Funniest mod comments on locked threads

[takhtakaal]

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=338840

N.B.: I'm not perpetuating any of the discussion whatsoever.

[lee n. field]

OH, yeah.  I saw that.

"Mini-14!" troll.

[Jamisjockey]

This thread is too stupid to live.

[Sergeant Bob]

What, may I ask, is so bloody difficult to understand when we say "No Personal Attacks"? What? Somebody tell me, please.

Is it the polysyllabic "Personal"?

One more time for the cheap seats:

If you can't debate someone else on this board without using insults, threats, comparisons to whatthehellever Evil Organizations jack your fancy these days, or cute references to mental incompetence, you jolly well go somewhere else. Am I clear on this?

E-mail, PM, or any of the squillions of un-moderated boards on the Internet. Take your pick.

Closed for thread veer, insults, wallowing in the bar-ditch beside the Low Road, and attempted homicide of a Moderator by way of coronary aneurysm.

LawDog

Goodness.

A challenge.

First, this off-topic stuff needs a thread of its own. Like so.

Now.

You don't like it here, take yourself somewhere else.

You don't think I'm fair? Get over it.

You think THR is is an Orwellian power play? Ain't nobody nailed your feet to the floor. Shoo. Vamoose. Git.

It's as simple as that.

The Staff here at THR will decide what consitutes a personal attack - not you.

If you don't like the way we do things, there's the door. Go forth and find yourself a Forum more conducive to you. If you can't find one, billboard/bulletin software is cheap - create your own, run it the way you want.

Now, hook your eyeballs on your monitor and pay attention, because I'm only going to say this once and I don't want any further misunderstandings on your part.

The High Road is not accountable to you. The Staff at THR are not accountable to you. I am not accountable to you.

You have absolutely no right to demand anything from me, is that perfectly clear? You have no right to demand an explanation. You have no right to demand that I do something.

You may, of course, ask for an explanation whatever it is that I am doing that is bothering you, and I will be pleased to discuss it with you.

I do hope this clears up your misunderstanding.

You have a problem with me in the future, send me an e-mail or a PM. Better yet, send one to Oleg Volk: he owns this site.

LawDog

[Perd Hapley]

Law Dog is the son of Chuck Norris and Jane Austen.  Which means he totally rocks. 

[AmbulanceDriver]

Closed for thread veer, insults, wallowing in the bar-ditch beside the Low Road, and attempted homicide of a Moderator by way of coronary aneurysm.

LawDog

That has to be one of the funniest things I've read in several days....     

[wooderson]

They're all pretty funny, but probably for the 'wrong reasons.' I wish I could remember the term for the desire to exert domain over one's minor turf in the face of having no real power. Not exactly a new phenomenon (see also: cops, lower-middle management), but it's a psychological impulse more visible on Internet forums.

[K Frame]

Law Dog is my new personal hero/god.

[Phyphor]

Law Dog is my new personal hero/god.

So QFT.

"attempted homicide of a Moderator by way of coronary aneurysm."

The man has a way with words I can only wish for.   

[Bigjake]

Law Dog is my new personal hero/god.

Oh yeah.  Any chance of getting him to guest mod here for a bit? In the politics side???

[K Frame]

What, you don't love me anymore?

No offense to Law Dog, but from what I understand, THR doesn't have a politics section anymore -- it spun out of control.

I like to think that we have our politics section maintaining at a dull roar.

[Bogie]

Wooderson, it's really okay for you to stop projecting your personal attitudes... Face it - that isn't really all that psychologically a healthy a habit either, is it...

[Perd Hapley]

Yeah, wood.  Sometimes moderating a forum is just moderating a forum.  And have you seen some of the threads over there?  I imagine LawDog's comments were very accurate.   

[wooderson]

It wasn't about any mod in particular (I don't even know who lawdog is other than his name here) - I've seen variations of it on every actively-moderated Internet forum. Folks start to take that little bit of power entirely too seriously and think that moderating an Internet forum is, like, an important task. Busybodies and power trippers exist in life, but generally only one or two to a workplace or gun club or whatever. The Internet just allows them to coalesce.

To some extent I can understand 'standards of debate' moderating (though that's always subjective), and when I've been a moderator my standard was advocating violence on one another or illegal conduct that could get the host/owners in trouble. It's the ninnies who pitch a fit about things like posting in the wrong forum that are the worst/most amusing.

[Bigjake]

What, you don't love me anymore?

No offense to Law Dog, but from what I understand, THR doesn't have a politics section anymore -- it spun out of control.

I like to think that we have our politics section maintaining at a dull roar.

Naw we'll keep ya.  In retrospect, it's a nice thing to have less heavy handed mods in the political forum, the recent surge of DU trolls just tries one's patience.

[Sergeant Bob]

They're all pretty funny, but probably for the 'wrong reasons.' I wish I could remember the term for the desire to exert domain over one's minor turf in the face of having no real power. Not exactly a new phenomenon (see also: cops, lower-middle management), but it's a psychological impulse more visible on Internet forums.

Were you born without a sense of humor or did somebody slap it out of ya?

[ilbob]

there are control freaks everywhere. there does seem to be some tendency towards that with forum mods, especially ones that have been at it for a relatively short period of time (like a year or two).

aps and thr seems to be pretty good about it though. i haven't seen any real offensive moderation, even when posters trip the triggers of some of the mods (like when they point out cops are imperfect). some people seem to deliberately post right on the edge trying to get a moderator's goat. others seem to do it unintentionally. its pretty easy to type something out in a few lines that does not quite give the nuance of what you really mean, and not realize it until much later.

[seeker_two]

Law Dog is my new personal hero/god.

Having been on the recieving end of Lawdog and Coronach's wrath on THR, I can concur with their hero-like-ness.......

....and, whatever you do, NEVER insult them in German.....

[Scout26]

I've always enjoyed the snarky Mod closings over at THR and also here at APS.   Mr Greebly is one of my favorites.

Take your pick. This thread was closed because:

A) Oh geeze, not this again.
B) It's kind of a dumb idea to talk about breaking the law or throwing a revolution on an internet forum that anyone can read.

Politics is kind of a preoccupation right now, isn't it?

Thanks for being civil.

We'll be closing now.

Please pay at the register.

I see you boys are at it again.

Go stand in the corner.

I swear. Work my fingers to the bone. Day and night. Night and day. And for what? You wait till your father gets home.

I believe the opening topic has been addressed.

Lots of other cool things have been addressed, too.

Some of them were even on-topic!

So, I'm happy you guys kept it civil, but we kinda hafta color within the lines.

And so, as much as I'd like to write my own opinions in this thread . . .

. . . it's closed.

[Ben]

....and, whatever you do, NEVER insult them in German

Warum nicht?   

[seeker_two]

....and, whatever you do, NEVER insult them in German

Warum nicht?   

The exact quote was "Seig Heil, Gesetz-Hund....." 

It didn't go over well.......