Do you have a favourite question that has been modded?

I asked what the most overrated movies you have seen are.
I am still surprised it was modded. Seems like a typical question.

@filmfann Did they say it was a simple poll?

I’ll tell you one right now
All the Star Wars movies except the Empire Strikes Back

The only question I’ve ever had moderated was something along the lines of “what’s your favorite hippie non-sport,” which was inspired by an evening of frisbee. I’m still not sure why it was taken down and I don’t think I ever fixed it, but it’s always kinda bothered me.

@Mamradpivo That sounds like a good one. Hmmm, maybe a mod would like to explain that to us?

This question. ;)

I wish I could remember. There were some good ones where a bunch of people got in some quick one-liners before the mods took it down.

@jonsblond Aiiiiyeeee…...

@Zen just joking. darn medication has got me saying all sorts of crazy things :P

@Zen They said it was more fitting with the chat room.

@filmfann I hate that reason, because there is never anyone in the chat room and if it’s good enough for there it should be good enough for here.

I asked if anyone else cuts the fat off of their meat as close & precise as I do. I can’t STAND any fat in my mouth. It was getting answers, but they pulled it. ??? :-(

@jbfletcherfan Sounds like it is best suited for the chatroom.

I don’t have a photographic memory so I forgot. But I have invented a new sport, whenever I see a question that will definitely get modded I just have to answer first and as silly as possible.

Oh, wait I do remember one. It was a question from someone that just watched the Ring (movie) and got a call right after that. I guess he/she wanted to know if they would die.

@J0E Who are you talking to? You left the chatroom – I’m here and there.

lol @markyy

@Zen I’m talking to the person who I directed my comment @

I don’t see why Questions like “Most Overrated Movies” and “Do you surgically remove the fat from your meat before eating it” don’t belong on Fluther. I’d rather see those than another “How do I know if s/he likes me” question.

If people can ask your favorite movies or which highly-rated movies you’ve never seen, why not ask which we thought were overrated… it offers information to those who might not have seen them that maybe they’re not missing much.

I like to discuss topics relating to behaviors, too… so we can feel comforted knowing there are others who won’t let their food touch on the plate, or who hate the sound of nail clippers… these discussions help us discuss human nature and even to learn to laugh at ourselves.

I’ve never been nodded. I do recall responding to questions that were later nodded, but don’t recall what they were. I have tried to find a couple old questions and got really frustrated by not finding them. I think their original posters may have deleted their accounts.

Is someone slightly pissed?

<thinks of that “Am I Weird” question>

@Saturated_Brain Did you see it? Where is it???

I was once modded for a question the title of which was more creative than informative. There were plenty of details “inside” and people were happily answering away, but I was asked to make the title more banal, and could not. I chose to let the question go rather than to murder my darling. Seems silly in retrospect.

@hearkat Thank you. There’s an option for whether you’re wanting to start a discussion or gain information when you ask a question. My meat/fat question would have been a discussion, of course. Personally, I’m getting sick to death of all the sex questions. What else can get asked on here that hasn’t already!? And a little common sense would go a long way, too. A good old discussion is good any day.

@jbfletcherfan I bet I cut the fat off my meat as close and precise as you. I can’t stand the taste of fat!

Thanks, honey. SOMEONE understands

Mine was simple and vague, the details were important. I tried changing the Question a zillion ways, but to no avail. I wanted to discuss my condion, and get feedback.

@jbfletcherfan Don’t forget that the questions on Fluther are not asked to entertain the answerers, but to help the questioners with their problem. But I do agree, even after my short two months I’m already starting to do the mental eye-roll when I see a certain type of question, especially because most of them can just be found in the archives.

@Zen I changed my question, too. They STILL didn’t like it. :-(

I did like when they opened up fluther on I believe it was April 1st to where you could ask anything. That was a very fun day. All sorts of “mod-able” questions were asked and answered.

