# I'm banned! Banned I tell you! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 7, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503 "2011-09-07T16:01:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [September 7, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/21 "2011-09-07T16:48:32Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > That’s okay, you don’t owe us any explanation or the courtesy of an apology, it’s not like we’re paying customers or anything. You’ll find it in the sticky thread on this subject. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/22 "2011-09-07T16:49:24Z")
> [@Electric\_Warrior](#): > > Thanks mods and admins for quickly dealing with the situation and the resultant flood of emails from all of us. Ditto! Panicked e-mails for the most part, probably. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/23 "2011-09-07T16:52:18Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > I figured it had to do with Marley23’s recent ‘promotion’… > > :eek: > > -XT Marley? I thought Shots really did ban us all. ---
**Author:** ![Lestrade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Lestrade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lestrade)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/24 "2011-09-07T16:56:21Z")
They really banned you guys? Heh, those mods and their little jokes. I’m glad they deleted the Behind Your Back forum. You really wouldn’t want to know what was said about you. No, really. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/25 "2011-09-07T16:56:35Z")
> [@SiXSwordS](#): > > I called my Doctor to get a lower dose on my Ambien, hoping to avoid future sleep-posting. I am not a doctor but if I were I would recommend extra strength darnitol. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/26 "2011-09-07T16:57:19Z")
I thought **Marley23** had gone mad with power and decided to ban everyone and start over. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/27 "2011-09-07T17:03:28Z")
> [@](#): > > You’ll find it in the sticky thread on this subject. You mean the sticky that’s been there since June? How did I ever miss it? Guess it’s too much inconvenience for the mods/admins to post their three sentence, “Glitch. Sorry” here in this thread. It’s not like it was inconvenient for anyone but them, after all. If this was my business, I’d expect a little more, maybe that’s just me though. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/28 "2011-09-07T17:03:53Z")
Oh good, I’m glad it’s not just me. I like to read The Dope on my android when I’m at work. And I thought, “Damn, I’m too boring to ban!” Then I realized that I don’t even usually sign in from my phone, just read, and thought, “boy, they are really cracking down.” ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/29 "2011-09-07T17:07:16Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > You mean the sticky that’s been there since June? > > How did I ever miss it? > > Guess it’s too much inconvenience for the mods/admins to post their three sentence, > > “Glitch. Sorry” here in this thread. It’s not like it was inconvenient for anyone but them, after all. > > If this was my business, I’d expect a little more, maybe that’s just me though. So much passive aggression in five little lines. Step away from the computer and go outside. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/30 "2011-09-07T17:10:23Z")
Thanks **Marley23**. I guess someone thought that you needed something to do on your first day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/31 "2011-09-07T17:13:36Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Guess it’s too much inconvenience for the mods/admins to post their three sentence, > > “Glitch. Sorry” here in this thread. It’s not like it was inconvenient for anyone but them, after all. We posted about it in the sticky thread and the thread announcing that I’m now an administrator since people were already discussing it there. This thread was started after that and I said in post #2 that everyone was blocked temporarily. We apologize for failing to consider the reading habits of **elbows**. We’re still trying to figure out exactly what happened this morning. It goes without saying that it was unintentional and we’re sorry about the inconvenience. The staff didn’t enjoy being locked out of the board and I’m sure nobody else enjoyed it, either. When we figure out what happened, we’ll emphatically not do that again. ---
**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 7, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/32 "2011-09-07T17:16:40Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > You mean the sticky that’s been there since June? > > How did I ever miss it? > > Guess it’s too much inconvenience for the mods/admins to post their three sentence, > > “Glitch. Sorry” here in this thread. It’s not like it was inconvenient for anyone but them, after all. > > If this was my business, I’d expect a little more, maybe that’s just me though. We’re sorry you were inconvenienced. It was a technical problem. Everybody was blocked – including the staff. I wasn’t back on the board the instant things got corrected – if you really want to know I was answering the hundreds of emails I was receiving asking for information/asking to be reinstated/asking “what did I do to get banned?” I did make an announcement as quickly as I could. If that is not sufficient for you I am truly sorry. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/33 "2011-09-07T17:18:11Z")
Thanks guys for fixing it up spiffy quick - it was a bit WTF because I couldn’t access the board while banned. I grabbed the sticky out of the Google cache to see what to do. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/34 "2011-09-07T17:24:37Z")
I didn’t realise being banned meant you couldn’t even read the board. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/35 "2011-09-07T17:25:36Z")
What got me is I logged on this morning, was able to scan the threads, and then refreshed, and got the message that I was banned. Meanwhile, it was showing that I had a unread Private Message. I was thinking Uh oh, what did I do, and TPTB PMed me to do something which I didn’t do. And then they got pissed off. Oh well, all’s well that ends well. (And the PM was nothing to do with the moderators.) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/36 "2011-09-07T17:26:30Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > I didn’t realise being banned meant you couldn’t even read the board. What happened was that (somehow) everyone’s IP address was banned. We don’t know why this happened. When your IP address is banned, you can’t access the board. ---
**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 7, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/37 "2011-09-07T17:26:38Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > I didn’t realise being banned meant you couldn’t even read the board. You got off lucky-my tv remote quit working and my toilet wouldn’t flush! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/38 "2011-09-07T17:44:42Z")
The board is still acting wonky in Firefox on my older work PC. I have to click everything twice and it keeps hanging on me… ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/39 "2011-09-07T17:46:44Z")
> [@](#): > > We apologize for failing to consider the reading habits of elbows. Very nice shot for a new admin! Well done sir, well done! Is there some reason your post no 2, in this thread, couldn’t contain, ‘Sorry for the inconvenience’? It’s four little words, after all. Or is it just better to slam the person who points out your oversight? No one likes to be reminded when they forget to say please, but the correct response is to suck it up and say, “you’re right, I should have said please.”, not slam the person who points out your lack of common courtesy. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503/40 "2011-09-07T17:47:49Z")
Marley23. Banned name! Not really. I hope. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-banned-banned-i-tell-you/595503.md?page=3)