# DrMark2000 banned!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [April 13, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578 "2006-04-13T21:15:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/21 "2006-04-13T22:32:47Z")
> [@Mtgman](#):
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> I took the point to be that the SDMB wouldn’t be around to re-subscribe to next year, not that **Aeschines** won’t re-up.
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> The SDMB not being here next year would be sad. **Aeschines** not being here next year? That’s a matter of opinion apparently.
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> Enjoy,
> Steven
Not to put words in **Hamlet** ’s mouth, but I think that’s a bit of a woosh there. It’s pretty clear what **Aeschines** means, but what **Hamlet** _took_ from it is another horse entirely.
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/22 "2006-04-13T22:38:35Z")
> [@Aeschines](#):
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> When the SDMB banned **SnakeSpirit** , it was made clear that a certain type of outsider would not be tolerated on the board, and any opportunity within the rules would be taken advantage of to ban same.
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> With the banning of **drmark2000** , the SDMB has gone one suicidal step further and decided that, rules and principles be damned, that this variety of outsider will be banned no matter what.
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> Moderation here has slid into immature, arbitrary chaos. And, as will happen to any message board without extremely just, mature, and evenhanded moderation, the hardened core of invalidators is in a ruling position.
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> I guarantee you that the Reader will not put up with this mess for more than 1 year further. This is the last re-up, people. And it’s sad–this board could have gotten better and better. But bad leadership (really sad, limited-minded, fuckin’ thanks for ruining the board, idiots-kind of leadership) has fucked it.
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> Anyhow, see you in GQ and Cafe from time to time as this old dog’s last year expires.
This post makes much more sense of you imagine it being acted out in black and white by some hammy silent movie star with the words shown on screen in between scenes.
I’m sure that Aeschines will go out with dignity, and not keep coming into pit threads and posting “It’s behavior like this that is keeping me from coming back” or something to that effect for the next 365 days.
I’m wondering why one of our immature arbitrary moderators haven’t come in to call Aeschines a poopy head.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/23 "2006-04-13T22:40:41Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#):
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> [My apologies.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/finnagain/inetspoken.jpg)
Perfect!!!
> [@Aeschines](#):
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> …snip…I guarantee you that the Reader will not put up with this mess for more than 1 year further. This is the last re-up, people. And it’s sad–this board could have gotten better and better. But bad leadership (really sad, limited-minded, fuckin’ thanks for ruining the board, idiots-kind of leadership) has fucked it.
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> Anyhow, see you in GQ and Cafe from time to time as this old dog’s last year expires.
So happy to hear about your departure, while I am sad to see \*\*Mr Moto \*\* go, you I will gladly escort out and carry your bags even.
jim
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/24 "2006-04-13T22:43:19Z")
**Aeschines** , I have pointed before that many conservatives have a blind spot with time lines in general, but that does not make them jerks since they many times do back off when confronted with evidence and do not resort to personal attacks when they find they did not have all the proper information and so they are not banned.
For some reason people like you have a blind spot for jerkish behavior, it is obvious that that was the reason \*\*drmark2000 \*\* was banned, with your last post you only show who do you consider worthy of defense, the last two times you did that, the defended proved to be an asshole of cosmic dimensions, you are not a good judge of character.
**You confuse assholiness with holiness.**
It is sad because I did notice that you learned from the mistakes you made in the past, it is sad that you only get that people like me here get more tick off by the jerkiness of people like \*\*dmark2000 \*\* than with their ideas or politics.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/25 "2006-04-13T22:45:58Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#):
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> I’m wondering why one of our immature arbitrary moderators haven’t come in to call Aeschines a poopy head.
Psst. The mods will just say “he ( **DrMarkassWellbe** ) cannot defend himself” and close the thread.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/26 "2006-04-13T22:47:09Z")
> [@Maureen](#):
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> …snip…
> Why is it every melodramatic asshole that decides to not re-up is egotistical enough to believe the board will collapse without their esteemed presence?
You just did a great job of summing up what makes for the worst posters.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/27 "2006-04-13T22:47:51Z")
> [@Aeschines](#):
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> When the SDMB banned **SnakeSpirit** , it was made clear that a certain type of outsider would not be tolerated on the board, and any opportunity within the rules would be taken advantage of to ban same.
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> With the banning of **drmark2000** , the SDMB has gone one suicidal step further and decided that, rules and principles be damned, that this variety of outsider will be banned no matter what.
That “certain type of outsider” is best described as a mentally unstable asshole.
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### Author:  [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/28 "2006-04-13T22:48:43Z")
People, I’m saying that this board won’t exist in another year, not that I’m not reupping now.
FWIW, though, I plan to be even less of a presence on these boards than I have the past six months. So search for your next victim, throw a party, post more and more threads about how the mods are fuckin’ off the rails. You know, have a ball.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/29 "2006-04-13T22:52:50Z")
> [@Aeschines](#):
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> People, I’m saying that this board won’t exist in another year, not that I’m not reupping now.