@jbfletcherfan Aww. Bring it to the chatroom, or if you want ASK IT HERE AND NOW – we’ll talk about it here.lol

@markyy You’ll find the question in your email inobx marked: you have a fluterh question that needs editing.

@markky we should go to sleep it’s almost 3 a.m.

@jbfletcherfan I’m sick of these immature high school puppy love questions
Waaahh, I think he likes me, IDK wat 2 do :( (sic)

@PretentiousArtist I love those… should i hook up or not?

AAARRGHHHH

@Zen I can’t you scared me with your War of the World’s comment. I’ll never sleep again, what about you?

@markyy Oh now hold the phone! The question of “girls, what is your masturbation routine?” got TONS of answers. That was NOT a question to ”“help the questioners with their problem””. That wasn’t a problem question. It was to start a discussion.

@Zen Eh…I’m all out of the notion now.

@PretentiousArtist God, yes! That kind of shit will get me on my soap box fast! Gimme a major break!

They need a teeny-bopper section here.

@willbrawn That was a very fun day on fluther. I gathered the courage to ask a silly question that evening bet I guess it was too close to midnight and they had had enough because my question was modded. Oh well. You snooze you lose.

@markyy I’ll sing you a lullabye – meet me in chat.—

@jbfletcherfan The question of “Girls, what is your masturbation routine?” should get TONS of answers because it’s awesome. I kind of assumed you were talking about the “Waaahh, I think he likes me, IDK wat 2 do” questions @PretentiousArtist mentioned.

Maybe @Zen is right and I should go to bed. Sorry

Ps. Have you answered your masturbation routine? That thread really needs more responses :P

Quick go here before it’s modded: http://www.fluther.com/disc/58095/should-there-be-a-new-teenybopper-section/

I think the questions above sound interesting but I do clearly see how they are polls. And as we now know polls aren’t really allowed. I can deal with that.

@RedPowerLady Soooo many unmodded questions are polls – which could be answered Yes/No – unless you fel like elaborating. There is tremendous inconsistency methinks.

@Zen I can’t argue with that. I think there are several questions that are polls that don’t get modded. But all the questions above that I read are obviously polls and so subject to moderation. I suppose they can’t catch them all???

@Zen I agree. . I see questions on here that I marvel at how they didn’t get pulled.

Quite frankly I’m surprised this question hasn’t been pulled yet!~

@Zen…..... “Looking for a simple “guy’s” cookbook, which cuts out the fancy talk and doesn’t require millions of measurements.” See? You don’t ask a question until down in the details. This is a statement.

@RedPowerLady Truth be told, if I was modding now (at 3 a.m.) this place would be a mess. I prefer a little over-moderation (even at my “expense”) to under-moderation. Here’s Lurve to the mods!

@jbfletcherfan A lot of my questions (about 150 now) are statements.

@markyy If I answer THAT question, it’ll be in a PM, not on a public board!!!

@Zen That is exactly my sentiment as well. But I can still be sympathetic to those who get good questions modded, totally sucks.

3 a.m. ?? Fluther Junkie ;)

@Zen ..so why is it still here??? Hmmmm?

@RedPowerLady Call me whore.

@Zen ROFL

I’m just a lurve-machine (sing it baby)

I asked “How can I free the bike attached to my fence?” Background: there’s an abandoned bike chained to my backyard fence with a Kryptonite lock, and I was wondering if I had options other than to dremel through it. It was modded because it would elicit information that could lead to bikes being stolen. Which I totally understand. However, I bristled at the mod’s suggestion that it was possible to alter the question to be askable. The mod’s suggestion was to alter it to ask about how to claim abandoned property – which I already know how to do, and would not help in the least with my problem. When I pointed this out and kept pressing for follow-through on how this mod thought it might be possible make my actual question OK, the mod apparently thought I was just trying to be snarky or something and stopped trying to assist me, so I let it die.

@wildpotato Everything is online – even making b*mbs. Shhh.

