Why can't we Pit mods?

[Marley23]

@magellan01

And I explained that your explanation is useless.

You didn’t explain anything. You just ignored it.

We have three examples being discussed right now where the post wasn’t the problem, your moderation was.

I know what you think about the posts already. Can you entertain any other perspective here?

Nice try. But you WARNED me before that…after the instance I provided. Here is the exchange again:

Here’s the full exchange. [I’m adding the first post you responded to and I wanted to note that I had the mod-hat on the entire time]:

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

Not remotely. Consider the following two descriptions of folks who support the second amendment:

1. The gun nuts who have wet dreams about their next purchase are just blithering in this thread.
2. The folks in this thread who oppose gun control have failed to present compelling statistical arguments.

Anyone who is unable to predict which of these two posts will receive a mod note isn’t a positive contributor to Great Debates and should feel unwelcome there.

@magellan01

Whoa, that’s a mighty high horse you’re riding on there, chum. Should we send you up some oxygen?

Lighten up, would?

As far as “gun grabbers”, I agree with Oakminster, here. No mod commentary would have been the appropriate course of action.

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

This is an excellent example of the sort of cobbled-together board cliches that are totally unproductive, that barely pass for cleverness even to their writers (and here I’m being charitable; perhaps you genuinely think your post is thoughtful or useful, but I’ll be kind and presume you can see its lack of value), and that I wish would be moderated more heavily.

@magellan01

It’s only unproductive if the person it is intended for doesn’t take the advice. So if the post in question was indeed unproductive, as you claim, you only have yourself to blame.

@Marley23

It wasn’t advice, it was a little bit of sarcastic obnoxiousness. Given the context of this thread I was trying to ignore it, but you’re making that impossible. Stop it now and don’t do it again. And if the two of you have a personal problem with each other, handle it in the Pit.

@magellan01

Wow.

Tsk, tsk, tsk…

@Marley23

There’s nothing in that note that should surprise you. If you want to offer something useful in this thread, have at it. If you want to take shots at other posters, go to the Pit.

@magellan01

Maybe it shouldn’t surprise me, given who is doing the moderating.

As far as something to offer, I opined on your ridiculous moderation of Oakminster and than let LHOD know that I thought he was being to priggish in the tone he was calling for.

So, perhaps you would benefit from the advice I gave him: lighten up. Sheeze.

@Marley23

@magellan01

As far as something to offer, I opined on your ridiculous moderation of Oakminster

Which you are, of course, allowed to do.

and than let LHOD know that I thought he was being to priggish in the tone he was calling for.

But not this. He’s not a mod. This is pretty simple.

@magellan01

Say what? If one poster describes what he thinks is the proper tone of debate, another poster can’t comment on that? You’ll have to explain that one a little better.

@Marley23

You didn’t ‘comment on the proper tone.’ You said Left Hand of Dorkness was up on his high horse, which was insulting.

@magellan01

It’s a way of making the point he was being priggish. Which should have been clear from the “Lighten up.” that immediately followed it.

Unbelievable.

But I have better things to do than go through this bullshit.

Enjoy. And whatever you or any prigs anywhere might possibly do, don’t you dare lighten up.

@Marley23

And for some reason you’re not able to understand that you can’t do this in this forum. You are not allowed to insult people here. This is a formal warning.

So here is what actually happened: you made a snide comment about another poster being up on his high horse and needing to lighten up. I explained - after another post from each of you - that you needed to stop, and that if the two of you had a personal problem, it should be handled in the Pit. You said (after the pointless “Wow”) that he was being priggish. I’d already told you that the personal comments weren’t appropriate and that they belonged in the Pit, and I followed up by telling you you could discuss the rules but couldn’t comment about him personally. Then I explained why you couldn’t do that. Then you said he was being priggish again, after I’d told you not to do that and explained several times why you couldn’t. Then I gave you a warning.