# Holy crap! No more Dio? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 15, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416 "2011-09-15T18:01:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/41 "2011-09-15T18:52:50Z")
How the hell am I supposed to scalp these tickets to the Dio Show now? ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/42 "2011-09-15T18:54:07Z")
Wow. I can’t pretend I often (ever?) agreed with him, can’t pretend I liked his derails, but he was a fixture, and the board won’t be quite the same without him. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/43 "2011-09-15T18:54:15Z")
I’m really gonna miss him. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/44 "2011-09-15T18:54:20Z")
Or go to Giraffe’s board. I’m not registered there, but I’d be willing to bet he’s already posted a tract on how he got fucked over. Either way. Eh, I say. I actually agreed with Dio on about 90% of what he posted, but I can’t say he didn’t earn this banning. And at the end of the day – as I’ve said before about others – he’s been banned from posting here; he hasn’t been executed. I don’t think we need to hold a vigil or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/45 "2011-09-15T18:57:18Z")
Wow, every time I recheck on main page, there’s another comment/post in this thread. Wish I would have that for my own banning. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/46 "2011-09-15T18:57:23Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Actually, I’m wondering how long it will take him to figure out that this isn’t just another “incident” involving a new Administrator. I’ll have you know that **Gfactor** is a damn good admin, and he’s a prince of a man who’s doing his best- Oh. ::slinks away:: ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/47 "2011-09-15T18:58:03Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Actually, I’m wondering how long it will take him to figure out that this isn’t just another “incident” involving a new Administrator. Didn’t take him any time. He was over on Giraffeboard talking about this before this thread even started. (To be fair, I opened the issue when I noticed Tuba’s banning announcement) ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/48 "2011-09-15T18:59:14Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Or go to Giraffe’s board. I’m not registered there, but I’d be willing to bet he’s already posted a tract on how he got fucked over. So far, no. One or two “They banned me over that one Oakminister comment?!” type posts, but no tracts, no screeds. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/49 "2011-09-15T18:59:18Z")
I can’t say I liked or disliked him but the signal to noise ratio of his posts was not good. ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/50 "2011-09-15T19:02:16Z")
> [@I\_Know\_Nothing](#): > > I’m shocked. Reading him in some religious threads is what got me hooked on the Dope in the first place all those years ago, him and collounsbury. Ditto. **Dio** ’s input led me to research and reading I never would have bothered with otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/51 "2011-09-15T19:05:35Z")
Eh. I’ve clashed with him plenty, mainly due to his refusal to listen to opposing points of view, and whilst I think it’s a shame it’s come to this, it’s entirely his own fault for not changing his ways when repeatedly told he had to. He was given more chances than anyone I’ve seen since I’ve been here. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/52 "2011-09-15T19:15:13Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Westboro threads _need_ major dickheads to counter the other dickheads. That’s called _balance,_ and I’m very sorry to see him go. > > We are now more homogenous, but less wise. :rolleyes: Do you even know what thread I’m talking about? It was a thread \*denouncing \*Westboro, Mr. I-Don’t-Read-but-Post-Anyway. No wonder you’ll miss the likes of the never-reading but nonetheless tornado-posting Dio. It was a thread denouncing the Westboro assclowns who decided to protest the funeral the OP’s personal friend. Dio came in shat on it. Bring back the Wally emoticon, please. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/53 "2011-09-15T19:18:35Z")
Sorry to see him go. I’ll miss him, when he wasn’t ranting he had some good knowledge to share. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/54 "2011-09-15T19:21:19Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > :rolleyes: Do you even know what thread I’m talking about? It was a thread \*denouncing \*Westboro, Mr. I-Don’t-Read-but-Post-Anyway. No wonder you’ll miss the likes of the never-reading but nonetheless tornado-posting Dio. It was a thread denouncing the Westboro assclowns who decided to protest the funeral the OP’s personal friend. Dio came in shat on it. He did have a point in that thread. The tough-guy types who counter-protest at WBC protests of military funerals wouldn’t in a thousand years counter-protest at the funerals of gays. The fact that they get accolades for their work while still being quite obviously prejudiced is disappointing, and it made **Dio** angry. I understand that. But he should have expressed himself better. Now, as for this banning, it’s a shock, and it’s disappointing but it’s not like the moderators weren’t patient with **Dio**. They were _extremely_ patient, and he never changed. There’s a point where the rules must apply to him as well, even though he’s a fixture of the board (the most prolific poster, I believe), and even though he could be a really great poster sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/55 "2011-09-15T19:30:30Z")
[Westboro Baptist/Dio link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=586274) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/56 "2011-09-15T19:30:32Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > :rolleyes: Do you even know what thread I’m talking about? Yes. I stand by my comments, and you can keep your Wally. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/57 "2011-09-15T19:34:20Z")
> [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](#): > > He did have a point in that thread. The tough-guy types who counter-protest at WBC protests of military funerals wouldn’t in a thousand years counter-protest at the funerals of gays. And that’s why it’s okay to respond to “Some idiots are protesting my friends funeral” with “Let me go on a tangent about an unrelated group of hypocrites who have nothing to do with your personal loss”? Righto, Bob. Edit! > [@Fenris](#): > > [Westboro Baptist/Dio link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=586274) That’s not the thread I was talking about. I was referring to this [work of art](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=12604610#post12604610) linked to by Tuba Diva in post #24. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/58 "2011-09-15T19:34:21Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > he violated the SDMB’s prime directive with alarming regularity. Only call a Poster a fuckhead if they have warp drive? Skald, do you have…never mind. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/59 "2011-09-15T19:36:17Z")
**DtC** impressed me with his knowledge on the religious threads. Learned a lot from him. His influence on my theological outlook influence me more than I care to admit. If a thread involved religion, I’d be there lurking. In that sense, I will miss him. Outside of religion, however, he couldn’t stop with compulsive thread-shitting. When he started derailment-of-a thread-by-arrogance, I’d filter out **DtC** ’s response, or just drop reading the thread altogether. So, in another sense, I will not miss him. Yesterday, when I saw the moderator rebuke of **DtC** ’s comment in the Sarah Palin thread, instinct told me that his days were numbered on this Board. Surprised at the timing, but not of the action. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416/60 "2011-09-15T19:36:23Z")
Sigh. My very first post here, I believe, was agreeing with **Dio** and telling him how, as a fellow liberal, I greatly admired his posts’ passion and clarity; he was the reason I finally got an account and delurked after having read the board for years. Unfortunately, the **Dio** I admired eight years ago is not the same **Dio** he became. Over the past few years his style degenerated. What had been resolution turned to stubbornness, then further degraded to plain mule-like refusal to accept experiences other than his own. Eventually the guy whose posts I originally sought out became someone whose appearance in threads I dreaded, because _inevitably_ he took some ridiculously myopic position and stuck to it no matter how many perfectly valid arguments were made. So while I’m not _glad_ to see him go, I can’t mourn his loss. I’ve already mourned the loss of the more rational, reasonable yet still kick-ass poster **Dio** used to be. Edited to add: I want to thank **TubaDiva** and the other admins/mods for allowing us this thread. I know it’s usually against policy to speak of the banned, but this does seem to be a situation that would generate some understandable reactions that do need airing. I appreciate their allowing us this space very much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-no-more-dio/596416.md?page=4)