# I apologize to Dex and to the board
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 29, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590 "2007-07-29T15:29:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/1 "2007-07-29T15:29:08Z")
I gave the impression of [Junior Modding](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8827019), which is a violation of board rules. I will do my best to avoid that sort of misunderstanding in the future.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/2 "2007-07-29T15:31:06Z")
Some reason you couldn’t post this in the original thread? Or have you not been getting enough attention lately?
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### Author:  [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/3 "2007-07-29T16:59:21Z")
Try to keep up, **QED**. The post that brought the warning belonged in the Pit since it suggested the admins’ refusal to consider requests - feasible, reasonable or not - was stock. I thought it mildly humorous. The back and forth and faux grovel? Stock.
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/4 "2007-07-29T17:41:47Z")
OK, I’m pointing and I’m laughing.
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/5 "2007-07-29T17:46:54Z")
You did the same thing here:
> **["REAL" polls](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=430228)**
>
> So, I was thinking, is there any way we could get real polls on these boards? You know, the kind where you can make a poll where members can click on a number of options that you (the poster) decide, and then it is then displayed as a percentage…?
I thought it was going to be your “New thing”. Sarcastic junior modding is the new Veranda fonts, you hepcats.
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### Author:  [@Anduril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduril)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/6 "2007-07-29T18:00:51Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
Some reason you couldn’t post this in the original thread? Or have you not been getting enough attention lately?
[/QUOTE]
I really don’t get it. What’s with the snarkiness? I see it on the board a lot, mostly turned on certain people like Liberal. It just irritates the hell out of me because I don’t have the backstory and it makes you (QED) look like a jerk.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/7 "2007-07-29T19:05:52Z")
[QUOTE=Anduril]
I really don’t get it. What’s with the snarkiness? I see it on the board a lot, mostly turned on certain people like Liberal. It just irritates the hell out of me because I don’t have the backstory and it makes you (QED) look like a jerk.
[/QUOTE]
Oh, eat shit.
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/8 "2007-07-29T19:07:46Z")
[QUOTE=Anduril]
mostly turned on certain people like Liberal.
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There _are_ no other people like Liberal. 😉
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### Author:  [@Anduril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduril)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/9 "2007-07-29T19:38:08Z")
[QUOTE=Silver Fire]
Oh, eat shit.
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No thanks. When you are full of something, you’re not really obligated to offer it around, particularly when it’s shit that you’re full off.
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### Author:  [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/10 "2007-07-29T19:48:59Z")
[QUOTE=Silver Fire]
Oh, eat shit.
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Really. What is the point of this? Why not just answer **Anduril’s** question if you feel so strongly about it?
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/11 "2007-07-29T20:05:11Z")
[QUOTE=Anduril]
I really don’t get it. What’s with the snarkiness? I see it on the board a lot, mostly turned on certain people like Liberal. It just irritates the hell out of me because I don’t have the backstory and it makes you (QED) look like a jerk.
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I think it’s pretty self-explanatory. \*\*QED \*\*thinks \*\*Liberal \*\*is an attention whore. Lots of people around here do. I don’t see why he should have to explain the backstory to you. And snarkiness in the Pit? Why, I never…!
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/12 "2007-07-29T20:10:59Z")
> [@Kneepants Erasmus](#):
>
> Really. What is the point of this? Why not just answer Anduril’s question if you feel so strongly about it?
I thought he was answering, but on a higher meta-level. The question was, what is the point of the snarkiness? But snarkinees has its own point, which is that it is.
> [@George Orwell](#):
>
> The purpose of power is power.
>
> If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
And we’ve reached that point in the SDMB already. The purpose of snarkiness is snarkiness. If you want a vision of the future of the Pit, imagine snarkiness at random targets - forever.
Regards,
Shodan
Who has reached the ultimate victory over himself - he loves the Moderators
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### Author:  [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/13 "2007-07-29T20:33:06Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal]
I gave the impression of [Junior Modding](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8827019), which is a violation of board rules. I will do my best to avoid that sort of misunderstanding in the future.
[/QUOTE]
What misunderstanding?
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### Author:  [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/14 "2007-07-29T20:33:46Z")
Whoah, **Shodan** , whoah. _That’s soooo deep, man._🆒
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/15 "2007-07-29T20:47:42Z")
Have you ever really looked - I mean _really looked_ - at your hand?
And do we have any Chee-tos left?
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/16 "2007-07-29T21:14:34Z")
[QUOTE=Kneepants Erasmus, the Humanist]
Really. What is the point of this? Why not just answer **Anduril’s** question if you feel so strongly about it?
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Because it was a stupid question? See also: John Mace’s post (Shodan’s as well, to some degree)
And I feel less “so strongly about it” and more “Meh. Whatever.”, with just a sprinkling of “Lib is a whiny attention whore, so who gives a shit if people want to make bitchy comments at his expense?” Apparently, Anduril does. How sweet.
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/17 "2007-07-29T22:02:19Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace]
I think it’s pretty self-explanatory. \*\*QED \*\*thinks \*\*Liberal \*\*is an attention whore. Lots of people around here do.
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Lots of people around here _are_ attention whores. So? What are you going to do about it, ban anyone who posts more than 15.09 posts per day?
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/18 "2007-07-29T22:04:57Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons]
Lots of people around here _are_ attention whores. So? What are you going to do about it, ban anyone who posts more than 15.09 posts per day?
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I’m not going to do anything about it. in fact, I didn’t even weigh in on the subject, I just pointed out what should have been obvious from reading QED’s post. And I don’t think anyone has proposed banning attention whores. Besides, it’s not the number of posts that foretell attnetion whoredom, it’s the content of the posts themselves.
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/19 "2007-07-29T22:18:16Z")
Why isn’t this thread about **me**? 😕
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### Author:  [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-apologize-to-dex-and-to-the-board/413590/20 "2007-07-29T23:01:35Z")
I can totally see how Lib misunderstood the rules about junior modding after nearly eight years, over 30,000 posts, and numerous run-ins with the mods and admins.
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