Funny moderating

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So we all know there is a couple of moderators & administrator keeping the Boards o'Magick tidy and friendly.
We also know that in many cases they can be rather amusing, whether 'snipping' a post, closing a thread, warning people or anything else.

What we don't know (or me, at least) is where to find these moments, and so I'd like to gather them in this thread.

Warning:
Don't see this as a thread where we can discuss whether the moderator was strict or unjust, nor as a thread to restart discussions and spamming in the posts or threads that have been subjects, or else this thread itself might become one. (That would be rather funny, though)
I just want you to tell me what you think is a funny moment of moderating.

I'll start with the (probably) most recent one.
"This thread" closed by BTA

 

I don't see what's funny about the closing of that thread. I've seen threads like that work on other forums and turn out to be piss funny. BTA was just being his usual stuck-in-the-mud self .

THIS , however, had me in stitches.

 

Tal starting RBP#16

Scroll down a bit for Yerril's comment on it, too. Absolutely priceless.

EDIT: Okay, more ancient RBP.
BTA's first closure of the RBP, the ensuing discussion, and Tal's closure of the next one.

[ April 14, 2006, 19:59: Message edited by: Felinoid ]

 

Beren's moderating message about hijackers always puts a smile on my face.

 

My favorite has always been when Beren changed the name of the thread about the Graf Spee to read

[Sorry, that was me, not Beren - dmc]

[ April 15, 2006, 01:31: Message edited by: dmc ]

 

I searched for the thread I wanted, but couldn't remember much beyond it was an edit by BTA I think of one of DotW's posts. D had said something about B and B edited the post, then D replied saying he wouldn't do it again and turned around and did it in the next sentence!

I suppose that I shouldn't find it funny, but I do because D was asked not to say what he said and did it anyway. It's much funnier if you're in my head.

Beren goes to Rashemen

 

@ BTA: ROTFLMFAO! Now that is genius!

I'll never be able to look at a jar of nitr... I mean peanut butter the same way again!

 

I was hoping someone would link to that Peanut Butter thread.

 

Haha, BTA, nice... but why was the thread so freakin' controversial? Is peanut butter dangerous or something? Is it a secret WMD?!

 

@Saber:
I don't think it was actually about peanut butter before BTA went to work. And he missed something: One of the posts refers to three recipes when BTA could only come up with two for the peanut butter.

 

Hmm... I believe that it was in the topic "Your top ten favorite posters", back in the era where I wasn't very fond of BTA, until we sat down like civilized adults and talked about it. Apart from that one, I don't remember BTA editing any of my other posts.

And kuemp... ironic that you call me "D" in that post, because that's actually one of my nicknames.

 

ROFL!
This is great.
BA: Not as funny indeed as all the others, but at the time the dry humor got me laughing for 10 minutes. "What happens now? - The thread gets closed."

kuemper: Is this what you mean? "Message edited by: The New Order"

 

I was looking through Master of Nuhns link and found this post by dmc. Almost at the bottom of the page

 

@MoN - It's not that one. I still can't find it.

@All -

 

BTA, alright, now that I know that... Hahaha, nice.

I was wondering why people were getting angry at him for posting about peanut butter...

 

Actually, I was just happy to get two spams, err, posts, in that thread before it got closed ( too much like RB). And I thought BTA's answer to my somewhat rhetorical question was quite amusing.