# Would like an administrator to clarify two moderator warnings **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 27, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751 "2007-01-27T19:23:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [February 2, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/61 "2007-02-02T20:01:01Z")
[QUOTE=That creates more Q’s than A’s] So you’ll excuse me if I don’t bother to use up the “30 day free trial”. A couple of days is more than enough as it turns out. [/QUOTE] That’s the best news I’ve had all day. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/62 "2007-02-02T20:05:06Z")
[QUOTE=That creates more Q’s than A’s] Well, I don’t see any more mod/admin posts here since I last posted. (I didn’t bother to read the others, as sump posters don’t interest me - You shouldn’t get mad at me if that offends you. Nobody else cares about you or your posts either. Same as the real world.) [/QUOTE] Daaaaamn, but you’re full of yourself. And full of shit, as it so happens. I’d just like to point out the following: [ol] [li]This is a moderated board. If you can’t handle the idea of a mod telling you what you can and cannot post, this is not the place for you.[/li][li]There ARE other posters on this board. Otherwise, it’d be pretty dumb to have a message board, wouldn’t it? Yet you go on about how the opinions of other posters don’t interest you. Then, pray tell, why the fuck did you show up in the first place?[/li][/ol] Get your lame ass a blog somewhere where you can pontificate to your little heart’s content, and you won’t have to worry about either. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/63 "2007-02-02T20:20:16Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Praise Og! Just shut up and leave already. [/QUOTE] \*\* SO SAY WE ALL!\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/64 "2007-02-02T20:39:53Z")
… so if the opinions of us drones don’t matter to you, what was your point in posting here in the first place? Most people give at least a part of a rip about the other posters before they develop mod-envy and begin to only care what the mods think about them, but to start out that way? Dude, you peaked _way_ too soon. Oh, and, the idea that your threads got closed because you’re misunderstood? That’s not new. All the best banned posters have said that. ---
**Author:** ![Schuyler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Schuyler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schuyler)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/65 "2007-02-02T21:46:02Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] What was the question? I’ll bet someone in this very thread can answer it, or find someone who can. At least get that done before you skulk away. [/QUOTE] I’d like to report a bad post. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/66 "2007-02-02T22:47:54Z")
[QUOTE=Ethilrist] Oh, and, the idea that your threads got closed because you’re misunderstood? That’s not new. All the best banned posters have said that. [/QUOTE] Not that this one is anywhere near the best of the banned. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/67 "2007-02-02T22:55:01Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Not that this one is anywhere near the best of the banned. [/QUOTE] [This is.](http://theband.hiof.no/albums/best_of_the_band.html) ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/68 "2007-02-02T23:02:20Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons] There ARE other posters on this board. Otherwise, it’d be pretty dumb to have a message board, wouldn’t it? Yet you go on about how the opinions of other posters don’t interest you. Then, pray tell, why the fuck did you show up in the first place? [/quote] No, no no. It’s just us scum at the arse end of the message board he doesn’t like. Everybody else is fine. Except **Czarcasm**. And **Frank**. Oh, and **Cecil**. And probably everybody else that is not a sanctimonious, whining, no-cocked, pissant fuckwit like himself. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/69 "2007-02-02T23:08:26Z")
[QUOTE=That creates more Q’s than A’s] Well, I don’t see any more mod/admin posts here since I last posted. … I suppose that means the admins now agree with me. [/quote] Yes, you win. > [@](#): > > And the reason for sending my question about it down here was to invite people to insult me. Which makes Frank puerile in the extreme. Fearing looking stupid for insulting me for no reason he invites others to do it. Somehow, Frank, that doesn’t make you look any less stupid. I am, you slack-jawed, hydrocephalous, pea-brained, numbskull with the spittle-flecked monitor who would have to study to be a moron, perfectly capable of delivering my own insults. Ask anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Schuyler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Schuyler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schuyler)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/70 "2007-02-03T00:16:28Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] … you slack-jawed, hydrocephalous, pea-brained, numbskull with the spittle-flecked monitor who would have to study to be a moron, perfectly capable of delivering my own insults. Ask anyone. [/QUOTE] I don’t think you’d get much grief from anybody if you were to have made that a [Mod Note] (well with the possible exception of the one guy). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kurilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea5d25/32.png) [@kurilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kurilla)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/71 "2007-02-03T00:45:10Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Yes, you win. I am, you slack-jawed, hydrocephalous, pea-brained, numbskull with the spittle-flecked monitor who would have to study to be a moron, perfectly capable of delivering my own insults. Ask anyone. [/QUOTE] Can I borrow the bit about having to study to be a moron? I know far too many people to whom it applies… ---
**Author:** ![scottkris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@scottkris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scottkris)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/72 "2007-02-03T00:50:27Z")
[QUOTE=That creates more Q’s than A’s] So let’s see. I started two poll threads, which like the other threads I’ve started (which I can safely assume no one down in the sewer here has read [/QUOTE] I read the Phillips screw one, and you never came back to that thread. I guess you thought everyone was throwing twigs and dirt at you there as well, since “Cecil” did not give a response. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/73 "2007-02-03T03:04:40Z")
[QUOTE=kurilla] Can I borrow the bit about having to study to be a moron? I know far too many people to whom it applies… [/QUOTE] You hadn’t heard that one before? Geez, I picked it up back in the 60s. I suspect it’s lost its trademark by now. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/74 "2007-02-04T04:33:56Z")
I think ole \*\*Q&A \*\* really didn’t read any of the other posts. I mean who would lie about that but a childish whiny immature little jackass? The give away was the lack of Neener neener. Proves it’s so. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/75 "2007-02-04T05:03:57Z")
[QUOTE=That creates more Q’s than A’s] So you’ll excuse me if I don’t bother to use up the “30 day free trial”. A couple of days is more than enough as it turns out. [/QUOTE] I’ll miss you. No, wait, I won’t. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/76 "2007-02-04T17:42:14Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Quality, that’s why. This board only uses the finest insults, the purest invective, and the most original epithets you’ll find any where on the internet. Getting insulted on the Straight Dope would still be cheap at twice the price. [/QUOTE] You are saying that we deliver the DeBeers of insults? The Yuengling of derision? The Burmese Python of clenching commentary? The See’s Chocolates of UnSweet remarks? Is that what you’re saying? \*\*Is it??? Well??? God dammit !! Is it ??!!!??!!! \*\*. 😛 OP, look- your Guest period of time was the time to peruse our fine Rules of the Road. Can’t really see what you’re ranting about. We’ve all ( or , some of us…have ) had threads closed for one reason or another. A big rule of the road is that Mods make judgement calls and Dopers are allowed to disagree. In The Pit. Welcome to The Pit. Here, have a hand towel. It’s mighty warm down here. 😃 Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![komb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4da419/32.png) [@komb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/komb)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751/77 "2007-02-05T01:35:26Z")
Frank, don’t be such a wuss. You already dumped on him when you closed his thread, no need to get all teary because he didn’t like it. Instead of pretending you guys care about each and every thread you block or edit, you just have to grow some balls and issue a sticky notice that says: “The mods do their best. It’s not going to be perfect. Same as umpires and referees, they make judgment calls and their judgment is not perfect. Some calls will be wrong. Accept it and move on. We will not acknowledge nor look into complaints. This isn’t the Congressional Record. We make a call and that’s that. Requests for explanations will be locked with no explanation. Sticky notes explain themselves, whether anyone bothers to read them or not, so we don’t have to repeat them.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-like-an-administrator-to-clarify-two-moderator-warnings/389751.md?page=3)