# Idle Thoughts in the Hot Nazi Field Marshal Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 7, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225 "2013-09-07T03:18:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/1 "2013-09-07T03:18:29Z")
[This is the thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=701523) 1. Just because \*\*CarnalK \*\*can’t wrap his head around a straight guy being able to judge a guy’s hotness doesn’t mean the OP was trolling. 2. Just because someone was posting about an insane, and therefore humorous, topic, doesn’t mean they can’t be sincere in their assessments. 3. Why do we need to decide if it’s funny or not? So we can persecute him for trolling? If that thread ‘got a rise out of people’ it’s their own issue. Coming down on a new poster for playing a straight guy in a funny thread? What the hell is that? You’re the humorless teacher who goes up to kids on the playground asking if they thought what they just did was funny. I don’t know why the OP got banned; maybe there was a good reason. I didn’t see that the thread needed to be closed, though. I hate this whole process. It was a fine thread. I’m in a bad mood. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/2 "2013-09-07T03:27:19Z")
If the ‘hot or Nazi?’ topic wasn’t enough, there’s this: > [@OP's profile](#): > > I used to be someone else here 2005-2008 but I became a jerk and exiled myself. 1330 posts, one appearance in threadspotting which was, to that point, the bestest day of my whole entire life. I’m not a jerk any more, by the way. The mods asked **tarnation&eudemonia** to get in touch a couple of days ago so these accounts could be merged. He hasn’t done that, and socking isn’t allowed. That would be reason for a ban by itself. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/3 "2013-09-07T03:36:18Z")
As Marley said, the banning was because he was a sock. I didn’t ban him for his behavior. And threads by socks are typically closed. As for the behavior, he insisted himself it wasn’t a humorous topic, to the point where he was arguing with posters in the thread about it (and quite snarkily for a new poster, at that). Posting a simple note to let him know to tone it down some is fine. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/4 "2013-09-07T03:37:09Z")
My complaints aren’t about the banning. They’re about **Idle Thoughts** moderation in the thread. But you imply the topic itself was sufficient for banning. How? (this post is in response to **Marley** ) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/5 "2013-09-07T03:42:29Z")
I’m not really familiar with the poster other than knowing he’s had another account. But the topic could be seen as trolling and calling a moderator a Nazi… let’s say it makes a very bad impression. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/6 "2013-09-07T03:42:41Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > As for the behavior, he insisted himself it wasn’t a humorous topic, to the point where he was arguing with posters in the thread about it (and quite snarkily for a new poster, at that). Posting a simple note to let him know to tone it down some is fine. He didn’t insist it wasn’t a humorous topic. He insisted he was being sincere. There’s a difference. The argument was started by the other posters (mostly **CarnalK** ) who couldn’t handle the mind-blowing idea. He was getting defensive about something he shouldn’t have had to deal with. Snarkily “for a new poster?” We get points for seniority here? Sweet. I outrank you. Apologize. Re-open the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/7 "2013-09-07T03:55:51Z")
Sorry that you disagree with me, but I contend that he was acting troll-ish in his replies and thus I gave a note for it. I would do so again. Yes, I feel his join date is relevant in the fact that when you’re still new but making many posts or topics that seem to be based around getting reactions (which we have another name for here), it is often a pretty good sign they are only here for one thing only. You don’t really see that topic as being that way. I did. But even that’s relative since I was fine with keeping it open (all I did was move it to the better forum it was suited for since it seemed more of a humorous and/or parody thread). And his posts in there seemed to very easily be overly-aggressive as well, especially [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16643297&postcount=41)…so I was pretty convinced he wasn’t doing much here but looking to be a snarky poster, although even then I still was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and followed it up with a note to take it to ATMB if he had any issues. The topic would have remained open and he would have still been posting, warning-free, if I had not noticed he admitted to being a sock in his profile. So again, I would handle it the same way if presented with similar circumstances and no, I’m not going to reopen the thread of a sock. You are free to remake the thread if you wish to continue it, however. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/8 "2013-09-07T04:03:49Z")
> [@bup](#): > > He didn’t insist it wasn’t a humorous topic. He insisted he was being sincere. There’s a difference. > > The argument was started by the other posters (mostly **CarnalK** ) who couldn’t handle the mind-blowing idea. He was getting defensive about something he shouldn’t have had to deal with. > > Snarkily “for a new poster?” We get points for seniority here? Sweet. I outrank you. Apologize. Re-open the thread. You know the old saying about having an open mind but not so open your brains fall out? You’re doing that. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2013, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/9 "2013-09-07T04:39:49Z")
The thread wasn’t closed because the OP was trolling. Whatever the merits of the thread, it was closed because he was a sock. Threads started by socks are closed as a matter of procedure. I have no complaint about that. Why reward a sock by leaving the thread open? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/10 "2013-09-07T12:33:46Z")
As difficult as this may be for some of my “fans” to believe, I have no problem with the moderation in that thread. Dude was begging for it, and got what he deserved. Well done. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/12 "2013-09-07T15:26:47Z")
Well, that’s not suspicious in the least. ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/13 "2013-09-07T15:53:47Z")
Obv. of the ‘Springtime for Hitler’ school. I liked it, that kind of theme can sometimes lead to a pretty creative thread: Old skool … not that I was around. In the school. Then. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/14 "2013-09-07T17:37:24Z")
I think **Idle Thoughts** was spot on with the note and letting this poster know about our rules for trolling. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/15 "2013-09-09T09:58:32Z")
How could they miss the rumor that Erwin Rommel was romantically linked with Coco Chanel? ---
**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:** [September 9, 2013, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/16 "2013-09-09T11:30:05Z")
_Idle Thoughts in Hot Nazi Field Marshal Threads_ _Bad_ Czarcasm-bad, bad, bad. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/17 "2013-09-09T12:31:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > _Idle Thoughts in Hot Nazi Field Marshal Threads_ > _Bad_ Czarcasm-bad, bad, bad. \*Idle Thoughts in the Hot Nazi Field \* does sound like just about the worst WWII romance novel ever. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/18 "2013-09-09T13:33:10Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > \*Idle Thoughts in the Hot Nazi Field \* does sound like just about the worst WWII romance novel ever. Worse than _Ass Goblins of Auschwitz_? ---
**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:** [September 9, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/19 "2013-09-09T14:07:24Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > You know the old saying about having an open mind but not so open your brains fall out? You’re doing that. You can disagree with someone but you must be civil while you do so. Carnalk, you know better. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-thoughts-in-the-hot-nazi-field-marshal-thread/668225/20 "2013-09-09T14:38:14Z")
I just meant he was being naive, didn’t think it was phrased much ruder than flat out saying that. Anyways, I was going to drop it after Idle Thought’s note. Do we know whose sock this guy was?