# Diogenes the Cynic **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 9, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/560062 "2010-11-09T17:52:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/560062/221 "2010-11-13T23:59:02Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > for those who claim this is only a recent thing for **Dio** , and that it’s not like him – well, the links speak for themselves. It is recent, if two years ago can be considered “recent”. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/560062/222 "2010-11-14T03:04:59Z")
What I don’t understand is why he hasn’t been given a “time out” by the mods by now. **Peter Morris** got suspended (rightly so, for the most part) for a handful of snarky posts last week, ostensibly for no other reason than “being a jerk”, as one mod put it, but I don’t see how saying things like “[Keyboards have never improved a song](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=580075)” are intended as anything other than an attempt to stir up trouble. I get this feeling that the mods look on **Dio** like the citizens of Springfield do vis a vis Homer Simpson: “Yeah he’s a lout and an idiot, but he’s our Homer!” and forgive all sins. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/560062/223 "2010-11-14T03:35:12Z")
**Peter Morris** was ignoring mod warnings. Having an opinion on keyboards in rock is not against any rules. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/560062/224 "2010-11-14T03:36:55Z")
Well, that’s the problem with the “being a jerk” rule. It’s vague and highly subjective and arbitrarily enforced. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/560062/225 "2010-11-14T05:52:14Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > Well, that’s the problem with the “being a jerk” rule. It’s vague and highly subjective and arbitrarily enforced. That’s what makes it fun! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/560062/226 "2010-11-15T08:44:23Z")
> [@Shmendrik](#): > > And now we have [this recently locked thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=584950), where **Diogenes** seems to provoke **Blake** into having some sort of seizure. In this example he uses his usual proof by repeated assertion, combined with a bizarre accusation of Creationism. Thank you so so much for that link. I’m fairly new here and don’t know of this DtC, but that was the funniest thread I’ve ever read. Holy living fuck I laughed so hard. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/560062/227 "2010-11-15T12:47:57Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > You haven’t been obnoxious, rude, out of line, a destroyer of threads He am become Trollnu? ---
**Author:** ![wintertime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@wintertime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wintertime)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/560062/228 "2010-11-15T22:17:39Z")
Slightly off-topic, but whenever I read a thread about some religious issue, I usually find Diogenes input insightful and far more often than not in accordance with the motto of this board. Granted, I don’t read that many threads and usually ignore IMHO and MPSIMS, so my point of view could be considered fragmentary, but I’d rather like to hear him add his voice and not his silence. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/560062.md?page=11)