# If you see someone is BANNED... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 21, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349 "2011-06-21T22:43:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349/61 "2011-06-23T16:57:05Z")
> [@srzss05](#): > > That’s why I put the word in quotes. Trolls could see it as a way of one mod sticking it to them. You know that some are like this, just as I “know” that some do it just to yank your chain. It isn’t secret behavior. Thank you for your concern, but I don’t see what **Miller** posted significantly changing the behavior of the people in question. ---
**Author:** ![srzss05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@srzss05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/srzss05)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349/62 "2011-06-23T17:10:25Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Thank you for your concern, but I don’t see what **Miller** posted significantly changing the behavior of the people in question. I agree, but I also think “not talking about them and pretending they don’t exist” will do so either. Just my opinion, and it is also my opinion that nothing will change their behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349/63 "2011-06-23T21:56:34Z")
> [@Tabby\_Cat](#): > > Yeah, the worst thing is when you open a thread.. and it’s a zombie.. and you see a familiar poster.. and he’s banned… > It’s like the trifecta of being bummed out. No, the worst thing is when you open a thread, and it’s a zombie, and you see a familiar poster… and he’s dead. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349/64 "2011-06-23T22:02:31Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > No, the worst thing is when you open a thread, and it’s a zombie, and you see a familiar poster… and he’s dead. Along a vaguely related line, you ever open a thread, start skimming through it, and catch on a very nicely thought out, well-written post by someone who obviously looks at things the same way you do? Only to see that it’s a post from _you_, like three years before? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349/65 "2011-06-23T23:15:06Z")
I have, on occasion, thought of a witty reply to an OP, only to realize that I’d already made exactly the same joke, some three or four years earlier. Bonus points if, at first, I’m disappointed to see that someone beat me to it, before I realize I’m reading my own post. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349/66 "2011-06-24T01:01:52Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > No, the worst thing is when you open a thread, and it’s a zombie, and you see a familiar poster… and he’s dead. Actually had that happen once. A first-time poster raised a zombie just to say hi to an friend they had lost touch with a long time ago (they found the thread via Google). Unfortunately the friend had passed away several years earlier. It creeped me out to see a zombie thread that really had raised the dead. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349/67 "2011-06-24T01:04:13Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I have no idea. I guess they think there’s a Troll Forum somewhere where bored teenagers get together and share lists of the latest websites that disappeared their leet trollery and warn the others not to bother with that site. > > Get real, guys, they don’t spend months gleefully yanking it to their old threads and flameouts. You would think so, wouldn’t ya. But people do some crazy things on the internet. > [@Argent Towers, Oh Rodhesiaaaa...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-oh-rodhesiaaaa/582066/7): > > Here’s a goodie that I pulled from my doper hate spreadsheet: > [@Argent Towers, Oh Rodhesiaaaa...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-oh-rodhesiaaaa/582066/50): > > It’s not exhaustive and I’m not the only one who adds to it. (Rarely in fact. The only one I know I added is all red with a big NEEDS CITE comment) But it’s nice having some of the more irritating posters in a list with some of their watershed threads for historical purposes. (I’ve seen more than one pit thread here where it was obvious the spreadsheet was used to gather evidence) Doper love would be fun but I’m far too mean and nasty for that sort of thing. > **[Argent Towers, Oh Rodhesiaaaa...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=608689)** > > Argent Towers, I have to say I find your obsessions more than weird (to be frank, it’s not so much the topics themselves that your unrelentness in bringing them up). But, one thing that keeps coming up and I really cant explain is your obsession... ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349/68 "2011-06-24T04:36:06Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > No, the worst thing is when you open a thread, and it’s a zombie, and you see a familiar poster… and he’s dead. That would depend on which poster, no? ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349/69 "2011-06-24T05:37:30Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I have, on occasion, thought of a witty reply to an OP, only to realize that I’d already made exactly the same joke, some three or four years earlier. > > Bonus points if, at first, I’m disappointed to see that someone beat me to it, before I realize I’m reading my own post. I’ve done this too. _opens new thread_ _scrolls through_ “I think I’ll say this if no one else does” _starts a sentence in notepad_ _scrolls through…_ “FUCK someone already said it!” It was … ME! :smack: Maybe I’ll start quoting myself instead next time it happens. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349/70 "2011-06-24T06:30:00Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Actually had that happen once. A first-time poster raised a zombie just to say hi to an friend they had lost touch with a long time ago (they found the thread via Google). Unfortunately the friend had passed away several years earlier. It creeped me out to see a zombie thread that really had raised the dead. I think I remember that. **Askia** , right? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349/71 "2011-06-24T07:28:57Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I think I remember that. **Askia** , right? Yes, that was it. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349/72 "2011-06-25T07:55:00Z")
Yep, I, too, find someone else making all the points I was thinking and then realize it was me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-someone-is-banned/586349.md?page=3)