# Cajun Man, what are you accusing me of?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 11, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508 "2005-11-11T01:37:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/1 "2005-11-11T01:37:59Z")
You say, in locking [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=344176), that I [know better](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=231482). Apparently I don’t.
It was sort of a game thread, OK, but it doesn’t appear that there are vast numbers of game threads currently cluttering up the forum. It wasn’t a post party thread and since I posted to it exactly once I don’t see how it can be considered post padding.
So, yeah, not really getting it.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/2 "2005-11-11T01:55:32Z")
> [@Otto](#):
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> You say, in locking [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=344176), that I [know better](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=231482). Apparently I don’t.
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> It was sort of a game thread, OK, but it doesn’t appear that there are vast numbers of game threads currently cluttering up the forum. It wasn’t a post party thread and since I posted to it exactly once I don’t see how it can be considered post padding.
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> So, yeah, not really getting it.
Pure speculation here, but maybe he’s operating on an assumption that as a Charter Member, you’ve read all of the stickies.
I won’t offer an opinion on whether the thread was an egregious waste of board resources.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/3 "2005-11-11T02:33:46Z")
I don’t deign to speak for **Cajun Man** or anyone else, but **Otto** , are you being deliberately obtuse? Clearly, there is no content there. Everyone knows how the song goes, and nothing is being added to the thread by people posting the next lyric. Ergo, there’s no reason to post other _than_ to post–AKA, a postcount padding thread.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/4 "2005-11-11T02:40:41Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Pure speculation here, but maybe he’s operating on an assumption that as a Charter Member, you’ve read all of the stickies.
I certainly read the linked one when it went up two years ago, and read it again when he linked to it. I remain unclear as to what it is I supposedly did that was in violation of:
> [@UncleBeer](#):
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> Folks, we’ve noticed a vast increase in game type threads here in MPSISMS. While this isn’t necessarily a “Bad Thing,” and some of them have been rather clever, we find that they use up an inordinate share of our very limited resources. Since game threads aren’t central to the purposes of the board, we are going to attempt to reduce use of the server by things of this nature. This effort is, for the time being, going to be entirely voluntary on your part(s). Before starting threads like this in the future, we ask that you please consider a few things: like how many active game threads are currently running; how broad the appeal of your thread may be; and the entertainment value it may provide…Also, in this effort, we will be locking any post-count parties we run across, as we already do with other “post padding” threads.
So the two things that are flat-out forbidden are count-padding threads and post party threads, and game threads are to be self-restricted based on a number of factors. My thread was definitely not a post party. I certainly don’t think it was “post-padding.” That leaves game. The tone of the locking post was such that it seemed like **Cajun Man** expected that his reasoning in closing the thread was so self-evident that no further explanation could possibly be required, and that I had done a “Bad Thing” in starting the thread. That’s not the case, so gee, I’m asking for clarification.
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> I won’t offer an opinion on whether the thread was an egregious waste of board resources.
And I won’t offer an opinion on the passive-aggressive bullshit that’s inherent in your “I won’t offer an opinion” snark.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/5 "2005-11-11T02:46:23Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#):
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> Ergo, there’s no reason to post other _than_ to post–AKA, a postcount padding thread.
Except that of the 21 posts preceding lockdown, 12 of them weren’t posts of the next verse.
Look, I don’t really care that the thread got locked. I’m not going to be lying awake gnashing my teeth about the thread being locked down. My concern is with the _tone_ of the lockdown, like I did something deliberately and flagrantly violative by starting the thread.
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/6 "2005-11-11T03:54:12Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#):
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> Clearly, there is no content there.
There were 3,2670mm worth of content inside the 99 bottles.
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/7 "2005-11-11T03:55:16Z")
ml not mm
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/8 "2005-11-11T04:07:06Z")
> [@Otto](#):
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> That leaves game.
Since when is “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” a _game_? What are the rules? How can you tell who wins?
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/9 "2005-11-11T04:16:41Z")
posted by a rather testy **Colibri**
> [@](#):
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> What are the rules? How can you tell who wins?
Drink cyberbeer? They’re the only one not passed out on their computer keyboard?
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### Author:  [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/10 "2005-11-11T05:01:06Z")
With a knick nack paddywack, give a dog a bone, this old man came rolling home.
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### Author:  [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/11 "2005-11-11T05:11:28Z")
> [@Otto](#):
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> And I won’t offer an opinion on the passive-aggressive bullshit that’s inherent in your “I won’t offer an opinion” snark.
Good. At least you’re not passive-aggressively offering an opinion. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/12 "2005-11-11T05:16:39Z")
C’mon, **Otto**. The rule, or guideline, or whatever you choose to call it is: threads that do nothing but take up bandwidth will get shut down. Even the “Are You Older/Younger Than Me” thread involves some sharing of new information between posters. The thread closed by **Cajun Man** wasn’t informative, wasn’t prompting posters to learn about one another, nor was it more than moderately entertaining (if that).
It had nothing to add and was in the murky, judgment-call area of the rule cited in the thread. I don’t think there’s much to question in the mod’s decision. Just trying to be honest here: it’s not a big loss.
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### Author:  [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/13 "2005-11-11T05:26:59Z")
Oh, snap. I missed a couple of posts.
Sorry, Otto, disregard my last post. You’ve already answered that concern.
I will say though: you barely got chastised. Not even a slap on the wrist. Do you feel condescended to? I don’t think that was how Cajun Man meant it. It was a warning in which he claimed that he _expected_ you to know it would probably get locked. The ruling says anything resembling a postcount thread will be scrutinized. As a veteran poster, he expected you to know it. That’s all.
Don’t worry about it.
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### Author:  [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/14 "2005-11-11T07:05:40Z")
ONE MORE TIME!
99 **UncleBeer** ’s on the wall…
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/15 "2005-11-11T07:06:23Z")
> [@duffer](#):
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> Good. At least you’re not passive-aggressively offering an opinion. :rolleyes:
Clearly he was sarcastically making fun of the other comment.
Anyway, that was one of the lamest threads I have seen in quite some time. Shit like that should be closed. You really should have known better, **Otto**.
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### Author:  [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/16 "2005-11-11T15:01:38Z")
I thought it was fun
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/17 "2005-11-11T15:43:03Z")
Don’t worry **Otto** ,\* I\* won’t be passive-aggressive. They didn’t shut down the T or D thread, even though it went on for 22 pages and was a game. Why? Because it was a valid game, because I don’t believe there were any other games running in MPSIMS and not that many games at all, and because it was fun - we were learning about each other.
If you don’t think your thread was a stupid waste of time, then I’m surprised at you! I’m all for silly games, even though I don’t participate in many, but that was one of the most ridiculous threads I’ve ever seen. You should have known better, **Otto** , and you shouldn’t be whining about it.
I knew it was going to be closed. I figured the OP knew it was going to be closed as well, and was taking a chance to have some fun, but I didn’t know he’d whine when it was rightfully closed.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/18 "2005-11-11T16:21:37Z")
Dude, sing-a-long threads are soooo 2001.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/19 "2005-11-11T17:06:58Z")
> [@Zebra](#):
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> Dude, sing-a-long threads are soooo 2001.
Everything changed after 9/11.
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/20 "2005-11-11T17:09:06Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#):
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> I thought it was fun
Me too _sniff_
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