# Marley and lekatt **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 7, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272 "2010-04-07T13:55:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/1 "2010-04-07T13:55:08Z")
[Yes, yes, and yes.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12312643&postcount=273) Look, I don’t know what the deal is with **lekatt**. Evidently, he’s some sort of evangelical. That’s fine, it doesn’t matter to me one way or another. But whenever people post questionable claims here, they’re expected to be able to support them with evidence. That, the very heart of this messageboard, no longer applies to lekatt–according to **Marley** , lekatt has hijacked so many threads that asking him for a cite is frowned upon by the Mods. I get it. Marley’s trying to head off a hijack. Fine, no problem. My question is _why on earth is lekatt still posting here?_ ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/2 "2010-04-07T14:04:56Z")
Because he communicates directly with Marley’s ghost. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/3 "2010-04-07T14:06:49Z")
If **lekatt** is constantly threadshitting and hijacking, then wouldn’t a better solution be to ban him from threadshitting and hijacking, rather than telling everyone else on the SDMB that we are not allowed to ask one particular poster for cites? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/4 "2010-04-07T14:09:15Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > If **lekatt** is constantly threadshitting and hijacking, then wouldn’t a better solution be to ban him from threadshitting and hijacking, rather than telling everyone else on the SDMB that we are not allowed to ask one particular poster for cites? I believe they were asked to take it to another thread, weren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/5 "2010-04-07T14:10:05Z")
sitting in a tree ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/6 "2010-04-07T14:10:19Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I believe they were asked to take it to another thread, weren’t they? Er…yes. Yes, they were. Well, I think I’ve reached my quota for dumb-assed posts this week, don’t you? _slinks off_ ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/7 "2010-04-07T14:14:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I believe they were asked to take it to another thread, weren’t they? As I understand it, > [@Marley](#): > > No, no, and no. We’re not having another thread where lekatt hijacks the conversation by ignoring all the facts and arguing from ignorance. Start a new thread if you want to have a discussion about spirits, lekatt. Any further tangential remarks will lead to a warning, and I remind everybody else to take their replies to lekatt to a different thread. means “Don’t reply to **lekatt**.” If someone’s causing that level of disruption, then deal with that person–don’t tell me who I can and can’t reply to. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/8 "2010-04-07T14:14:33Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Er…yes. Yes, they were. Well, I think I’ve reached my quota for dumb-assed posts this week, don’t you? > > _slinks off_ I just checked my records, and you still have one unused dumb-assed post left over from last week. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/9 "2010-04-07T14:15:30Z")
> [@SoulFrost](#): > > As I understand it, > > means “Don’t reply to **lekatt**.” No, it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/10 "2010-04-07T14:16:16Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > No, it doesn’t. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/11 "2010-04-07T14:20:34Z")
> [@SoulFrost](#): > > Cite? **Marley’s** post is my cite. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/12 "2010-04-07T14:23:29Z")
> [@SoulFrost](#): > > As I understand it, > > means “Don’t reply to **lekatt**.” > > If someone’s causing that level of disruption, then deal with that person–don’t tell me who I can and can’t reply to. > [@Terri Schiavo + 5 years](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terri-schiavo-5-years/533872/273): > > Start a new thread if you want to have a discussion about spirits, **lekatt**. > [@](#): > > I remind everybody else to take their replies to **lekatt** to a different thread. > [@](#): > > to take their replies to **lekatt** to a different thread … > [@](#): > > a different thread ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/13 "2010-04-07T14:24:17Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I just checked my records, and you still have one unused dumb-assed post left over from last week. > 😃 Do they accumulate or is there a time limit? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/14 "2010-04-07T14:31:11Z")
My point, **Electric Warrior** , is that replies to **lekatt** are now forbidden in that thread. That’s a needless onus on us… why not simply get rid of the source of what has become, according to **Marley** , a recurring problem? > [@Czarcasm](#): > > **Marley’s** post is my cite. Get some new material. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/15 "2010-04-07T14:32:23Z")
> [@SoulFrost](#): > > My point, **Electric Warrior** , is that replies to **lekatt** are now forbidden in that thread. That’s a needless onus on us… why not simply get rid of the source of what has become, according to **Marley** , a recurring problem? There’s no reason to ban somebody who didn’t break the rules. Haven’t people been complaining about too many bannings anyway? Especially of right wing and religious posters? Instead, it just keeps the thread from being hijacked. ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/16 "2010-04-07T14:36:39Z")
> [@Electric\_Warrior](#): > > There’s no reason to ban somebody who didn’t break the rules. Haven’t people been complaining about too many bannings anyway? Especially of right wing and religious posters? Instead, it just keeps the thread from being hijacked. After all of the mod-notes to **lekatt** in that thread, it’s already been hijacked by posts moderating him. If he’s not breaking any rules, then why all the moderation? ---
**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:** [April 7, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/17 "2010-04-07T14:39:04Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Do they accumulate or is there a time limit? 🙂 They’re rollover posts, they don’t expire. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/18 "2010-04-07T14:40:40Z")
> [@SoulFrost](#): > > But whenever people post questionable claims here, they’re expected to be able to support them with evidence. That, the very heart of this messageboard, no longer applies to lekatt–according to **Marley** , lekatt has hijacked so many threads that asking him for a cite is frowned upon by the Mods. I said that if he wants to have yet another discussion about the brain and the spirit, he should take it to another thread instead of hijacking a thread about Terri Schiavo in that direction. If he does start that thread, you can ask him for all the cites you like. But if I ask him to drop the hijack, it’s only fair that other posters also have to stop bringing it up. If they keep asking him questions, the hijack doesn’t end and he gets warned for backing up his own arguments, which I don’t think is fair. > [@](#): > > My question is _why on earth is lekatt still posting here?_ He’s been warned on occasion for breaking the rules, but for the most part he follows them. What I don’t get is why he bothers posting here in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/19 "2010-04-07T14:48:48Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I said that if he wants to have yet another discussion about the brain and the spirit, he should take it to another thread instead of hijacking a thread about Terri Schiavo in that direction. If he does start that thread, you can ask him for all the cites you like. But if I ask him to drop the hijack, it’s only fair that other posters also have to stop bringing it up. If they keep asking him questions, the hijack doesn’t end and he gets warned for backing up his own arguments, which I don’t think is fair. That’s fair enough. So it’s a specific sort of hijacking he’s become notorious for, brain / spirit discussions. > [@](#): > > He’s been warned on occasion for breaking the rules, but for the most part he follows them. What I don’t get is why he bothers posting here in the first place. I’m happy to have him here if he normally brings a different, but reasonably argued, point of view. I was curious about how someone could get several don’t-start-that-crap-in-here-again mod-notes without having their posting priveleges reviewed. You’ve answered that well, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272/20 "2010-04-07T14:59:12Z")
**Marley and lekatt, The Sequel** Plot: In the long-await sequel to [the critically acclaimed movie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marley_&_Me_%28film), **lekatt** raises **Marley** from the dead. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-and-lekatt/535272.md?page=2)