# I thought the modus operandi was to NOT call attention to banees. So, WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 17, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940 "2013-04-17T15:06:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [April 17, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/1 "2013-04-17T15:06:13Z")
[Here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=688351) Why the fancy moniker for someone who has been banned? I know the temptation in this case was a strong one, but I thought the #1 rule in these cases is to not give them any more attention than they deserve. If other trolls driving by see that label, might that not encourage them? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/2 "2013-04-17T17:21:50Z")
Usually we don’t. But this was an incidence of trolling that really was over to top. Now just another banned guy. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/3 "2013-04-17T17:26:46Z")
We hardly ever do stuff like this - the last time was probably years and years ago. Yes, we try not to call attention to trolls. I thought in this case it might be fun or amusing because the guy had been banned and he was so obvious. I must’ve been crazy. Message boards are deadly serious business and we can’t have people thinking you can make jokes about this kind of thing. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/4 "2013-04-17T17:28:45Z")
I just think it’s unfair that a mod gets to enter a closed thread and throw one more mocking insult at the guy, but none of the rest of us gets to. Life is supposed to be fair, isn’t it??? ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/5 "2013-04-17T17:33:30Z")
Oh, grow up. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/6 "2013-04-17T17:46:18Z")
I’m OUTRAGED!!! OUTRAGED, I say! The spammer gets to have a custom title for free, and I’d have to pay for mine. The things people get upset over at this place never ceases to surprise and delight me. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/7 "2013-04-17T18:22:48Z")
A very important aside: You know, if someone in real life insulted me with “Hey, you, pig dog!” I’d just look at them quizzically… was that an attempt at an insult? I mean, maybe if they saw my bathroom and said I was a pig, I’d feel a little shame. But, neither pig nor dog I find insulting. And ‘bitches’ has lost it’s sting now that it’s been appropriated by the trash set, “What up, my biiiitches?!” So, anyone actually find being called pig, dog, or pig-dog an insult? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/8 "2013-04-17T18:39:28Z")
Oh man, you changed it back? I guess I should whine about things I don’t like more often. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/9 "2013-04-17T18:49:48Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > So, anyone actually find being called pig, dog, or pig-dog an insult? I can’t hear “pig dog” except in the French K-niggit’s voice from _Monty Python and the Holy Grail._ Also, “English bed-wetting types”, “electric donkey bottom biters” and “tiny-brained wipers of other people’s bottoms.” Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/10 "2013-04-18T02:21:31Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I must’ve been crazy. Message boards are deadly serious business and we can’t have people thinking you can make jokes about this kind of thing. Damn right, **Marley23**!!! You gotta be damn careful making jokes around this place now! ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/11 "2013-04-18T02:36:41Z")
Now I’m curious about what he was being called before it got normalized back to BANNED… ---
**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:** [April 18, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/12 "2013-04-18T02:40:02Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Now I’m curious about what he was being called before it got normalized back to BANNED… “Eternal Troll of the Republic” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/13 "2013-04-18T02:41:49Z")
I definitely think we shouldn’t give annoying banned members any further attention once they are no longer on this board. Be well and God bless you always!!! :):):):):)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/14 "2013-04-18T02:43:35Z")
Wait, that nice Korean person got banned? I am outraged. OUTRAGED, I say! (How was that?) ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/15 "2013-04-18T04:46:18Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > “Eternal Troll of the Republic” _::snicker::_ My internet detection abilities are not all that great, but I thought that the use of the term “Pig-dog” tipped his hand. Without that, I would have tagged him as a shill (though Monty picked up on a number of things that I missed). I thought the trollery was above average actually. I had not come across the term “Reptile media” for example. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/16 "2013-04-18T06:06:30Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > “Eternal Troll of the Republic” Eh, I would’ve gone with “BANNED Leader” (off of “Dear Leader” “Great Leader”) instead. ---
**Author:** ![Oliveritaly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oliveritaly/32/15233_2.png) [@Oliveritaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oliveritaly)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/17 "2013-04-18T06:50:52Z")
Because it was a harmless, effortless way to make a (very funny) joke? I can’t believe anyone would get upset about this … I laughed Marley, it was funny. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/18 "2013-04-18T06:51:16Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Eh, I would’ve gone with “BANNED Leader” (off of “Dear Leader” “Great Leader”) instead. I thought it was “Great Successor” now? ---
**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:** [April 18, 2013, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/19 "2013-04-18T07:57:58Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > _::snicker::_ > > My internet detection abilities are not all that great, but I thought that the use of the term “Pig-dog” tipped his hand. Without that, I would have tagged him as a shill (though Monty picked up on a number of things that I missed). > > I thought the trollery was above average actually. I had not come across the term “Reptile media” for example. If not for the reptile media, who would let us know about a reptile dysfunction? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940/20 "2013-04-18T09:58:58Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > You know, if someone in real life insulted me with “Hey, you, pig dog!” I’d just look at them quizzically… was that an attempt at an insult?.. > So, anyone actually find being called pig, dog, or pig-dog an insult? About as insulting as _Schweinehund_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-the-modus-operandi-was-to-not-call-attention-to-banees-so-wtf/655940.md?page=2)