# Cajun Man, what are you accusing me of? **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/21 "2005-11-11T17:15:05Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > And I won’t offer an opinion on the passive-aggressive bullshit that’s inherent in your “I won’t offer an opinion” snark. Oh, get bent. I didn’t offer an opinion because I **didn’t have one**! And I still don’t. I do have an opinion, however, on whether you’re being touchy and oversensitive. My opinion is that you are. I hope things are going well for you. If they are not, I hope they improve measurably, and soon. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/22 "2005-11-11T17:21:14Z")
That was an incredibly stupid thread. It deserved to be closed and you deserved to be bitch-slapped. 99 times. While tied to a wall. [sub]You take him down a peg and then make him beg 98 bitchslaps for the guy on the wall…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/23 "2005-11-11T17:33:37Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Everything changed after 9/11. Especially my shorts. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/24 "2005-11-11T18:15:04Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > That was an incredibly stupid thread. It deserved to be closed and you deserved to be bitch-slapped. > > 99 times. > While tied to a wall. > [sub]You take him down a peg > and then make him beg > 98 bitchslaps for the guy on the wall…[/sub] See, now something like _that_ would have been an amusing game, if successive posters were to propose a new torture for the OP with every verse. I am not, however, proposing that anyone start such a game. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/25 "2005-11-11T19:20:42Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Since when is “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” a _game_? I don’t consider the thread a flat-out game, but of the three things addressed in the stickie (game, post party, padding) game is the only one that seemed possibly to apply. Now people are suggesting padding, which wasn’t my intention. > [@Anaamika](#): > > You should have known better, Otto, and you shouldn’t be whining about it. Asking for clarification from a Mod is “whining” now? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/26 "2005-11-11T19:35:43Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Asking for clarification from a Mod is “whining” now? Not necessarily, but asking “What are you accusing me of?” does tend to set a certain tone. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/27 "2005-11-11T19:37:41Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > I don’t consider the thread a flat-out game, but of the three things addressed in the stickie (game, post party, padding) game is the only one that seemed possibly to apply. Now people are suggesting padding, which wasn’t my intention. But what _was_ your intention? You haven’t made that clear. It’s not obvious what the “game” was supposed to be - which is one reason it might have been taken for something else. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/28 "2005-11-11T19:50:55Z")
Isn’t this the point at which someone is supposed to offer up some fact about their favorite kind of cheese? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/29 "2005-11-11T20:24:13Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Isn’t this the point at which someone is supposed to offer up some fact about their favorite kind of cheese? I suppose this is as gouda time as any, but what does that have to do with the price of gasoline in China, Texas (about ten miles west of Beaumont)? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/30 "2005-11-11T21:17:08Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Not necessarily, but asking “What are you accusing me of?” does tend to set a certain tone. I felt like the tone was set by the “you know better” in the locked thread. Sorry, by the way, for the “snark” comment earlier. I guess I read your comments in a tone you didn’t intend. Speaking of tones and all. > [@Colibri](#): > > But what _was_ your intention? You haven’t made that clear. It’s not obvious what the “game” was supposed to be - which is one reason it might have been taken for something else. My intention was to start off the song and see if it got continued straight through to the end, whether there would be diversions from the song, to see if the thread evolved into something else. Just trying to have a little fun and maybe help some other people have a little fun. If it had continued with just the song then the thread would have run about 100 posts, two pages, and probably died. If it had taken off in some other direction, as it appeared it was going to, who knows how long it would’ve run. I didn’t think of it as a “game” when I started it, along the lines of a trivia contest or the Truth or Dare thread or whatever, but since it’s definitely not a post count party and since, with over 13,000 posts I have no need or interest in count-padding, “game” was the only thing left in the linked stickie. Again, I’m not upset in the least that the thread was locked. I just don’t get the whole “you know better” business. It does feel like an accusation that I deliberately broke some glaringly obvious rule. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/31 "2005-11-11T21:21:37Z")
I’m willing to accept **Otto** ’s word that it wasn’t a game thread. Even with the process of elimination, I don’t think it necessarily makes it a post-count thread. I seriously doubt the guy with over 13,000 posts sat and said to himself, “Hmmm…I could use a few dozen more to reach that 13,175 milestone!” I think it was just goofy and it got shut down for being superfluous. Does that about cover it? ---
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/32 "2005-11-11T21:22:39Z")
It’s a thread with 100 perfectly logical follow on responses that will surprise and inform no one. How is that not post-padding? And the fact that you have thousands of posts, frankly, is not an argument in your favour on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/33 "2005-11-11T21:23:05Z")
Well damn. Otto beat me to it. I’ll go find back to MPSIMS where I belong. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/34 "2005-11-11T21:31:46Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > I thought it was fun me too, as the last poster. Guess I didn’t know better… :o ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/35 "2005-11-12T00:30:26Z")
**Otto** , the gist of the sticky thread is that, as **Hung Mung** so aptly stated: > [@](#): > > The rule, or guideline, or whatever you choose to call it is: threads that do nothing but take up bandwidth will get shut down. Considering your length of time as a member, I expected you to know this. I hope this is a satisfactory clarification. **Cajun Man** for the SDMB ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/36 "2005-11-12T06:37:17Z")
> [@Cajun Man](#): > > I hope this is a satisfactory clarification. Indeed. When I sigh that it seems the place has been overmoderated lately, I’ll remind myself what even longtime members seriously believe to be valid content and remember what the place would be like without the moderation it has. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/37 "2005-11-12T06:39:24Z")
I’m not sure. Was the point of the original thread for it to go down to no bottle on the wall? That could be easily taken care of with a sigma sign… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/38 "2005-11-13T09:51:09Z")
> [@ExtraKun](#): > > I’m not sure. Was the point of the original thread for it to go down to no bottle on the wall? That could be easily taken care of with a sigma sign… Or a big ellipsis followed by “No bottles of beer on the wall.” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/39 "2005-11-13T14:50:09Z")
But what if the shelf were a Moebius strip? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508/40 "2005-11-13T14:55:54Z")
Ever seen a Moebius strip? Where the fuck do you put the bills, that’s what I want to know… ? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-what-are-you-accusing-me-of/330508.md?page=3)