# Contestant #3 has been banned from the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 26, 1999, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contestant-3-has-been-banned-from-the-sdmb/526 "1999-10-26T15:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 1999, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contestant-3-has-been-banned-from-the-sdmb/526/61 "1999-10-30T21:16:00Z")
That field is dynamic, originally it said “member”, but now the system reports the name as “unregistered”. Should the name be reactivated, presumably it would go back to saying “member”, unless of course he was promoted to “administrator”, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Martyr\_7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Martyr\_7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martyr_7)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 1999, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contestant-3-has-been-banned-from-the-sdmb/526/62 "1999-10-30T21:28:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Should the name be reactivated, presumably it would go back to saying “member”, unless of course he was promoted to “administrator”, etc. I wanted to test to see if I could “steal” a banned username. Actually, I’m **shocked** that it worked. * * * **SterlingNorth** Admin. you may re-ban this name if you like. ---
**Author:** ![Contestant\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Contestant\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contestant_3)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 1999, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contestant-3-has-been-banned-from-the-sdmb/526/63 "1999-10-30T21:35:00Z")
I also have this name too, if you’d like to know. I don’t think I would want to be posting as either. **SterlingNorth** ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 1999, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contestant-3-has-been-banned-from-the-sdmb/526/64 "1999-10-30T23:17:00Z")
I _told_ you not to look in the mirror! I _told_ you not to say his name aloud five times! But did you listen? Nooooooooo! * * * They call me MISTER Wizard! ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Iron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Big\_Iron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Iron)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contestant-3-has-been-banned-from-the-sdmb/526/65 "1999-11-05T02:10:00Z")
[[Bob, I’ve been e-mailing back and forth with Connie for ages now (sometime around the Prayer at Graduation thread), and I can assure you that the entire thing with his wife is most decidedly real. And you don’t know how much it hurts him to see people insinuate otherwise. So please, feel free to keep your open season on him, but try to avoid the topic of his wife. I’d imagine that most of you married posters would want the same respect, whether or not everyone else thought you were an asshole.]] Drainbead Well, Libs, if that’s true (and I certainly don’t suggest you believe it is untrue) then I apologize for suggesting otherwise, but, well, when someone establishes a track record of obnoxiousness and (what I would consider) dishonesty they shouldn’t be surprise when people are skeptical of their stories. Of course, nobody brought his wife up to taunt him or anything – the subject was raised in an attempt to suggest that everybody should be nicey-nicey to the guy, even though he certainly was not being very nice at the time. If the poor woman is sick, I do wish her a full and speedy recovery. ---
**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contestant-3-has-been-banned-from-the-sdmb/526/66 "1999-11-05T22:07:00Z")
HMMM, go away for a while and return to find it the same old same old. Cept did somebody say papabear is gone? why for ? did he do a no no too? * * * “Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx ---
**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contestant-3-has-been-banned-from-the-sdmb/526/67 "1999-11-05T22:08:00Z")
HMMM, go away for a while and return to find it the same old same old. Cept did somebody say papabear is gone? why for ? did he do a no no too? * * * “Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contestant-3-has-been-banned-from-the-sdmb/526/68 "1999-11-06T17:45:00Z")
TubaDiva wrote: > [@](#): > > If someone who has been banned shows up under a new screen name and they act nicely, what’s the problem here? Well, we’d all like to know the answer to that question, Jenny. Dex made the same representation. But Fantastic User, who posted nary a vulgarity, nary a personal insult, has been banned. Inquiring minds want to know: Why? He was playing by the rules, making an effort to get along with the other kids, all that good stuff. What is the justification for banning Fantastic User? Or is it just the same attitude that Ed reflects here: [http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000362.html](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000362.html) ? Inquiring minds want to know. -Melin ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contestant-3-has-been-banned-from-the-sdmb/526/69 "1999-11-06T17:53:00Z")
Fantastic User was banned? You people really are getting a bit psycho. I mean, am I the only one who remembers the trolls on AOL? Maybe that’s why I think the people on this board are so thin-skinned. When I compare C#3 and Cyberian, I’ll take Connie any day. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contestant-3-has-been-banned-from-the-sdmb/526/70 "1999-11-06T21:37:00Z")
Just testing my new sig here. * * * “In Germany, they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then, they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then, they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then, they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then, they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up.” Pastor Martin Niemoller - late 1930’s ---
**Author:** ![AuraSeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AuraSeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuraSeer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contestant-3-has-been-banned-from-the-sdmb/526/71 "1999-11-07T03:13:00Z")
I had some arguments with C#3 in the past. Heck, when I saw he’d been banned, I thought it a very good and justified decision. But after he came back as **Fantastic User** , he obviously made an effort to play nice. I don’t think I’ve seen _all_ his posts (because the search function doesn’t work), but I haven’t seen anything that looks even remotely like a banning offense. What gives? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contestant-3-has-been-banned-from-the-sdmb/526.md?page=3)