# If you post inaccurate info in GQ, can there be a policy that we cut off a finger? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 16, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204 "2003-06-16T13:11:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/1 "2003-06-16T13:11:57Z")
I’m just asking. It would really make me happy. I would even donate one of my cigar cutters for the function. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/2 "2003-06-16T13:15:28Z")
I don’t think that they do. Otherwise we’d start seeing posts like : qwer weoiuq erwto ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/3 "2003-06-16T13:21:02Z")
C’mon, Bricker. Give us a link. You know you want to. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/4 "2003-06-16T13:22:07Z")
No, I continue to favor the current policy of getting bitch-slapped by Manhattan. That has a FAR higher entertainment value. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/5 "2003-06-16T13:25:07Z")
Only if we can also cut off a finger for folks who can’t correct inaccurate information politely without getting anal about everything. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/6 "2003-06-16T13:31:07Z")
If we did, what then would be the penalty for inaccurate stuff in GD? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/7 "2003-06-16T13:32:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > \*\*If we did, what then would be the penalty for inaccurate stuff in GD? \*\* heh, now you’re talking! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/8 "2003-06-16T13:42:09Z")
How about a “Dumbass” designation under their name in lieu of “Member”? Three innaccuracies and tag, you’re it. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/9 "2003-06-16T13:44:57Z")
But I’ll be able to spout nonsense here in the pit, right? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/10 "2003-06-16T13:49:20Z")
**rsa** : As you might imagine, I would be against the policy amendment you propose. I am getting sick and tired of correcting inaccurate information politely. It never stops. Idiots saunter in, post their guesses, their wildly incorrect “facts”, and then saunter away, on a message board whose mission statement is fighting ignorance. No! No soup for you! There’s no politeness to be had on this. There is no excuse for not reading the forum descriptions, and even if there were no forum descriptions, frankly there’s little excuse for OFFERING INACCURATE INFORMATION anywhere. If you don’t know, shut the fuck up. Don’t prattle on. Of course, I recognize that someone may, even after the exercise of reasonable diligence, post something that turns out to be wrong. My ire is not directed at those people. It’s the lack of reasonable diligence that gets my goat. Simply leaping into a conversation with some factoid that you have never verified is absurd, especially if you fail to qualify it as a guess, hunch, or whatever-the-fuck the right word is for, “I was digging around in my rectum and out came this piece of information.” GENERAL QUESTIONS. FACTUAL ANSWERS. Or you lose a finger. I really don’t see the heartburn here. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/11 "2003-06-16T13:50:51Z")
**lieu** : now you’re talking. I would pay money to see that system implemented, since, if I permit a moment of rationality to cloud my madness, it has a much better chance of being actually adopted than my amputation plan does. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/12 "2003-06-16T13:52:53Z")
> [@](#): > > “I was digging around in my rectum and out came this piece of information.” Yep, that’s a pretty good place to lose a finger. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/13 "2003-06-16T14:33:15Z")
Perhaps a compromise would be to ask Manhattan if we could use the salutation “Dumbass” for those folks who pull their answers out of their Dumb A$$. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/14 "2003-06-16T14:36:30Z")
Not to mention the complete inability some people have (yes, even here) to learn from their mistakes. I can see it now; ranking up there in our memories such as The Winter of Our Missed Content - The Great Finger Drought of 2003. “That’s right, newbies. By the time Ed Zotti discovered the true depths of Bricker’s madness, the FBI was already investigating the connections between the Boards, malfunctioning garbage disposals and sharp rise is waterproof keyboard sales. Consider yourselves lucky you weren’t around back then.” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/15 "2003-06-16T14:57:58Z")
Another possibility would be to further modify the left side header as such… **Village Idiot** Dumbass Registered: Aug 2002 Location: BF Illinois Posts: 2500 Inaccuracies: 500 Probability this post is horseshit: 20% ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/16 "2003-06-16T15:00:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\*No, I continue to favor the current policy of getting bitch-slapped by Manhattan. > > That has a FAR higher entertainment value. \*\* I’d like to use [THIS](http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05072002.html) method. I really don’t think that my bosses would let me, though. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/17 "2003-06-16T15:22:30Z")
Hmmm … they treat you all right in that hospital, **Lynn**? You’re kinda scaring me. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/18 "2003-06-16T16:13:11Z")
Clearly **Lynn** is feeling better. Maybe TOO MUCH better. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/19 "2003-06-16T16:26:55Z")
Now THIS is the **Lynn** we all know and love. [sub]And fear[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204/20 "2003-06-16T17:43:18Z")
> [@](#): > > If you post inaccurate info in GQ, can there be a policy that we cut off a finger? [Chevy Chase] Mine or yours? [/Chevy Chase] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-post-inaccurate-info-in-gq-can-there-be-a-policy-that-we-cut-off-a-finger/182204.md?page=2)