# Why does this forum allow member complaints? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 8, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856 "2010-11-08T01:58:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/61 "2010-11-09T21:35:16Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I apologize, and hope that [this cheers you up.](http://fwtc.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/clown20car1.jpg) AAAAaGGGGHHHHH! CLOWNS! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/62 "2010-11-09T22:03:55Z")
I thought A **Monkey With A Gun** ’s joke was obvious. Guess Poe wins again. They were innocuous, perfectly acceptable mod actions being complained about while citing a post about deliberate mod baiters - he was demonstrating an example. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/63 "2010-11-09T23:07:35Z")
I want to correct a mistake. > [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > Ha! Really, what I was making fun of, and was unfortunately proven right, is that the **SDMB** denizens post kneejerk reactions. I didn’t mean “SDMB”; I meant “ATMB”. Sorry about that. I like the board, but I have to heckle the denizens of this particular forum a bit. People like **pseudotron rubber rubber** and **Czarcasm** don’t think. They post merely to fight the other side. That’s why ATMB is so damn moronic. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/64 "2010-11-10T03:15:24Z")
Your joke, **A Monkey With a Gun** , is further confirmation of my hunch that **Czarcasm** had to leave his modship for medical reasons. His head was going to explode if he couldn’t call people a bunch of idiots. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/65 "2010-11-10T03:55:30Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Your joke, **A Monkey With a Gun** , is further confirmation of my hunch that **Czarcasm** had to leave his modship for medical reasons. His head was going to explode if he couldn’t call people a bunch of idiots. 😛 Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/66 "2010-11-10T04:13:16Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > A big part of the problem is that there’s a few posters who seem to have a habit of mod baiting. > [@Colibri](#): > > Some are even masters at this. 😉 I see what you did there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/67 "2010-11-10T12:24:17Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > I want to correct a mistake.I didn’t mean “SDMB”; I meant “ATMB”. Sorry about that. I like the board, but I have to heckle the denizens of this particular forum a bit. Actually, you shouldn’t be heckling in this forum at all. Even if you think someone deserves it. If you want to heckle, go to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/68 "2010-11-10T14:50:54Z")
In response to me dope-slapping myself (no pun intended–this time) > [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > Ha! Really, what I was making fun of, and was unfortunately proven right, is that the SDMB denizens post kneejerk reactions. It doesn’t even matter what the subject is. There is no sense of humor or perspective on either side. One camp bitches incessantly and is opposed by a camp that defends regardless of the charge. > > Complaints do need to be open, but it was better when it was in the pit where neutral posters actually bothered to chime in. Things got solved that way. What we have now is a constant, and I mean it never seems to stop, battle between insurgents and sycophants. Really? I didn’t see myself as either. Sometimes I think the mods are right and sometimes I think they’re wrong. In this case I posted a reply to what I thought was an unjust cricitism of a mod action. I did not realize until you told us that you were making a different point. But as you yourself said, “[you] threw a piece of bait that had no merit.” I fell for it, and maybe just because there seemed to be so many attacks on mods lately that I thought I would “help you” see where you were wrong. I’m just all kinds of helpful that way. Ah well, on with life. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/69 "2010-11-10T15:34:39Z")
OMG! Somebody missed a joke on the internet! It’s the end of the world! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/70 "2010-11-10T15:39:37Z")
And it wasn’t the first time I did it, either! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/71 "2010-11-10T16:06:17Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > OMG! Somebody missed a joke on the internet! It’s the end of the world! 😉 Guilty as charged, also. When you see a large pile of silliness, though, sometimes its hard to tell which is deliberate and which isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/72 "2010-11-10T17:19:00Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > OMG! Somebody missed a joke on the internet! It’s the end of the world! 😉 And I feel fine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/73 "2010-11-12T04:34:02Z")
So, why does this forum allow member complaints? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/74 "2010-11-12T04:59:58Z")
Why does it allow thread topic complaints? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856/75 "2010-11-12T11:18:13Z")
I’m flattered that some of you liked my post, but I just realized that I didn’t respond to the entire point of the OP. I would not object to a separate subforum for complaints. I would object to them being private. Transparency is a good thing. Sure, there are times where it’s better to be private, but it’s also nice to see how the mods respond, and get the input of the other board denizens. I know this place isn’t a democracy, but even the best monarchs want input from their subjects. And while there are some who do it in a really offensive, whiny way (myself unfortunately sometimes included), I think it’s still worth it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-this-forum-allow-member-complaints/559856.md?page=3)