# Abuse of my powers. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 12, 2000, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672 "2000-10-12T14:40:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/1 "2000-10-12T14:40:32Z")
Well, no, actually, I’m just testing them. Okay; edit the first post, and you have to re-type the subject. Interesting. … Hmmm. No, if you enter a subject in the first post on an edit, it’s just entered as the small-bold subject line. And why don’t I see a “Edited by” message for that edit? … Alright, there it is. Good to know. And during edit, it defaults to “no sig”. Note to self- if I need to edit a message, always see whether the sig is present before the edit. [Edited by John Corrado on 10-12-2000 at 09:43 AM] ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/2 "2000-10-12T15:24:32Z")
Oh, John! Abuse me next! (What? He asked for it, didn’t he?- JMCJ) (Huh. It’s still not necessarily giving me the “Edited by tag.” Why not?- JMCJ) (Nope. Still not. Try it without “show signature” checked off.- JMCJ) (Okay, get the tag, but now andros’ sig file is gone. Freaky weird.- JMCJ) (And now they’re both there. Right. So Edit once, don’t sign; edit twice, sign. Boy, I’m glad there’s no flood control on the edit function.- JMCJ) [Edited by John Corrado on 10-12-2000 at 10:28 AM] ---
**Author:** ![Fonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Fonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonz)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/3 "2000-10-14T05:21:51Z")
I love the way John Corrado edits things. He never changes much, just bleeps the naughty bits. 😃 [Edited by John Corrado on 10-14-2000 at 12:24 AM] \*\* [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/4 "2000-10-14T05:28:26Z")
Well done, John. Now if you’ll just change my “Member” designation to “Mod Guinea Pig” I’ll be happy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/5 "2000-10-14T20:46:39Z")
Nice try, **Fonz** , but you forgot to delete the “end quote” tag 😃 And **andros** , John can’t do that… Only administrators have the power to do things affecting specific members, like banning and status changes. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/6 "2000-10-14T21:14:33Z")
Really? You mean if there’s a troll attack at 3:30 in the morning Chicago time, you’ve got to roust **Little Ed** out of the sack to do the banning? This makes me nervous. What if ALL the administrators came down with Spanish Influenza at once? ---
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/7 "2000-10-14T22:57:07Z")
Speaking of trolls, I was just posting at this thread [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=42225](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=42225) and now **Outlaw2000** is banned and his sig is modified into an unlikely “confession”, presumably by the mods. (“I am really Concrete. I lied to all of you.”) How does this work? He wouldn’t really confess, would he? What would be the point? And all the posts under that name are too banal to offend a nun’s Aunt Bessy. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/8 "2000-10-14T23:03:21Z")
“Outlaw” is about the 20th screen name from this person. When we throw someone out for violation of our policies that’s not an invitation to get another screen name and come back and do it some more. In fact, that’s guaranteed not to endear that person to us further. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/9 "2000-10-14T23:15:06Z")
I’m not doubting you, but I can’t see how you connect one name to another. They seem so different. Is he like the last guy in the world with a fixed IP number? And what if someone else has the same fixed number? We had an explanation of that here recently, I recall. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/10 "2000-10-14T23:18:50Z")
He’s made no secret of it, here and elsewhere. Apparently bad attention is better than no attention at all and isn’t that sad? Why do you think it’s okay for people to be a disruption on this board? your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/11 "2000-10-14T23:25:43Z")
Don’t put words into my mouth OK? I never said or implied that! I meerly asked how you knew, is all. Is that a crime now, too? > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Democritus \* > \*\*I don’t know how long it was, maybe an hour? Banned and all the extraneous threads deleted. I’m impressed! > > 😉 \*\* There seems to be some missing threads. Is that it? Did he say something outragous that we never saw? ---
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/12 "2000-10-14T23:31:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > \*\*there was nothing really to see. One thread was asking if it was ok to call his girlfriend by a name she hated. he posted like 3 times to that thread alone. the other thread was one he opened asking why the other was closed. > > not that I noticed. really. I have a life. honestly. :mutter mutter gotta get new slippers: \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Democritus \* > \*\*There were two or three other threads. Same stupid content nothing too offensive. They were deleted pretty quickly. I think one had no replies. The other had maybe two. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/13 "2000-10-14T23:40:00Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Zyada \* > **ShakeNBake - I happened to spot this particular incarnation because this morning when 2foolish popped up I checked his old threads, and he had started one called “Who are the hotties around here” Then out** _ starts one with the same title except for one word, and almost the same text. Then he starts a “I’m so socially incompentent” thread - one of the hallmarks of 2foolish. Basically it’s a style issue - once you’ve seen enough of his threads, you start to recognize the style. \*\* TubaDiva- Same thing I told Eutychus55 - > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShakeNBake \* > \*\*Eutychus55 - > I don’t doubt you a bit. Good call. > I’m glad you’re deleting the threads. > I like that policy more than locking. > If you’d deleted them all, I would never have asked. > And if you now delete this thread, there will be less for him to see as a result of his efforts. > > **Zyada** Thanks. This is the part I coun’t see. All this troll fuss, and then when it happens, you want to know _what_ happened. > \*\* ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/14 "2000-10-14T23:40:15Z")
um, \*\* Shake and bake \*\*? I responded in a different thread. To quote it here, may make it appear that I have a different opinion than I expressed in the other thread. This board belongs to the Chicago Reader, the Mods are here to enforce some very simple basic rules. I had no problem with that, a comment that was made in that other thread. they made the right call. ---
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/15 "2000-10-14T23:42:43Z")
Sorry, I was answering questions on two forums. I didn’t mean to quote out of context. ---
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/16 "2000-10-14T23:44:09Z")
the other thread is here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=810479#post810479](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=810479#post810479) I guess they were both started at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abuse-of-my-powers/36672/17 "2000-10-14T23:59:39Z")
Since this issue has been resolved in the other thread, this one will be closed as well.