# Are you serious? You guys just banned TLDR? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 25, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-serious-you-guys-just-banned-tldr/442638 "2008-03-25T03:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-serious-you-guys-just-banned-tldr/442638/321 "2008-03-31T13:39:07Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] Have you _been_ to a Dopefest? I’ve met probably 25 people who post here and only 2 of them match their online personality [/QUOTE] Wow. I find it hard enough to have one personality, let alone two. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-serious-you-guys-just-banned-tldr/442638/322 "2008-03-31T13:47:52Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] Have you _been_ to a Dopefest? I’ve met probably 25 people who post here and only 2 of them match their online personality (And one of them isn’t even allowed to post here!). That doesn’t mean that the rest of them are disingenuous, just different, and fantastic people. [/QUOTE] That surprises me, I did not pick up on that with any of my meetings with Dopers. Maybe I am just not as observant or maybe I made greater allowances for the difference between written messages and how people talk in casual situations. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-serious-you-guys-just-banned-tldr/442638/323 "2008-03-31T14:50:17Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] That surprises me, I did not pick up on that with any of my meetings with Dopers. Maybe I am just not as observant or maybe I made greater allowances for the difference between written messages and how people talk in casual situations. [/QUOTE] No, it is I who is the unobservant one. I buy into the exaggerated personality that we all try to portray online. Fun fact: when I met\*\* anyrose\*\* this weekend the first thing that came out of her mouth were something like “oh wow, you’re a lot smaller than a pictured!” I’m a bit like Puck like that. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-serious-you-guys-just-banned-tldr/442638/324 "2008-03-31T15:23:21Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] No, it is I who is the unobservant one. I buy into the exaggerated personality that we all try to portray online. Fun fact: when I met **anyrose** this weekend the first thing that came out of her mouth were something like “oh wow, you’re a lot smaller than a pictured!” I’m a bit like Puck like that. [/QUOTE] I don’t know, I think the only exaggerated part for me is my calmness. On-line gives me a chance to change an angry post or just shut the tab as I realize that saying something would be of no use or make things worse. What kind of exaggerations were you talking about? (I am not looking for specific examples, but I also don’t see people claiming to be NBA players.) We don’t really have internet tough guys and so many of us admit to be geeks of various sorts, that I doubt more than a few are hiding behind an on-line façade. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-serious-you-guys-just-banned-tldr/442638/325 "2008-03-31T20:58:15Z")
I’ve been to a half dozen fests and pretty much everyone matched up with my perception of them so I’m similarly surprised. Funnily enough, \*\*bbs2k \*\*is one of the exceptions, though. He wasn’t much at all like I expected. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-serious-you-guys-just-banned-tldr/442638/326 "2008-03-31T21:04:38Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] Fun fact: when I met\*\* anyrose\*\* this weekend the first thing that came out of her mouth were something like “oh wow, you’re a lot smaller than a pictured!” [/QUOTE] Wow, there was a Dopefest at a nudist camp? Regards, Shodan 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-serious-you-guys-just-banned-tldr/442638/327 "2008-03-31T21:40:30Z")
[The most recent lekatt thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=461931) should serve as a reminder that posters are not, in fact, kicked off the board merely for holding unpopular views. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-serious-you-guys-just-banned-tldr/442638.md?page=16)