@markyy לך לישון

No one is ever going to read through that jungle of posts above me and read this, but here goes (for self reference).

@jbfletcherfan “Looking for a simple “guy’s” cookbook, which cuts out the fancy talk and doesn’t require millions of measurements.” See? You don’t ask a question until down in the details. This is a statement.

I think you’re right, and the question could be better formulated, however it seems like a pretty unique topic to me, partly because of it’s specifics. Not one that has been asked over and over. To be honest I think the mod’s finally gave up on @Zen.

I was modded for not putting NSFW in front of my question, What is the best vibrator. Just added it and they let it go.

I guess people couldn’t tell it wasn’t going to be safe for work

@Zen אני, מיד אחרי שאתה

You do realize you woke up the CIA now, do you?

Oh, and I also once asked why Evelyn keeps pet zebras. I was a little drunk at the time, and agree with the mod that this would be better directed to EPZ via PM. But I was interested in what others had to say, and said so in the details.

@Zen, @markyy How do you guys read that stuff without vowels? I can’t ever make it out if it’s just the letters without vowel markings, unless I’ve memorized it beforehand.

@markyy 1. Thanks. Mods giving up on me is the highest compliment ever! 2. I keep respectful, and tell them as much, and have abandoned many many questions quietly and humbly 3. I could never mod myself, so I don’t jusge them 4. You go to sleep first, I’ll sing you a lullabye and quit with the Hebrew – how do you do that???

@markyy I know the feeling. I’ve given up on Zen myself. LOL ;-)

@wildpotato I read and write it. I don’t know how markky is having a conversation with me in Hebrew, ask him – he’s amazing with computers.

@jbfletcherfan That remark was best suited for PM.

Some nice people offered me a free vacation in Afghanistan. I just had to sit through two hours of studying a day and when I got back home I knew Hebrew, and some other stuff :) I could have stayed home if I had known of Google translate beforehand.

I hereby answer modded question! The most over rated movies were: The Batman series!!
@zen PM? sigh. How we ever gonna know about your private life!

@Val123 Ask away, luv.

When I see this: Observing members: 6 it makes me think of wis.dm, sniff, when we would all be in one big unmoderated chatroom, eh?

@Val123 Which Batman series, the new one or the Tim Burton one?

@markyy Ik zal direct na je.

Ah silence..

Go to sleep. I will if you will.

You’ll be in for a long wait, I’m lurve high, it’s a sort of adrenaline kick that prevents me from sleeping. Now stop hijacking your own thread :)

@Zen I saw it. Then I didn’t. It was selected as the sacrifice for the Fluther gods

@zen We’ll get to the personal stuff sooner or later! Yeah…this site does remind me of the original wis.dm…before they got too big for their britches. But, also, their lack of moderation took them down (OK, so did the 15 minute post times at the end) so for that I appreciate Fluther.

@wildpotato Per Batman movies…IDK. I didn’t see any of them, or maybe I just saw bits and pieces. All I remember was grey, icky dreary computer graphics! Batman, after 1968, just sucked! The magic was gone. (Did I just say “1968?” Uh oh!)

I thought Tim Burton did a great job turning the Batman movies into something dark and more adult. The 60’s Batman was way too cheesy for me.

@Saturated_Brain It’s ba-ack!

@Zen was eating supper WHAT remark?

@PretentiousArtist Well, yeah, if you were a GROWN UP then!!

I’ve given up on Zen myself.LOL;-) @jbfletcherfan

@wildpotato @whatthefluther notified me about that one, but it got modded before I got here. Sometimes, I think the mods are a bunch of 16 yr old girls who want to know if that cute boy in the library is dating anyone.

Evelyn keeps pet zebras because they are impossible to domesticate, and the girl loves a challenge. there, we just out-manuevered the mods.

