# Be afraid, be very afraid **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 19, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-afraid-be-very-afraid/564750 "2010-12-19T20:56:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 95
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-afraid-be-very-afraid/564750/95 "2010-12-22T16:57:14Z")
> [@saje](#): > > 1. I never said anything about anyone being stupid. I posted my amazement at what pisses people off. You used the phrase “knickers in a twist” and “get a life.” Those are insulting and dismissive. No, you did not use the exact word “stupid,” but close enough. > [@](#): > > Who was it that said pointing out someone’s lack of manners is being just as rude, if not more so, than the manner-less one? Yes, you’ve been so terribly wronged now that someone has pointed out that you were, at best, coming perilously close to breaking a board rule. > [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I am now going to go into our infraction system and rescind the warning to \*\*pseudotriton ruber ruber \*\* for “Failure to follow a moderator’s instructions” Thank you. > [@](#): > > and then issue a new one for “Being a jerk.” Why? He was asked by another mod, apparently officially, to cool his jets. His only response after that point was an assertion that he would not start a new thread. He did not continue to harass anyone in the thread about how they treated their pets. How is that worthy of a warning? ISTM that the way things work around here, someone is generally given notice that they’re getting too close to the line, or are pushing over it, and then that gives them an opportunity to step back. \*\*Czar \*\*\*sort of \*did that, but he didn’t make it clear that he was acting officially. \*\*prr \*\*responded to that post, but he made \*no further posts \*to the thread that were insulting toward pet owners. Are we creating a new rule that everyone who posts to a thread has to agree with the OP? Something tells me that would kill this board pretty quickly. > [@Oakminster](#): > > **PRR** , the bit about “I’m not quite telling you to fellate a cat, but I sorta am” was more than enough to justify a warning in and of itself. Where did you see that? All I saw was a joke. Let’s look again. > [@Do you ever tell your pets about the first time you saw them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-tell-your-pets-about-the-first-time-you-saw-them/564703/11): > > BTW, **Diana** , I also think people who go down on their pets are a little nutso. > > If you’re still determined to annoy me, please practice safe sex. This was in response to \*\*Diana \*\*saying that she was going to talk to her cats for the specific purpose of pissing \*\*prr \*\*off. \*\*prr \*\*is giving her an example of an even \*more \*ridiculous activity she could do that he would \*also \*consider to be crazy. He’s not telling her to blow a cat; he’s making an amusing response to someone who made a similarly snipe-ish reponse at him. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-afraid-be-very-afraid/564750)._