# Liberal's Prospective Suspension/Banning **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 27, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134 "2006-03-27T19:25:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/61 "2006-03-28T02:04:05Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > You all realize, of course, that by posting his request publically, this type of thread is exactly what he was expecting and hoping for. In THAT case, then I just won’t post anything (oopsie). I hope he decides to stay. I’ve had some good arguments with him, and even agreed on a few things. Hey Lib, if you need to, just take a break and then come back later. Don’t do a “delete” on yourself. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/62 "2006-03-28T02:27:33Z")
> [@Xploder](#): > > Except when he posts of course. Oh, Snap! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/63 "2006-03-28T02:28:10Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > Me likes my big, bald, pate…just not on a plate. Whatever you say, John. Just watch out for that chick with the veils. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/64 "2006-03-28T02:57:36Z")
> [@Xploder](#): > > Maybe because he’ll go along just fine for awhile then all of a sudden turn batshit-crazy-insane? Think that might be it? Or maybe it’s the fact that he’s a world class drama queen/attention whore. Maybe that’s it. Whatever. I spend a lot of time on this board when I’m (supposed to be) working. I’ve not seen him act like any more of a drama queen than you. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/65 "2006-03-28T03:00:07Z")
**Liberal** , it doesn’t matter to me what your motives are for posting your request here in public. What matters to me at the moment is the hurt that you feel and your temptation to surrender to your anger. You have other concerns that are beyond me. This is a place for you to **be** what you believe. You start with **self** -discipline and \*\*self-\*\*forgiveness. If you need a break, take one. If you need to make apologies, make them. I don’t know that you do. That is for you to say. I read the part where you said that we are kindred spirits and thought to myself that it is about time that you noticed. I hope you will not leave me behind for keeps. It is almost Easter. The Lord Be With You. ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/66 "2006-03-28T03:01:24Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Whatever. I spend a lot of time on this board when I’m (supposed to be) working. I’ve not seen him act like any more of a drama queen than you. At least when I’ve been a drama queen, not that I can recall EVER being one, it can be blamed on my over-consumption of beer. I’m not one that does just fine for awhile and then out of nowhere start a bunch of crap designed solely to be a “look at me” type thing. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/67 "2006-03-28T03:11:46Z")
Count me largely among the go/stay/whatever floats your boat group, except to say that the ratio of intelligent posts to dramatic-woe-betide-me-please-fill-my-need-for-attention posts that make someone’s contributions really all that valuable is exceptionally high in my book. I’m sure we’ll have plenty of intelligent and insightful posters to fill any void, and a more than noticeable diminishment of attend-to-me posts. Otherwise, see you in about three weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/68 "2006-03-28T03:24:07Z")
Damn, I meant to have this in the post, but I had some problems with premature submission. This has never happened to me before - I swear. Liberal, whether you stay or go, I do hope you find some more productive ways to meet the needs that the SDMB isn’t meeting for you. ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/69 "2006-03-28T03:31:26Z")
Who’s going to defend American Idol contestants against slander, now? Think of the consequences, man! ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/70 "2006-03-28T03:46:49Z")
Nobody ever really dies in cyber space. Until then, **Lib**. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/71 "2006-03-28T04:17:46Z")
Liberal, Please, _please_, don’t go! The SDMB is the most important place in the universe and you are the linchpin of its existence. If you go, even for 30 days, this board\_and by extension my life\_ will cease to have any meaning at all. Certainly, it must be difficult for you to deal with the cretins and vulgarians that overpopulate this place. Yet you have soldiered on so bravely and selflessly all this time! Please, do not now leave us all, for whom your posts are the single spark of light in a dark and soulless world! If you leave, even for a moment, Liberal, I don’t know if I’ll be able to bear up under the loss. Your words in the electronic void have given me reason to live. They’ve been something to cling to when the world seemed a cold and malevolent place; and now you want to snatch away the sole source of my succor! Fie on you, sir! Fie! You inconstant doxie! You made me love you! You made me live for each post! It was just to give me hope solely so you could snatch it away! Wasn’t it? Wasn’t it YOU BASTARD!? How many other boards have there been? Whore! You 've been posting all over the net haven’t you!? You fucking skank whore! I HATE YOU!!! **I HATE YOU!!!** \*\* I HATE YOU!!!\*\* ---
