Do people ever get shunned?

[El Cid Viscoso]

I'm just curious, is it ever the case that people can categorically be shunned on the Board by the "big posters" until the requisite stripes are earned, say 1,003 posts?

[Tars Tarkas]

UNCLEAN!!!!! RETURN AFTER 900 POST BATH!

[El Cid Viscoso]

Well, I feel a little better. <sheepish grin>

[Ice Wolf]

For a number of posters new to the board, it can take a while to get used to things here. I don't think it's truly "shunning", in the real meaning of the word. More like -- new person we don't know well just yet, entering the room.

[Achernar]

You may imagine this is a matter of some slight contention. And if you don't imagine that, I'm telling you, it's a matter of some slight contention. I think most people would agree, that no newbie-shunning goes on. Some people would say that it does, to some extent or other. Yet other people would say that it does but that it's justified. No clear answer exists, methinks.

[dantheman]

You don't get shunned until you've posted often enough to make people want to shun you. You have to earn your shunning.

[Jonathan Chance]

True enough.

In fact, I'm certain there are people who've been here long enough to piss me off enough that I ignore them completely.

But newbies? Why? They're the yeast that makes us rise.

[Algernon]

I'm still a relative newbie myself, Mr. B. The venerable posters here have proven that you don't get shunned based on your post count by the simple fact they took the time to post.

Only in very rare cases does a poster get actively shunned, and it has absolutely nothing to do with their post count. In the vast majority of cases, if someone feels shunned it's just that they're not being noticed.

In order to be noticed, one generally has to be extraordinarily irritating, clever, or prolific.

Take me for example. I am neither irritating, clever, nor prolific, so as a conseqeunce I am pretty much unnoticed. That doesn't mean that I'm being shunned (of course, someone will come along and assert that indeed I am being shunned, but that's just someone trying to be clever to be noticed. ~grin~).

[Una Persson]

No, people here in general don't seem to have the ability to shun anyone who irritates them. Rather, they will keep after them again and again on this Board, and then when they get warned off about it take their beef to other forums. In some cases, it's behaviour which is clearly harassment.

[NE Texan]

Even if one or more people were to shun you, there are so many here that someone wouldn't. If no one is interested in your post, well, it probably is not an organized shunning.

However, here on the board you might be funned, stunned, or even (metaphorically) sunned. Being gunned is downright frowned upon, though.

Gotta runned.

[SmackFu]

I'm shunning you right now. Oh wait...

[Ethilrist]

I was shunned in grade school. They tell me I'm fine now.

but that's just what they want me to think...

[CuriousCanuck]

Originally posted by Algernon
I am neither irritating, clever, nor prolific, so as a conseqeunce I am pretty much unnoticed. That doesn't mean that I'm being shunned (of course, someone will come along and assert that indeed I am being shunned, but that's just someone trying to be clever to be noticed. ~grin~).

I wasn't shunning you at all.. I just thought that you were tired of all the flowers you were getting. I didn't want to be a bother....

[Algernon]

No bother CuriousCanuck, any extra flowers I get I send to Charlie, my friend.

[C K Dexter Haven]

Don't draw any conclusions about shunning unless you see actual evidence or indications of such. In short, wait till the shun signs, Nelly.

[rowrrbazzle]

:D

[Algernon]

"shun signs" Heh, heh. Now that is clever.


By the way Mr. B, you can be gratified to know that the average post count of the Dopers who have replied to your OP so far is an astounding 3361. And that's with a few of us posters under a thousand bringing down the average.

[El Cid Viscoso]

Dig it.

[UncleBeer]

Let's see if we can bump that average back up a bit.

[El Cid Viscoso]

Hey hey, Sylvania! Hello, you ole Buckeye. How are things back in the real world? (Born and raised in central OH.)

[Algernon]

Ooooh. UncleBeer, thanks for the bump! The average post count of Dopers who replied in this thread (ie- not counting the OP) is now at 3702.

There are probably extremely few threads (with, let's say, more than 10 Dopers responding) that have this high of a post count average.

We should cut this off here before a bunch of newly registered Dopers find this and screw it up.


(Is it obvious I'm in a work avoidance mode this rainy Friday?)

[Alto]

Here I am to bring the average down!

[El Cid Viscoso]

(sorry, I go now.)

UncleBeer, will you please post twice?

[Algernon]

Damn. I knew this would happen.

Having UncleBeer or anyone else post twice won't help because I'm averaging the post counts of the posters, not of the individual posts.

[C K Dexter Haven]

This conversation has got silly, and I'm shunning this thread.

[Kat]

We only shun you if you ask nicely.

[Kat]

Having UncleBeer or anyone else post twice won't help because I'm averaging the post counts of the posters, not of the individual posts.

Well, it might. Because each time they post, their post count goes up.

[Flamsterette_X]

This is very true.

F_X

[dantheman]

What a silly topic. You should stick it where the shun don't sign.

[Algernon]

There once was a Doper, Mr. B.
Who felt left out of the repartee.
His concern about shunning
Was really quite cunning,
Cuz now the thread average is 3693.

[Chronos]

OK, Algernon, I just have to break the rhyme of your limerick :D.

[Algernon]

Hmmm. Let's see. Chronos at 8054 and arruff at 3. Between the two of you, the average still rises.

(Give me a little time here... Chronos has inadvertently given me a rhyming double-dare. ~grin~)

[Algernon]

Aha. I think I can safely ignore a Banned poster. Now I know what he was talking about with his reference to cheating.