# Ed Zotti - if you want some unsolicited advice (and who doesn't?) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 11, 2000, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-if-you-want-some-unsolicited-advice-and-who-doesnt/40810 "2000-11-11T19:26:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![That\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@That\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-if-you-want-some-unsolicited-advice-and-who-doesnt/40810/1 "2000-11-11T19:26:49Z")
I saw this in the closed thread \*\*[The BBQ Pit\> Sorry but, uh Tuba?\*\*](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45692) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ed Zotti - Administrator \* > \*\* Satan > > First warning. Over the past week or two you have: > > (1) Whined about TubaDiva after I made it clear I wanted this to stop, and continued to whine after you were reminded of my warning by a moderator. > > (2) Posted copyrighted material without permission in two separate threads even though you know full well we do not allow this. > > (3) Posted an obscene insult in a non-Pit thread because you “knew” it was going to get moved to the Pit soon. > > (4) Posted comments to another moderator (Gaudere) that in my opinion were obscene and abusive. > > I am fed up with this crap. If you violate SDMB rules one more time, or do anything I consider jerklike, you are out of here, and I don’t care if you’ve got five million posts to your credit. \*\* Since the thread is locked, I’ll give my 2¢ here. No need to keep banning people who have been here forever. If you do, he’ll just become another Satan Squared or Cubed or Satan[sup]4[/sup] Give him a suspension. Say 2 days. This will make any daily poster sweat. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-if-you-want-some-unsolicited-advice-and-who-doesnt/40810/2 "2000-11-11T20:38:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Piano \* > \*\*No need to keep banning people who have been here forever. > If you do, he’ll just become another Satan Squared or Cubed or Satan[sup]4[/sup] > Give him a suspension. Say 2 days. > > This will make any daily poster sweat. \*\* What are you basing this statement on? While most, if not everyone here, don’t want to see Satan banned, he has **never** had a sock puppet. If he did, like anyone else, he would have been banned already. ---
**Author:** ![Escanaba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Escanaba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Escanaba)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-if-you-want-some-unsolicited-advice-and-who-doesnt/40810/3 "2000-11-11T21:05:16Z")
I doesn’t look like she said that he ever had a puppet, just that banned people tend to return as puppets. We’ve had lots of cases of that. ---
**Author:** ![tiggeril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggeril/32/7234_2.png) [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-if-you-want-some-unsolicited-advice-and-who-doesnt/40810/4 "2000-11-11T21:14:22Z")
I think Satan has more sense than that. ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-if-you-want-some-unsolicited-advice-and-who-doesnt/40810/5 "2000-11-11T21:14:49Z")
I’m still kinda peed off about a number of things in that thread. But I wont express them here (…I don’t want to feel like I’m walking on glass). And I’m not going to hash the issues on Fathom. Also, I don’t feel like e-mailing a dozen people. So, I guess I’ll just sit on my unresolution—maybe it will go away. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Lost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/22d042/32.png) [@Lost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lost)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-if-you-want-some-unsolicited-advice-and-who-doesnt/40810/6 "2000-11-11T21:32:03Z")
Well I’m going to have to check in and say that I **liked** the way that thread ended. I am sick and tired of personal inuendo, attacks on mods and posted troll hunts (valid or not). I also don’t give a shit how many posts a person has - if you’ve been asked not to post things by mods or administrations and you do it anyway - be gone. For good. I hope it happens. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti-if-you-want-some-unsolicited-advice-and-who-doesnt/40810/7 "2000-11-11T22:57:52Z")
I’m going to take the liberty of closing this thread. There are other things going on here that you may not be aware of. This has also been hashed out in other threads which have been closed for a reason. Let’s let it go.