# Why'd you lock my tipping thread, Twix?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637
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**Created:** [June 22, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637 "2013-06-22T15:45:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/1 "2013-06-22T15:45:35Z")
It didn’t belong in CS, so blame Idle Thoughts if you like, but people got it, and they were having fun.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/2 "2013-06-22T16:01:38Z")
Sorry, forgot the[link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=694502).
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### Author:  [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/3 "2013-06-22T16:14:27Z")
Because this is a serious place, damn it! For serious discussions!
Conversations about edible anuses and celebrity urination are one thing, but you went too fucking far.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/4 "2013-06-22T16:22:48Z")
I knew this post would be here, so I came over to say I knew this would be here.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/5 "2013-06-22T16:28:13Z")
That was really you? I thought maybe e.fred had hacked your account. 😛
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/6 "2013-06-22T16:36:40Z")
I predict that she will come in with a [Moderator Speaketh] tag, announce that she’s thought it over and will reopen the thread and move it to MPSIMS with no admission that she was wrong.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/7 "2013-06-22T16:43:31Z")
I have to assume Idle didn’t actually read it. I don’t know where it started, but it belonged in the Pit (since it’s a parody thread).
“The Mod In Question” should have just kicked it that way instead of closing it because she didn’t like the joke. Her sense of humor or whether or not she has a headache shouldn’t decide which threads get to live and die on that particular day.
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### Author:  [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/8 "2013-06-22T16:46:24Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#):
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> I knew this post would be here, so I came over to say I knew this would be here.
I knew it too, so I came here and now I kinda got no purpose anymore…☹
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/9 "2013-06-22T17:12:45Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#):
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> I predict that she will come in with a [Moderator Speaketh] tag, announce that she’s thought it over and will reopen the thread and move it to MPSIMS with no admission that she was wrong.
I’d add to this some sort of headache/lack of sleep/general stress/etc.
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### Author:  [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/10 "2013-06-22T17:23:40Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#):
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> Because this is a serious place, damn it! For serious discussions!
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> Conversations about edible anuses and celebrity urination are one thing, but you went too fucking far.
Wait a… WHAT?! 😕
Just _ **where** _ are these conversations about edible celebrity anuses?
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/11 "2013-06-22T17:30:55Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#):
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> Wait a… WHAT?! 😕
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> Just _ **where** _ are these conversations about edible celebrity anuses?
> **[I give you... Edible Anuses!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=694489)**
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> Story here. A British chocolate maker is selling chocolate assholes. Apparently molded from a live models sphincter. Bon appetit!
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/12 "2013-06-22T17:32:51Z")
Gotta say, gang, your snide comments predicting what I’m going to say don’t exactly make me feel like doing what you want me to do.
Agree, **Idle Thoughts** probably hadn’t actually read the thread – rather than closing it, I should have moved it back to MPSIMS and told him why. So I’ll do that now.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/13 "2013-06-22T17:40:25Z")
What can I say, you’re just so darn predictable.
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### Author:  [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/14 "2013-06-22T17:51:07Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> > [@JBDivmstr](#):
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> > Wait a… WHAT?! 😕
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> > Just _ **where** _ are these conversations about edible celebrity anuses?
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> [I give you... Edible Anuses! - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=694489)
> **[Ever Seen a Celebrity Take a Pee ?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=90131)**
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> Hey guys… Ever stood shoulder to shoulder with a celeb whilst relieving your bladder? Maybe you looked over to Michael Douglas and said “Hi, how’s it hanging?” - or played “chase the matchstick” with Sting at one of those old-fashioned full length...
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/15 "2013-06-22T18:16:06Z")
Apologies. It had gotten two reports about it needing to be moved to CS and when I checked them, I saw it to be about restaurants (tipping in restaurants specifically), and moved it there only from the title (and reports).
My guess is the reporters might not have read the thread either.
I’ll make sure to give a more thorough look next time.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/16 "2013-06-22T18:28:08Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> Gotta say, gang, your snide comments predicting what I’m going to say don’t exactly make me feel like doing what you want me to do.
Ah, the old, “I _was_ going to behave responsibly as a mod, until you people _made me not want to_” gambit. Well played.
> [@Idle Thoughts](#):
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> Apologies. It had gotten two reports about it needing to be moved to CS and when I checked them, I saw it to be about restaurants (tipping in restaurants specifically), and moved it there only from the title (and reports).
> My guess is the reporters might not have read the thread either.
>
> I’ll make sure to give a more thorough look next time.
Better played.
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### Author:  [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/17 "2013-06-22T19:08:43Z")
Hey Twix
Don’t make it bad
Take a sad song
And make it better…
\*It’s a joke set to the Beatle’s ‘‘Hey Jude’’, in case it isn’t obvious…
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/18 "2013-06-22T23:51:55Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#):
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> What can I say, you’re just so darn predictable.
Good thing this thread wasn’t… :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/19 "2013-06-23T01:17:28Z")
> [@samclem](#):
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> Good thing this thread wasn’t… :rolleyes:
With the exception of the [the mod in question speaks] tags and the vague complaint about a headache, I think the thread was quite predictable.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyd-you-lock-my-tipping-thread-twix/661637/20 "2013-06-23T01:46:37Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#):
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> Ah, the old, “I _was_ going to behave responsibly as a mod, until you people _made me not want to_” gambit. Well played.
She had full discretion. She could have “behave[d] responsibly as a mod” by telling **TriPolar** to open a new thread. I think she showed considerable restraint in not doing that. If it were me, if you brought up something in public when the mods have repeatedly said they prefer you ask in private first, I would deny you just on that.
The funny thing is that you did the exact same thing she did. You chastised her for being childish and rude.
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