@evelyns_pet_zebra Hey! No. See. With zebras you don’t have to worry about whether you’re ordering dark meat or white meat. It makes perfect sense. It’s not about the challenge, it’s about giving the public what it wants and the public wants it all! It’s all about the, uh, taste. Um….what am I talking about and what’s this about the mod squad?? Did I just cross the stripe, er, line?

This is what I’m listening to now if you care to join me.

@Zen I think it’s kind of funny, I think it’s kind of sad…

Story of my life

I’m going to answer the original question, I liked the one where the guy wanted to know if his girlfriend was really a virgin or was just having her period.

I think it would have engendered a lot of interesting dialogue.

I am just about ready to go to work, don’t everyone go to bed, who will I talk to if you do???

[mod says] ;-)

@rooeytoo OK. I’m up now. Good morning.

@Zen – G’day Mate! How’s it goin?

@rooeytoo Great, n u?

@Zen Oh man. I’m always glad to promote good music but…that version, really? He lacks the haunting beauty and resonance of Gary Jules, whose cover he is covering, and the moody weirdness of Tears for Fears’ original. I love the trumpets’ sardonic laughter in their version. Edit – sorry, that wasn’t a very specific criticism. But it just seems like the Idol guy subtracts from the song rather than enhancing or changing it. Or did I miss what he adds?

@wildpotato Usually a purist, and mostly out of respect for the writer of the song, I fell in love with Adam and especially this version. I also like a good cover, particualrly one that bridges the gap between the generations, as has my teens and I singing along to the same songs. Shhh – don’t tell ‘em it’s not an original. Anything before ‘07 is ooooold, daddy.

@Zen Pshaw I say. Teens aren’t all obsessed with the Top 40’s. Just depends on music tastes, like for any other age group – in the bunch I ran with during high school, you were expected to know most good stuff back to round ‘61. Of course, me and my friends were losers and stoners, so we listened to a lot of the 80’s and much more of the really old stuff – psychedelic rock and all that jazz. And come to think of it, my dad got me into classical when I was about 8.

@wildpotato Did you say 80’s?

So, when this question got moderated, on January 27th, 2009, I went off the deep end.

Are mods mod?

I wrote (but never posted, since I thought it had disappeared, and never was able to recover it at the time) a revised version which went like this:

Are mods mod?

Inquiring minds want to know.

—Written after Mods complained

Ok, this was a deliberatly vague question designed to allow you to take it any way you want, but the mods flagged it, and said it was too vague. It appears to me, that mods are not mod at all. In fact they are downright diluvian. Uh oh. Not a good idea to insult a mod. Well, maybe a mod isn’t a mod. Did you ever think of that? Maybe I’m talking about something different entirely. Oh wait. This is getting vaguer and vaguer. Is vaguer even a word?

So duh. I mean, mod. Like the 60’s and all that. Pink miniskirts. Lollipop glasses. LSD. Sex. Nope. Mods not mod. But I gotta be careful. I can’t answer my own damn question. Please ignore the man behind the curtain. He really isn’t there.

Anyway, what the hell does mod mean? Modern? Moderate? Model? Modify? Modnification? (That’s probably what Pippi would say). So anyway. The Love Bug? Disney Mod? Michael what’s his name Myers, who makes fun of the 60’s? Oh gosh. Isn’t that enough to go on? Are you satisfied, Mr. Mod? Or Ms. Mod. Are things as clear as mud, yet?

Sigh. It is so hard being an artist these days. Having to explain yourself. Just trust me. I know what I’m doing.

Or maybe not.

I didn’t just claim to be an artist did I? Must be a figment of my imagination.

Call it the art of creative obfuscation, and post it, already.

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Well, you can see I was in high dudgeon. Very sarcastic. Actually, I was quite upset. I felt unappreciated and picked upon. So I deleted my account. I was certain that almost no one would notice.

