Sarah Palin?
Jason Apgood?
In any case, the line in his Booty Call thread: “what do you got in your pants and shit, sir?” made me laugh harder than I have in a while.
You go and shit, S-K!
I don’t know why we’re even having this thread. It looks to me like there are three things going on:
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SK starts threads which are sort of bizarre and mildly funny.
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A few butthurted posters apparently think this violates the “decorum” of the boards (I’d insert a rolleyes, but there isn’t one that’s about 640x480)
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(this is the annoying one) People start thinking up preemptive ways to explain the inevitable warnings/suspensions/bannings that will follow for violating the sensibilities of the people who think that they’re participating in some sort of grand and serious colloquium here. I’ve made a list to save us time:
“being a jerk” (not fitting in)
“didn’t follow mod instructions” (not fitting in and not being contrite enough)
“trolling” (not fitting in and diminishing the gravitas of the SDMB)
“drunken posting” (not fitting in and having better spelling and grammar than many of our ‘luminaries’)
“being a sock” (not fitting in and mods too lazy to do more than a handwave about IP addresses and shit)
“spamming” (not fitting in several times a week)
I think this about covers it. And btw, “not fitting in” means not fitting in with the codger crew by being actually funny as opposed to the sort of obvious and flat jokes usually attempted.
So, just to address the main thing here: so what if he’s attention whoring? It doesn’t matter. Every time some doof posts a weepy “my boyfriend left me and I got AIDSCancerMyalgiaPolarism and my baby daddy bought a new motorcycle and my allergies are acting up” MPSIMS whine, that’s attention whoring. But there is no chance in hell that those posters are going to get banned or warned.
The only rule he is violating is the unwritten one of conformity and taking the board way too seriously. Shame on all of you who want to enforce that rule – you’re more dangerous than a hundred imitation potheads.
If the same individual was starting a new thread like that every day, that would in fact become an issue and they would be asked to knock it off. The issue with KS is not a few threads; it’s overdoing it.
Yeah, I already mentioned that under “spamming” aka not fitting in several times a week.
The guy isn’t even close to actually disrupting the normal functioning of the board. The board doesn’t have to pay by the character. But I suspect that, as usual, a few people with sticks up their ass will whine enough to make it a mod issue, and god forbid the mods come off as insensitive to the needs of the cheese and whine crowd.
The thread’s closed, but ‘faxmachine’ was the funniest thing I heard all day.
We could just have some sort of FuckWit Forum and route the usual suspects there, allowing interested posters to immerse themselves in Teh Stuupid whilst preservng Teh Integrutay of the rest of the board.
You mean MPSIMS, GD, and IMHO?
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This kind of commentary is inappropriate for ATMB. Implying that people who disagree with you have “sticks up their asses” doesn’t really serve the discussion. Let’s refrain from this in the future.
So if someone comes along and purposely starts a lot of nutter like threads, just for giggles, that’s okay.
But for some reason we should restrain ourselves from getting in on the fun and poking the nutter a little, ascribe his nutterness to whatever silly thing we can think of? Well, that hardly seems fair at all.
Look, if what he’s doing is supposed to be tolerated, because you think it’s amusing, then surely what our response to him has been, should be tolerated because we find it amusing.
Y’know, and shit.
No, I mean what I said - a forum for the most witless, stupid, attention whoring, drunken/intoxicated posts. If you will, a dumping ground.
Oh, wait, I see. So when we have this:
that’s appropriate, because he was agreeing with you?
Or
Does implying that people that don’t agree with you should go fuck themselves serve the discussion?
Apparently so, since you didn’t write a little note for either of those.
ETA: On the other hand, there was no mention of the dreaded combat boots, so I guess it’s all good.
The thing is, I’m pretty sure the guy is not nearly as dumb as he pretends to be. And as an act, his shtick is mediocre at best. For a good example of a “dumb genius” who puts on a genuinely hilarious show, see Sacha Baron Cohen.
