132: Gonna find my baby, gonna Snark her tight. Gonna Durp some afternoon delight

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

He got banned for asking Asahi 'what are you babbling about?' That seems spectacularly lame.

Meanwhile, I reported a post for calling Clarence Thomas an "oreo". First moderator response:

Originally Posted by Someone

Not my forum, but I don't see Mallard calling Clarence Thomas an oreo, there. I see him saying that Clarence Thomas is a black person who acts white, and suggesting that his name, rather than "oreo", be used as the general term for such a person.

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...56&postcount=5

How does that guy manage to cross the street?

[Someone]

When did they start the Warning system? My first (of two) official Warnings was in December of 2009 from twickster.

[Someone]

Gorilla warfare...

[Someone]

Actually, that was fucking me too! Lol. They started using it soon after I embarrassed them by pointing out how many "final warnings" they had given Desmostylus.
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...50#post6211570

[Someone]

That's a pretty weak-sauce excuse for a banning. Not that I'm complaining.

[Someone]

When you're 26 days back from your second suspension, you're going to get your parole violated for thinking about running a stop sign.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

For the sake of preserving history, I thought I'd post a few screenshots of the old vBulletin-based Straight Dope Message Board.

Elmwood, put one of my bad, bad, bad threads up for posterity. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeze! I wanna go down in history. :toilet:

(God, I hope there's a :toilet: emoji!)

[Someone]

We need a toilet emoji, which dept. do I send letters to?

[Someone]

I'm trying to open the thread where it explains why CarnalK was banned, but of course, the board is timing out.

How does it work here? If you're in the box forever, does that become your handle? Very strange.

I'm unhappy to see him get banned, but I'm not going to start the thread about it. I've used up all my white knight cred by trying to white knight puddleglum, who I don't even like as a poster.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I'm trying to open the thread where it explains why CarnalK was banned, but of course, the board is timing out.

How does it work here? If you're in the box forever, does that become your handle? Very strange.

No, he's socking up for now to escape the box. If he gets annoying again, the mods will probably just start boxing him immediately each time he pops outo f the box.


Also bad Beckdawrek; did you have to quote that whole long post, way to shit up the thread. Please Edit and put a spoiler tag around it or delete most of it.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

We need a toilet emoji, which dept. do I send letters to?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

No, he's socking up for now to escape the box. If he gets annoying again, the mods will probably just start boxing him immediately each time he pops outo f the box.
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You can do that here? Between that and all the pictures, it's the wild west over here!!

I guess CarnalK was a bit harsh, but I thought he was a good poster in general. At least he engages honestly, unlike D'Anconia, and is not a complete dumb ass like the two guys who start with a U.

[Someone]

The board is acting jankier than usual today. It's like it knows they're pulling the plug next week so it's in "fuck you I don' wanna" mode.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

We need a toilet emoji, which dept. do I send letters to?

[Someone]

Intermittent "TEMPORARILY OFFLINE FOR MAINTENANCE" page.

[Someone]

Jeez, the SDMB is even more terrible than usual today. I've gotten nothing but 502/405 errors for the past 20 mins.

[Someone]

From Colibri

That's the move to Discourse, which is scheduled to happen starting Thursday.

I wonder how swiftly the move will be with all the time outs?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

You can do that here? Between that and all the pictures, it's the wild west over here!!

Yeah, you can make socks here as long as you don't get too annoying. The mods will generally ignore you as long as you're not being an asshole.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

From Colibri

I wonder how swiftly the move will be with all the time outs?

You left out the best part of that thread: Ulfrieda thought that the "new thing" had already happened.

I am genuinely looking forward to the avalanche of "What's going on? The board looks different! I don't like different! Change it back!" messages on Thursday.

[Someone]

I'm sure there'll be plenty of complaining about "my username is all screwed up!" even though there's a mutli-page thread about it, too.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

You left out the best part of that thread: Ulfrieda thought that the "new thing" had already happened.

I am genuinely looking forward to the avalanche of "What's going on? The board looks different! I don't like different! Change it back!" messages on Thursday.

Probably not til Friday, and there will be over a hundred dumb ass posts like that is my guess. The Dope is on life support currently and there is no realistic going back once they pull the trigger. Any slightly reasonable person will adjust to the new board software but we know a lot of users aren't reasonable sadly. Hell I won't be happy with probably a dozen things including the username issue, but in the end, not really that important. My posting will depend on the other users, not the software.