# I forget, do we have a general HurricaneDitka Pit thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952 "2018-01-06T00:15:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 66
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1301 "2019-10-17T13:04:48Z")
This is what HD LIVES for- goading someone else into a warning. I say don’t play in his sandbox, you never know what you’ll step in. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1302 "2019-10-17T15:03:19Z")
So the moderators are now threatening to give asshole trolls exactly what they want, unless people stop getting baited by the trolls. Here’s a radical thought: BAN THE FUCKING TROLL, and let the rest of us have a reasonable discussion. I think the mods have been watching too much Trump “diplomacy”. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1303 "2019-10-17T15:16:30Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > So the moderators are now threatening to give asshole trolls exactly what they want, unless people stop getting baited by the trolls. > > Here’s a radical thought: BAN THE FUCKING TROLL, and let the rest of us have a reasonable discussion. > > I think the mods have been watching too much Trump “diplomacy”. Here’s another radical thought: **Put the Fucking Troll on Ignore,** like I’ve told you guys for months! This is the stuff he lives for: goading people into getting warned/banned and closing threads. I know you dislike ignoring guys like HD because Bad Ideas Need to Be Engaged. No, he doesn’t. Ignore him. Otherwise, you play right into his hands. And I know you’re smarter than him. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1304 "2019-10-17T15:26:53Z")
I’m going to give your advice a try. This will be the first time I’ve used that feature. If I don’t post in this thread again, that will probably mean that your advice stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1305 "2019-10-17T15:27:07Z")
No, don’t put him on ignore. Report all his sealioning shit as ignoring Bone’s instructions to stop sealioning. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1306 "2019-10-17T15:29:32Z")
I’ve just done it. (I am curious to see if I like it. If I undo it, I’ll be sure to complain about that useless fuck HD here again.) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1307 "2019-10-17T15:30:30Z")
Is there any case history of trolls going away after being ignored? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1308 "2019-10-17T15:33:06Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > No, don’t put him on ignore. Report all his sealioning shit as ignoring Bone’s instructions to stop sealioning. NB: Bone’s instructions only apply to Elections & GD. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1309 "2019-10-17T15:36:38Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Here’s another radical thought: **Put the Fucking Troll on Ignore,** like I’ve told you guys for months! This is the stuff he lives for: goading people into getting warned/banned and closing threads. I know you dislike ignoring guys like HD because Bad Ideas Need to Be Engaged. > > No, he doesn’t. Ignore him. Otherwise, you play right into his hands. And I know you’re smarter than him. If you can keep yourself from being dragged down sidetracks, and only focus on substantive parts of a post (which often means ignoring entire posts), then the bad ideas can be engaged constructively. He’s not the only troll in the world, and many of them you cannot ignore. Developing and practicing techniques for combating that sort of “debate” has a value in and of itself. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1310 "2019-10-17T15:37:52Z")
Also, is there any case history suggesting that the number of people reporting a post has any influence over the likelihood that the mods will take action? (Serious question) I mean, I’m happy to report every single fucked up thing HD says (well, I have him on ignore, but I still “get” to see most of his most inflammatory posts) courtesy of other folds quoting him) if it will help hasten his banning, but that would take a lot of my time! And I wonder if after a certain point the mods would just get annoyed with it, so it would be counterproductive. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1311 "2019-10-17T16:02:33Z")
TPTB are on record as not minding multiple reports. IIRC, they _encourage_ multiple reports. In this case, multiple Dopers reporting posts would increase the chances of **Bone** seeing one rather than **Jonathan** , who seems to be unaware of Bone’s instructions. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1312 "2019-10-17T17:31:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Is there any case history of trolls going away after being ignored? We REALLY need a Tachy Goes to Coventry option on this board… ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1313 "2019-10-17T19:36:06Z")
HD decides to “take a break” from the impeachment inquiry thread. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21922277&postcount=35](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21922277&postcount=35) Good! I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that he takes a break on the same day that the WH admits to the quid pro quo and decides to (even more!) openly violate emoluments and directly profit from the presidency. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1314 "2019-10-17T20:25:59Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > HD decides to “take a break” from the impeachment inquiry thread. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21922277&postcount=35](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21922277&postcount=35) > > Good! I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that he takes a break on the same day that the WH admits to the quid pro quo and decides to (even more!) openly violate emoluments and directly profit from the presidency. Sometimes it gets really hard to defend wrongdoing and even the best at it have to give up at some point. _HD waves white flag_ ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1315 "2019-10-21T12:59:23Z")
Gutless yellow-bellied coward **HurricaneDitka** on what he’d “sacrifice” for a threat to the country: > [@The Greatest Generation Today? (Have We Gone Soft?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-generation-today-have-we-gone-soft/842003/22): > > I’m a millennial and I wouldn’t welcome taxes, especially not to fight the things you listed, but if there were a real existential threat, something like another Nazi war machine gobbling up European countries every couple of weeks, and a Pearl Harbor, or another 9/11, or some nuking of American cities, I’d be on-board with serious sacrificing to kick the shit out of the responsible party. > > Hell, I’d buy war bonds tomorrow if it meant we starting killing the IRGC. War bonds. That’s really what he said. What a pathetic, cowardly little man. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1316 "2019-10-21T13:09:26Z")
“War Bonds Ditka” ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1317 "2019-10-21T13:46:05Z")
I had the impression **HD** was much older than a millennial. Which means he’s actually an even bigger asshole than I had previously thought. And that is good news, because it proves I have not lost my capacity for surprise. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1318 "2019-10-21T15:01:06Z")
IRGC? Huh? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1319 "2019-10-21T16:07:10Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > IRGC? > > Huh? 😕 [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps) It appears **Blowhard Dipshit** thinks they’re a threat. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1320 "2019-10-21T16:39:18Z")
Well I for one would go enlist if it meant protecting our nation’s airports from the Hessians. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952.md?page=65) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952.md?page=67)