# Complaint about a warning **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 24, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complaint-about-a-warning/638776 "2012-10-24T23:40:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 56
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complaint-about-a-warning/638776/56 "2012-10-25T14:15:19Z")
> [@CannyDan](#): > > I find it difficult to reconcile a previous prohibition on Starving Artist hijacking threads by defending his paper towel tube ‘illustration’ (for lack of a better tag) with Post 24. That’s not quite the case. [I do remember that **Starving Artist** has asked for dispensation to defend his theory whenever someone makes a joke about it, and he was told “not only no, but hell no.”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=666138) I will say, **Starving Artist** , that it’s been explained to you before that ATMB is not the place to argue and re-argue this issue. You can do it in the Pit thread, but not here. Even if there is an ATMB thread about this paper towel tube thing, that’s not intended as a platform to you to offer your theories on the case again and again. This forum is for discussion of the rules. Next time, keep my and **Colibri** ’s posts in mind before you start. I hope we don’t have many more threads about this and I don’t intend to create a situation where you can be attacked and cannot respond, but if you do continue to defend your “theory” again and again in ATMB, I will consider that a violation of the rules. > [@](#): > > Why does Post 24 not merit a warning for failure to follow moderator instructions? But **Saint Cad** ’s did. Because **Starving Artist** didn’t ignore a moderator instruction. **Saint Cad** was posting to a General Questions thread that had nothing to do with Jerry Sandusky and he overlooked a mod note where **Colibri** told people to stop making those jokes. This is an ATMB thread about the warning and about the joke that started with **Starving Artist** ’s posts in the PSU Pit thread. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complaint-about-a-warning/638776)._