# I pit Shodan the crybaby **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 23, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522 "2017-11-23T14:59:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/61 "2017-11-24T13:28:25Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > There is a four letter word we aren’t allowed to call people on this board. > > Which is a shame because it describes Shodan so well. Mook? ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/62 "2017-11-24T13:31:18Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Mook? No. Keep hunting. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/63 "2017-11-24T13:44:13Z")
I can’t think of it either. I guess I’ll have to take a bunt on this one. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/64 "2017-11-24T14:14:29Z")
> [@naf1138](#): > > and here i opened the thread hoping this was about shodan complaining to the powers that be that idle thoughts had spoken about him on another board (positively but that doesn’t seem to matter) and started a chain of event that caused idle to say fuck it and leave the sdmb. > > That’s a worthy pit topic. > > Fuck you shodan. Delete your account. bingo!!! ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/65 "2017-11-24T14:57:35Z")
Man, am I glad the subtext is now text. I heartily endorse this pitting. Shodan should be embarrassed. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/66 "2017-11-24T14:59:04Z")
_Speak harshly to your fellow Dopers And beat them for their catchphrases They only do it to annoy Because they know it teases_ ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/67 "2017-11-24T15:17:09Z")
**Shodan** is an example of a double standard around here: Republicans can get away with being jackasses, because the mods know that if they banned all the jackass Republicans, there wouldn’t be any left. They’re the world’s most annoying endangered species. As long as the Republicans can act all shocked and wounded when called on their jackassery, the mods leave them be. And then the GOPpers have the temerity to get all high and mighty when any other group uses weakness to its advantage. Of course, in the real world, Good Christian Republicans are the only persecuted majority group, so I guess we can’t expect any honesty or logic, just an endless bleating whine on the tunes of “I’m not touching you!” and “MOMMY HE WAS MEAN TO ME!” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/68 "2017-11-24T15:30:42Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Yep. He made Ed aware of a post on another board like a little bitch. > [@NAF1138](#): > > A post where Idle was defending Shodan and saying he was not a troll. OK, now the ‘tattletales and crybabies’ part of the OP makes sense. I endorse this Pitting. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/69 "2017-11-24T16:00:36Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > bingo!!! Subtlety is lost on the masses. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/70 "2017-11-24T16:46:02Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > Subtlety is lost on the masses. 😉 I should know, I’m one of them. 😛 I can’t remember why I felt I couldn’t spell it out and, frankly, too much eating and drinking has gone on since yesterday morning so we many never know. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/71 "2017-11-24T16:51:19Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > You know that scene in the first reboot Star Trek movie? The one where Spock is in front of the Vulcan Science Academy and makes “Live long and prosper” sound a awful lot like fuck you. That’s how the “regards” comes off sometimes and don’t think that Shodan doesn’t know that. He has said explicitly that he sometimes uses “Regards” to mean “Fuck You.” (He likes to lie and claim that he never said this, but if he tries to here I’ll be happy to link to it again.) ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/72 "2017-11-24T16:56:19Z")
The only time Shodan annoys me is when he points out where I’m wrong … ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/73 "2017-11-24T17:03:56Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > So much irony. > > And tattletale? Is this kindergarten? Right. This coming from a poster who accuses others of being “potty mouths” in this forum. Go away, you annoying cockroach. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/74 "2017-11-24T19:10:12Z")
> [@erysichthon](#): > > It’s trolling with plausible deniability. He can always claim it’s a friendly, cordial closing and nobody can prove otherwise! Never mind that it usually follows some snark directed at teh stoopid libruls. Yah. There was a notorious troll on the Usenet baseball boards years ago, who, after flaming any and all “statheads” in thread after thread, would always ends his rants and raves with “Cordially, as always”… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/75 "2017-11-24T19:31:22Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I can’t think of it either. I guess I’ll have to take a bunt on this one. lSWYDT. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/76 "2017-11-24T19:32:06Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > There is a four letter word we aren’t allowed to call people on this board. > > Which is a shame because it describes Shodan so well. [Moderating] From the sticky on language rules: > [@Ed Zotti](#): > > Don’t play games. For example, don’t say, “X [some offboard personality] is a cunt, and you’re like X.” Don’t play games, **bucketybuck**. No warning issued. [/Moderating] > [@NAF1138](#): > > Fuck you Shodan. Delete your account. [Moderating] And this is a straight violation of the rule. Don’t say “fuck you” to other posters. No warning issued. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/77 "2017-11-24T19:32:09Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Yah. There was a notorious troll on the Usenet baseball boards years ago, who, after flaming any and all “statheads” in thread after thread, would always ends his rants and raves with “Cordially, as always”… rm Realto Margarino, Roger Maynard, Ronald Matthews, Rhonda Moffat, or a number of other pseudonyms which abbreviate to RM. He was active on comp.lang.c of all places. Yes, a Usenet newsgroup dedicated to the C programming language. Great place to learn the language, home to a few insane trolls. He was also on alt.os.linux.slackware, about the Slackware Linux distribution. Just a completely random bunch of groups. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/78 "2017-11-24T22:30:58Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Moderating] > From the sticky on language rules: > > > [@Ed Zotti](#): > > > > Don’t play games. For example, don’t say, “X [some offboard personality] is a cunt, and you’re like X.” > > Don’t play games, **bucketybuck**. > > No warning issued. > [/Moderating] This rule is particularly important, because it also saves X from potentially being uncomfortable if he ever happens to read here. It’s kind of a two-fer. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/79 "2017-11-24T23:07:52Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > I don’t think his signature is all that annoying … > > Your Best Friend; > Watchwolf Be careful I ended my posts to Shodan with … Regards, My Ass I’m now prohibited from ending my posts to him that way. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522/80 "2017-11-24T23:16:31Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > He has said explicitly that he sometimes uses “Regards” to mean “Fuck You.” (He likes to lie and claim that he never said this, but if he tries to here I’ll be happy to link to it again.) He uses “Regards” at the end of every post, though, regardless of the context, so of course sometimes it means “fuck you”. Can you say you’ve never thought that when responding to somebody’s post? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522.md?page=5)