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Forgive me for asking, but what's backseat moderating again?

Quantix wrote:Forgive me for asking, but what's backseat moderating again?

It's when someone acts like a moderator when they aren't one. For example, if I told someone not to double-post if they do.

Quantix wrote:Forgive me for asking, but what's backseat moderating again?

Basically imagine someone bumps an old topic, say your case and I'm pointing it out. Since that's what I'm doing this post could easily be considered backseat moderating. Basically the term implies that a non-staff user is enforcing the forum rules when said user does not have the power nor right to do so.

Now that's how we all refer to the term backseat moderating here, but the true definition of backseat moderating goes like this. Hope it helps.