I would agree he is likely smarter than he appears. And, I guarantee you, Sacha Baron Cohen went through many annoying phases before he honed his Borat character. Experimentation is important to artistic development.
I’m not trying to be a Kapowzler fanboy or anything
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Dragging in disputes from other threads does not address the question at hand in this one. Let’s drop the hijack, and tone down your remarks here. If you want to discuss these questions, open another thread. Let’s keep this one on track.
Sigh.
Ok, let’s break this down.
This entire thread is about one thing. It’s about the imminent banning of Super Kaplowzer.
The reason we have this thread is because it seems to be a given that SK’s antics will result in moderator action, despite his failure to break any actual rules. The OP, and a bunch of other people, believe with good reason that you or one of the other more… er… active mods will come up with a B.S. reason to get rid of this “troublemaker”.
If you don’t understand why people are worried, you need to step down as a mod. There have been several egregious incidents of mod overzealousness and made-up rules violations, including the ones I’ve referenced in this thread. Obviously, posters are concerned that once again, we’ll see yet another silly and unreasonable smackdown from the mod staff – that’s you, btw.
So, my point that you’ll make up a bogus reason to punish a poster who doesn’t worship you is by no means a hijack; it goes to the very essence of the OP. Why else would he start a thread in ATMB? He and many others are obviously afraid of ridiculous mod sanctions. (And it’s pretty darn clear no one is talking about other posters being mean to SK.) You’ve already made a good start by talking about him “not following your advice” and “posting too many threads” – those are pretty much the exact thing we’re talking about.
So the question at hand, from any reasonable reading of the OP is this: “Should the mods make up some reason to boot SK for pretending he’s a stoner?”
The OP and others feel the answer is no. A few people apparently think the answer is “yes”. Pointing out the poor track record of consistency in the moderation is more than germane to the thread; it’s absolutely essential. The fact that we even need to have the discussion in advance of any notes or warnings is just more evidence that there is a schism between a fairly large group of posters and the moderation – people who are unhappy with the inconsistent rules, mod favoritism, and oversensitive reactions when someone disagrees with mod actions.
I, for one, don’t have much faith that you won’t make up some reason to ban SK for the crime of not fitting in. And to me, that’s sad, pathetic, and in opposition to everything the straight dope supposedly stands for.
And I have even less faith that we’ll get a considered response from the staff instead of the usual off-the-cuff made-up irrelevant “answers” we get in every other thread in ATMB.
So if you want to go ahead and throw out a warning for threadshitting, fine. It will do nothing more than demonstrate, yet again, that you either don’t actually read these threads or that you are just incapable of understanding what the issue here actually is.
You are all silly children. If Superbad annoys the mods enough, he will be banned. That’s all there is to it.
So who wants Fresca?
Sheesh, ivn, take a breath.
SK posts pseudo-stoner bullshit on a board that’s not about pseudo-stoner bullshit. To me, he’s no different than a certain poster who made everything about his bondage fetish or from other certain posters who couldn’t seem to type a single coherent sentence.
This board is still, presumably, dedicated to fighting ignorance and to discussing Cecil’s columns. It’s not a vehicle for developing outrageous online personas. It’s not an avenue for non-stop comedy routines. It’s not the place for ongoing pseudo-stoner bullshit. There are forums for these things. But these forums are not those forums.
So far the only legitimate complaint against SK is that he posts his whacked-out shit too frequently. This raises the question; how frequently is too frequently? Is once a day too much? What if half of his threads are completely valid despite the broken syntax? Does it then just become a matter of mod consent?
For the record, I agree 95% with ivn1188’s recent post, even if I am offended that he didn’t refer to me by username, instead just saying OP. It’s ok… my name is kinda bollocks.
Upon reflection, maybe 95% was too high. But, I think ivn captured the spirit of my OP rather eloquently, if a bit exaggerated. I think he’s got a valid point, so I endorse his opinion.