# Do you get harassing emails from board members? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 28, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125 "2001-02-28T00:21:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/1 "2001-02-28T00:21:09Z")
Im curious cause of Tuba’s nice letter above about this subject. I haven’t got any myself that I would consider harassing emails. Shucks, even if I did a harassing email would probably be a whole nicer than anything you can read in the Pit 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/2 "2001-02-28T00:26:23Z")
I’ve never received an E-mail of any kind from a member of this board. Geuss I haven’t pissed anyone off too badly… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/3 "2001-02-28T00:28:16Z")
Oh, wait, duh… Got one last week about PM’s silly little list over on Socks. That was the first. ---
**Author:** ![dublos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@dublos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dublos)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/4 "2001-02-28T00:35:06Z")
Nope, never received one, and only e-mailed one person on this board, and hopefully it wasn’t harrassing, since it was more a concerned “Are you ok?” sorta e-mail. -Dou ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/5 "2001-02-28T00:36:32Z")
I was going to say I hadn’t and was feeling left out, but if we’re counting **PitMeister’s** alerts, I’ve gotten two. One for the “Clueless List” and another letting me know his deleted “nayh, nayh” post (under another name) was over at Socks. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/6 "2001-02-28T00:49:13Z")
**Do you get harassing emails from board members?** Oh yeah. Comes with the territory of being a moderator, I guess. 😉 Nothing I’d alarm the police about, though. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/7 "2001-02-28T01:36:22Z")
One. From a poster I hardly knew (know?) who appears, based on the e-mail, to be a total fruit-bat. I sent him (her?) an e-mail back telling him never to e-mail me again and that any e-mail received from him would be deleted unread. He promptly e’d me again; I round-filed that e and the other two he subsequently sent (unread) and have not heard from him since. I get some pretty nice e-mail occasionally from people around here, but that was the sole negative one. Even people I’ve seriously disagreed with haven’t flamed me via e-mail; the Pit seems to suffice for that. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/8 "2001-02-28T01:58:12Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever received a harassing one, but I’ve received TONS of emails from people on the boards. Fanmail, mostly. 😉 –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/9 "2001-02-28T02:05:21Z")
I’ve never gotten a harrassing e-mail, but I’ve gotten several nice ones. And several nice ICQ messages (never a harrassing one of those, either). ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/10 "2001-02-28T02:15:00Z")
I’ve gotten a few… I’m in sporadic communication with **Tequila Mockingbird** right now… And I got my first letter from a Mod or Admin telling me to cut my sig line down… I wrote back in a snide fashion, and now regret it, but it’s to late. Ah well. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/11 "2001-02-28T04:23:03Z")
I’ve never gotten one harassing email. I’ve gotten a few in answer to questions (one of those questions being a politically sensitive one around here) and a total of two about my sig (from TubaDiva, before I made the link). Come to think of it, I don’t get much email, period. Anyway, my free address is listed here and I will reply to any and all messages sent to me. I guess I use the boards I’m on for mental expansion rather than social networking. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/12 "2001-02-28T15:26:53Z")
About 8 months ago, I got one from someone whose user name I didn’t recognize telling me he(?) had seen my picture on the people pages (Opal’s, at the time) and he thought I was “real pretty”. Nice compliment, but…I hadn’t been on the Board in about 5 months (at that time) due to work constraints and, not recognizing the name, just deleted it. Sorry I had been rude. I should have at least said “thank you”. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/13 "2001-02-28T16:53:22Z")
The few e-mails I’ve gotten from Dopers have been cordial, and I’d like to think the few I’ve sent have been the same. Of course, being the loving, lovable soul that I am, what else would you expect? Now do excuse me while I polish my halo before I frolic with the little creatures of the forest… ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/14 "2001-02-28T16:55:16Z")
The first round of emails I got were from women saying they enjoyed reading whatever I said. Then a small round from Tuba with her usual phrase ‘I expected better from you’ because someone read the Swedish sig line of mine & found it a bit offensive. Then someone wrote who said there was a topic about me in the Pit. But no nasty emails…yet. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/15 "2001-02-28T20:04:00Z")
I got a pic of naked men from Canadian Sue, but I didn’t consider it harassing. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/16 "2001-02-28T20:13:57Z")
I made a wisecrack one time that elicited an email saying, “Why are you calling me an alcoholic?” Someone had asked for an etymology, and after giving it I closed with, “Now save some of that beer money and buy yourself a decent dictionary.” Another time there was a strange thread in GD, from a poster whose name was that of a breakfast cereal, who said that he/she was dying of an unknown, incurable disease–and listed a series of diseases that this “unknown disease” was related to (none of which were themselves related). When I voiced skepticism over the legitimacy of the claim, I received an email saying that he/she would be willing to share any documentation on the case–but of course none ever arrived. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/17 "2001-02-28T21:16:27Z")
I got an e-mail from Susan Bananahands that threatened Persephone’s life, but I don’t put a lot of faith in being made out of newspaper and duct tape who type with hands made out of bananas, regardless of how much etiquette has been read to them.\* \*For those who don’t comprehend a word of the above, I’d advise you just ignore it, as it is mostly an inside joke, with a bit of psychosis added for flavor. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/18 "2001-02-28T21:18:35Z")
I’ve never received any harrassing e-mails, but I suspect that’s because I stay the hell out of GD and The Pit. I try to keep my posts on the mundane and pointless side. 🙂 I’ve only received one out-of-the-blue e-mail from a poster. My e-mail is listed, and I wouldn’t mind if anyone sent one, but _sniff_ nobody does. Wahhhhh! ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/19 "2001-02-28T22:02:12Z")
I once got an email from someone who wanted to discuss whether or not I have ever had sex with a man with a Prince Albert :eek: but other than that nobody ever emails me. nice to see I am not alone in this though ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125/20 "2001-02-28T22:05:59Z")
I’ve had emails from Dopers about a Dopefest, and emailed a mod once or twice, but beyond that not a sausage. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-harassing-emails-from-board-members/56125.md?page=2)