# ATTN: Moderators! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 10, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-moderators/605752 "2011-12-10T17:58:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hoenikker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoenikker/32/7296_2.png) [@hoenikker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hoenikker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-moderators/605752/1 "2011-12-10T17:58:47Z")
JFC! (Recursively expand that around religion. Hint: Cross it out) Please ban me now and make sure you explain why, without reference to the kingdom of the blind, because maybe you’re the blind one! Anyone else feel like joining the discussing or are you just a bit too Trumanish for it? ETA “follow the links” > **[Unexpected inversions of symmetry in fiction \[spoilers\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=634325)** > > a very fun thread (at least for me) was just closed: I decided to start another one, on basically the same topic, but more “sanely”. Here goes: What are you favorite unexpected inversions of symmetry in fiction? For an example of what I mean,... > **[Cats and dogs, do they really get along?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=634396)** > > I’ve always wondered this, and I’m sure it’s been asked before, but I want to ask in a slightly more probing manner: Did cats and dogs evolve together? When did they stop evolving? Did they continue evolving after we domesticated them, or is that... ---
**Author:** ![hoenikker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoenikker/32/7296_2.png) [@hoenikker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hoenikker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-moderators/605752/2 "2011-12-10T18:02:11Z")
> [@hoenikker](#): > > Anyone else feel like joining the discussing or are you just a bit too Trumanish for it? > **[Cat's Cradle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokononism)** > > Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published on March 18, 1963, exploring and satirizing issues of science, technology, the purpose of religion, and the arms race, often through the use of morbid humor. > The first-person everyman narrator opens the novel with "Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John", though neither name appears again throughout the novel. ... ---
**Author:** ![hoenikker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoenikker/32/7296_2.png) [@hoenikker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hoenikker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-moderators/605752/3 "2011-12-10T18:03:40Z")
> [@hoenikker](#): > > [Cat's Cradle - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokononism) If I am banned (publicly) I would also me ok with someone else starting an IMHO thread on my behalf, and continuing to discussion there. **But make sure you understand the topic first** ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-moderators/605752/4 "2011-12-10T18:07:24Z")
In before the lockdown! With threads like this, who needs mind-bending drugs? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hoenikker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoenikker/32/7296_2.png) [@hoenikker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hoenikker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-moderators/605752/5 "2011-12-10T18:11:44Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > In before the lockdown! > > With threads like this, who needs mind-bending drugs? 😃 Father, father, why hast thou forsaken me? :smack: ---
**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:** [December 10, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-moderators/605752/6 "2011-12-10T18:12:38Z")
> [@Are we/you in the kingdom of the blind?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-you-in-the-kingdom-of-the-blind/605517/88): > > Are you too dim to understand that it’s a joke? Guess what, that was a joke too. Thanks for playing 😛 > [@Are we/you in the kingdom of the blind?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-you-in-the-kingdom-of-the-blind/605517/107): > > Since the OP is advertising the fact that this thread is a joke and a waste of time, I’m closing it. You admitted the “kingdom of the blind” thread was a joke, and your replies verged on trolling. That’s why Marley closed it. You opened four threads in General Questions, which you apparently considered part of the same joke, which were also closed by me and samclem. We expect serious debate in Great Debates, and serious questions in General Questions. If you are not prepared to abide by this, your threads will be closed. If you continue, you will be warned and you will find that your posting privileges will be under discussion. (Considering your attitude about abiding by board rules, this may come sooner rather than later.) Note the the [Registration Agreement](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=423183) has the following clause: > [@](#): > > Please remember that you are our guest here, and that we reserve the right to exclude you at our whim, for any or no reason whatsoever. … By registering and using the board you acknowledge this right and agree to abide by our rules and to submit to their interpretation and enforcement by our moderators and editors. ---
**Author:** ![hoenikker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoenikker/32/7296_2.png) [@hoenikker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hoenikker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-moderators/605752/7 "2011-12-10T18:13:37Z")
> [@hoenikker](#): > > [Cat's Cradle - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokononism) “Arranging with McCabe that Bokononism be outlawed and eternally persecuted by the government” ---
**Author:** ![hoenikker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoenikker/32/7296_2.png) [@hoenikker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hoenikker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-moderators/605752/8 "2011-12-10T18:14:40Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > (Considering your attitude about abiding by board rules, this may come sooner rather than later.) I vote sooner. Tell me how to make it happen, infinitely quickly. **But don’t forget Zeno’s paradox** 😛 ---
**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:** [December 10, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-moderators/605752/9 "2011-12-10T18:19:40Z")
> [@hoenikker](#): > > I vote sooner. Tell me how to make it happen, infinitely quickly. **But don’t forget Zeno’s paradox** 😛 You’ve had an explanation of what the rules are. Given that you seem intent on carrying on the same nonsense in this thread, I’m going to close it. By the way, I read _Cat’s Cradle_ back in 1969. Good book, but you’re not exactly on the cutting edge with this.😉 ---
**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:** [December 10, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-moderators/605752/10 "2011-12-10T18:51:57Z")
Well, I tried. Since the OP has now started this thread as a deliberate attempt to get banned, I have temporarily suspended him pending discussion among the staff: > **[What is the ideal message board moderation strategy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=634430)** > > Hint: maybe it’s recursive “folllow the links” http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14551479 ---
**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:** [December 10, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-moderators/605752/11 "2011-12-10T19:38:40Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I have temporarily suspended him pending discussion among the staff: The ban has now been made permanent. The discussion didn’t take long.😉