# Admin help? Xamatix banned... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 14, 2005, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684 "2005-01-14T07:25:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/21 "2005-01-17T03:18:35Z")
I would ask, please, not to bandy my name about on the boards again. I am afraid poor **Aldebaran** had some rather odd ideas about me, few of them justified, and now that he is gone I would like to forget the unpleasantness. I’ve never had that sort of friction with anybody else on the Boards and never hope to again. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/22 "2005-01-17T03:35:42Z")
Hi, **Xamatix**. I’ve seldom seen anyone come back from being banned, and I hope you will take the reprieve to become a useful member of the Board. We can always use more voices from overseas and your writing style is vivid and your arguments nice and clear. However…I would ask you, please, not to bandy my name about on the boards again. I am afraid poor **Aldebaran** had some rather odd ideas about me, most of which I can assure you were unfounded, and now that he is gone I would like to forget the unpleasantness. I’ve never had that sort of friction with anybody else on the Boards and never hope to again. So, let’s have a clean slate between us, OK? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/23 "2005-01-17T03:36:52Z")
Yuck, sorry about the double-post! The Internets told me it wasn’t going through. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/24 "2005-01-17T03:47:00Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > Yuck, sorry about the double-post! The Internets told me it wasn’t going through. A good rule of thumb on this board is: Hit the post button. It went through. Don’t believe anything you see that says it didn’t go through. In the incredibly rare instance it didn’t, you can open the thread, and see if your reply is listed, BEFORE you hit “post” again. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/25 "2005-01-17T05:11:15Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > It was a positive piece of the puzzle. > > Any help that any member of this board can give to the administration is welcome. > > We may not always get around to letting you know that it helped, but it IS appreciated. Truly. Well, then I’m glad I was able to help. ---
**Author:** ![Ink\_a\_dink\_a\_dink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ec9cab/32.png) [@Ink\_a\_dink\_a\_dink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ink_a_dink_a_dink)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/26 "2005-01-17T08:31:36Z")
And happiness reigned all over the land. **Sam** , what was the reasoning for reversing the decision, out of curiosity? If it’s none of my business, please let me know and I’ll drop it. Just curious. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this posting. Be well. Ink ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/27 "2005-01-17T12:49:45Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > A good rule of thumb on this board is: > > Hit the post button. It went through. Don’t believe anything you see that says it didn’t go through. > > In the incredibly rare instance it didn’t, you can open the thread, and see if your reply is listed, BEFORE you hit “post” again. “Previewing” the thread will sometimes work too. I’ve been surprised to hit “submit” then got “all the hamsters are dead” message, but on previewing saw that my post was indeed the most recent one there after all. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/28 "2005-01-17T12:58:08Z")
> [@](#): > > **Sam** , what was the reasoning for reversing the decision, out of curiosity? As Dex noted, earlier, > [@](#): > > The question is being debated amongst the mods. Sock-puppetry is suspected, but there is some room for a different interpretation. Some super-secret analysis along with the information (above) provided by **LurkMeister** persuaded the staff that **xamatix** was not a sock. We don’t ban for fun, so with the evidence pointing away from sock-puppetry, the decision was reversed. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/29 "2005-01-17T13:21:18Z")
Again, outstanding work gentlemen. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/30 "2005-01-17T13:31:20Z")
> [@](#): > > …_gentlemen_. You might not want to post in Fora moderated by TubaDiva, Lynn Bodoni, Gaudere, or TVeblen for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/31 "2005-01-17T16:11:43Z")
**Mehitabel** , you are on your way to becoming the worst attention whore on this board. If you want to “forget” about something, here’s an idea- quit posting about it. Forever. And if people stopped bandying your name around on the boards, you would probably wither away and die. Hey… Quit hijacking threads with your obsessive “poor me I’m a victim” schtick. Jeez. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/32 "2005-01-17T16:43:58Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > **Mehitabel** , you are on your way to becoming the worst attention whore on this board. > > If you want to “forget” about something, here’s an idea- quit posting about it. Forever. And if people stopped bandying your name around on the boards, you would probably wither away and die. Hey… > > Quit hijacking threads with your obsessive “poor me I’m a victim” schtick. Jeez. A bit over-the-top in language for ATMB but dead-on in observation. Your interactions with **Aldebaran** were disgraceful, **Mehitabel** , and you were warned for them. Interjecting yourself into this thread was rude and intrusive. The surest way to avoid emnity is to not seek it out in the first place. _Drop your obsessive grudge already._ We’re sick and tired of it. This thread is about **Xamatix** , not you. We’re welcoming her back, so stop raining on her parade. Veb ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/33 "2005-01-17T17:29:40Z")
So…I can’t be upset when a new poster says flat out that I’m staying up at night obsessing about someone, which is total nonsense? I didn’t even respond when she mentioned me in the Pit, and I offered a truce right away when I heard she was coming back. I honestly don’t see why I can’t ask for one here, in a more civil forum. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/34 "2005-01-17T21:23:15Z")
Never mind…I’m so sorry. I’m very emotionally brittle right now due to issues that have nothing to do with the Board and am way too quick to take offense where presumably none was intended. It did hurt me to see what **Xamatix** wrote about me in her Pit thread but I realize that she’s entitled to her opinons. Since I seem unable to deal with issues more serious than last night’s ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT right now 😉 I’m taking a break and logging out, although I’ll still take a look and see how my friends here are doing. See you in two weeks, thanks. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/35 "2005-01-18T04:47:26Z")
Hope it goes well for you, Mehitabel; sometimes time away is exactly what’s called for. If the weather is nice where you are, go outside and play. 🙂 See you later. If you need more time – for example, a formal posting sabbatical – please send me an email. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/36 "2005-01-24T23:58:37Z")
I see **Xamatix** is unbanned. I take it the suspicions were unfounded? In any event, welcome to the boards. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/37 "2005-01-25T00:01:57Z")
:smack: Jeez. Next time I’ll read the whole thread first. ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/38 "2005-01-26T01:49:30Z")
Just curious – since this all worked out for the best, would it not be best to just delete this whole thread? Leaving it up doesn’t seem to accomplish much except to create confusion and let people know that \*\*xamatix \*\* was once under a cloud, albeit mistakenly. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684/39 "2005-01-26T02:47:23Z")
Sounds reasonable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admin-help-xamatix-banned/284684.md?page=1)