[Quote from it:]
(http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/announcement.php?f=5)
Call me dense, but doesn’t that last part make the poll superfluous? Maybe it’s just me.
Cheers! 
read the thread in ATMB, he explains why.
Okay: you’re dense. 
Think of it as the petition that has to get a certain number of signatures before the candidate can get his name on the ballot, not as the election itself.
Who the fuck whined about the thread titles? I think they’re fucking fine the way they fucking are.
Some pussy is going to fuck the Pit all up because we have to have goddamn Disney approved thread titles?
Whoever that shit-brained loser is, maybe they should go hang out on a website made for children.
Obviously no one cares about thread titles in the pit.
OK - you’re dense.
It doesn’t make the poll superfluous; it just means there’s no such thing as an abstention; if you don’t answer then you are assumed to be on the “No” side.
Oops! Nearly forgot I was in the Pit. FUCK!!
An announcement (mostly) has to go in every forum identically – if you post an announcement, it goes across the top of every forum menu. (There’s a way to do a single-forum announcement, but I suspect most programmers at the Reader would prefer being forcibly sodomized by syphilitic hyaenas to going through the pleasures of trying to make it work. ;))
And to me it sounds like Dex is saying, “Our sense of membership views is that most people don’t want thread titles bowlderized, but we won’t know for sure until we ask, so we’re asking.”
I am not answering, repeatedly, and with great energy. Look at me not answer! Over and over! It’s like I get a million zillion votes! Wheeee!
Sorry, long day at work.
Good point! Why, just in the past few minutes, I personally have not responded to that poll an infinite number of times! I think I’ll do it again!
Our side wins by the largest landslide in the history of Universe!! We fucking Rock!
Would someone please stop this overly PC world and let me the fuck off.
I am so sick and tired of every damned thing being homogenized and pasturized so that no one can find offense. It’s exhausting.
Apparently everything I post is fueled by an alcoholic cloud of stupidity, but I think it’s annoying also, for what it’s worth.
Never read it… They can all suck my mancunt.
What I want to know is why only the whiny pussies who want bowdlerized thread titles are permitted to weigh in with said opinions.
To me it sounds like he’s saying they think the vast majority don’t want threads titles PCed, but if enough of the minority yell loud enough, we’ll cave in to the pressure. YMMV
LOOK! JANET’S TIT! CAN’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!11!!!one!
I wonder what constitutes a significant amount of members that want change? What was it, like 10 complaints to the FCC that resulted in all the BS and fines for CBS due to Janet Jackson’s tit? If C K gets a hundred emails from these people, there is no representation for the other side of the issue, even though it is assumed that vast majority don’t want change. It could be argued that the vast majority of people would rather have allowed JJ’s tit to be shown during the super bowl.
IMO, actual polling (you know, the VB poll software) should be enabled and the question asked publicly on this forum to get a real understanding of what the people want since it’s being asked for. If done the other way, the minority will get their way if only their responses will be considered by email.
More like 200,000… though if you deduct all the long-after-the-fact organized form-letter protests solicited by meddlesome prudes like the American Family Association and the Parents Television Council, yeah, it’s probably around 10, 15 tops.
Fuck the PC crowd. Say it like it is.
Lizard: “I object to the fucking announcement at the top of the fucking BBQ Pit board”
As to your OP’s title- grow up.
Not to mention all the people who want consequences avoided for them. “Guys, stop dropping F-bombs in thread titles! I post from work?” Well, you chose to surf at work. You can choose to avoid SDMB, or at least the Pit, or not to post at all. If your boss is looking over your shoulder, perhaps there’s a reason for it.
Or “Stop cursing in thread titles! I have kids in the house!” Well, first of all, it’s like Salinger said. “If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the ‘Fuck you’ signs in the world.” Second, if you don’t want to have to explain things to your kid, either stay off the SDMB, or don’t explain SDMB stuff to them. Third, what is so freaking terrible anyway? They’re going to hear those words anyway. You can guide your kids’ behavior without making them live in a bubble.
Rilchiam, I agree
I think the vast majority of people who email Dex will be the ones posting from work. They don’t want their Doping curtailed by work imposed filters. Waaaah!
I can’t imagine a shitload of Doper parents bitching about this, as most Doper parents are enlightened, and don’t need a board nanny. Right, Doper parents?
I am curious to see the results.