# Alrighty then... my 1001st post **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 4, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622 "2005-08-04T21:13:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/21 "2005-08-04T22:36:20Z")
If by “that thread” you mean your original “1000 Posts” thread, of course people are interested in it. It’s a locked thread, and that tends to pique people’s interest. There can be an 8 page trainwreck in the pit that I ignore, but once it’s locked down, I can’t resist seeing what the hell brought it to its demise. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/22 "2005-08-04T22:36:55Z")
Dude, chill. You posted a thread that everybody, including yourself knew was going to get locked down. You got your recognition of 1000 posts. Happy? Continuing to gripe about the locking and the posters who responded before the lock is making you look like a fool. (Full disclosure: I did the same thing (post to announce, not whine about the locking thereof) on my 5000th post. Some milestones you just want to yell out. But don’t bitch when somebody tells you to sit down and shut up.) ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/23 "2005-08-04T22:52:09Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > All of this is a long-winded way of suggesting that you get over it. It serves no good to get mad at the fact that someone pointed out that you pissed your pants, or to rail at how mean they were in the way that they told you that pissing your pants was bad. The unalterable fact is that you, my friend, pissed your pants. The take-home here should be “don’t piss yourself”. Not a good analogy. The mods decide if someone pisses their pants or not, they don’t need ‘helpful’ comments to that effect from third parties, let alone gleeful ones. > [@](#): > > You posted a thread that everybody, including yourself knew was going to get locked down. I certainly didn’t know it would be locked. There’s no rational way you can claim otherwise; did I tell you that somehow ahead of time? Are you omniscient? > [@](#): > > I never took a first swing at you, much less a second. The implicit message in your posts is that you simply know better than I do since you’ve been around longer, and therefore it’s OK to be happy in a way that you need to share with everyone that the thread will be closed. “I know more than him, haha! Look everyone, I’m a better Doper! This guy’s error gives me a chance to prove it! Ooooh here comes a mod to chastize, wheeee! It’s comin, here it comes…” What in hell is that all about? I’m very specifically taking that to the Pit because I hate to see that behavior here. I was under the impression that **UncleBeer** was still a mod. Didnt see the title change; my apologies on that. It appears **UB** was merely being an abusive fellow Doper. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/24 "2005-08-04T22:54:07Z")
> [@Crandolph](#): > > Dude, I was noting the count padding irony. If that’s the issue, why add to it? Why even read the thread? If it’s that mundane and you know what’s going to happen to the thread, because you’re such an all-knowing SDMB jockey that you’ve seen it all before, why even click on it? > > Implicitly it’s about one-upsmanship. “This is the cool people’s board, your thread is going to be locked, haha.” Yeah, I guess that’s one way to read it. Or you could interpret it as good-natured ribbing over an understandable misstep in posting ettiquette. I guess there is a sort of clique at work, here, but it’s a pretty easy clique to get into. The way in is, basically, to not start threads like this one, where you over-react to almost imaginary slights and blow a minor issue about the board’s rules into a huge hissy fit. Seriously, man, let it go. It’s just not worth the grief. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/25 "2005-08-04T23:01:39Z")
> [@Crandolph](#): > > . . . I was under the impression that **UncleBeer** was still a mod. Didnt see the title change; my apologies on that. It appears **UB** was merely being an abusive fellow Doper. You think \*that \* was abusive? My advice to you is to stay out of the Pit, man. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/26 "2005-08-04T23:02:22Z")
> [@Crandolph](#): > > To answer **lightingtool** : there are a good many people here (the Pit especially) who love to see anyone get chastized by a moderator and love it more when the language used to do so is superior and abusive. What they love even more than that is making anticipatory comments about lockings and bannings. Naturally moderators in any forum ultimately always win these battles. Excuse me, but I think you have this backward. There are a good many posters (in the Pit especially) who enjoy chastizing the mods. It’s one of the few boards where posters are allowed to criticize TPTB. I’ve done it. Specifically the guy upthread who isn’t a mod anymore. Called him a power drunk nazi. IIRC, he called me a whiny little bitch. The language was hardly superior, but definitely abusive on both sides. Neither of us felt we needed to mind our manners. Nor have the countless other posters who have pitted mods and admins. You don’t have to bow