# Wombat's Back and GQ's Got Him! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 28, 2018, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wombats-back-and-gqs-got-him/822086 "2018-09-28T03:35:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wombats-back-and-gqs-got-him/822086/13 "2018-09-28T20:53:24Z")
> [@Gary\_Robson](#): > > ( **Idle Thoughts** , I’m watching you 😉 ) If you didn’t already know, Idle Thoughts was fired in disgrace and no longer publicly participates here. Which bring up a question… Why does someone that left, if not abandoned, the boards for years get a Moderatorship almost immediately upon return? I’m not asking from a position of ‘Gary is bad’ as I do think I recall him being a good mod. Rather, it’s from the ‘wouldn’t someone more currently active be both better informed about the current state of things as well as more deserving of the privilege of elevation to Moderator?’ point of view. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wombats-back-and-gqs-got-him/822086)._