Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!
If I had asked this question and received this response I would join just to spite the bastards who didn’t want me to.
But would you have asked the question? Its not like the OP needs anyone’s permission to pay up and join. It doesn’t matter whether the majority of folks thinks he’s a cool guy or an imbecile. I wouldn’t spend 15 bucks to spite some people I’ve only interacted with on a message board, but thats me. (and how much of a jab can it be? Its not like people will go 'Aw NO! 2.5 inches joined! that jerk!". Especially when they don’t have to read any of his posts in the first place)
It’s a community, and it needs all sorts (would be kind of boring without). Join if you’d like. But this society, like the broader one, needs a certain set of rules to function - so only join if you are happy to live within those rules. Otherwise you stand to flush those 15 bukkers pretty quickly!
I was looking through my attic the other day and I found a whole big bag of attention that I had forgotten all about. So, I thought, since I have all the attention I need right now, why don’t I do the charitable thing and give all this attention to someone who is desperately in need of it. Someone who is so pitifully in need that they are willing to go to great lengths to get even a meager smidgen of attention. The kind of person whose antics in search of a daily crumb of attention makes you sad, thinking about the kind of life, or absence of one that poor soul must have.
You’ve convinced me that you’re the most needy.
I wish there was a way for me to express how little I actually give a fuck without staying out of the thread entirely.
All I can say is this: imagine that everyone of the thousands of people who doesn’t respond to your stupid poll doesn’t give any fuck whatsoever. That’s how much you register.
Consider me in that group, but I took one for the team to enter your thread and post it.
All I can say, for the silent TM are “thanks, man.”
Give the guy some credit, he’s a lot more fun than a Fun Size Mars Bar - two and a half inches, sheer bloody luxury.
I could have closed the thread for attention-whoring; pulled the plug on the OP’s SDMB career for trolling; or moved the thread here.
Should I have emailed you and asked if any of those met your exacting standards for message board moderation?
I consulted my magic 8 ball <sniff> and it says that it’s time to get another 8 ball <sniff>
I hate to be the one to tell you, but I hear on the street that your magic 8 ball has been providing guidance to anyone with a spare $20.
TLDR = The Lord of Da Rings?
As for the OP: sure, why not? If we had no ignorance to fight we’d just fall apart. 
2.5 inches of fun, you’ve pissed them off. You’ve pissed the members off. Hell, you’ve pissed me off, but I will continue to attempt to appeal for your continued membership. I already said I don’t give a shit about your $15. I am only interested in the potential for an interesting new member.
Do you understand why fingers are hovering over the ban button?
ETA:
Too long didn’t read. It’s one of those fun internet abbreviations. Basically I was warning all my friends with short attention spans to skip my post altogether.
Hmm, sorry, I thought the abbreviation was less obscure.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TLDR
I hate it when I get confused by one I haven’t seen before too.
There’s the answer right there.
Dear Diary,
Two and a Half Inches of Fun finally asked me! I’ve been playing coy for weeks, not wanting to appear too eager, but all the while secretly anguished.
I wondered: was Two and a Half Inches of Fun just playing around, or would he finally make a committment to us? Oh Diary, how I’ve agonized over that question.
And now he’s asked me! He’s asked me! Joy! Rapture!
Oh, what should I say? I want to say “yes,” but I don’t want to jump at the offer like I’ve just been waiting to say “yes.” Oh, what should I do?
spoke-
P.S. Diary, I am still having the little problem I mentioned last week. Maybe I should have less cucumber in my diet?
Nothing says mocking like Comic Sans.
That was very funny spoke-
I wanted to say that dang it. I was just afriad of too much sarcasm in this thread so it would be taken the wrong way.
One of these days we’ll all be serious, and then… kaboom.
Of course I would like you to join. Unlike apparently many other members, if for some reason I decide I dislike you and/or your posting style, I can simply not make the effort to read your posts. I think there’s even a feature of the board software that will ignore you for me automatically, but I’ve never used it; I find simply not reading what I’m not interested in is more than adequate.
There’s pretty much no risk involved, for me, to welcome you with open arms. As others have already noted though, if you get banned you don’t get a refund, so you should get a good idea that you’d like to use the board while operating under its rules and culture, if losing the sign up fee is something you’d be concerned about.
Only if you promise to start more of your “Is Yemen a democracy” and “some author no one including me has ever heard of has a new book out” type threads.
And for the love of god, please tell us the meaning of your name! I got no sleep last night trying ot figure it out, and now I’m a wreck.