# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 323
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6830 "2026-03-22T03:27:09Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > _Stage Manager_ as I recall was absolutely a shit personna. I think he was among other things a defender of sex with teen girls age 13 to 15? It was boys. He talked about it like it was in his past and he paid for his crimes. Then he was PMing with a teenager here as I recall. And that turned into a nasty mess that I don’t want to recap ---
**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 22, 2026, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6831 "2026-03-22T03:31:51Z")
I think that was his own background, but I thought he was also the one to try and make a point of adults lusting after young teens were not pedophiles. Maybe that was a different poster. Stage Manager was actually banned before I joined. So I’m just fuzzily trying to remember stuff from 18+ years ago. Whenever I read about it. Boy his posts in that pan fried thread were inappropriate. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6832 "2026-03-22T14:56:11Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Before you joined in 2009, this was a very different place. That’s been much-discussed and universally approved by all of us still here. Errm, no. This place is much better now - better moderated, less hostile to the marginalized, just overall better. We _don’t_ all approve of how it was before. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6833 "2026-03-22T15:39:35Z")
That’s not the way I read it, although I grant the wording is unclear. That poster seems rather to be acknowledging that they sometimes fall short of the new and welcome zeitgeist here, due to having been active in the before times and sometimes forgetting to remember that those times are gone. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2026, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6834 "2026-03-22T16:03:30Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > I’ll try again… You are not good at apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6835 "2026-03-22T17:09:37Z")
Dinsdale being a sarcastic, petulant baby in ATMB over a mod note. Now he’s calling people that flag posts tattletales and busybodies. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6836 "2026-03-22T17:35:10Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > That’s not the way I read it, The antecedent of the _that_ in ‘that’s been … universally approved’ is ‘this was a very different place’ by my reading. Anything else is excuse-making. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6837 "2026-03-22T18:20:31Z")
Holy moly! I just read that threat. This guy is a judge??? ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6838 "2026-03-22T18:24:39Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Dinsdale being a sarcastic, petulant baby in ATMB over a mod note. Now he’s calling people that flag posts tattletales and busybodies He’s trying soooo hard to sidle right up to the line and see if he can slip a toe over with that passive-aggressive bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6839 "2026-03-22T18:27:12Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > This guy is a judge??? For disability claims. ---
**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 22, 2026, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6840 "2026-03-22T18:35:56Z")
Well, nuts? ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6841 "2026-03-22T18:37:51Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Dinsdale … calling people … busybodies. You owe me a new irony meter. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6842 "2026-03-22T19:50:08Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Dinsdale being a sarcastic, petulant baby in ATMB over a mod note. It seems to me that he’s objecting to the whole concept of an interactive discussion board with rules and collaboration between mods and posters. How has he been here so long and why is he still here?! ---
**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 22, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6843 "2026-03-22T20:23:18Z")
Mostly he’s fine, sometimes he really likes to be an argumentative and cantankerous ass. This is one of those times. That whole thread was apparently just a gotcha thread. I somewhat regret taking the time to [make a long, thought out and detailed reply to it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-ops-control-over-threads-progress/1028650/2). ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6844 "2026-03-22T21:36:42Z")
Also, according to @Dinsdale, not just tattletales, but also Junior Mods: “_But if a post is not of interest to me, I don’t feel a need to tattle to a mod. You - and perhaps most others - see doing so as necessary to uphold the integrity (or whatever other word) of these boards. I see it as being a junior mod, tattling, being a busybody…_” Jeez, my understanding is that reporting a post is the opposite of being a junior mod. I thought junior modding was telling other posters how to obey rules, instead of reporting possible violations so an actual mod can handle the matter. I suppose I’m just not enough of a gruff, self-sufficient, no-nonsense kinda guy to understand these things. ---
**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 22, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6845 "2026-03-22T21:48:18Z")
He is wrong, we encourage flagging. We cannot moderate the board without it. It is far from jr. Modding. I’ve had 2 posters I reached out to not flag so many. One was just wrong 70% of the time and flagging a lot. The other was playing games and trying to weoponize the flag system. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6846 "2026-03-22T23:20:26Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Dinsdale being a sarcastic, petulant baby in ATMB over a mod note. Now he’s calling people that flag posts tattletales and busybodies. What I noticed is that in a thread about hijacking, he’s completely derailed it by, somehow, not understanding the difference between a flag being thrown by a poster on a message board and a flag being thrown by a ref at a game. I don’t know why people are even responding to it. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6847 "2026-03-22T23:23:50Z")
Someone should flag it as a hijack. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6848 "2026-03-22T23:24:37Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > he’s completely derailed it by, somehow, not understanding the difference between a flag being thrown by a poster on a message board and a flag being thrown by a ref at a game. I’m pretty sure he gets it; he’s just enjoying being pedantic about the term being misused (in his opinion) in the former context. ---
**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 22, 2026, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6849 "2026-03-22T23:41:26Z")
It’s literally a picture of a flag. Come on! 🤔 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=322) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=324)