# List of banned users? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 23, 2013, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152 "2013-02-23T07:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/21 "2013-02-26T15:18:36Z")
yeah, but they deserved it ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/22 "2013-02-27T00:12:32Z")
I found out making a sock puppet was a bannable offense AFTER I told people to do it. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**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:** [February 27, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/23 "2013-02-27T01:08:39Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > A surprisingly large percentage of it is from a very small handful of absolutely bat-shit insane trolls. [This guy](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dennis_Markuze) was a frequent returnee here, and he wasnā€™t the most prolific of them by a long shot. Wow. That guy is clearly insane. That said, I wish he could come back! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/24 "2013-02-27T01:21:50Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > And then there was the time **Marley23** banned _everyone_. Really, he did? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/25 "2013-02-27T01:50:39Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > Really, he did? :eek: He was new on the job and threw the wrong switch, took out the message board and most of Peoria, IL. It took a crew several hours to get everyone back online. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/26 "2013-02-27T02:00:29Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > He was new on the job and threw the wrong switch, took out the message board and most of Peoria, IL. It took a crew several hours to get everyone back online. We celebrate the anniversary every year with a big parade and a party. But we do it in secret, so he doesnā€™t feel back about it. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/27 "2013-02-27T02:11:41Z")
Everything **Miller** says here is accurate. Iā€™ve said in the past that around 95% of my bans are spammers, and most of the rest are the crazy socks and trolls. ā€œRealā€ Dopers are the smallest percentage by far. > [@Miller](#): > > A surprisingly large percentage of it is from a very small handful of absolutely bat-shit insane trolls. [This guy](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dennis_Markuze) was a frequent returnee here, and he wasnā€™t the most prolific of them by a long shot. Heā€™s had more than 100 accounts here, it looks like. I thought it was only 60 or 70 but I think itā€™s more like 120. Of course he was also hitting lots of other sites and Twitter accounts and things. And yes, weā€™ve had worse. But even the crazy people who troll this place usually donā€™t have that kind of dedication. You need to be really crazy to devote that kind of time to spamming a message board where you know your posts are going to be removed within minutes. > [@Anonymous User](#): > > Really, he did? :eek: So they say. (And yes, it was my first day as an admin.) Nobody on the staff has ever managed to explain how that happened and itā€™s never happened again, so I donā€™t know that I actually did anything wrong. But that doesnā€™t mean Iā€™m ever going to live it down. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/28 "2013-02-27T02:36:55Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > ā€œRealā€ Dopers are the smallest percentage by far. We generally ban only around a dozen ā€œrealā€ members (non-spammers, socks, or short-term trolls) per year, out of 7,000+ active members. The vast majority of our posters never receive any warnings or have any other problems here. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/29 "2013-02-27T02:53:40Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > Really, he did? :eek: Why do you think heā€™s called the Administerminator? ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/30 "2013-02-27T12:27:15Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > And then there was the time **Marley23** banned _everyone_. I have wondered how did he manage to do this. Some inadvertent Ctrl-C ? ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/31 "2013-02-27T14:28:12Z")
> [@DrumBum](#): > > I have wondered how did he manage to do this. Some inadvertent Ctrl-C ? He tried to feed the hamsters to the squidā€¦ ---
**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:** [February 27, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/32 "2013-02-27T14:38:47Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > We generally ban only around a dozen ā€œrealā€ members (non-spammers, socks, or short-term trolls) per year, out of 7,000+ active members. The vast majority of our posters never receive any warnings or have any other problems here. Not to disagree with my colleague (who is fabulous in every way) but i donā€™t think the number is even that high. I would say half that or even less. Banning of members ā€“ especially long time Dopers ā€“ is unusual and rare. The overwhelming percentage of registered users who get banned are spammers. Followed by ā€œtrolls,ā€ posters who have an outside agenda, and people who are unclear on the concept. I suspect most of the last group have some problems of some sort, mental illness/emotional disorder, maybe. But even those are not so frequent, though we do seem to have spells when it seems like thereā€™s more of them on the ground, like the first daffodils of spring.. Posters in good standing ā€“ especially paid members ā€“ tend to be exemplary members of the community and donā€™t even get warnings. Those few that have been warned have usually only been warned once and it never happens again. Itā€™s rare when someone with history here runs the table to get to the ban place. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/33 "2013-02-27T14:50:22Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Not to disagree with my colleague (who is fabulous in every way) but i donā€™t think the number is even that high. I would say half that or even less. I did a search on threads with ā€œBannedā€ in the title in ATMB for the last 12 months, and there were about a dozen I would consider to fall in the category of ā€œrealā€ members. A few of those might have been considered trolls. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/34 "2013-02-27T14:57:55Z")
Several of them I can think of that merited notice in ATMB were not long time members but had become so notorious in their short term Doper experience that the situation required mention. So there. šŸ˜› Real-life banning of members of the Straight Dope community are uncommon. Though there are some that seem to carry an attitude that their own banning is inevitable. Iā€™ve never quite understood that and sometimes wondered what they were up to. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/35 "2013-03-02T04:28:04Z")
I too was (am) weirded out by the all-caps ā€œBANNEDā€ under the username. Iā€™m relatively new here. Or is it one poster I see whoā€™s fucking around by using that word for his optional description? Or, itā€™s about a bannee who is readmitted? And has to wear a scarlet letter? (Analogy only. No statement to decision.) ETA: This in response to Colibri a post or two up. So there are people who are unbanned. And they get the all-caps seen under their username? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/36 "2013-03-02T04:40:11Z")
Well, I get it now. Saw **Simple Linctus** and **pchaos** announcement and looked at originating threads. More like an asterisk next to Mark McGuireā€™s name, sort of: for future historians. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/37 "2013-03-02T05:05:49Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > A surprisingly large percentage of it is from a very small handful of absolutely bat-shit insane trolls. [This guy](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dennis_Markuze) was a frequent returnee here, and he wasnā€™t the most prolific of them by a long shot. this guyā€¦ Isnā€™t the article granting him the attention he desires? I know you arenā€™t responsible for the article, but I imagine heā€™s thrilled to be an article in wiki. I canā€™t help but wonder what he was trolling the SDMB for. And to sign up over 100+ times? Thatā€™s an obsession I canā€™t grasp. How do these people maintain jobs? Did he ever threaten or stalk anyone on the dope? And what caused him to get his first ban? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/38 "2013-03-02T06:59:36Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > I too was (am) weirded out by the all-caps ā€œBANNEDā€ under the username. Iā€™m relatively new here. > > Or is it one poster I see whoā€™s fucking around by using that word for his optional description? Member since 2009? You arenā€™t _that_ new here! This was discussed much more recently than that, right here in ATMB. (The practice of using ā€œBANNEDā€ for your description.) Sometime within the last year, IIRC. (Iā€™ll see if I can find it.) The conclusion was: Using ā€œBANNEDā€, or anything that looks confusingly similar, for your description, is ā€œBANNEDā€. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/39 "2013-03-02T07:05:18Z")
I think this was it. > **[Should I be complaining about this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=666009)** > > Iā€™m not really sureā€¦ I was having some fun, and AFAIK I wasnā€™t violating any rules, but TubaDiva told me to knock it off. I was experimenting with changing my Custom User Title. I wanted to make it ā€œBANNEDā€ but that is apparently a reserved word... Discussion of using BANNED or anything similar for your username or description. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152/40 "2013-03-02T07:11:47Z")
(Missed edit window.) (Again.) Also discussed here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15506609#post15506609](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15506609#post15506609) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-banned-users/651152.md?page=3)