# Banned members and Dopefests **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738 "2002-11-25T19:19:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/21 "2002-11-26T00:29:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*And Satan and **Drain Bead** were at OhDope. FWIW, **Euty** was there as well and no sparks flew. \*\* Well, I did put a potato in their tailpipe after evryone else left … ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/22 "2002-11-26T01:17:11Z")
I suppose they would because they are friends with the other people there, regardless of how the administration at the SDMB feels about them. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/23 "2002-11-26T01:18:55Z")
Well, I could understand _that_. But what if they obviously aren’t? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/24 "2002-11-26T01:29:29Z")
Then they probably wouldn’t have any reason to come… ---
**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:** [November 26, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/25 "2002-11-26T01:31:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DAVEW0071 \* > \*\* > > And, **Zev** , I don’t remember Sweet Willy. He must have done something pretty awful to make a nice man like you shun him utterly. \*\* Extremely anti-Semitic poster. I wouldn’t think that the really bad, obvious JerksTM would show up, like say, **Jack Dean Tyler** or **Mark Serlin**. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/26 "2002-11-26T01:45:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Banned posters can go to as many DopeFests as they want, let me be clear about that. I don’t understand why they would, in some cases, but that’s another thing. I recall you having a slightly different reaction upon seeing Melin at DopeToberFest. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/27 "2002-11-26T01:51:26Z")
Is this really the thread in which we want to start rehashing past grievances? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/28 "2002-11-26T01:51:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*He was at Spiffled II last year, also. And I managed not to drown the little bastard in the hotel pool. Just barely, though. \*\* How ever did he escape your clutches? Was he Banned on the run? ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/29 "2002-11-26T01:52:35Z")
Nah, UB just **Wing** ed him. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/30 "2002-11-26T03:51:57Z")
You know what would be awesome? A DopeFest in which every single banned person was invited! Cmon, that’d be a hoot! I’d do it. 🙂 [Let’s have it at **RTFirefly’s** house.] ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/31 "2002-11-26T09:28:55Z")
It would be easy to avoid **JDT** , however. Just look for the guy walking oddly because of his _tug-ahoy_. Hehehehehhe… ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/32 "2002-11-26T10:04:29Z")
I wonder how banned people know there’s gonna be a dopefest? I mean, do you think they still keep up with the boards? Imagine how frustrating that would be to have the perfect response in mind and not be able to post it. That is, unless they’re all sock puppets. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/33 "2002-11-26T10:20:08Z")
I know that some exiled (or self exiled) still monitor the boards. OR at least did. I don’t know… Opal might know, since her place seems to attract quite a few of the Banned/exiled. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/34 "2002-11-26T12:04:25Z")
The banned/exiled over at fathom usually behave themselves, fortunately. Sometimes the really bad ones show up, but they don’t typically stay. Mark Serlin showed up for a while, but when no one took his crap, he left. JDT never showed up, than god! heh. Quite often the people hosting dopefests announce them at fathom as well. Word of mouth is another way. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/35 "2002-11-26T16:31:30Z")
Lest people walk away with the impression that “the SDMB makes monsters out of normal people”, or “the mods must have unujustly banned these nice, well-behaved people”, I fell the need to publicly disagree with you, Opalcat. The posters that were banned from the SDMB often behave exactly in the same way at Fathom as they did over here (sock puppets, drunken posts trying to start fights, illogical arguments that irritate the other posters, long-winded paranoid screeds, etc…) Fathom has different rules in what is acceptable posting, and that’s fine. But it’s not like people that were devils over here magically became angels over there. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/36 "2002-11-26T16:35:35Z")
Of course, the words “devil” and “angel” were poorly chosen. Let me change that to “It’s not like the posters that behaved in a certain manner over here magically changed over there.” ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/37 "2002-11-26T16:39:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > **. The posters that were banned from the SDMB often behave exactly in the same way at Fathom as they did over here (sock puppets, drunken posts trying to start fights, illogical arguments that irritate the other posters, long-winded paranoid screeds, etc…)** Since you did so publicly, can you cite some examples? Seems pretty unfair to say every one of them has done that. Perhaps they have more freedom or can start with a clean slate, but have there really been so many instances where jerks here were jerks there? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/38 "2002-11-26T16:47:52Z")
I said often, not always. Do you really want me to bring up examples? (I’m starting to regret this post already.) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/39 "2002-11-26T16:50:42Z")
You’re right, you did. My mistake. Still, it’s not fair to say that even “often” this is the case. As you pointed out, Fathom has different rules. Therefore I’m not sure one can say that because Poster A behaved badly here, they’re behaving badly there - different standards are applying. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738/40 "2002-11-26T17:00:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* UncleBeer \*\* > [Silo] was at Spiffled II last year, also. And I managed not to drown the little bastard in the hotel pool. Just barely, though. In an amazing bit of irony, he was the “Guest of the Day” according to the sign in the hotel lobby, too. [sub]It’s true and I’ve got pictures to back it up.[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-members-and-dopefests/138738.md?page=3)