# I request we make a one-time exception and un-ban Dude Robert **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 10, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-request-we-make-a-one-time-exception-and-un-ban-dude-robert/825916 "2018-12-10T22:09:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-request-we-make-a-one-time-exception-and-un-ban-dude-robert/825916/21 "2018-12-11T15:16:29Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > Jasmine I cannot answer that without risking discussing an actual banned poster, contra to warning. So please note the overall theme: I’m looking, I guess, for more differentiation when dealing with trolls. I.e. some posters who are clearly trolls are sufficiently entertaining to bring value, despite or maybe even because of their particular behavior and style. I would like us to start treating those differently from the “ I just like to get everyone worked-up” variety. Difficult, I know, it would require judgement calls. How don’t know we don’t do this already? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-request-we-make-a-one-time-exception-and-un-ban-dude-robert/825916/22 "2018-12-11T15:27:01Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Unfortunately, one member’s “entertainment value” is another’s “annoyance”, so I think that would be a can of worms best left sealed. If everyone that someone thought annoying was banned, who would be left to post here? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-request-we-make-a-one-time-exception-and-un-ban-dude-robert/825916/23 "2018-12-11T17:05:03Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > I guess in a larger sense I’m asking for something akin to prosecutorial discretion - I.e. a tolerance for trolling if sufficiently zany - and I’m fine with leaving it entirely at the discretion of the mods. But we need a little more crazy in here. Not frothing-at-the-mouth crazy, but the “Never in a million years would I have thought of that” type of nutty. Maybe we need more crazy here – and no one appreciates creative wackiness more than I do – but it has to be the right kind of crazy. The right kind of crazy isn’t random gibberish, it’s intellectually creative. It has to be intentional and purposeful. **Measure for Measure** expressed similar sentiments in #11. And we get that from time to time, perhaps most often in the Pit, which is one reason the Pit is sometimes an entertaining and purposefully funny place. The bad kind of crazy is the kind that appears to violate – in spirit if not in actual chronological fact – the following part of the registration agreement: “Minimum age for registration on the SDMB is 13 years”. The Internet is teeming with that kind of crazy. We don’t need more of it here. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-request-we-make-a-one-time-exception-and-un-ban-dude-robert/825916/24 "2018-12-11T17:09:55Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Ooh!! Party! I am on my way. Do we need snacks? Cheese! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-request-we-make-a-one-time-exception-and-un-ban-dude-robert/825916.md?page=1)