Th q s R*GG*D!!
From Voice of the Proletariat
This describes a type of thread or complaint that turns up semi-consistently on the Nation. Like a haiku, the form is very simple, but the variations are infinite -- well ok the variations are actually pretty limited.
Premise: Somebody gets voted down and blames secret modmins
Somebody has a link or post voted down, and decides it couldn't possibly be due to community moderation--because how could multiple people have the unforgivable bad taste to vote down the works of art this person contributes? Therefore (claims the angry user), the site actually has does use specially privileged moderators who have unlimited power to zap posts and threads, even though this is in direct contradiction of the principles it was founded on, and contradicts everything the site owner has claimed about how site moderation works.
Although the first incident, which this cliche's name derives from, involved a person having many posts voted down in the queue (citation needed), it has been known to result from a single downvoted thread.
So far, no indication--let alone proof--of privileged modmins (other than the site owner*) has been found on the site, and most or all of the claims have been quickly discredited by grahams' replies to them. Grahams has clarified that although he can directly modify the database to remove comments, he never does so unless something illegal has been posted, and in all other cases his user moderation carries no more weight than any other user.
Consequently, new claims have roughly the credibility of alien abductions, but that never discourages drunk submitters from deciding they've been hoodwinked.
*Grahams has openly stated that he has personally deleted several posts in the site's history, because they illegally posted personal information and hadn't yet been voted down when he found them. Ironically, those actual deletions did not spawn any complaints or conspiracy theories, either before or after he said he'd zapped them.
Cliche name
This cliche's name is the result of trying to type "The queue is rigged!!" when you've been disemvoweled, and putting a couple of asterisks in the word "rigged" where the vowels would be. This form of the phrase was first used in furious complaints by a disemvoweled user who felt he'd been voted down unfairly, and has become the standard way to describe incidents of this type.
Examples
- Queue dumping and the STFU Index
- AnonDIT: "..the queue may be rigged, which is really disappointing if true."
- Wait, what happened? I made a submission, it showed up in the queue and got lots of quick votes, but it then disappeared within minutes of submission without being greenlit. Is bN now moderated?
- It was R*GG*D!