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> FWIW, though, I plan to be even less of a presence on these boards than I have the past six months.\*\* So search for your next victim\*\*, throw a party, post more and more threads about how the mods are fuckin’ off the rails. You know, have a ball.
Bolding mine.
When the fuck has anyone come looking for you to in order to victimize you? Show one example, smartass.
How can you post at all with that big old heavy world on your shoulders?
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/30 "2006-04-13T22:56:31Z")
> [@Loopydude](#):
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> I do have to admit paroxysms of lurid fascination with Teh Crazy. It does provide gems like “I burning your dog!!!11!1”, on occasion.
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> But, my mother (in her capacity as a psych n.p., as opposed to, say, her capacity as my mother) has found this out through years of clincal experience: Often insane people become a terrible _bore_ after a while. Their rants can be downright fascinating at first, but they tend to fixate, and it gets real tedious, real fast.
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> A favorite crazy horse to beat around here seems to be monogamy. Yawn.
Yep. I didn’t even open the mariage thread until after he was banned. He did have a flair for pushing buttons (Mr Rogers’ self-abuse) that made him a little entertaining at first, but it got old really really fast. I would not have read the Schlitz Magnum Opus anyway.
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/31 "2006-04-13T22:57:16Z")
> [@Aeschines](#):
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> People, I’m saying that this board won’t exist in another year, not that I’m not reupping now.
_yawn_
SSDY. Supposedly the board wasn’t going to exist after P2P started. Then it wasn’t going to exist after the Google ads. Now it isn’t going to exist because the mods banned a tr…asshole. Do you spend time on corners predicting the end of the world in your off time?
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/32 "2006-04-13T22:59:14Z")
> [@Aeschines](#):
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> People, I’m saying that this board won’t exist in another year, not that I’m not reupping now.
And I say the evidence points to the board still being here a year from now.
Your last post becomes just another item to show people how unreliable you are.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/33 "2006-04-13T23:02:33Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#):
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> Psst. The mods will just say “he ( **DrMarkassWellbe** ) cannot defend himself” and close the thread.
Well, I _was_ coming here to do just that, but now that it’s turned into an argument over the justice of **drmark** ’s banning, I’m thinking it can stay open a while longer. If it turns into nothing but **drmark** -bashing, I’ll probably close it.
And I must say I’m frankly more than a little curious as to how **drmark** was such a central lynchpin to the board that his removal will precipitate its complete and utter destruction.
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/34 "2006-04-13T23:03:34Z")
> [@Aeschines](#):
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> **People, I’m saying that this board won’t exist in another year, not that I’m not reupping now.**
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> FWIW, though, I plan to be even less of a presence on these boards than I have the past six months. So search for your next victim, throw a party, post more and more threads about how the mods are fuckin’ off the rails. You know, have a ball.
I got a double sawbuck says you’re wrong there, feller.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/35 "2006-04-13T23:04:57Z")
> [@Giraffe](#):
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> Well, I _was_ coming here to do just that, but now that it’s turned into an argument over the justice of **drmark** ’s banning, I’m thinking it can stay open a while longer. If it turns into nothing but **drmark** -bashing, I’ll probably close it.
Well how about fixing my coding while you’re at it. I was aiming for little teeny letters that you couldn’t see from way up there. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/36 "2006-04-13T23:06:48Z")
> [@Giraffe](#):
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> And I must say I’m frankly more than a little curious as to how **drmark** was such a central lynchpin to the board that his removal will precipitate its complete and utter destruction.
I think we’re dead to \*\*Aeschines \*\*now. All of his best friends here are gone **SnakeSpirit** , **mswas** , \*\*drmark2000 \*\*-- so who will keep him company?
Or maybe he thinks that without the entertainment potential of these trolls, we won’t have enough content to offer to generate subscription revenue.
Or maybe he’s just talking out of his ass.
My money’s on option 3.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/37 "2006-04-13T23:08:45Z")
> [@Maureen](#):
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> Do you spend time on corners predicting the end of the world in your off time?
Hey now…don’t go throwing this clown in with the rest of us who have made this a full-time preoccupation! Why just last week I…say, you got red hair?
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/38 "2006-04-13T23:08:48Z")
> [@Aeschines](#):
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> People, I’m saying that this board won’t exist in another year, not that I’m not reupping now.
OK, put up. I just subscribed a few weeks ago, after lurking for a long while.
If the SDMB is still extant when it’s time for me to resubscribe, you pay the $15. If it isn’t, I pay you $75. Five for one. We’ll each PayPal our bet to a trustworthy third party today, who will pay out the $90 on 4-13-07.
Deal?
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/39 "2006-04-13T23:11:24Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#):
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> Well how about fixing my coding while you’re at it. I was aiming for little teeny letters that you couldn’t see from way up there. 🙂
'kay.
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### Author:  [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drmark2000-banned/352578/40 "2006-04-13T23:13:12Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#):
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> We’ll each PayPal our bet to a trustworthy third party today, who will pay out the $90 on 4-13-07.
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> Deal?
I’m trustworthy, send me the money. 😃
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