#   **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 19, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/94154 "2001-11-19T05:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FormerlyKnownAsBlank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@FormerlyKnownAsBlank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerlyKnownAsBlank)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//94154/21 "2001-11-21T14:04:13Z")
UncleBeer - You are very much in error. I was one of those people banned for starting a thread with no title. I was also banned for having a name that was blanks. When I changed my name I became unbanned. And yes, the threads with no name have been deleted. Why? Because TubaDiva had a fit, sure that they were somehow terrible for the board. The fact that she was wrong, that they are funny and harmless is still true. You claim “empty subject lines sometimes play havoc with the indexing”. But they don’t. The one on Fathom that pops up from time to time (and which was repeated when it overflowed to two pages) is proof of that. Yet you still “do not like them”. To the extent that other people have recieved a nearly identical warning to the one aftermarketeer gave, but by a mod. If a poster trys to warn another poster that he’s too close to one of the boards odd “panic buttons”, that’s a crime? But if a mod warns him off that’s ok, because mods love to swagger and sabre rattle ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//94154/22 "2001-11-21T14:11:25Z")
:eek: ---
**Author:** ![FormerlyKnownAsBlank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@FormerlyKnownAsBlank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerlyKnownAsBlank)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//94154/23 "2001-11-21T14:17:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by John Corrado \* > \*\*For example, > > [-](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=52908) > > Note that the OP was not banned, Uncle Beer said that no characters messed with the index, and closed the thread due to lack of purpose. > Please, next time you want to ruminate on how someone was banned for some reason or another, produce some damned evidence, 'kay? Lest you look like fools. \*\* Actually, if you look at that thread, UncleBeer was trying a few tricks of his own, trying to convince people that empty posts were possible, but then got shown up. And he closed it because he was getting whupped in the logic department. That’s one of his favorite reasons to lock threads, is frustration that he can’t win the argument. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//94154/24 "2001-11-21T14:28:02Z")
Hmmm, he’s already said things about moderator criticism **in this very thread** - you seem to want to become **formerlyknownasBANNED**. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//94154/25 "2001-11-21T14:41:56Z")
Lordy! I never knew “\_” could be such a controversial topic! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//94154/26 "2001-11-21T16:41:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > If **Royal Sampler** had suffixed that comment with a 😃 and/or a 😉 and/or the words ‘(only joking)’, would it still have been out of place? Mangetout 🙂 , are you questioning a moderator decision 😛 in ATMB? :o Don’t you know 😕 that those kind of posts belong in the :mad: BBQ Pit? I will be consulting with TubaDiva 😃 to see if your posting privileges :rolleyes: need to be revoked. :eek: In the meantime, please keep your nose clean 🆒 and try to remember the rules. :wally ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//94154/27 "2001-11-21T17:06:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I was one of those people banned for starting a thread with no title. > > I was also banned for having a name that was blanks. > When I changed my name I became unbanned. Incorrect. You see, you are still posting. This means you were **not** banned. Unless you are suggesting that you have since returned with a new screen name. In which case someone will be along shortly to remove the privileges for this one. Additionally, you are discussing my empty _post_. The topic here is empty _subject_ fields. Two completely different animals. As are the software packages used here (vBulletin) and Fathom (UBB). Can you not tell the difference between apples and oranges? And I gotta ask, “Whupped in the logic department?” How so? Finally, one of my mostest favoritest reasons for closing certain threads is their propensity to attract derogatory and false comments on the administration of this board, from liars and agitators, such as yourself—in a forum unsuited for it. Much like this thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/94154.md?page=1)