# Why can't we Pit mods? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-pit-mods/647229 **Category:** About This Message Board **Created:** [January 14, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-pit-mods/647229 "2013-01-14T23:30:54Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris) #### Post date: [January 14, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-pit-mods/647229/3 "2013-01-14T23:45:30Z")
We used to be able to. Then someone called Lynn a “c-word” and Ed decided that because of all the abuse and suffering that mods endure for all their hard work, they were now protected from pitting. They’re “beaten like a rented mule”(?) you see, so they’re off-limits. To be fair, a lot of people wanted to allow discussions of mod actions in ATMB (I was one of them). IMO, this was a mistake. It destroyed a safety valve. IMO the best solution would be “Insult mods and their decisions in the Pit all you want; but if you want a discussion about your concern, take it to ATMB and be polite.” There’s also some sort of rarely-invoked exception whereby you can pit a mod for non-mod actions, but it gets fuzzy if Mod X does the “I insulted you as a poster but now I’m telling you to back off as a mod” thing. As I said, very infrequent, but the rule is there. So, assuming that the point of your post is that you want to call Marley a p-word, I believe you can (if I understand correctly) find a post of his where he’s not wearing a mod-hat that meets those criteria and pit him for that. But you can’t Pit him for his posts in the Oakminister thread about “gun grabbers”. I assume an actual mod will be in at some point to tell us if I’m even remotely remembering the current rules correctly. 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-pit-mods/647229)._