# BrainGlutton is suspended for incivility

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**Created:** [November 15, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brainglutton-is-suspended-for-incivility/674009 "2013-11-15T20:18:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brainglutton-is-suspended-for-incivility/674009/2 "2013-11-15T20:34:00Z")

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> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#):
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> [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=707885) Marley details 3 warnings launched at BrainGlutton. The first was directed at uncivil discussion in a GD gun thread. The second involved irony. The third was a mischaracterization by J. Chance: it was not a direct insult. [Here it is](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16847154#post16847154). JC: yes, OP can refer to Original Poster, but usually (not always) it refers to Original Post.

That third one you linked to was pretty clearly an insult being directed at the Original Poster of that thread:

> [@The left hates free speech](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-left-hates-free-speech/673720/133):
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> The **OP** is pretty fucking dumb. Subsequent posts show some intelligence, or at least some serious attempts to exercise it.
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> There’s a lesson here somewhere.

If \*\*BG \*\*hadn’t added the second sentence about “subsequent posts”, I’d say you might have an argument, but he’s clearly talking about the person that made the original post - and the posts they made after that.

Also, as tomndebb pointed out in the post right after JC’s:

> [@The left hates free speech](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-left-hates-free-speech/673720/136):
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> If by OP, you mean Original Poster, you are posting a direct insult outside Great Debates.
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> If by OP, you mean Original Post, you are threadshitting.
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> So please do not waste our time by claiming that you did not “really” mean to break the rules.
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> (SimulWarning—only one applied.)
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> [/Moderating]

So either interpretation was a warnable offense - either for insults or for threadshitting.

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