# Why is Diamonds02 limited to starting one new thread per week? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 26, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934 "2012-09-26T21:53:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Krav\_Manga](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krav_manga/32/3153_2.png) [@Krav\_Manga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krav_Manga)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/81 "2012-09-28T13:05:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Not the way I intended the post…but if the mods disagree, I’ll certainly go by what they say. How did you intend your post? ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/82 "2012-09-28T13:08:18Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Mods, what is your route of first choice when you need to have a private little pow-wow with someone? Do you try to PM the person first, or use external e-mail first? I noticed that my e-mail address is one that I don’t check very often (I found a note there from **Dex** a while back that apparently had been sitting there a while). But I am more likely to notice a PM sooner. So if necessary to kom-yoo-ni-kate, do you try PM first? If I want to communicate directly to someone, I always try a PM first. Sometimes I use email if it’s in response to a thread report. (These reports come to us as emails, and it’s convenient just to respond that way, since their email address is right there in front of me.) As I said before, I tried to PM Diamonds and she had disabled it. That’s when I send the email to her. I didn’t continue the discussion in the thread, since we always try to limit disruptive conversation in a thread. I didn’t think about utilizing the infraction system, and that’s not a “policy” as far as I know, for whoever asked about that. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/83 "2012-09-28T13:25:09Z")
I am curious about something, before the usual suspects begin their fun. A group of people are talking, when somebody approaches the group and says to one of them, “You are bloody self-righteously condescending, and you have an unwarranted sense of superiority” Considering it is a personal comment totally unrelated to what the group were talking about, why wouldn’t the person targeted feel insulted? ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/84 "2012-09-28T13:49:02Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > If I want to communicate directly to someone, I always try a PM first. Sometimes I use email if it’s in response to a thread report. (These reports come to us as emails, and it’s convenient just to respond that way, since their email address is right there in front of me.) As I said before, I tried to PM Diamonds and she had disabled it. That’s when I send the email to her. I didn’t continue the discussion in the thread, since we always try to limit disruptive conversation in a thread. I didn’t think about utilizing the infraction system, and that’s not a “policy” as far as I know, for whoever asked about that. I remember when I reported a post and you wanted to contact me, you did the same. That’s when I found out I was using an old email address and you reminded me to fix it. You were polite and helpful as I’ve always seen you be on the boards. Just throwing my my two cents in about what a good job I’ve seen you consistently do. I wish they could clone your temperament to make new mods. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/85 "2012-09-28T14:03:43Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Mods, what is your route of first choice when you need to have a private little pow-wow with someone? Do you try to PM the person first, or use external e-mail first? I noticed that my e-mail address is one that I don’t check very often (I found a note there from **Dex** a while back that apparently had been sitting there a while). But I am more likely to notice a PM sooner. So if necessary to kom-yoo-ni-kate, do you try PM first? Most of the time I’ll send a private message if I am reaching out to someone. If I’m responding to a reported post I usually send an email. But there’s no hard and fast rule. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/86 "2012-09-28T14:22:10Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > I am curious about something, before the usual suspects begin their fun. > > A group of people are talking, when somebody approaches the group and says to one of them, > > “You are bloody self-righteously condescending, and you have an unwarranted sense of superiority” > > Considering it is a personal comment totally unrelated to what the group were talking about, why wouldn’t the person targeted feel insulted? Feeling insulted is not the same as someone using a personal insult. I could explain in great detail how someone is acting like a dick. He may feel insulted by what I say. But as long as I don’t call him a dick it’s not a personal insult. IMHO it’s the difference between having a discussion which should be allowed and calling people names which is unproductive. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/87 "2012-09-28T14:49:24Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > **Diamonds02** has started 388 threads since April 2005. \*\*grude \*\* has started 490 threads since December. Going by the logic above, I expect that he has also received a warning. So is the criteria for starting too many threads based on the popularity of the poster? Posters seem to like **grude** so it doesn’t matter how many he starts. A lot of posters are annoyed by **Diamonds02** so she gets told to ease up on starting threads. So my questions are was she told to ease up because posters were reporting her threads? Or did Ellen Cherry just decided all on her own she was starting too many threads? If so why? Or did the mods go running around their mod loop and decide as a group she was posting too many threads? If so why? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/88 "2012-09-28T14:51:05Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Feeling insulted is not the same as someone using a personal insult. Exactly. I feel insulted by being called a cracker but the mods have decided it is not an insult. Or at least not insulting enough to warrant a mod note or warning. