# Do people ever get shunned? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 29, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204 "2003-05-29T05:40:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/1 "2003-05-29T05:40:08Z")
I’m just curious, is it ever the case that people can categorically be shunned on the Board by the “big posters” until the requisite stripes are earned, say 1,003 posts? ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/2 "2003-05-29T06:22:23Z")
UNCLEAN!!! RETURN AFTER 900 POST BATH! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/3 "2003-05-29T06:25:06Z")
Well, I feel a _little_ better. \ ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/4 "2003-05-29T06:54:42Z")
For a number of posters new to the board, it can take a while to get used to things here. I don’t think it’s truly “shunning”, in the real meaning of the word. More like – new person we don’t know well just yet, entering the room. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/5 "2003-05-29T11:15:34Z")
You may imagine this is a matter of some slight contention. And if you don’t imagine that, I’m telling you, it’s a matter of some slight contention. I think most people would agree, that no newbie-shunning goes on. Some people would say that it does, to some extent or other. Yet other people would say that it does but that it’s justified. No clear answer exists, methinks. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/6 "2003-05-29T11:39:07Z")
You don’t get shunned until you’ve posted often enough to make people want to shun you. You have to earn your shunning. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/7 "2003-05-29T12:14:50Z")
True enough. In fact, I’m certain there are people who’ve been here long enough to piss me off enough that I ignore them completely. But newbies? Why? They’re the yeast that makes us rise. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/8 "2003-05-29T12:15:32Z")
I’m still a relative newbie myself, **Mr. B**. The venerable posters here have proven that you don’t get shunned based on your post count by the simple fact they took the time to post. Only in very rare cases does a poster get actively shunned, and it has absolutely nothing to do with their post count. In the vast majority of cases, if someone feels shunned it’s just that they’re not being noticed. In order to be noticed, one generally has to be extraordinarily irritating, clever, or prolific. Take me for example. I am neither irritating, clever, nor prolific, so as a conseqeunce I am pretty much unnoticed. That doesn’t mean that I’m being shunned (of course, someone will come along and assert that indeed I _am_ being shunned, but that’s just someone trying to be clever to be noticed. ~grin~). ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/9 "2003-05-29T12:29:38Z")
No, people here in general don’t seem to have the ability to shun anyone who irritates them. Rather, they will keep after them again and again on this Board, and then when they get warned off about it take their beef to other forums. In some cases, it’s behaviour which is clearly harassment. ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/10 "2003-05-29T15:33:09Z")
Even if one or more people were to shun you, there are so many here that someone wouldn’t. If no one is interested in your post, well, it probably is not an organized shunning. However, here on the board you might be funned, stunned, or even (metaphorically) sunned. Being gunned is downright frowned upon, though. Gotta runned. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/11 "2003-05-29T17:57:25Z")
I’m shunning you right now. Oh wait… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/12 "2003-05-29T18:14:54Z")
I was shunned in grade school. They tell me I’m fine now. [sub]but that’s just what they _want_ me to think…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/13 "2003-05-29T18:55:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Algernon \* > \*\*I am neither irritating, clever, nor prolific, so as a conseqeunce I am pretty much unnoticed. That doesn’t mean that I’m being shunned (of course, someone will come along and assert that indeed I _am_ being shunned, but that’s just someone trying to be clever to be noticed. ~grin~). \*\* I wasn’t shunning you at all… I just thought that you were tired of all the flowers you were getting. I didn’t want to be a bother… ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/14 "2003-05-29T21:16:43Z")
No bother **CuriousCanuck** , any extra flowers I get I send to Charlie, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/15 "2003-05-29T22:13:22Z")
Don’t draw any conclusions about shunning unless you see actual evidence or indications of such. In short, wait till the shun signs, Nelly. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/16 "2003-05-29T23:43:19Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/17 "2003-05-30T12:13:29Z")
“shun signs” Heh, heh. Now _that_ is clever. By the way **Mr. B** , you can be gratified to know that the average post count of the Dopers who have replied to your OP so far is an astounding 3361. And that’s with a few of us posters under a thousand bringing down the average. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/18 "2003-05-30T15:11:27Z")
Dig it. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/19 "2003-05-30T15:12:04Z")
Let’s see if we can bump that average back up a bit. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204/20 "2003-05-30T15:22:50Z")
Hey hey, Sylvania! Hello, you ole Buckeye. How are things back in the real world? (Born and raised in central OH.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-ever-get-shunned/178204.md?page=2)