But I couldn’t stay away. No will power, I guess. Or maybe the point wasn’t worth it. Or maybe I was being irrational due to brain chemistry, and when things inside my head cooled down, I realized it wasn’t worth the loss of fluther to make a point about how angry I was. Not that anyone would have understood the point if they even noticed I was no longer around.

So I came back, and bendrew was kind enough to reinstate my old account.

I’m still curious as to how people would have interpreted this question on their own, without further detail, but, alas, that is one of the mysteries that will remain unsolved before I die.

I started reading your question upside down, so I jumped to the question title and will now answer it: Are mods mod?

Some mods might be mod, others not so much. Mod – first thing that popped into my mind was mod in the hip, modern sense, also mod fashion, mode that kind of thing. Some mods (and we won’t name names) aren’t so, ahem, hip.

Lurve.

So here are all the other questions I have had moderated:

8/9/08
The question you asked on Fluther, How many trickster characters do you know?, was flagged by a moderator because:
Your question doesn’t meet Fluther quality standards. Maybe you could explain what trickster characters are? No one really seems to know of them.

3/6/09
The question you asked on Fluther, Is this true? Is there more we don’t know? Tell!, was flagged by a moderator because:
there is no real question in your question. (This question had a lot of detail having to do with frizzers and other fluther tropes—i.e., it was an attempt to generate silliness, and/or to make fun of some fluther threads).

3/17/09
The question you asked on Fluther, Are you lucky or unfortunate?, was flagged by a moderator because:
Your question doesn’t meet Fluther quality standards due to being a poll style question.

I think I may actually have revised this question and resubmitted it. I was still pissed because I wanted people to interpret the terms on their own.

6/23/09
The question you asked on Fluther, What is one of the trickier moral dilemmas you’ve ever faced?, was pushed to editing because:
Your question is too open-ended or rhetorical. Try adding more specific details to get better quality answers. For instance, if you wanted help with a personal moral dilema, that would work. Asking it this way is too open-ended and chatty.

(I’m not sure, but I think I fixed this one, too).

9/22/09
The question you asked on Fluther, Can you tell me what gailcalled means to you, now she’s passed 20K lurve?, was pushed to editing because:
Your question is a duplicate.
Gail has already had her 20k celebration http://www.fluther.com/disc/55928/gailcalled-hit-20k-is-she-the-first/

So this one was appropriately modded, in my opinion, although I was disappointed that I wasn’t the first to ask it. I also thought I asked it in a more interesting way, but it was too late by then. Sigh.

there are certain mods that I feel truly hate and/or despise me. I think that Bendrewtim need to give the robot moderators a shot, because I’m sure the human ones have preferences, likes, dislikes, and don’t always play fair. When interesting questions get modded, but fucktarded questions get through, you know there must some politics involved.

@evelyns_pet_zebra & @daloon we should start our own little psycho-fluther – unmoderated. Oh, waitaminit – that would be wis.dm, and it closed.

I agree with you guys, but, I still prefer over-moderation to the chaos and (racist, sick, hurtful and psychotic) mayhem that is an unmoderated site.

Balanced? Not always? Fair? Only on Fox. But fluther isn’t too bad. I keep the questions that go modded, and ask them 8 hours later – when the mods’ shift changes. Sometimes, I just wear ‘em down til they say fuck it and put it through. ;-)

That would be my only comment, it is not always consistent!

Who is your new pic tonight? I recognized the queen, but don’t know this one.

@rooeytoo looks like Boy George.

@evelyns_pet_zebra A little bit, in his early years.

@Zen it is Boy George, I’d recognize those sweet dick-sucking lips anywhere.

guess it does look like Boy George now that you mention it. He makes a good lookin woman!

Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Kameleon.

^ won’t make sense when I change avs again. That’s why I usually don’t respond to avatars.

Just last week, I had a question returned for editing, asked for suggestions on the proper wording, changed it per the mod’s suggestion, submitted the edited version, and it simply vanished.

I had to actually send a message and ask what happened, before I was told it was rejected. Shouldn’t it be normal procedure to let us know when a question is rejected?

