# Ever been banned from a messageboard? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 19, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233 "2003-08-19T17:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![sleepytimebaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@sleepytimebaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleepytimebaby)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/41 "2003-08-24T02:44:06Z")
I asked a political board to take me off the board. But before they did I called the conservative on there illeterate and backwards. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/42 "2003-08-24T02:45:45Z")
I think I have you all topped. A certain no-longer-extant message board which we will refer to as the Sinister Buttock board was, due to misunderstandings all around, involved in a brief board war with this board. I attempted to register there, and was informed by a autogenerated message that my registration had been rejected. So I was banned without even having posted. ---
**Author:** ![sleepytimebaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@sleepytimebaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleepytimebaby)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/43 "2003-08-24T02:53:00Z")
polycarp…that is bad ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/44 "2003-08-24T03:39:17Z")
Sinister Buttock? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/45 "2003-08-24T03:44:51Z")
Someone must have told them what a radical hot head you are, **Polycarp.** 😃 troublemaker! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/46 "2003-08-24T03:54:41Z")
What’s another word for buttocks, **Shodan**? And if something isn’t _right_… 😉 I didn’t find out until I tried to post at said board. I e-mailed admin and got a freaking form letter that said: You were purged in a routine Undesirable Poster Purge. We are afraid this is non-negotiable. So anymore posts asking again, why you were banned, will be ignored. -Sincerely, Some Jerk Admin Well, I kept at it, and re-registered, just to let the people there know I was banned and I had no clue why. Turns out I had told a poster there that calling someone a name was immature, and THAT was why I was banned. _shrugs_ It was weird. Oh, and a bunch of us SAANers were banned from the Counterstrike forums after we waged a counter invasion. They kept spamming us with porn on our boards, so our admin locked down registration, and then WE went over there and spammed them with cutesy pictures of kittens, bunnies, Carebears, Precious Moments, and said things like, HUGS!!! WE WUB YOOO!!! It was so funny! THEN, one of their posters thought it was Something Awful, so he went spamming over THERE. Well, let’s just say that it was a bad idea… ---
**Author:** ![mikester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4da419/32.png) [@mikester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikester)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/47 "2003-08-24T03:59:56Z")
no, but there’s a first time for everything… _heads off the rapture ready forums…😉_ ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/48 "2003-08-24T04:14:01Z")
I initially ignored this thread because a.) its title made me think it might be fire-swallowing by a short-term flame-out and b.) I thought that this subject really has nothing to do with me. Then I remembered. Yes, I am amongst the banned. I am no longer welcome at Stormfront, after my first post. I asked how the members there might define race. Sure sign of a troublemaker. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/49 "2003-08-24T13:19:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ringo \* > \*\*I initially ignored this thread because a.) its title made me think it might be fire-swallowing by a short-term flame-out and b.) I thought that this subject really has nothing to do with me. > > Then I remembered. Yes, I am amongst the banned. I am no longer welcome at Stormfront, after my first post. I asked how the members there might define race. Sure sign of a troublemaker. \*\* A short term flame-out with 369 posts? ;j ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/50 "2003-08-24T17:01:13Z")
I was banned from a certain paranormal board a couple of years ago along with a few friends because I dared to demonstrate a sense of skeptism and _gasp_ a sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/51 "2003-08-24T17:15:22Z")
I wasn’t considering you, **The Griffin** , merely the thread title. No offense intended. ---
**Author:** ![Hubb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4af34b/32.png) [@Hubb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hubb)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/52 "2003-08-24T17:35:31Z")
\*\*Twiddle \*\* both ways. Usually the latter. If they work off of IP#, then usually looging in again gets you a new one and you never see the block again. If they work off email, then there’s plenty of free ones. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/53 "2003-08-24T19:37:12Z")
I was on the LBMB once. Not at the same time as the war between that board and this one, but a few months later. I had just read the first book and had to vent somewhere, so I went over there and started wanking about how bad it was. Didn’t get much response, so I started mopping up in some creationism vs. evolution threads, then started in on the end times section. Eventually they caught on and deleted my acocunt, along with any threads that I had posted in. However, my e-mail address stayed on their list, so for the next year or so I still got messages, one of which bragged about how tolerant they were of dissenting viewpoints. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/54 "2003-08-24T20:30:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shodan \* > \*\*Apparently I have been banned from a certain feminist message board. … > I can’t say I miss it all that much. They do not deal at all well with anything except unquestioning agreement, and the abuse they employ instead of debate isn’t very creative. > > Some of those women have some real issues, and I was allowing myself to be drawn into them in a very distasteful way. Better for everyone if I did not post there. > > Hard to imagine me not fitting in on that kind of messageboard, isn’t it? 😉 > > Regards, > Shodan \*\* If it’s the one I’m thinking of, I haven’t posted there (I occasionally lurk) as I’d last about 11 minutes after saying the matriarchy screws me over more than does the patriarchy . I could probably measure the time between post and big-stompy-foot in frozen pizza cooking-time increments. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/55 "2003-08-24T20:47:11Z")
I got banned from another board (supposedly PG rated, yet there was always links to quasi-naked ladies) for saying, in somewhat more filthy language, that I would perform fellatio on Janet Reno. (Don’t ask.) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/56 "2003-08-25T04:51:42Z")
SDMB, sorta. On the last day of work before I went into the hospital, I found that my office’s IP had been banned. I sent an email to the admins asking if I’d done something wrong, and by the time I came all was well again. I’m pretty sure I’m the only Doper in my office, so I’ve got no idea what happened. I also think I might have been banned from posting comments to Japan Today articles, after I routinely criticized their staff for pathetically uninformative stories. From now on, whenever I try to log in as sublight, rather than a ‘banned’ message, I get some weird kind of error. I re-registered as sublight2 and had no problem. I still keep pointing out where they leave important facts out of their story (nothing editorial, they just c&p the bare-bones newswire articles) and have had a couple of posts deleted, but they’re still letting me sign in. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/57 "2003-08-25T11:59:14Z")
I was banned from a message board related to a MMOG I play. A board of which I had been one of the admins. Let’s just say things turned into a nasty political meltdown, someone was spreading particularly repulsive lies about me, that person was associated closely with the senior admin who would not warn or temp ban him for lying, I stepped down as admin and stopped posting. About two weeks later someone informed me I was banned because the admins (the remaining admins being somewhat, um, ill-educated about the internet and unable to perform IP bans) were concerned about a security breach. I poked over and indeed they’d banned one of my ezboard usernames but not the other one. If I’d still cared in any way, I would still have been a “security threat.” As it is I find the entire debacle remarkably amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233/58 "2003-08-25T17:50:18Z")
I was banned from the SDMB. But then I got better. (It was an accident.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-banned-from-a-messageboard/196233.md?page=2)