# Frank Shuts Down A Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 18, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087 "2008-01-18T22:16:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/101 "2008-01-22T23:29:08Z")
> [@ThirdCultureKid](#): > > Geez, who pissed in CarnalK’s cornflakes this morning? Don’t mind him–he’s just peeved that I don’t recognize his title as King of the Pit. He’ll continue his crusade until I bow down to the throne or he runs out of cliches to fire at me, whichever comes first. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/102 "2008-01-23T03:40:51Z")
Okay. The mob – the tiny, little mob – has spoken. I’d still rather the policy was to grant a few hours for a thread to find an audience and contributors, even if they had to take a few liberties with the title: heck, even posts about **Czarcasm** ’s mole people would have been fun there. And since the cost of a thread’s _not_ finding an audience is practically zero, I think it would be nice to allow Nature to take its course on these things just on the chance that something worthwhile might happen. I even think that most people, if the issue were separated from this thread, might agree that shutting down a non-rule-breaking thread after only twenty minutes is a little extreme. But if I’m in the minority here, so be it. I lose. I said so twenty posts ago. However, there’s always the post that’s just too much fun to ignore: [QUOTE=Heffalump and Roo] …And I’m sorry that I missed your pile-on. That looked like fun. [/QUOTE] If s/he’s talking about the five posts in a row that disagreed with me, _s/he_ was number _six_. But forget that departure from reality: s/he’s still recovering from having proclaimed an IMHO “rule” more imaginary than her/his own username. Besides, if the **'lump** thinks _that’s_ a pile-on, for his/her own sake s/he’d better continue his/her policy of never ever posting anything even slightly memorable. But soft! S/he barrels on: [QUOTE=Heffalump and Roo] …But are you sure that you wanted to insult the entire SDMB membership?.. [/QUOTE] Well, would-be demagogues don’t have to be smart, but it helps if they can tell which side of the insult has jelly on it: in this case, it is _I_ who wanted the thread left open so the creativity of the SDMB membership might save a thread, others who lacked such confidence. The **'lump** , as many will recall, was the only one suggesting (bogusly, but still) that such creativity might be against the rules. That’s the spirit that wins ball games! But it doesn’t do much to burnish the side that’s issuing most of the general as well as most of the personal insults. Fortunately, as it turns out, the insult isn’t really even sincere – it’s just a segue to: [QUOTE=Heffalump and Roo] …That could turn out badly. Some people have long memories around here. Just sayin… [/QUOTE] Sayin’ that, well, what? This _threat_? This _warning_? This _announcement_ about other people’s memories means that…you should use apostrophes if you want others to take you seriously? That you should be on the side defending the SDMB membership’s intelligence and creativity? That you, personally, have a long memory, when you can’t even remember the SDMB rules, or even that there’s a button you can click so you can read them before posting? Please, quickly, make something up, something plausible this time, so I can be underwhelmed. All the **'lump** can do is to establish that _one_ SDMB poster lacks the wit to have saved the closed thread. I concede the point. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087/103 "2008-01-23T04:21:29Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Don’t mind him–he’s just peeved that I don’t recognize his title as King of the Pit. He’ll continue his crusade until I bow down to the throne or he runs out of cliches to fire at me, whichever comes first. [/QUOTE] Sweet lord, you really are an annoying twirp, aren’t you? No, when you clearly put so little thought into your posts I can’t imagine caring who or what you bow to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-shuts-down-a-thread/434087.md?page=5)