# Come on down, davidmich **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 8, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344 "2015-09-08T16:11:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/21 "2015-09-08T18:54:14Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > Hands up everyone who followed John Mace’s link just to see if they were the jerk. I’d put my hand up but I’m afraid I might jinx myself. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/22 "2015-09-08T18:55:50Z")
> [@jimbuff314](#): > > I’d put my hand up but I’m afraid I might jinx myself. Who knows… you might even ralph if you found out the truth! ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/23 "2015-09-08T18:57:46Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Since we now have a mod in the thread, has **davidmich** ever PMed a mod? Has **davidmich** ever reported a post? If the answer to either or both is “No”, is not that atypical for a poster of his length of stay? Does that not strike you as odd? Not in the slightest. I can’t imagine a situation where I’d need to contact a mod or report a post. Maybe he is just content posting his questions and then reading the responses. There are so many people here who deserve a proper pitting that I don’t understand why anyone would focus on this benign character. ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/24 "2015-09-08T19:00:30Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Since we now have a mod in the thread, has **davidmich** ever PMed a mod? Has **davidmich** ever reported a post? If the answer to either or both is “No”, is not that atypical for a poster of his length of stay? Does that not strike you as odd? Some people on this board take themselves and the board too seriously to even laugh at them. I can imagine some of the people on this board are also the types to start the whispering campaign about the odd neighbor who does not cook like them or socialize like them. why david asking questions and always coming back to at least say thank you can generate pit threads from this crowd is strange. Colibri is right and this sort of question is iidiotic. > [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > Not in the slightest. I can’t imagine a situation where I’d need to contact a mod or report a post. Maybe he is just content posting his questions and then reading the responses. > > There are so many people here who deserve a proper pitting that I don’t understand why anyone would focus on this benign character. exactely ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/25 "2015-09-08T19:06:44Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > Not in the slightest. I can’t imagine a situation where I’d need to contact a mod or report a post. Maybe you want to report spam? Maybe you’ve accidentally posted or spotted a thread in the wrong forum and want to request the thread be moved? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/26 "2015-09-08T19:17:54Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Maybe you want to report spam? Maybe you’ve accidentally posted or spotted a thread in the wrong forum and want to request the thread be moved? Many of us think of this place as a community, and as such feel that we should all be contributors to that community. But some folks don’t. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing, as long as they don’t interfere with the smooth operation of this MB. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/27 "2015-09-08T19:35:00Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Maybe you want to report spam? Maybe you’ve accidentally posted or spotted a thread in the wrong forum and want to request the thread be moved? Honestly, I don’t even know how to do that. I just assume other people will if there is a problem. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/28 "2015-09-08T19:39:38Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > If I was going to go after someone for jerkish behavior in GQ, it would be [this guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=742990). Read the OP and then read post #12. Why am i not surprised that it was **Jinx**? What a fucking waste of space that guy is. And i mean literally a waste of space; he’s not especially abusive or confrontational or anything, but has to be one of the biggest net drains on this board. Of course there’s [someone](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=767298)—and i’ll bet you know who it is—who gives **Jinx** a run for his money. Read the OP, and then read post #3. **Jinx** and **ralph124c** : asking so many fucking stupid questions that they can’t even remember their own prior threads. Between them, they have started literally thousands of threads, a huge proportion of which ask questions that are so basic that a simple Google search would have provided the answer in two seconds, or so fucking poorly thought-out that they suggest little more than boredom on the part of the author. I sometimes think these guys sit in front of their computers and ask themselves, “What question, somehow related to an obscure or vaguely-remember reference from years ago, can i bug the SDMB with today?” Come to think of it, have these two morons ever been sighted in the same thread together? Surely that much of a vacuum would shut down the servers or something. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/29 "2015-09-08T19:40:21Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > Honestly, I don’t even know how to do that. I just assume other people will if there is a problem. Click on that little icon up next to the post number that looks like a “Danger!” sign. Then type away. As I stated in the previous **davidmich** pitting, I don’t really mind the questions. Yes, they can be googled, and yes, they can be stupid, but they sometimes lead to interesting discussions and down different paths. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/30 "2015-09-08T19:45:42Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Why am i not surprised that it was **Jinx**? What a fucking waste of space that guy is. And i mean literally a waste of space; he’s not especially abusive or confrontational or anything, but has to be one of the biggest net drains on this board. > > Of course there’s [someone](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=767298)—and i’ll bet you know who it is—who gives **Jinx** a run for his money. Read the OP, and then read post #3. Did you read my post #22 in this thread? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/31 "2015-09-08T19:45:43Z")
I didn’t get the issue a year ago, and I don’t get it now. **davidm** asks questions in GQ, the forum dedicated to asking questions. He participates in the threads and politely thanks people for responding to his questions. And that’s jerkish behaviour?!? Would that we had more such jerks! 🙂 This pitting is stupid. If you don’t want to participate in his threads, just don’t click on them. And as for the comment that he doesn’t contribute to the boards: asking questions and triggering discussions is itself a contribution, and a valuable one, in my opinion. I hope **davidm** just ignores all the Miss Grundy posters who sniff disapprovingly at the trivial quirks of other posters, and that he keeps asking questions. In a forum dedicated to asking questions. What is so difficult about that ?!? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/32 "2015-09-08T19:50:46Z")
What business is it of yours to ask if another poster has sent a _Private_ message to a mod? And on what basis do you expect the mods to discuss _Private_ messages? And so what whether a particular poster has or has not reported a post? The report function is _private_, to encourage posters to report. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/33 "2015-09-08T21:34:43Z")
Reported. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/34 "2015-09-08T21:57:06Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > But ‘he’ is continually asking questions and not contributing one jot. Asking questions is a form of contribution if it sparks a decent conversation or brings to light interesting factoids. At least he is unfailingly polite and thanks contributors. You’re judging too harshly IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/35 "2015-09-08T22:41:07Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Have you ever reported a post? I’d say yes, and I’d say I’m a recent addition to the reported club 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/36 "2015-09-08T23:25:15Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > If I was going to go after someone for jerkish behavior in GQ, it would be [this guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=742990). Read the OP and then read post #12. [Already happened](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=479633). ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/37 "2015-09-08T23:58:37Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > _ **H** _alf the people who post here probably wouldn’t pass a Turing Test. 🙂 > [@RitterSport](#): > > How does it make you feel that _ **H** _alf the people who post here probably wouldn’t pass a Turing Test? Nice touch, ELIZA! ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/38 "2015-09-09T01:09:44Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Half the people who post here probably wouldn’t pass a Turing Test. 🙂 I wonder if I could pass a Gender Turning Test, passing as a girl for a month. I’d probably need to be a bit less confrontational and use more smilies and be in contact with my feelings and shit like that. If the mods will change my name to Runa I’ll give it a shot. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/39 "2015-09-09T01:49:00Z")
Shocked I am that there are questions being asked at Ri…er… in good questions! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344/40 "2015-09-09T01:53:15Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > I wonder if I could pass a Gender Turning Test, passing as a girl for a month. I’d probably need to be a bit less confrontational and use more smilies and be in contact with my feelings and shit like that. If the mods will change my name to Runa I’ll give it a shot. We don’t know your gender anyway. Tell us whatever you want. You’re in a “judgement free zone”. _checks location_ Never mind. This is the Pit. Take your revelations elsewhere. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-down-davidmich/730344.md?page=3)