**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:** [March 28, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/72 "2006-03-28T04:17:56Z")
I’ll add my voice to those who wish you well, **Lib** – whatever you choose to do. This is a great place to exchange ideas, and it’ll remain that way whether you’re a member or not. If you choose not to take advantage of that, then I’m sure you have your reasons. Far be it from me to judge. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/73 "2006-03-28T04:48:53Z")
Only seems fair that the Admins honor Lib’s request. He wants to be banned, let him have his way. As it will be self imposed, he can always change his mind in a few months. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/74 "2006-03-28T04:56:25Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Only seems fair that the Admins honor Lib’s request. He wants to be banned, let him have his way. As it will be self imposed, he can always change his mind in a few months. Honestly, If someone doesn’t have the self-control to exercise a sabbatical on his own, I say screw 'em. If they ask to be suspended or banned, then ban 'em. Permanently. This drama queen crap just plain pisses me off. **Lib** can be an OK guy when he wants to, but if he’s just going to be a baby, throw a hissy fit because the board “gets to him” and ask for an enforced suspension/sabbatical every couple months, then to hell with him. Anyone else who did this would get dogpiled with “don’t let the door hit ya”. Why should this be any different? Yeah, I’m crabby today. Wanna make something of it? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/75 "2006-03-28T05:04:44Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Honestly, If someone doesn’t have the self-control to exercise a sabbatical on his own, I say screw 'em. If they ask to be suspended or banned, then ban 'em. Permanently. This drama queen crap just plain pisses me off. **Lib** can be an OK guy when he wants to, but if he’s just going to be a baby, throw a hissy fit because the board “gets to him” and ask for an enforced suspension/sabbatical every couple months, then to hell with him. Anyone else who did this would get dogpiled with “don’t let the door hit ya”. Why should this be any different? > > Yeah, I’m crabby today. Wanna make something of it? Nah, I agree with you 100%. I deleted the rude portion of my post. You expressed it better anyway. Bravo. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@Mister\_Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Falcon)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/76 "2006-03-28T05:13:31Z")
Wow, just wow. Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me It’s not just navel-gazing, it’s user-supported navel drilling with an atomic microscope. Don’t ban this guy, IP ban him. Reach through the fucking nodes and backbones and cables and confiscate his fucking computer. Guys like this never, ever leave boards voluntarily. Congrats, enablers. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/77 "2006-03-28T05:21:17Z")
> [@Mister Falcon](#): > > Guys like this never, ever leave boards voluntarily. Congrats, enablers. Exactly. Need help finding the door? Here it is…and STAY out. And on a different note: Yippee-ka-yay, Mister Falcon! (God, I hate TV movie censors; that made NO fucking sense in context). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/78 "2006-03-28T05:34:38Z")
> [@Mister Falcon](#): > > Wow, just wow. > > Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me > > It’s not just navel-gazing, it’s user-supported navel drilling with an atomic microscope. > > Don’t ban this guy, IP ban him. Reach through the fucking nodes and backbones and cables and confiscate his fucking computer. > > Guys like this never, ever leave boards voluntarily. Congrats, enablers. **Wow** indeed. A guest who knows the ins and outs of our board, and is brave enough to recommend a solution to our Liberal Problem? I bow before our new Sock Overloards. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/79 "2006-03-28T05:40:19Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > But you are an institution around here. You seem to be missing the word “mental” from this sentence. > [@Shodan](#): > > But you add a lot to the boards. Really? Only I don’t call constant hijacking of threads to his pet topics and hissy fits over his name adding much to anything. Or are you just talking in terms of post count? Only I don’t think that really counts given the above. I’m in complete agreement with **Q.E.D.**. This is nothing more than **Liberal** ’s overactive, oversensitive martyr complex kicking into high gear once more, and we’re all better off without it and him. Good riddance, say I. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134/80 "2006-03-28T05:47:01Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > **Wow** indeed. A guest who knows the ins and outs of our board, and is brave enough to recommend a solution to our Liberal Problem? > > I bow before our new Sock Overloards. 😃 Psst, we’re not supposed to make the Sock accusation. Just report his post if you are suspicious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-prospective-suspension-banning/350134.md?page=5)