down and kiss jackbooted toesies. Mods don’t always win. I’ve seen threads re-opened after deliberation; one quite recent. Don’t _expect_ it to happen. Decisions are usually final. But we’re not all the ass kissing sycophants you make us out to be. > [@](#): > > The voyeurism and additional remarks in support of any of that are purely sadistic. Tee hee, your thread will be locked. Hardy har, you’re going to get banned. No one who has been around here for a while can’t honestly say they haven’t read those posts. I don’t happen to like them. You call those those comments sadistic? You need to get out more. And, most people aren’t in those threads cheering for the mods to ban anyone or close threads. Why should they? They recognize melt down train wreck fodder when they see it. They don’t want it stopped, they want it extended. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/27 "2005-08-04T23:03:21Z")
First thought when reading the OP: _“Oh, buck up…your post party got closed, waa waa waa. Calling the lockdown was ‘asshole behavior’?? Boo hoo”_. Then I looked at the original thread again, and I’ll be damned…yup, I did display asshole behavior: I didn’t fully read the OP. You asked a legitimate question in there, one quite suited for MPSIMS, but I just saw the first line or two and jumped right in with my “lockdown” comment. That thread really didn’t really meet the definition of “post party”, and never should’ve been closed (one could possibly cite [This is my 877th post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=231348) as evidence). You have my apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/28 "2005-08-04T23:14:16Z")
> [@Genghis Bob](#): > > You think \*that \* was abusive? My advice to you is to stay out of the Pit, man. I’m “in the Pit, man” because one isn’t allowed to raise moderation issues anywhere else. I think that that rule allows Peanut Gallery potshots (like your own, **Genghis** ) at people who might have legit points and aren’t taken seriously. Yes, that was abusive. I post that I note I’ve been around a while and like learning things, ask a question about people’s posting frequency compared to my own, and what do I get for it? Three know-it-alls celebrating the thread getting locked before it happens then more shit from others when I raise the point of the inherent dickheadedness and extreme irony of those 3 posts. At least **SkipMagic** had a kind word and wasn’t a jackass about enacting a policy. Most of the rest of you are just being jerks. And for the most part I _do_ stay out of the Pit, not because I lack the _intestinal fortitude_ or _thick skin_ to read and type insults on a screen, but because it’s a dramatic waste of time in most cases in my opinion. Unfortunately this is the designated forum for discussing moderation issues and the only place that I can let others know that I think taking the time to celebrate the closing of another person’s earnest, polite thread noting _how much I enjoyed learning things here_ takes a particular variety and degree of jerk-ass-ism. ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/29 "2005-08-04T23:17:38Z")
Thank you, **Hal**. I was typing my last post while you were posting. You’re in Jersey (I won’t go for the cheap shots…), if you happen to make it to Philly sometime the first round’s on me. See? We can be nice people. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/30 "2005-08-04T23:35:51Z")
This is sadly pathetic and yet funny at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/31 "2005-08-04T23:58:31Z")
Does this mean that Unc’ gets another (retroactive) point in the other game? ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/32 "2005-08-05T00:03:35Z")
So, I guess it’s ok to have a post count party, as long as you bitch about moderators, and have it in the pit. Who knew? Tris ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/33 "2005-08-05T00:07:35Z")
How about a past cunts party? I had a girlfriend with a really pretty twat. Coulda been in movies. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/34 "2005-08-05T00:09:07Z")
Titling the thread _My 1000th post_ is just **asking** for a lockdown. Just sayin’… ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/35 "2005-08-05T00:21:44Z")
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone too thin skinned for MPSIMS before. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/36 "2005-08-05T00:36:07Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > I don’t think I’ve seen anyone too thin skinned for MPSIMS before. I take it you missed the whole \*\*Quasimodem \*\* thing… ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/37 "2005-08-05T00:51:04Z")
It must be difficult for you to find jeans that won’t rip violently through your tissue-paper thin skin. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/38 "2005-08-05T00:55:05Z")
Is Cecil gonna have to choke a bitch? ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/39 "2005-08-05T00:56:50Z")
Kneepads all around, then? May I suggest purchasing through a wholesaler? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/40 "2005-08-05T00:58:36Z")
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