# Jerk is warnable now? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 8, 2009, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerk-is-warnable-now/488717 "2009-03-08T06:50:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerk-is-warnable-now/488717/3 "2009-03-08T07:09:52Z")
> [@Ed, I think your efforts to improve the Dope have been a failure so far.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-i-think-your-efforts-to-improve-the-dope-have-been-a-failure-so-far/488210/136): > > This is ATMB, **Tuckerfan** , so please keep the insults out of it. **Skip** , you’re shitting me, right? “Jerk” merits an official warning? What would have happened if I’d have gone with my _original_ desire to write “You guys make Pete Puma look intelligent.”? I didn’t bother with that, since I figured Ed [wouldn’t get the reference.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=280593) Would I have been banned? Because, I’ve got to tell you, _this_ gets my dander up. _The_ issue here, is Ed’s attempt at emasculating the boards. Now you’re saying that this place is so damned nannyish that the **mild** statement of “jerk” is out of line? WTF? Should I have gone to the Pit? With “jerk”? For Og’s sake, man, _you can call someone a “jerk” in a freakin’ G-rated movie!_ If I’d have written a Pit thread and the strongest insult I’d hurled against another poster (or whomever) was “jerk” it’d have been moved to MPSIMS, and given the climate of the place _these_ days, a warning would have been tossed out telling me to **not** put such a pissant thread in the Pit again. Dude, _get a grip._ Or get bent. I don’t care. It seems pretty clear that **all** you guys want is for people to tell you how great you are, even when you fuck up. Sorry, but if you get to wield the ban hammers for us breaking the rules, the _least_ you can do is tolerate us calling you “jerks” every once in a while in ATMB. Requiring us to call you “dead bronto felchers” in the Pit is _reasonable_, saying we can’t use the word “jerk” in ATMB is **not**. Been nice knowing you. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerk-is-warnable-now/488717)._