# Why can't we Pit mods? **URL:** \ **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:** 33
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-pit-mods/647229/33 "2013-01-15T17:25:41Z")
> [@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]: > [@Marley: Gun Grabber is not restricted to the Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-gun-grabber-is-not-restricted-to-the-pit/647086/22): > > 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. > [@Marley: Gun Grabber is not restricted to the Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-gun-grabber-is-not-restricted-to-the-pit/647086/26): > > 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. > [@Marley: Gun Grabber is not restricted to the Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-gun-grabber-is-not-restricted-to-the-pit/647086/27): > > 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. > [@Marley: Gun Grabber is not restricted to the Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-gun-grabber-is-not-restricted-to-the-pit/647086/29): > > 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. > [@Marley: Gun Grabber is not restricted to the Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-gun-grabber-is-not-restricted-to-the-pit/647086/30): > > 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. > [@Marley: Gun Grabber is not restricted to the Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-gun-grabber-is-not-restricted-to-the-pit/647086/31): > > Wow. > > Tsk, tsk, tsk… > [@Marley: Gun Grabber is not restricted to the Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-gun-grabber-is-not-restricted-to-the-pit/647086/32): > > 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. > [@Marley: Gun Grabber is not restricted to the Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-gun-grabber-is-not-restricted-to-the-pit/647086/34): > > 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. > [@Marley: Gun Grabber is not restricted to the Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-gun-grabber-is-not-restricted-to-the-pit/647086/35): > > > [@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. > [@Marley: Gun Grabber is not restricted to the Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-gun-grabber-is-not-restricted-to-the-pit/647086/36): > > 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. > [@Marley: Gun Grabber is not restricted to the Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-gun-grabber-is-not-restricted-to-the-pit/647086/37): > > You didn’t ‘comment on the proper tone.’ You said **Left Hand of Dorkness** was up on his high horse, which was insulting. > [@Marley: Gun Grabber is not restricted to the Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-gun-grabber-is-not-restricted-to-the-pit/647086/38): > > 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. > [@Marley: Gun Grabber is not restricted to the Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-gun-grabber-is-not-restricted-to-the-pit/647086/39): > > 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-pit-mods/647229)._