I had one pukeball mod whose name I'd never heard edit one of my posts, instead of the nominal asking me to do it; when I questioned that, this mod didn't even pick up on how this violates the very core of the rules set down on the page of the TOS and Online Service Agreement:
13. Once youve posted on the site, its there forever.
We do not delete posts except in extreme cases. Even if we can remove a post that you regret posting, they are often permanently cataloged in sites like Google or the Internet Archive.
Except where it suits the mod "staff". The example is as follows: say DocB used to have as his username "BertQ, with, presumably, "Bert" being his actual, given name. He later changes it to "DocB". Then, in a post, I refer to him as "Bert", and he gets pissed, and complains to his mod buddies, and one, named something like "Napoleon", behind the scenes, comes in an modifies my post, without even giving me the courtesy of a
***** ****** (and, for the easily offended, which is the majority of the mod staff, that link has foul language that is NSFW - you have been warned; do NOT click it with your volume on if you are in a sensitive area with children, coworkers, or SDN mod "staff" around). Yeah, that sounds quite like an "extreme case". But, whatever. Mods are volunteers!! (And, my ever-present response: "So what?" That has ZERO bearing. Nil. Nada. Nichts.)
I mean, even if I referred to DocB and spyderdoc as Ulysses and Sergio (which are, indeed, IRL, their real names) (actually, no - they are Vic and Hugo, respectively), they wouldn't object. Most of the others would, and would use their trivial mod "powers" to exert their little bit of pain with an unreviewable, opaque punishment, summary and final, out of the blue, with no explanation as to the rationale that was used, but, in a remarkable display of thoughtlessness and inappropriate wording, may end the PM notice with
"
Thanks for understanding and best wishes."
...
Really?
Are you ******* serious? Are you for real? Or are you just messing with me?
So, it is with such motivations that I refer to the SDN mod staff as "gutless pukes".
Ipso facto, those that "manned up" and said "not me!" are not "gutless pukes".
