# If someone wants to commit suicide by mod, you should let them **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 25, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072 "2018-11-25T20:54:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 9
**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:** [November 28, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/161 "2018-11-28T14:08:33Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > True. But the question goes to IF someone posts it, even as a joke, is it racist? I think that’s worth exploring. No, it is not worth exploring. The poster wasn’t banned. He was warned, and so now he knows it’s racist and presumably won’t post it again. Nor will any intelligent poster who reads this thread. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/162 "2018-11-28T18:44:33Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > No, it is not worth exploring. > > The poster wasn’t banned. He was warned, and so now he knows it’s racist and presumably won’t post it again. Nor will any intelligent poster who reads this thread. I don’t can’t if the poster was banned or not, but he evidently did run afoul of the board rules. God forbid the reasoning for that be examined so people can understand it and apply it to similar situations. Thank goodness that won’t happen. :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [November 28, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/163 "2018-11-28T18:57:17Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > I don’t can’t if the poster was banned or not, but he evidently did run afoul of the board rules. God forbid the reasoning for that be examined so people can understand it and apply it to similar situations. Thank goodness that won’t happen. :rolleyes: The reasoning has been explained. There is no need to explore any further the idea of why posting it, even as a joke, might be OK. It’s not. No poster was harmed during the filming of this warning. Further discussion just adds unnecessarily to the distasteful nature of the claim in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![G-SE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@G-SE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G-SE)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/164 "2018-11-28T23:31:08Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Melania and Ivanka Trump are both the same height as Michelle Obama. Do they get called men, on that basis? If not, why not? No, because: -There aren’t photos of them with bulges where a penis would be. -They don’t get called “Michael” accidentally by their husbands. -They don’t have masculine (note, not \*fit as you describe) body types in addition to their height. Hope that helps. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/165 "2018-11-28T23:52:37Z")
In other words: “Why do people call Michelle Obama a man?” “Because she’s tall and fit.” “So why don’t people call Ivanka Trump a man?” “Uh, that’s not the reason they call Michelle Obama a man.” This is the very definition of moving goalposts. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/166 "2018-11-29T00:04:15Z")
> [@G-SE](#): > > No, because: > > -There aren’t photos of them with bulges where a penis would be. > -They don’t get called “Michael” accidentally by their husbands. > -They don’t have masculine (note, not \*fit as you describe) body types in addition to their height. > > Hope that helps. Tell me. What do you do with your photos of Michelle Obama sporting a “bulge” where a penis would be? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/167 "2018-11-29T01:24:20Z")
> [@G-SE](#): > > … > -There aren’t photos of them with bulges where a penis would be. > … > > Hope that helps. ??? No, it doesn’t help. Anything. Not at all. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/168 "2018-11-29T01:38:48Z")
> [@G-SE](#): > > No, because: > > -There aren’t photos of them with bulges where a penis would be. > -They don’t get called “Michael” accidentally by their husbands. > -They don’t have masculine (note, not \*fit as you describe) body types in addition to their height. > > Hope that helps. That was totally disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/169 "2018-11-29T04:44:48Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > The reasoning has been explained. There is no need to explore any further the idea of why posting it, even as a joke, might be OK. It’s not. No poster was harmed during the filming of this warning. Further discussion just adds unnecessarily to the distasteful nature of the claim in the first place. If the reasoning has been explained and you appear to have a better handle on the mod’s reasoning, perhaps YOU would like to answer the questions I asked. Since those questions remain unanswered, the explanation provided has been less then sufficient. I understand that _you_ do not have questions. I do. So perhaps you could either shed light or stop talking about a subject you find so distasteful. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/170 "2018-11-29T06:14:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > That was totally disgusting. [Also something that G-SE has been warned for before](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19936633#post19936633). ---
**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:** [November 29, 2018, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/171 "2018-11-29T06:16:39Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > If the reasoning has been explained and you appear to have a better handle on the mod’s reasoning, perhaps YOU would like to answer the questions I asked. No. I don’t have any need or desire to go there. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/172 "2018-11-29T06:20:33Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/173 "2018-11-29T23:30:03Z")
> [@left hand of dorkness](#): > > ban the racists, but maybe the racialists could be, in honor of the wordsmithing, permanently suspended. ::applause:: ---
**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:** [November 30, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/174 "2018-11-30T04:01:04Z")
> [@G-SE](#): > > No, because: I’m glad you came back to post this. It’s essentially the same thing you were previously warned for. Though you don’t grace us with your presence often, when you do we get gems like this And of your 263 posts, 5 have resulted in warnings. Not a great repertoire. You are banned for being a troll. [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/175 "2018-11-30T04:12:01Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > I’m glad you came back to post this. It’s essentially the same thing you were previously warned for. Though you don’t grace us with your presence often, when you do we get gems like this And of your 263 posts, 5 have resulted in warnings. Not a great repertoire. > > You are banned for being a troll. > > [/moderating] ::applause:: ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072/176 "2018-11-30T05:02:44Z")
**Moderator Action** I think we’re done here. This thread has drifted pretty far from its original topic. If you feel that one of the many topics this thread has drifted through requires further discussion, please start a new thread. This is closed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-wants-to-commit-suicide-by-mod-you-should-let-them/825072.md?page=8)