# Appropriate user name, tho **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 16, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277 "2014-04-16T17:34:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/61 "2014-04-16T22:05:34Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Umm, Colibri? if you go to User CP, to check for replies on your subscribed threads, it’s right there on the bottom. I don;t have to go to the Infractions tab. This constant reminder, every time I check the boards, for the next fifty years is just annoying as fuck. Oh, come on…if you’re so thin-skinned that this ‘constant reminder’ is going to ruin the next 50 years of your life, then the Internet is no place for you. You insulted someone (the fact that you meant it as a joke is immaterial). You got called on it. Take your lumps, and move on. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/62 "2014-04-16T22:08:18Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Fifty years or deth, whichever comes first. He insulted my username! 😛 (Cole Oyl) "_You owe me an Apology"._ ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/63 "2014-04-16T22:09:44Z")
I’d still like to know why his username is appropriate if he’s not being told he’s a Hal man or a half wit. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/64 "2014-04-16T22:09:58Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Umm, Colibri? if you go to User CP, to check for replies on your subscribed threads, it’s right there on the bottom. I don;t have to go to the Infractions tab. This constant reminder, every time I check the boards, for the next fifty years is just annoying as fuck. I didn’t know that. But if it’s on the bottom, don’t scroll down. Problem solved. Look on the bright side. Maybe you won’t live fifty more years! I know I won’t.😃 Makes one reflect on mortality, don’t it? **DrDeth’s** warning is going to outlive me.☹ ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/65 "2014-04-16T22:29:54Z")
O/T I’ve had the odd warning and was even suspended a few years back (posted a ‘joke’ thread in The Pit) and Lynn wasn’t feeling merciful despite it being New Years Eve. 😃 But I can’t find a record of them anywhere! Where do I begin looking? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/66 "2014-04-16T22:39:19Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Umm, Colibri? if you go to User CP, to check for replies on your subscribed threads, it’s right there on the bottom. I don;t have to go to the Infractions tab. This constant reminder, every time I check the boards, for the next fifty years is just annoying as fuck. For what it’s worth, if you click the double arrows at the side of the Infractions section, it hides the details. It’s better than nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/67 "2014-04-16T23:02:57Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > But I can’t find a record of them anywhere! Where do I begin looking? 😕 We only started the automated Warning system in 2009. Before that we kept track of them with a manual system that didn’t place a record in your profile. So you won’t be able to see any warnings before that. That doesn’t mean we don’t still have them, though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/68 "2014-04-16T23:13:17Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > That doesn’t mean we don’t still have them, though. 😉 Damn. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/69 "2014-04-17T00:09:58Z")
I guess you should have called him a closed minded jewish vermin. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/70 "2014-04-17T00:47:19Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > I guess you should have called him a closed minded jewish vermin. Little rude there? Nah, despite our disagreements, the Staff here is pretty decent, considering how overworked and razzed on they are. It’s just that they never change their minds. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/71 "2014-04-17T00:53:33Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > **DrDeth** , would you mind explaining your joke for me? I ask sincerely, because I don’t get it and I hate being whooshed. ☹ I agree. If there’s a non-insulting joke, I don’t get it. Also what’s the big deal, they’ve repeated said you can’t use people’s usernames as a way to insult them. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/72 "2014-04-17T01:44:55Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > It’s just that they never change their minds. A patently false statement. There are many instances in which a warning has been reversed; I’ve done so myself a number of times. It’s just in this case there’s no reason to change our minds. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/73 "2014-04-17T02:07:27Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > **DrDeth** , would you mind explaining your joke for me? I ask sincerely, because I don’t get it and I hate being whooshed. ☹ You’re now like the second or third person to ask who has been ignored, so I’m adding my voice to the chorus out of curiosity. What was the intended joke then, por favor? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/74 "2014-04-17T02:33:58Z")
HMHW’s posts are equal parts debonair wordplay and raw masculinity. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/75 "2014-04-17T02:39:23Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Dude, you really need a better attorney to lawyer your way out of this one. You’re just embarrassing yourself. Hell, I’M starting to feel embarassed on her behalf. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/76 "2014-04-17T03:31:33Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > You’re now like the second or third person to ask who has been ignored, so I’m adding my voice to the chorus out of curiosity. What was the intended joke then, por favor? Obviously it was a play on words with his name, but if you have to ask, it wasn’t funny. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/77 "2014-04-17T03:54:03Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Obviously it was a play on words with his name, but if you have to ask, it wasn’t funny. Then have the courtesy to explain it to us. You insist when you said that he has “an appropriate user name” that you weren’t trying to imply that he was a half wit? Ok, what were you trying to imply? That he was half man? > [@](#): > > **DrDeth** > No, I said Half Man Half Wit was an appropriate username, and it’s not calling him a half-wit anymore than anyone else is doing every time they reply to one of his posts. I believe you’ve been asked now three or four times so please have the courtesy and the integrity to answer or just admit you were trying to insult him and are angry about being warned for insulting him. Thanks in advance for your answer. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/78 "2014-04-17T04:38:22Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > Then have the courtesy to explain it to us. > > You insist when you said that he has “an appropriate user name” that you weren’t trying to imply that he was a half wit? > > Ok, what were you trying to imply? > > That he was half man? > > I believe you’ve been asked now three or four times so please have the courtesy and the integrity to answer or just admit you were trying to insult him and are angry about being warned for insulting him. > > Thanks in advance for your answer. Oops! I misworded that and shouldn’t have used the word “integrity” since it could be misconstrued. Anyway, please explain how you were making a “play on words” but weren’t intending to suggest that he was a “half-wit”. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/79 "2014-04-17T08:22:30Z")
What is this “Infractions” tab? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/80 "2014-04-17T10:28:01Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > What is this “Infractions” tab? It’s on the main page of the User CP. Presumably it isn’t there if one hasn’t received a warning. (If you close it up, the header for it shows “0 points received”, which is a lot more soothing than “Never”.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277.md?page=5)