# \_\_\_/\\\_\_\_ \\o/ \_\_\_ **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 8, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/___-___-o-___/391401 "2007-02-08T20:11:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/___-___-o-___/391401/1 "2007-02-08T20:11:26Z")
I was intrigued to see this at the bottom of the SDMB page: > [@](#): > > Threads: 317,656, Posts: 6,785,930, Members: 63,678 > **Welcome to our newest member, \_/\_ \o/ \_\_\_** Hmm, funky username, I thought. But what’s this? [Banned](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php), after 1 post? Is it a name thing? Are Dopers not allowed to act pictographic? I tell you, our chances of attracting Prince to the boards won’t be improved by this… ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/___-___-o-___/391401/2 "2007-02-08T20:16:14Z")
Banned, and single post apparently deleted. Another lost sock, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/___-___-o-___/391401/3 "2007-02-08T20:16:29Z")
The irony is, **\_/\_ \o/ \_\_\_** doesn’t even make sense pictographically, unless the swimmer is being attacked by a buoy. **\_)\_ \o/ \_\_\_**, now _that_ makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/___-___-o-___/391401/4 "2007-02-08T20:16:38Z")
He/she/it has been doing this the last two days. There was a pretty fishy for a while there. So sockitude, or multiple usernames or what have you. **Tuba Diva** did ask the fishy permutation to pick a different username, and a kittycat appeared. This one (I dunno, bisected man hit by a bus? Martini, before and after?) just asked about “unwritten rules about usernames” in ATMB, and I pointed it to the written rule instead. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/___-___-o-___/391401/5 "2007-02-08T20:17:03Z")
He’s been very busy registering ASCII art names, one after the other. The first time he was asked nicely to email **Tuba** with a more appropriate choice of username. Apparently he didn’t like that idea. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/___-___-o-___/391401/6 "2007-02-08T20:18:04Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] The irony is, **\_/\_ \o/ \_\_\_** doesn’t even make sense pictographically, unless the swimmer is being attacked by a buoy. **\_)\_ \o/ \_\_\_**, now _that_ makes sense. [/QUOTE] Aaaahhhh! Now I get it. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/___-___-o-___/391401/7 "2007-02-08T20:19:08Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] The irony is, **\_/\_ \o/ \_\_\_** doesn’t even make sense pictographically, unless the swimmer is being attacked by a buoy. [/QUOTE] I just thought he was a particularly poor practitioner of the old cup-and-ball routine… ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/___-___-o-___/391401/8 "2007-02-08T20:24:10Z")
Perhaps I have an evil mind-my interpretation didn’t involve swimming or buoys ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/___-___-o-___/391401/9 "2007-02-08T21:03:41Z")
As in all such cases, we don’t want to give the guy attention. He/She is obviously looking for attention – negative or positive, doesn’t matter – and if we don’t give him any, perhaps he’ll go away and bother some other board. So, please, if you must know more, email a moderator. But otherwise, the question of what happened has been asked and answered, and we’d prefer not to have further discussion.