# Why are message board mods/admins (outside the SDMB) such fucking Nazis?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-message-board-mods-admins-outside-the-sdmb-such-fucking-nazis/115359>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 22, 2002, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-message-board-mods-admins-outside-the-sdmb-such-fucking-nazis/115359 "2002-06-22T00:30:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-message-board-mods-admins-outside-the-sdmb-such-fucking-nazis/115359/21 "2002-06-24T07:21:58Z")

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Or I should say, de-lurked.

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**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-message-board-mods-admins-outside-the-sdmb-such-fucking-nazis/115359/22 "2002-06-24T13:05:22Z")

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:rolleyes: yourself, Celestina. A Nazi isn’t just anyone who is mean to you or doesn’t let you put a link on a fargin’ message board. If you’d like, there are friends of my family who can describe to you in excruciating detail exactly what a Nazi is. I suspect you already know, though.

It especially bugs me to see scott evil tossing the word around so casually, yet getting so upset for people using “gay” in a derogatory manner. Hey, how about a little quid pro quo here, you know?

Sorry, but everybody has their pet peeves, and this is one of mine.

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-message-board-mods-admins-outside-the-sdmb-such-fucking-nazis/115359/23 "2002-06-24T13:44:02Z")

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And just how **Celestina** got involved in all this, we’ll probably never know. 😉

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**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-message-board-mods-admins-outside-the-sdmb-such-fucking-nazis/115359/24 "2002-06-24T13:46:57Z")

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Ah, crap. Strike “celestina,” replace with “cessandra,” and gimme another tequila.

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**Author:** ![partly\_warmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@partly\_warmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partly_warmer)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-message-board-mods-admins-outside-the-sdmb-such-fucking-nazis/115359/25 "2002-06-24T14:26:28Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Cessandra \*  
> **No, SPOOFE, they don’t charge to post. In fact, they claim that copyright laws don’t apply to them because they are “non-profit.” Only they do sell merchandise and ad space, and even non-profits have to cite their sources.**

Being a non-profit doesn’t mean not following the laws, it means following a slightly different set of laws.

I’m sure \< your favorite author, singer, or film director here\> would appreciate having their work stolen and redistributed by a group whose justification was that they worked in an organization some of who’s goals are not to make money. Yes, that makes perfect sense.

But just because they’re breaking one law, doesn’t mean they’re breaking others. It doesn’t mean their moderation policy is necessarily wrong.

Supporting your position, tho, my experience managing systems administrators in past is that some very manipulative, power-driven people put themselves intentionally in those positions, knowing that their activities will be hard to control, and that they will wield a lot of arbitrary power. Naturally, the SDMD admins and moderators, being driven by higher purposes, are entirely exempt. :;

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**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-message-board-mods-admins-outside-the-sdmb-such-fucking-nazis/115359/26 "2002-06-24T16:17:04Z")

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**silentgoldfish** , could you drop me an e-mail, please? Thank you. 😃

Esprix

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