# Worst moderation on the net **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 7, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899 "2015-11-07T14:53:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/101 "2015-11-09T16:55:10Z")
Worst moderation on the net? Wow! Is there a prize? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/102 "2015-11-09T17:12:26Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Worst moderation on the net? Wow! Is there a prize? A Cadillac El Dorado. Second prize is a set of steak knives. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/103 "2015-11-09T17:48:31Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Worst moderation on the net? Wow! Is there a prize? Man, some folks wouldn’t be happy if they were hung with a golden rope! Our prize is we don’t have to get asked, again, how the pyramids were built. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/104 "2015-11-09T18:36:45Z")
> [@XT](#): > > Man, some folks wouldn’t be happy if they were hung with a golden rope! Our prize is we don’t have to get asked, again, how the pyramids were built. 😛 Form an old classic Mexican TV comedy show _La Carabina de Ambrosio_ (Translated, paraphrased): **Chabelo Olsen** : “Supermam! \* We have to find who is the organizer of these schemes, the Pyramids are getting out of control!” **Superman** : “Will do!” … \*\*Superman \*\*[Flying, carrying someone to Metropolis]: “Had to travel through time to get this criminal!” **Pharaoh** : “But, but, Superman?!? Why are you arresting me?” **Superman** : Don’t play coy Khufu!, Everybody knows you were the organizer of the Pyramids! 😃 - Original spelling of the names in the parody. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/105 "2015-11-09T20:24:16Z")
> [@XT](#): > > Man, some folks wouldn’t be happy if they were hung with a golden rope! Our prize is we don’t have to get asked, again, how the pyramids were built. 😛 Don’t you fret. Something else extremely unsupported by facts will come along in Great Debates shortly. It’s our lot in life. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/106 "2015-11-09T21:02:19Z")
Bye, Felicia. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/107 "2015-11-09T21:05:20Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > Bye, Felicia. Good shot Maggie. ETA, I took the LOL out for fear of n/m ---
**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, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/108 "2015-11-10T02:28:57Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > The worst is another board I deleted from my bookmarks awhile back, where unlike here all moderator decisions were done on the hush-hush; if you had a question about a suspension or banning, YOU would be subject to a suspension yourself just for asking about it. I thought we weren’t supposed to discuss the Giraffe board? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/109 "2015-11-10T02:33:20Z")
> [@andros](#): > > A Cadillac El Dorado. > > Second prize is a set of steak knives. Damn. I was hoping for a years supple of Rice-A-Roni :smack: (we really need a finger-snap smilie) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/110 "2015-11-10T04:14:28Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > **Superman** : Don’t play coy Khufu!, Everybody knows you were the organizer of the Pyramids! I thought it was Ponzi. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/111 "2015-11-10T07:19:07Z")
On reflection, the notion that **cladking** would be finding the message board with “the worst moderation on the net” strikes me as stretching coincidence beyond the limits of plausibility. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/112 "2015-11-10T07:44:15Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > On reflection, the notion that **cladking** would be finding the message board with “the worst moderation on the net” strikes me as stretching coincidence beyond the limits of plausibility. It’s not a coincidence. The mods used ramps. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/113 "2015-11-10T09:14:28Z")
That percentage of posts, with their sheer number, is extraordinary, although dealing with guys like this perhaps is all in a day’s work for the mods. You have to admit, his parting shot, and its public display for comment, has allowed a most amusing thread and is to his credit (useless, alas). Moreover, I, for one, get to use for the first time the word “pasquinade.” ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/114 "2015-11-10T12:20:37Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Moreover, I, for one, get to use for the first time the word “pasquinade.” [Excellent word](http://www.merriam-webster.com/blog/ignominous-pasquinade.htm), one I didn’t lnow. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/115 "2015-11-10T12:39:59Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It’s OK in MPSIMS.😉 On long threads going absolutely nowhere in GD: LinusK is to feminism what cladking is to pyramids. Just saying. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/116 "2015-11-10T16:23:33Z")
Oh, **cladking** , we hardly knew ye… Well, that’s not strictly true. By the end of that entertaining, massive trainwreck of a thread, we knew you were a one-note song who had a whack-a-doodle theory about the way the pyramids were constructed, hated Egyptologists, and knew far, far less than you thought you did about geology, physics, history and linguistics. I’m frankly amazed you stayed as long as you did. On the credit side, at least you had a sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/117 "2015-11-10T17:35:12Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > [Excellent word](http://www.merriam-webster.com/blog/ignominous-pasquinade.htm), one I didn’t lnow. Shit, I didn’t even know it was “trending.” I knew it back when it was way indie. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/118 "2015-11-10T17:59:56Z")
It must be said, however–and similar cases arise quite often in SD–that a _shitload_ of good information on the topic, as defined by more sensible posters (ie everyone else) is in that thread. It took me a while, and it was fun, and I learned more than I ever did before about the pyramids. I don’t think Elizabetheans stopped in at corner bear baiting to learn about bear anatomy and physiology, but it can be done. You also learn something about the dogs unleashed at the bear. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/119 "2015-11-10T18:03:13Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Shit, I didn’t even know it was “trending.” I knew it back when it was way indie. I knew it back when it was little more than a random assembly of letters. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899/120 "2015-11-10T18:20:11Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I knew it back when it was little more than a random assembly of letters. 😃 Well, by that rule I bet you I know a lot more than you. Especially words with numerals around. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-moderation-on-the-net/736899.md?page=7)