# Let's name some SDMB posting 'moves' **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 8, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104 "2014-08-08T12:39:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/61 "2014-08-08T19:29:04Z")
I’ve seen this a lot more on other boards, but have you noticed whenever someone gets called out for bigotry, they euphemize it as “different opinions”? A: Black people are all criminals B: That’s incredibly racist Later, in a different conversation A: Yeah, B got all angry with me because they can’t tolerate different opinions. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/62 "2014-08-08T19:35:17Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Careful. We’re at risk of being **Fotheringay-Phippsed** , and I don’t have the requisite supplies on hand: smelling salts, eyeball deglazing solution, cyanide pill… Of course there’s always naked Vinnying. But you knew that already. > [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > The first two are more recommended than required. Guy like you should always keep a supply in stock. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/63 "2014-08-08T19:36:10Z")
No one’s mentioned the **Shodan** Sign off move? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/64 "2014-08-08T19:47:12Z")
The “I can’t remember the guy’s name”: when you insist that some simple, thoroughly documented physical action cannot have happened until and unless you have recreated it with an absurdly oversimplistic model consisting of paper circles and washers. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/65 "2014-08-08T19:47:48Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > Of course there’s always naked Vinnying. Well, sure, you _could_ do it that way… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/66 "2014-08-08T19:48:58Z")
> [@](#): > > No one’s mentioned the Shodan Sign off move? Nobody had the bad taste and poor judgement to do so. Until now, of course. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/67 "2014-08-08T19:50:38Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Well, sure, you _could_ do it that way… Pics, or it didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/68 "2014-08-08T19:51:31Z")
Let’s not forget **The Minkler**. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/69 "2014-08-08T19:52:13Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > The “I can’t remember the guy’s name”: when you insist that some simple, thoroughly documented physical action cannot have happened until and unless you have recreated it with an absurdly oversimplistic model consisting of paper circles and washers. **Starving for The Good Old Days** move where every thread is an example of when men were men, coloreds and women knew their place and dicks didn’t fit into cardboard tubes. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/70 "2014-08-08T19:59:31Z")
Desperately and repeatedly trying to yank the discourse off of a gutter-pun track which everyone else in the thread is clearly enjoying and wishing would be allowed to continue on its merry way. Call it the **Tru-Haiku**. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/71 "2014-08-08T20:08:08Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Well, sure, you _could_ do it that way… Your posts are your cite. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/72 "2014-08-08T20:11:48Z")
Not sure whether to call this the [mythoughts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=716675http://) or the [7777777](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=32760&page=31): Repeatedly give the same proof of a false statement ignoring the fact that it has been shown repeatedly why the proof is incorrect and rejected by the entire scientific establishment, then claim that the only reason people disagree with you is that they didn’t fully understand your proof. Also my version of the Shodan: Refute any argument made on the board with the simple statement that the board leans in a Liberal direction. Without any actual discussion on the topic at hand. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/73 "2014-08-08T20:41:21Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I’m thinking we need **the Cartooniverse** based on [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=726360&page=5); something along the lines of, “I saw [thing] which proves [thing which is clearly not susceptible to that type of “proof”]”. That is the tack he took in that thread, but I’m thinking The Cartooniverse is more of a reverse-Occam which deals with dramatic potential rather than likelihood. Instead of “the simplest answer is usually correct,” it’s “the most dramatic answer is usually correct.” :: goose-steps for effect :: > [@Biggirl](#): > > **Starving for The Good Old Days** move where every thread is an example of when men were men, coloreds and women knew their place and dicks didn’t fit into cardboard tubes. And **SftGOD of the SDMB** , where the poster uses whatever is going on as an example of how much the board sucks compared to the glory days of 1999-2002. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/74 "2014-08-08T20:48:31Z")
One I dislike – and I won’t name it for anyone – is the “We’ve done this thread before” dismissal. Some new member joins up, and wants to talk about – whatever. Let’s say he has doubts about Relativity. Okay, let’s talk. But someone always seems to post, “We’ve discussed this before, here, here, here, and here,” with links to previous SDMB threads. It’s valid…but it’s damn rude. It’s an attempt to shut down conversation. It’s dismissive, derisive, denigrating, and demeaning. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/75 "2014-08-08T20:48:50Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Careful. We’re at risk of being **Fotheringay-Phippsed** , and I don’t have the requisite supplies on hand: smelling salts, eyeball deglazing solution, cyanide pill… Sorry, we’ll have to call it something else. The term **Fotheringay-Phippsed** already means to own someone so hard in the Pit using clever wordplay and biting satire that everyone reading the thread can only rise to their feet and slow clap in admiration. A canonical example: > [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > Your posts are your cite. _slow clap_ ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/76 "2014-08-08T20:56:47Z")
Are you guys some sort of tag team? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/77 "2014-08-08T20:56:50Z")
The “ **DrDeth** ” when a poster just \*will not \*drop something and just keeps digging himself deeper into a hole. You can admire the fact he’s obviously sincere, but it can hurt watching the process. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/78 "2014-08-08T21:02:42Z")
The “Paper Towel Tube” defense. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/79 "2014-08-08T21:31:19Z")
**The Jack Dean Tyler** - When a poster tells other posters that they’re doing sex wrong. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/80 "2014-08-08T21:34:41Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > **The Jack Dean Tyler** - When a poster tells other posters that they’re doing sex wrong. Sure, cut a man when he’s down. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104.md?page=5)