My question was “Can we tell fluther about a new online virus?”

I used to just have my bugs and spider avatars, but too many of the girly-girls onhere were creeped out by them, so I decided to tame them down.

I remember getting scolded on Askville for having a overtly creepy avatar that showed a face with a chomping mouth, no eyes or nose, just a giant chomping mouth.

@evelyns_pet_zebra The only one that I notice that sorta creeps me out is @epon.‘s It’s spooky. I’m used to it by now. Most I don’t even notice – I read the name.

@Zen I think I’m going to change my avatar every other day, just to screw with people’s minds. Especially if they use this to view it full size.

@evelyns_pet_zebra How’d you do that? That’s amazing! I can see the avatars now!

@Zen Stop dicking around and comform already, jeez Louise. You can change avatars all you want, but you don’t fool us. Boy George is you’re real picture, but you don’t even have the guts to use a recent photo.

@evelyns_pet_zebra I like the bugs and spiders avatars. What happened to your jack-o-lantern. Too similar too Sampson’s? you know me, I’m the queen of changing avatars. I lurve that idea

@zen So you wait until the Moody Mods Moods Moderately Modify? Hmm!
I agree, sometimes they’re a little snarky and picky, but they seemed to have lightened up considerably over the last few months. Before I could have sworn they were headed by Ivan: “We are not here to have FUN people!” But when all is said and done, I’d rather have some moderately snarky moderation rather than NO moderation like wisdm. That really became a hell!

@evelyns_pet_zebra Re the big avatar thing—Yay! That is very cool! How did you do that? Book marked! (Hey guys! Go check out Daloons avatar!)

Note to all: You don’t need that viewer to see the avatars close up. Just follow Saturated_Brain’s simple steps:

1. Right-click on the avatar and select “view image”, or whatever equivalent you have in your browser (Google Chrome says “open image in new tab”)

2.Look at the url bar. You’ll see an address which goes something like this “http://www.fluther.com/mogilefs/images/v2/avatars/Val123/Cat_eyes_3_thumb.jpg” (I’m using your avatar by the way, @Val123)

3. Now just get rid of the “_thumb” at the end of the url. You should end up with something which looks like “http://www.fluther.com/mogilefs/images/v2/avatars/Val123/Cat_eyes_3.jpg”

4. Press enter and voila! You’ll see the picture in full size!

NB. The extension might not always be .jpg. I’ve seen .gif before and there’s no reason why other extensions might exist

Disclaimer: I cannot take credit for this method as it belongs to another Flutherite who led me onto this path. I believe it was @augustlan who did so. So thank her instead for bringing me to the light so that I was able to help lead you all to enlightenment

(And yeah, @daloon‘s avatar is cute. Who doesn’t like world maps drawn on butts?)

@Saturated_Brain holy smacks! That’s great! I had NO idea what your avatar was! I wonder if there is any way they could get the avatars to enlarge just by hovering on them with your curser…?

Does Emperor Penguin taste like chicken or fish?

lol4rl @Blondesjon

@Blondesjon Um, I bet it’s fowl, whatever it tastes like. Yuck!

“is neti pot legal and how do you smoke it?”

I have some I have wanted to ask.
One I did ask but I had been Flunking and it was put out of it’s misery before I could regret it.

I think many people on fluther are intelligent and likeable. I enjoy responding too many questions asked here. I rarely ask questions anymore. I think the moderation is excessive. I am a positive person. I refuse to to be edited like an Elementary School student. I do not have the time. I belong to several other cites. Most only moderate questions and comments which are very offensive or make no sense.
I took a writing class in college. I did very well. I have done a lot of writing at work. No one ever kinked picked as well as they do here. It makes me laugh. I am simply not a follower. I live outside the box. It is much more interesting and I learn more.
I do not believe in censorship or that everyone must conform. I think understanding each other is what matters.