# Argent Towers, a moment of your time. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 16, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227 "2010-02-16T18:23:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/441 "2010-02-18T21:40:12Z")
Wait, are you saying that Argent Towers is being allowed to switch names? If so, what is his new name? Why do you think this? Have you any proof or is it just conjecture? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/442 "2010-02-18T21:43:35Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Wait, are you saying that Argent Towers is being allowed to switch names? > If so, what is his new name? > Why do you think this? > Have you any proof or is it just conjecture? You can test this by searching for posts by Argent Towers > [@Teh hampsterz](#): > > The following errors occurred with your search: > Invalid User specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator OTOH it doesn’t _prove_ his new name is \*\*Tours d’Argent \*\* 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/443 "2010-02-18T21:46:23Z")
If you look at any of his past posts (including this thread) you can see that his user name has now been transformed into its French iteration. He hasn’t posted since tuesday, though. I don’t know what that post by **scalvim** is quiting from. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/444 "2010-02-18T21:49:56Z")
At this stage the thread turns from mostly genuine concern into mostly witch-hunt. Seriously, Mr. Towers has his photo @ [http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/53163.html](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/53163.html) He doesn’t look like a paedophile to me. Just maldeveloped. Leave him alone. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/445 "2010-02-18T22:20:39Z")
I thought it had turned into mostly jokes. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/446 "2010-02-18T22:26:40Z")
I was just intrigued and thought this was nothing more than unbased conjecture. (No slam against him intended, for the delicate among you.) I was conflating the two accounts rule with switching titles, which, now that I think of it, has been done before. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/447 "2010-02-18T22:30:15Z")
I’m told \*\*Argent \*\*has left the building. I’ll leave this thread open for the rest the day and then close it. **Gfactor** Pit Moderator ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/448 "2010-02-19T05:59:13Z")
Is this the first Death by Mob, on the Dope? Where simply a public pitting has caused a poster to leave and not just Moderator/Administrative action? ☹ Good luck Td’A, and I hope you one day join us again… ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/449 "2010-02-19T06:10:56Z")
My major reason for leaving is completely unrelated to this pitting. I just wanted to make that clear lest anyone think I was “driven off” by the mob. The “mob,” by and large, had its reasons for doing what they did and I can’t really hold it against them. After I did the gentleman-like thing and apologized, nearly everyone ceased attacking me and the very few who continued are not enough of a concern to me to make me leave. Will I be back in the future? Possibly. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/450 "2010-02-19T06:17:17Z")
How does anyone confuse the names **Argent Towers** and **Agent Foxtrot**? They aren’t remotely similar. And fuck kiddie porn and presumptuous non-parents. Or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/451 "2010-02-19T06:18:02Z")
> [@Tours d'Argent](#): > > I can’t really hold it against them Quite the choice of words. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/452 "2010-02-19T06:23:45Z")
> [@Tours d'Argent](#): > > Will I be back in the future? Possibly. Okay cool. Thanks for coming back and explaining that 🙂 I actually was bummed to hear of your departure. But here’s hoping you the best in the future then! ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227/453 "2010-02-19T06:41:33Z")
> [@Tours d'Argent](#): > > My major reason for leaving is completely unrelated to this pitting. I just wanted to make that clear lest anyone think I was “driven off” by the mob. The “mob,” by and large, had its reasons for doing what they did and I can’t really hold it against them. After I did the gentleman-like thing and apologized, nearly everyone ceased attacking me and the very few who continued are not enough of a concern to me to make me leave. Guess we can’t blame you for not wanting to hogg the spotlight. (Ooo, I slay me…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-a-moment-of-your-time/529227.md?page=22)