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/89 "2012-09-28T14:57:59Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Or did the mods go running around their mod loop and decide as a group she was posting too many threads? If so why? If by “running around,” you mean send some emails, then yes. I don’t know how many threads were reported (if any), but we discussed whether or not we needed to say anything to **Diamonds02** and decided that a mod note was appropriate. > [@Marley23](#): > > We’ve done this before with posters who started very large numbers of threads, and you can add to that the fact that most of **Diamonds02** ’s threads are … how do I put this nicely? … either extremely trivial or of questionable veracity. Neither is against the rules on its own, but when taken to extremes, but become pretty annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/90 "2012-09-28T15:00:02Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > If by “running around,” you mean send some emails, then yes. I don’t know how many threads were reported (if any), but we discussed whether or not we needed to say anything to **Diamonds02** and decided that a mod note was appropriate. Thank you for the explanation. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/91 "2012-09-28T15:03:16Z")
It seems TPTB read too quick between the lines for some infraction or personal violation and then fly off the handle, and its off with the heads. I mean if I had to spend my time reading all 9 bajillion silly threads a day I might get testy. Instead walk away, it will be okay sans TPTB for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/92 "2012-09-28T15:04:30Z")
> [@chela](#): > > It seems TPTB read too quick between the lines for some infraction or personal violation and then fly off the handle, and its off with the heads. I’m not sure “off with the heads” is a reasonable comparison to “please don’t start so many threads.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/93 "2012-09-28T15:08:14Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Do you have to practice to be so self-righteously condescending in these threads, or does it come naturally? > > Why don’t you just beg for your old job back, already? It’s clear that you can’t get by without it; at least then you’d have some institutional justification for your unwarranted sense of superiority. In my opinion, calling someone “self-righteously condescending” and saying he has an “unwarranted sense of superiority” is insulting. I really don’t see a way in which such a remark would _not_ be intended to insult the person to whom it was addressed. Thus I gave **mhendo** a warning for personal insults. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Just pointing out the obvious, Pot. It doesn’t take a “junior mod” to see something that happened just a couple posts prior to yours. In my opinion, saying “I am not junior modding” is not an insult, therefore I did not give a warning for this. Any further discussion of this is off-topic in this thread, which is about **Diamonds02** ; feel free to start a new thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/94 "2012-09-28T15:09:49Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > I remember when I reported a post and you wanted to contact me, you did the same. That’s when I found out I was using an old email address and you reminded me to fix it. You were polite and helpful as I’ve always seen you be on the boards. Just throwing my my two cents in about what a good job I’ve seen you consistently do. I wish they could clone your temperament to make new mods. Why, thank you very much. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 28, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/95 "2012-09-28T15:11:25Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Any further discussion of this is off-topic in this thread, which is about **Diamonds02** ; feel free to start a new thread. If a new thread is started, I won’t be posting in it-not fair to **mhendo** during the suspension. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/96 "2012-09-28T15:13:13Z")
This is my first read of the thread, a silly prolific but appealing to many poster gets censured. Next it has progressed to a member’s suspension. Czarcasm called a member “Pot”. Offense was returned. Then suspension on the wrong or right party? wtf? strangedays ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/97 "2012-09-28T15:50:18Z")
> [@chela](#): > > This is my first read of the thread, a silly prolific but appealing to many poster gets censured. Next it has progressed to a member’s suspension. Czarcasm called a member “Pot”. Offense was returned. Then suspension on the wrong or right party? wtf? strangedays Nah. Pretty typical **twickster** fuckery and the other mods circling the wagons. Happens regularly. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/98 "2012-09-28T20:12:27Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Next it has progressed to a member’s suspension. Czarcasm called a member “Pot”. Offense was returned. Then suspension on the wrong or right party? wtf? strangedays You’ve got that bass-ackwards. Member accused **Czarcasm** of junior modding, and made personal attacks against **Czarcasm**. Then **Czarcasm** responded with essentially “takes one to know one” (i.e. “Pot”). Rest of discussion truncated due to moderator instructions. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/99 "2012-09-29T01:32:54Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > I remember when I reported a post and you wanted to contact me, you did the same. That’s when I found out I was using an old email address and you reminded me to fix it. You were polite and helpful as I’ve always seen you be on the boards. Just throwing my my two cents in about what a good job I’ve seen you consistently do. I wish they could clone your temperament to make new mods. I think Ellen’s brilliant too. And not just cause I’m about to PM her to ask for advice about a thread I wanna start 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/100 "2012-09-29T04:15:25Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > “The logic above” is not the logic we used. And **Diamonds02** was not warned for starting too many threads, she was warned for ignoring moderator instructions. hmmmm…rarely do I post in here but I do read ATMB a lot. This seem illogical to me. What is the posted criteria for “starting too many threads”? Any formula? logic? guidelines? protocol? imho…highly illogical! Punished for disobeying an ambiguous rule(?) I have no ax in this,I’m just a bit confused… on a side note: I was humored by the “secret exit thread”… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934.md?page=6)