# Am I not welcome here? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 29, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149 "2015-05-29T21:50:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![protoboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@protoboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/protoboard)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/261 "2015-06-01T21:24:30Z")
Meh, I don’t care anymore. I’m gonna post here anyway. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/262 "2015-06-01T22:35:59Z")
Just think of us as the Portland of the internet. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/263 "2015-06-01T22:37:16Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Just think of us as the Portland of the internet. That made my day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/264 "2015-06-01T23:09:27Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > What the shit, son, were you dropped on your head or just trolling? You’ve “been here a little over a year/year and a half maybe two”? Either you are lying or your join date is or you’re trolling like a dumb troll that forgot how to troll because damn you’re dumb. In fairness, while he joined in 2005, he doesn’t appear to have actually posted until 2012. He was probably a guest during pay-to-post, and then rediscovered us. Lucky us. ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2015, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/265 "2015-06-01T23:18:09Z")
There **protoboard** , you’ve been noticed. You’ve had your SDMB 15 minutes. Congratulations. Now feel free to fuck off to the depths of anonymity like the rest of us. Thanks ever so much. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/266 "2015-06-01T23:33:29Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > . . . Now I think you’re, at best, a lack wit who should be separated from all electronic devices when he drinks. At worst, you’re a misogynistic rascist, who fills his spare time by searching for sympathy on the Internet. . . In honor of SDMB pedantry, I have to point out that lackwit is one word. (Unless you think that’s bullying or cruel.) > [@Emiliana](#): > > Nah, you toss one in the basket when it goes around. If you can. No one cares if you don’t, which makes AA meetings even more welcoming than strip clubs! Ah. I learned something in this thread. Cool. > [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > . . . I also have “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me” (Warren Zevon) as an earworm now. Huzzah. Sadly, for me it’s “Nobody Likes Me. Everybody Hates Me. Think I’m Gonna Eat Some Worms.” And just the chorus, so it’s getting repetative. I’d feel bad about not addressing the OP, but his little green light is out. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/267 "2015-06-02T00:06:22Z")
As if any of you are real people anyway . . . ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/268 "2015-06-02T00:21:56Z")
> [@FuriousGeorge](#): > > There **protoboard** , you’ve been noticed. You’ve had your SDMB 15 minutes. Congratulations. Now feel free to fuck off to the depths of anonymity like the rest of us. **Thanks ever so much.** Let’s see if you’re welcomed for the part I bolded here. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/269 "2015-06-02T00:26:26Z")
Can’t forget The Coop while we’re talking Nobody Likes Me songs. Here’s the Alice Cooper Band in the year of Woodstock and moon landings: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZbEk2bgOuho/maxresdefault.jpg "Nobody Likes Me (Live)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbEk2bgOuho) ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/270 "2015-06-02T00:27:32Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > Let’s see if you’re welcomed for the part I bolded here. Well, I wont be; but, that’s cuz Portland sucks. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/271 "2015-06-02T00:53:09Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Just think of us as the Portland of the internet. I guess you’ve never been to Portland … ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/272 "2015-06-02T16:22:49Z")
I don’t hate **protoboard** , but I do think he’s a whiny, naive, narcissistic asshole. That’s OK with me. He’ll eventually start contributing something worthwhile, hopefully. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/273 "2015-06-02T19:34:36Z")
The triumph of optimism over experience. ---
**Author:** ![Teach-me-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@Teach-me-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teach-me-not)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/274 "2015-06-02T20:55:03Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > have you noticed that for every piece of feedback you’ve been given, you make an excuse? And are you now shooting for 'suicide by mod"? Let me go microwave the popcorn. We need a word for this. How about “modyrdom”? 🆒 Looking at **Measure for Measure** ’s list of recent threads started by **protoboard** : > [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > (snip) > Are Europeans really unfriendlier than Americans? (Multi-page thread 1 2) > Do libertarians have classicidal ideations? (Multi-page thread 1 2 3 4) > Don’t Move to Portland: A Rant (Multi-page thread 1 2) > Is Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk the greatest album ever made? > Why do Asian-Americans name their daughters these names? (Multi-page thread 1 2) > (snip) > Why are Americans so hostile towards people who complain? (Multi-page thread 1 2) > Who will replace the GOP when they go out of style? > Why do women/moms pinch kids’ cheeks? > Is Owl City objectively good music? > When do you think the 20th century really ended? > > Some of the questions could have been better, though nice job with the pinching cheeks thread: it was a good question. Some of the topics are loaded with implicit and unreasonable assumptions. This ^. “Implicit and unreasonable assumptions” is on point. I am a nobody on this board, so this post isn’t representative of anything. I, for one, liked the Talk Talk question (mostly because I haven’t heard of this band before) and the Asian-American naming question. The latter question necessarily involves stereotyping Asian-Americans, which I didn’t care for much, but it was a good observation, and there were some insightful responses. Oddly, before this thread, I did remember **protoboard** as “the Portland whiner” but I didn’t recognise him in the other questions at all. Goes to show that we (or rather, I) recognise a person’s bad bits more readily than the good ones. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/275 "2015-06-02T21:27:01Z")
> [@Teach-me-not](#): > > “modyrdom” … … Fuck me running. 15 years and we haven’t come up with that yet? You win, I’m retiring. /internet ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/276 "2015-06-02T21:53:16Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > How about suggesting someone commit a physiologically improbable act of self-penetration? In those exact words. I got away with that on the old AOL SDMB, but I had an in with the moderator back then. > [@DrFidelius](#): > > As I recall you also had weaponized coffee. It wasn’t weaponized. It just had _character._ It poured slow. Really slow. Now, the biscuits, on the other hand… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/277 "2015-07-02T15:03:12Z")
> [@protoboard](#): > > Okay, I’ll just smile while people treat me badly for no reason at all… I’m not reading this whole thread so please forgive me if someone has already addressed this point. Nothing happens for “no reason at all.” There’s always a reason. You may not know the reason, or you may not understand the reason, or you may not approve of the reason, but there’s always a reason. I think it would serve you well to put some effort into learning about the reasons certain things happen to you. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/278 "2015-07-02T15:05:56Z")
> [@Gary\_T](#): > > I’m not reading this whole thread so please forgive me if someone has already addressed this point. In 276 posts, the odds were good. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/279 "2015-07-02T15:35:43Z")
The bumping of this thread is apropos, as the OP has just opened [yet another thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=761091) doing exactly the same thing people have advised him to quit doing so much. No doubt he’ll be running back here soon, baffled as to why he’s so very very unpopular and bemoaning how unfair life is. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-not-welcome-here/721149/280 "2015-07-03T00:26:42Z")
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