# DrDeth Suspended 30 Days **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Tags:** suspension-banning\ **Created:** [August 17, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-suspended-30-days/949033 "2021-08-17T19:16:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-suspended-30-days/949033/1 "2021-08-17T19:16:26Z")
He was just suspended last month for obsessive posting. He has been strongly modnoted this week more than once for obsessive posting. Today he was derailing another topic with a tired old hobby-horse of his. > [@When would a minority of people be religious and how would society look like?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-would-a-minority-of-people-be-religious-and-how-would-society-look-like/948260/253): > > So, you withdraw the “unusual among developed countries” comment? Do you know that that list does not call any nations “developed” it just gives a relative score? Where is you cut off? Say the top half? * * * _ **Prior Warnings & suspensions** _ Jul 12: Received an official warning from @engineer_comp_geek – [Warning for attempted circumvention of moderation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-for-attempted-circumvention-of-moderation/946341) Jul 12: @engineer_comp_geek suspended this account until July 13, 2021. Reason: 1 day suspension due to obsessive posting. [Should moderator actions be in public or in private? - #120 by DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-moderator-actions-be-in-public-or-in-private/945286/120) May 6 engineer\_comp\_geek Moderator Note @DrDeth, another member has requested that you stop sending PMs. Do not send any further PMs for any reason to the other member or you will be disciplined for harassment. Apr 25: @What_Exit suspended this account until April 26, 2021. Reason: Consumed disproportionate amounts of staff time. Disrupted yet another thread. Changed the debate and conversation and derailed it. Basically appears to have perfected a different form of trolling. What I wrote in the thread. > [@Is 'Zoo Hypothesis' Mainstream?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-zoo-hypothesis-mainstream/940475/113): > > Modnote: I’m going to bounce this up to the modloop but it appears DrDeth is trolling this thread. That will be a one day suspension pending a review of his posting privileges. He does this to far too many threads and far too many GD thread especially. He can think over reading a thread before coming in blazing with derailing posts. I’m going to suggest a one week suspension. We’ll see what happens. Mar 25: Received an official warning from @What_Exit – [RE: Pacific War: McArthur vs Nimitz: Who Was Right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-pacific-war-mcarthur-vs-nimitz-who-was-right/938727) _Post_: > [@Pacific War: McArthur vs Nimitz: Who Was Right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-war-mcarthur-vs-nimitz-who-was-right/296959/90): > > That’s nice, I refuse to supply info that would lead to me being Doxxed, thank you very much. But Ok, so you are saying that a random picture of a guy in navy uniform proves My dad was a fire control petty officer on a destroyer escort, possibly supporting the invasion of Iwo Jima. Dec 14: Received an official warning from @What_Exit – [RE: Oh goodie. Now we have the political sexist take on who gets to be called “Dr”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-oh-goodie-now-we-have-the-political-sexist-take-on-who-gets-to-be-called-dr/928051) > [@Oh goodie. Now we have the political sexist take on who gets to be called "Dr"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-goodie-now-we-have-the-political-sexist-take-on-who-gets-to-be-called-dr/927973/105): > > Warning for DrDeth for Fighting with Munch and acting like a jerk. I am instructing @DrDeth and @Munch to not post any further in this thread. etc. Apr 2020: > [@](#): > > DrDeth, that’s a warning for you for accusations of lying AND disobeying moderator instructions. > > In lieu of giving you two warnings I am forbidding you from posting in Politics and Elections until 4/15/20. Don’t push your luck. > > Jonathan Chance > Moderator > Great Debates and Politics & Elections Please also see this Modnote: [Rules questions - #15](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-questions/948770/15) And I believe ECG has at least one other. * * * **DrDeth has been modnoted, PM’d and warned often and doesn’t show improvement. He is still derailing threads and hijacking threads and is a persistent problem for the staff.** ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-suspended-30-days/949033/2 "2021-08-17T19:16:29Z")
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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-suspended-30-days/949033/3 "2021-08-19T11:02:56Z")
_Here are the basics of what he is being instructed about:_ 1. Don’t take threads off-topic, especially on nitpicking the meaning of a word or phrase. If it is important to you; split the topic off using the Discourse tool and argue your point in this new thread. If you need help with this, one of the mods, or any of several other posters, could help you. Let any of us know if you’d like help with this. 2. Don’t worry the same topic to death in multiple threads. Your complaints about the pit, for instance, show up in far too many places. 3. Don’t complain at extreme length about moderation. It’s fine to request clarification. And yes, the rules allow posters to complain about moderation they think is wrong — the mods even change their minds sometimes, after reading such complaints. But at the end of the day, we get to decide, or Ed does. And you do not have a history of persuading the mods they were wrong. Your complaints mostly just take up time, yours and ours, to no benefit. The theme is that you need to drop things. Sometimes someone else is wrong on the internet, and you just have to live with it. Drop fights about the meaning of words and phrases, drop your frustration about topics that aren’t going to change, drop your displeasure with moderation. Or at a bare minimum, contain it.