# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 100
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277/100 "2014-04-17T21:40:36Z")
That’s easy to explain: it’s a joking insults. The problem is that type of joke often doesn’t work in text because it’s hard to read your intent. In this case you were also kind of rude to him, which makes it seem even less like a joke: > [@Did anyone follow the Kelly Thomas trial? Cops' use of force caused a death; cops aquitted](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-follow-the-kelly-thomas-trial-cops-use-of-force-caused-a-death-cops-aquitted/678785/126): > > I know you don’t understand, that’s obvious. Read some law, Get behind the concept of "burden of proof’. So are we done here? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appropriate-user-name-tho/686277)._