# Why sometimes Warnings versus warnings? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 29, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-sometimes-warnings-versus-warnings/601228 "2011-10-29T21:15:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-sometimes-warnings-versus-warnings/601228/21 "2011-11-03T03:31:55Z")
I’m wondering why it was worthy of a capital W warning, when usually those are reserved for Serious Offenses or Ignoring Moderator Mods. And I’m also wondering why the insult (and the trolling jab) is allowed. So if a poster does something against the rules for whatever reason, it’s OK for other posters to insult them? Edit: Considering I was once warned for telling someone to ‘Dial down the crazy’ when he made a remark we both believed to be false, yeah, of course I wonder what the hell the mods are doing. And since I made an ATMB thread, I’m sure I’ll be warned again really soon. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-sometimes-warnings-versus-warnings/601228/22 "2011-11-03T14:18:21Z")
Based on the _law of attraction_, a proven phenomenon touted by such eminent thinkers as Oprah Winfrey, you have only to keep dwelling on it constantly and the universe will make it so! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-sometimes-warnings-versus-warnings/601228/23 "2011-11-03T15:31:05Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > I’m wondering why it was worthy of a capital W warning, when usually those are reserved for Serious Offenses or Ignoring Moderator Mods. Political snipe in GQ that starts other comments? Rule violation. Big W Warnings are reserved for Rule violations. What is the question? You’re unhappy because a mod gave you a Warning instead of a mod note? But you admit you broke a rule, however inadvertently? Whine all you want, that’s what Warnings are for. > [@](#): > > And I’m also wondering why the insult (and the trolling jab) is allowed. How I parse **Do Not Taunt** ’s post: there are numerous other threads here where the poster is trolling, and feeding the troll is frequently demonstrated in those threads. So you drop a snarky line in that thread, of course people respond. The comment below is trying to navigate the “lying liars are telling lies” minefield. He is attempting to clarify that he wasn’t trying to call you a troll, but he does feel your comment was “a pointless comment to rile people up”. Address the comment, not he commenter. And since this is ATMB, discussion of trolling is allowed in context, which this is. > [@](#): > > Edit: Considering I was once warned for telling someone to ‘Dial down the crazy’ when he made a remark we both believed to be false, yeah, of course I wonder what the hell the mods are doing. And since I made an ATMB thread, I’m sure I’ll be warned again really soon. Martyr much? ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-sometimes-warnings-versus-warnings/601228/24 "2011-11-03T15:43:27Z")
Man, I’ve been here eight years and I’ve never been warned, or even “noted,” once. What the heck is going on?! Oh wait, now I remember. I don’t break the rules. Funny, that. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-sometimes-warnings-versus-warnings/601228/25 "2011-11-04T02:03:15Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > How I parse **Do Not Taunt** ’s post: there are numerous other threads here where the poster is trolling, and feeding the troll is frequently demonstrated in those threads. So you drop a snarky line in that thread, of course people respond. > > The comment below is trying to navigate the “lying liars are telling lies” minefield. He is attempting to clarify that he wasn’t trying to call you a troll, but he does feel your comment was “a pointless comment to rile people up”. Address the comment, not he commenter. And since this is ATMB, discussion of trolling is allowed in context, which this is. Thanks. You got that across a lot clearer than I would have. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-sometimes-warnings-versus-warnings/601228/26 "2011-11-04T16:59:56Z")
That’s my job. Wait, no it isn’t, I don’t get paid for this crap. What am I thinking? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-sometimes-warnings-versus-warnings/601228/27 "2011-11-04T17:50:59Z")
Hell, I get warned about warnings. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-sometimes-warnings-versus-warnings/601228/28 "2011-11-04T20:20:18Z")
“Warnings and Pizza,” it’s the famous very lengthy novel by that great Russian writer, Leonard Tolstoy, who later gained fame by playing Dr. Spock on … um, what? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-sometimes-warnings-versus-warnings/601228.md?page=1)