# Alphagene, Prepare to Be Anti-Ranted! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 31, 2000, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085 "2000-10-31T15:24:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/1 "2000-10-31T15:24:24Z")
Okay, the Pit is where people can go to rant and be obnoxious, right? Lately, two of my favorite people, Navigator and Smooth Operator, have embedded nice, dinner invitation threads in the Pit. Which has bugged Alphagene no end. So here’s my logic. If the Pit is where one can be obnoxious, and if Alphagene finds niceness in the Pit to be obnoxious, then let’s do a thread where we compliment Alphagene! To get it started: I think Alphagene is an exceptionally good moderator, evenhanded and acting wisely and without rancor, carefully evaluating the stuff that gets thrown in here and treating the posters who dump here with decency and respect. Your turn. Tell him something nice. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/2 "2000-10-31T15:29:03Z")
He’s from Yonkahs. Nothing shabby about that!! ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/3 "2000-10-31T15:32:57Z")
Alpha has fine taste in baseball teams… * * * Yer pal, [Satan](http://www.members.tripod.com/jmspoofe/sdmb/satan.jpg) \*I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR: Six months, three weeks, one day, 13 hours, 38 minutes and 23 seconds. 8222 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,027.84. Extra life with Drain Bead: 4 weeks, 13 hours, 10 minutes. **David B used me as a cite!** \* ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/4 "2000-10-31T15:52:18Z")
Alfie is the Best!!! The best what, you may ask… ---
**Author:** ![Fletch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/919ad9/32.png) [@Fletch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fletch)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/5 "2000-10-31T15:57:35Z")
Alpha is the creme de la creme. The consumate moderator that other moderators should be modeled upon. ---
**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 31, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/6 "2000-10-31T16:11:08Z")
**Alphagene,** jens will be in town tomorrow and Wednesday night. The Polycarps and I thought we would have dinner with him at least one of those nights. I can not give you very definite plans yet since I haven’t heard from jens, but would you be interested in participating in this. I emailed you and gave you my work phone number. Please let me know asap. Thanks. Any other local doper that would like to attend is also welcome. Please contact me at my email address. NOTHING to see here…move along. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/7 "2000-10-31T16:46:53Z")
**AlphaGene** knows how to [shut up when he’s being backed into a corner in a thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=42115). ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/8 "2000-10-31T16:52:49Z")
Well, I hardly think that was complimentary, Mont. Alphagene is hot. If I weren’t straight he’d be at the top of my list. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/9 "2000-10-31T16:55:02Z")
Uke: You’re here too?!? Also, your e-mail addy is not listed in your profile… * * * Yer pal, [Satan](http://www.members.tripod.com/jmspoofe/sdmb/satan.jpg) \*I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR: Six months, three weeks, one day, 15 hours, 0 minutes and 20 seconds. 8225 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,028.13. Extra life with Drain Bead: 4 weeks, 13 hours, 25 minutes. **David B used me as a cite!** \* ---
**Author:** ![Navigator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4af34b/32.png) [@Navigator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Navigator)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/10 "2000-10-31T17:01:00Z")
Alphagene is a great moderator. To put up with pit threads on a daily basis… A better man than me. If I were to ask him to dinner, I’d do it somewhere else though, he doesn’t seem to have much patience in that… 😉 _(BTW Poly, there is a precedence for moving a thread outta the pit to MPSIMS, I pray that isn’t the case here…)_ ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/11 "2000-10-31T17:05:00Z")
Umm, are you all going to actually be in town? Hmmm… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/12 "2000-10-31T17:07:14Z")
Alphagene is a fair and usually even-handed moderator, a nice change of pace from that adulation cultivator John Corrado. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/13 "2000-10-31T17:16:18Z")
I agree putting up with people in the pit and keeping his cool has to say alot about the character of this dude named Alphagene. Also I think poly is on to something about anti ranting on people instead of ranting on them. Here is idea for a new forum how about one where you compliment another posted instead of flaming them. And you could call it the “Loft”. ---
**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 31, 2000, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/14 "2000-10-31T17:17:38Z")
{pssssssst… **Satan!** No, I just copied out the message from **SmoothOperator** that got **Alpha** so riled. But the next time you’re up here for a football game or something we’ll all get together and throw a feed into ya.} ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/15 "2000-10-31T17:23:09Z")
I think it would be well worth my time and effort to follow Alphagene around the boards and put “Great Post Alpha! I totally agree!” after everything he writes. Either that, or change my sig to something along the lines of “Whatever Alphagene says is A-OK with me!”. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/16 "2000-10-31T17:29:31Z")
“Riled”? “Bugged to no end”? Pssht. I sent a lovely email to SmoothOperator, explaining that I wasn’t, in fact, riled. We mock what we do not understand. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Montfort \* > \*\*AlphaGene knows how to shut up when he’s being backed into a corner in a thread. \*\* Oh that thread. The one where rude obnoxious holier-than-thou Lady Bird Johnson wannabes are giving me courtesy lessons. I personally think I did an excellent job of pointing out the hypocrisies of that rabid flock of Woodsy the Owls. I did learn my lesson though. Thanks to that thread I now know that littering is WRONG. Yup. In fact, I’m off to buy an Altoids tin right now. No really. _snicker_ Oh and _this_ thread? It’s cute. It’s been [done before](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=28536). But it’s still cute. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/17 "2000-10-31T18:08:40Z")
Buncha suckups 😉 ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/18 "2000-10-31T18:12:01Z")
Great post **Alphagene**! I agree completely! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/19 "2000-10-31T18:19:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alphagene \* > \*\*I’m off to buy an Altoids tin right now. No really. _snicker_ \*\* You don’t have to do that, Alphagene. You can have mine. I found out that smoking is bad, m’kay. So I don’t need my portable ashtray anymore. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085/20 "2000-10-31T18:27:08Z")
Well, I would have led everyone in a rousing cheer of “Alpha, Alpha, he’s our man,” but unfortunately, the costume shop was out of cheerleader getups. On second thought, not forcing you to see me in a cheerleading outfit may actually be the best gift I could have given you, Alpha. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphagene-prepare-to-be-anti-ranted/39085.md?page=2)