure whether to congratulate you or commiserate with you, **Spectre**. 🙂 > > BTW am I seeing double or has **Tuba** got Administrator Administrator under her name? (And **Spectre** has Moderator Moderator.) > > What’s with that? > > Edit: I gather from **penultima thule** that the title must default to the position. Gig so nice they named it twice. 🙂 We both need snappy custom titles. Maybe we’ll have a contest or something. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/44 "2010-05-18T19:38:04Z")
Perhaps Major Major could offer some useful tips. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/45 "2010-05-18T19:41:53Z")
Well, let’s get this over with: DEATH THREATS, DEATH THREATS!!! 😉 ('Grats, **Spectre**!) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/46 "2010-05-18T21:24:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Perhaps Major Major could offer some useful tips. Or Duran Duran. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/47 "2010-05-18T21:37:00Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I think it’s a stylish name. Although I keep confusing it with a Charles Mingus album title. Where did you come up with it anyway? I think that’s _Erection_ of Pithecanthropus, or something like that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/48 "2010-05-18T21:42:35Z")
That should be Erectus of Pithecanthropus…or ‘got Java?’ perhaps… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/49 "2010-05-19T14:16:16Z")
Welcome to the Mod Side, Specs. But I gotta tell you, in all sincerity…Lynn’s hand-me-down pink Jackboots Of Death ™ are clashing horribly with Dex’s left-over Propeller Beanie Of Modness ™. Is there a fashion consultant in the house? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/50 "2010-05-19T17:52:22Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > …Lynn’s hand-me-down pink Jackboots Of Death ™ are clashing horribly with Dex’s left-over Propeller Beanie Of Modness ™. > > Is there a fashion consultant in the house? Jeeze. Sounds like \* Queer Eye for the Mod Guy\*. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/51 "2010-05-19T18:06:46Z")
Can we call him **Inspectre Gadget** , please, please, can we? ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/52 "2010-05-19T18:50:26Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I think it’s a stylish name. Although I keep confusing it with a Charles Mingus album title. Where did you come up with it anyway? He got it after being banned by **manhattan**. Seriously. It was intended as a suspension though. The “Spectre” part is to commemorate his coming back from the dead. [thread=168966]Here’s the thread in question[/thread]. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/53 "2010-05-19T21:27:30Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Welcome to the Mod Side, Specs. > But I gotta tell you, in all sincerity…Lynn’s hand-me-down pink Jackboots Of Death ™ are clashing horribly with Dex’s left-over Propeller Beanie Of Modness ™. > > Is there a fashion consultant in the house? I have NEVER been so INSULTED in all my LIFE. I have never, ever, EVER worn jackboots in any color but black. Once they’re a different color, they aren’t jackboots any more. Hell, I wouldn’t voluntarily wear anything in pink from the time I was about 10 (and could pick out my own clothes) until the time I was in my mid 30s (and realized that intense pink looks good on me). ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/54 "2010-05-20T04:32:47Z")
> [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](#): > > He got it after being banned by **manhattan**. Seriously. It was intended as a suspension though. The “Spectre” part is to commemorate his coming back from the dead. [thread=168966]Here’s the thread in question[/thread]. Oooh… a Fallen Mod! Wait. He’s not really fallen now if he fell before becoming a Mod… Is he like an ArchMod? Better to serve on the Dope, than to be a Banned King for Eternity? Have any of the other Mods have such dark sordid pasts before becoming Moderators or are they all squeaky clean fellows with the new guy being the Jame Dean Leather Jacket and Jackboots wearing Bad Ass of the Group? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/55 "2010-05-20T05:00:20Z")
That does explain the DA on the boy. Shoulda known. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/56 "2010-05-20T05:11:28Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Sometimes people approach us and ask for an application, and sometimes we’ll contact someone who we think would do a good job and ask if they would like to apply. I don’t have statistics but I think the first option is more common. After the application is in, it gets filed away. When there’s an opening, the mods discuss the poster and his or her application and we make a recommendation to **Ed Zotti**. Don’t believe a word of that BS. the way it works is Ed lines up a bunch of [del]suckers[/del] members in good standing and announces that there is an opening for a new Mod. He then asks for interested individuals to take one step forward the new mod is the one who either: 1. Does not move while [del]all the sane people jump backwards[/del] the other distinguished members move backward with dignity. 2. Steps back but is the slowest of the bunch. seriously congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/57 "2010-05-20T11:11:07Z")
Spectre, go and take a picture of yourself. You’ll never look this young again. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/58 "2010-05-20T13:17:41Z")
> [@ToeJam](#): > > Have any of the other Mods have such dark sordid pasts before becoming Moderators or are they all squeaky clean fellows with the new guy being the Jame Dean Leather Jacket and Jackboots wearing Bad Ass of the Group? there was that time in Sicily, but we don’t discuss it anymore 😉 > [@Rick](#): > > the new mod is the one who either: > > 1. Does not move while [del]all the sane people jump backwards[/del] the other distinguished members move backward with dignity. > 2. Steps back but is the slowest of the bunch. Option 1 got me. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/59 "2010-05-20T13:58:29Z")
Dunno. I’d go with Option 1. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/60 "2010-05-20T15:32:12Z")
> [@kneadtoknow](#): > > or duran duran. band name!!1 Oh, wait… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841.md?page=4)