# Can I Apply For a Thread Ban? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 6, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-apply-for-a-thread-ban/1009745 "2024-11-06T00:14:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![Wrenching\_Spanners](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecb155/32.png) [@Wrenching\_Spanners](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wrenching_Spanners)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-apply-for-a-thread-ban/1009745/16 "2024-11-07T00:35:56Z")
I did not request a ban from the Politics and Elections forum and do not believe that I deserve one. 1. If the mechanism for me knowing that I’ve been banned from a forum is to check an ATMB thread, that’s a poor mechanism. My notification of my P&E ban was an email warning that I was violating the ban. 2. My preferences were: a) No Ban b) A Thread Ban c) A Forum Ban. I don’t know what the moderators’ capabilities are but it should be clear from the thread title that I was asking for a thread ban. I do acknowledge that in my post starting this thread, I was calling “forums” “threads”, but I think the context was clear and definitely made clear from later posts. kenobi\_65’s response made me think the options were a forum ban or a board ban. While I don’t think I was crossing the line for a thread ban, I accept that I did go off-topic and along with others deserved a “stay on subject” comment. But having received a mod note, I volunteered to leave that thread and started this ATMB thread to ask for leniency. I did not volunteer for a P&E forum band. 1. My ban is for hijacking a thread and then asking why I was targeted for hijacking the thread when I was replying to a poster who had started the off-topic conversation. There were several posters in that thread who were off-topic, and while I may have strayed off discussing the “Let’s Go Brandon flag” topic, I at least consistently discussed politics other than one joking reply to a post that was also off-topic. > [@Who's flying the gigantic "Let's Go, Brandon" flag at my polling place?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-flying-the-gigantic-lets-go-brandon-flag-at-my-polling-place/1009550): > > By “gigantic” I mean the thing could easily cover three full-sized automobiles. I’m assuming it’s being flown by Trump supporters, because who else would do something whose meaning is so obscure to me, but what’s the point? To make fun of Biden? To mock Harris supporters (somehow)? To show off how clever they think they are? Someone went to a lot of trouble and expense to custom-make this flag, and I’d just ask the people flying it except I don’t want to talk to a Trump supporter, ever again, fo… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-apply-for-a-thread-ban/1009745)._