# Dagnabbit, I hate when that happens **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 19, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dagnabbit-i-hate-when-that-happens/832789 "2019-04-19T20:10:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dagnabbit-i-hate-when-that-happens/832789/1 "2019-04-19T20:10:37Z")
I had a long post composed for a thread, and when I went to add it, the thread was gone. Disappeared, missing, lost in the aether. I’m not that surprised, the OP took a stupid and jerkish position. I suppose I could use what I wrote to start a new thread, but it would probably “attract the wrong sort of person”, and it definitely built on the missing thread. I hate when that happens! ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dagnabbit-i-hate-when-that-happens/832789/2 "2019-04-19T23:28:02Z")
Wrong sort of person checking in. Whatcha got??? ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dagnabbit-i-hate-when-that-happens/832789/3 "2019-04-19T23:47:48Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > I suppose I could use what I wrote to start a new thread, but it would probably “attract the wrong sort of person”, and it definitely built on the missing thread. > > I hate when that happens! This would be feeding a troll, yes. (I have no idea what thread you’re discussing but when a thread is wished to the cornfield it’s done for a reason.) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dagnabbit-i-hate-when-that-happens/832789/4 "2019-04-20T00:03:14Z")
Most often, cornfielded threads are spam, not trolls. We get several spammers a day, but it’s not all that often that a troll comes along that’s that obvious that it gets nuked right away. It looks like we’ve had a couple of attempted socks and a couple of new trolls banned since the start of April, but 27 spammers in just the past two days (yesterday was apparently busier than usual for spam). ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dagnabbit-i-hate-when-that-happens/832789/5 "2019-04-20T01:52:27Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > Wrong sort of person checking in. Whatcha got??? Well, I’m two inches taller, a better dancer, and much more fun to be with. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dagnabbit-i-hate-when-that-happens/832789/6 "2019-04-22T15:26:05Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > Wrong sort of person checking in. Whatcha got??? Are you the “Meet in a bar, spend the weekend having wild kinky sex, but disappear by Monday” wrong sort of person? Or the “Meet in a bar, follow me to my car, do terrible things and no one finds my body” wrong sort of person? ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dagnabbit-i-hate-when-that-happens/832789/7 "2019-04-22T15:32:38Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Well, I’m two inches taller, _a better dancer,_ and much more fun to be with. > > 😉 I want proof. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dagnabbit-i-hate-when-that-happens/832789/8 "2019-04-23T20:42:04Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > Are you the “Meet in a bar, spend the weekend having wild kinky sex, but disappear by Monday” wrong sort of person? > > Or the “Meet in a bar, follow me to my car, do terrible things and no one finds my body” wrong sort of person? A person can be all of that. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dagnabbit-i-hate-when-that-happens/832789/9 "2019-04-24T15:02:25Z")
“Hey baby, why don’t you talk to me? I’m from another planet.”