# Wow, I've never seen such moderator kiss-assery on a message board before! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 21, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892 "2007-05-21T05:09:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/21 "2007-05-21T13:46:01Z")
You know something, Johnny? You’re entitled to have that opinion, and to express it. And others are entitled to refute it. And by common consent, how the assertion and the refutation(s) get judged by the community at large is not on the content of their theme but on how well it’s documented and proven. Having seen a selection of other boards where “unbiased moderation” means “I will permit you to politely tell him he’s wrong when he flames you, if you’re courteous about it,” I can tell you that the moderation style here is head and shoulders above the Internet average, and near to the Internet optimax. YMMV. In one meaning or another. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/22 "2007-05-21T14:01:45Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT] Wow, Tom, what a great post! One of your best - a true classic! We’re so lucky to have a mod like you. 😃 [/QUOTE] I thought his post a bit wordy but he did get his point across, even if not succinctly. Still, though, I agree with your sentiment; we are indeed lucky to have such a mod. We are also lucky to have lucid posters like yourself; too often we suck up only to the mods and I, for one, feel that we should occasionally suck up, as it were, to each other. Or, at the very least, to recognize and honor each other’s sucking up. As it were. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/23 "2007-05-21T14:07:55Z")
C’mon! The guy even bothered to capitalize “Mod” - four times, no less! With such loving attention to detail, is it no wonder that the SDMB is the best-moderated board on the Net? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/24 "2007-05-21T14:11:35Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] Actually, your odd claim of a scenario works equally well if you ignore the “Mod” tag and simply refer to “seasoned posters.” [/QUOTE] Posters should be well-seasoned before consumption. I always take Mods with a grain of salt. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/25 "2007-05-21T14:17:54Z")
Before I get into mod ass-kissing mode, would each one of same please forward an illustrative picture of their backsides? Disclaimer: hairy behinds, are, due to their very hairiness, disqualified from the start. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/26 "2007-05-21T14:28:16Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Every pile-on is an example, but the problem with giving examples of things like this is that it is possible to spin behavior in so many different ways. That’s why one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Even this post, which simply states a fact, will be spun in every way from a defense of the OP to a declaration of hostility against the group. Surely, you have enough real life experience to know that few and far between are the people who will acknowledge a criticism as valid. Same same here. [/QUOTE] And there goes **Lib** , defending the indefensible again! 😃 ---
**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:** [May 21, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/27 "2007-05-21T14:54:37Z")
[QUOTE=RedFury] Before I get into mod ass-kissing mode, would each one of same please forward an illustrative picture of their backsides? Disclaimer: hairy behinds, are, due to their very hairiness, disqualified from the start. [/QUOTE] Are you actually saying that you could look at a series of photographs of anuses and end up deciding that some of them look kissable? ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/28 "2007-05-21T14:58:05Z")
Hey, if you want an unmoderated message board, there are plenty of 'em. Enjoy. Not to say we’re perfect by any means - we’re human, and, like most of the SDMB, occasionally sarcastic, snide, or unpleasant (particularly to those who are the same). But, there are certain members of these forums who expect us to be somehow infallible and perfect, and who criticize us publicly and often when we inevitably fail to meet their expectations. _shrug_ What can you do, eh? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/29 "2007-05-21T15:02:15Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Are you actually saying that you could look at a series of photographs of anuses and end up deciding that some of them look kissable? [/QUOTE] Anuses, no. But I’ve seen some glutes I’d pucker up for! 😃 ---
**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:** [May 21, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/30 "2007-05-21T15:25:14Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny Hildo] It’s a pit of your hive-minded defenders. I just feel that logic dictates, somewhere, at some point, a mod might have been wrong concerning his facts and/or judgment. Not that you’d ever know it here, though. [/QUOTE] You don’t read the board much, do you? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/31 "2007-05-21T15:47:54Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Every pile-on is an example, but the problem with giving examples of things like this is that it is possible to spin behavior in so many different ways. That’s why one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. [/QUOTE] Yeah, and one man’s baby-raping cannibal is just another man’s virile gourmand! ---
**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:** [May 21, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/32 "2007-05-21T15:54:06Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny Hildo] It’s a pit of your hive-minded defenders. I just feel that logic dictates, somewhere, at some point, a mod might have been wrong concerning his facts and/or judgment. Not that you’d ever know it here, though. [/QUOTE] Hey, this board would be _nothing_ without its hive-minded defenders! If it wasn’t for the hive mind of this place, we would see a vast diversity of opinion, and no one wants that. And I’m certain that everyone else here agrees with me. In other words, [QUOTE=Colibri] You don’t read the board much, do you? [/QUOTE] What he said. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/33 "2007-05-21T16:01:42Z")
I can’t make hide nor hair of the OP. Sounds like he doesn’t like this MB, though, so I suggest he not re-up next year and find one more to his liking. Oh, and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/34 "2007-05-21T16:03:06Z")
I’m sorry, what was my opinion again? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/35 "2007-05-21T16:05:54Z")
[QUOTE=rayh] I’m sorry, what was my opinion again? [/QUOTE] Mods are wonderfull. Sheesh, we gotta tell you people _everything_? ---
**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:** [May 21, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/36 "2007-05-21T16:12:11Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] Oh, and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. [/QUOTE] I disagree! I think he should let the door hit him in the ass on the way out! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/37 "2007-05-21T16:29:06Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Yes, I do rather expect my post to be designated just another facet of the ‘hive mind’, even though I have said nothing in defence of the management. [/QUOTE] Anyone who spells defense with a C is automatically disqualified from hive mind membership. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/38 "2007-05-21T16:32:35Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Anyone who spells defense with a C is automatically disqualified from hive mind membership. [/QUOTE] And what have you got against us Brits? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/39 "2007-05-21T16:47:06Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Mods are wonderfull. Sheesh, we gotta tell you people _everything_? [/QUOTE] I would agree that, as a hole, mods are wonderufl. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892/40 "2007-05-21T16:55:37Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Mods are wonderfull. Sheesh, we gotta tell you people _everything_? [/QUOTE] I totally agree with this, well said! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-never-seen-such-moderator-kiss-assery-on-a-message-board-before/404892.md?page=3)