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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke

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To: Pianoman1997 who wrote (60813)4/15/2021 9:56:02 AM
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I'll throw my hat into the ring for the exciting opportunity to become moderator of this venerable joke thread!! I've been posting and reading since the thread opened twenty-five years ago. I have joke #24 from 1996! Do I sound too eager?? Hopefully for my sake, my eagerness doesn't compel other applicants to also volunteer for this amazing position!

That said, one of the qualities I feel SI has had over other sites is the mostly hands-off approach to moderation for most of those years. Moderators too easily become dictators which taints the board. I view these boards as a collection of like-minded people who like jokes rather than a rigorous historical documentation of comedy which must be made pristine with military-type regulation.

If you don't mind a weak moderator who mostly looks the other way and who might resign if it becomes too taxing, I'll volunteer until you can find someone better. I also won't be sour if/when I'm booted from the role. You wouldn't get full service in enforcement, though. For example if the meat of a political joke is actually a joke, I would put the onus on the offended readers to click on past.
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