# Marley
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [January 3, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255 "2011-01-03T20:15:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/1 "2011-01-03T20:15:38Z")
You locked my ATMB thread with a comment that completely indicates you don’t accept the veracity of my previous post in the locked thread . I already did as you suggested in your cutoff post in the locked thread. I did private message a mod, Miller, several hours ago.
Like, what are you really up to here?
Make me look like an asshole ?
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/2 "2011-01-03T20:24:52Z")
I did not imply anything about the veracity of your post. I did not do anything to make you look like an asshole. Let me quote the rules again, adding some emphasis:
> [@FAQ - Guidelines and Etiquette on the SDMB](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faq-guidelines-and-etiquette-on-the-sdmb/369402/7):
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> If you have a question about a thread or poster who “disappeared,” please DO NOT post an inquiry.
> […]
> So, if you have a question about such, please email a moderator. DO NOT post your question. DO NOT give these folks any publicity, acknowledgement, or recognition.
You PMed a question to **Miller**. Wait for an answer. Do you get it now?
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/3 "2011-01-03T20:25:05Z")
Note: replying to the OP, did not see Marley’s post.
Dude have a big steamy mug of lighten the hell up. That’s pretty much standard procedure for that kind of thing here, no personal insult intended.
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### Author:  [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/4 "2011-01-03T20:41:59Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> I did not imply anything about the veracity of your post. I did not do anything to make you look like an asshole. Let me quote the rules again, adding some emphasis:
> You PMed a question to **Miller**. Wait for an answer. Do you get it now?
I did not post an Inquiry
I did not post a question
I did not reference to thread in question. That was deliberate on my part. Can’t you fucken recognize that !
Fuck, you aren’t stupid. But your knee jerk reaction to anything that I post that remotely might suggesty criticism of mod actions is really pissing me off.
And its only you and **tomndebb** that gets me thinking that you have a problem with me. Get over it. I respect the job you guys are doing. Nobody is perfect. But whenever I feel impacted by mod decisions, right or wrong, you will hear about it. Get over it !
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/5 "2011-01-03T20:44:32Z")
Sorry, **TFD**. I don’t see it.
You’re not covering yourself in glory here.
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### Author:  [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/6 "2011-01-03T20:49:22Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> Sorry, **TFD**. I don’t see it.
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> You’re not covering yourself in glory here.
Given I respect your presence here big time, I appreciate your contribution. I’m not looking for glory,(nothing to suggest I can attain that around here) but I just don’t understand where I’m going wrong. Perhaps you might gently enlighten me.
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/7 "2011-01-03T20:50:49Z")
The thing is that you are acting like **Marley** burning your dog or something. I see it as just a routine mod action, no harm no foul kinda thing.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/8 "2011-01-03T20:54:29Z")
What **Marley** posted [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13312592&postcount=11) in response to your query is the basic standard boilerplate response that gets used frequently when someone asks where a thread got disappeared to.
The message was rote and explanatory and informative and used on dozens of people before you. And will probably be used on many more after this.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/9 "2011-01-03T21:04:03Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#):
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> Fuck, you aren’t stupid. But your knee jerk reaction to anything that I post that remotely might suggesty criticism of mod actions is really pissing me off.
I don’t know where you’re getting this. I didn’t take it as a criticism. I thought you were asking what happened to the thread, and those issues are supposed to be handled in private. If you were just complaining that it sucks when a thread you are posting in disappears, then yes, it does. Sorry about the inconvenience. But the OP announced a couple of times that he was trolling and the staff decided to act on that.
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/10 "2011-01-03T21:30:38Z")
Deleting the Vick thread wasn’t necessary, imo. Not that anybody cares.
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### Author:  [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/11 "2011-01-03T21:45:56Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> If you were just complaining that it sucks when a thread you are posting in disappears, then yes, it does. Sorry about the inconvenience.
Thankyou .
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### Author:  [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/12 "2011-01-03T22:10:37Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> What **Marley** posted [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13312592&postcount=11) in response to your query is the basic standard boilerplate response that gets used frequently when someone asks where a thread got disappeared to.
>
> The message was rote and explanatory and informative and used on dozens of people before you. And will probably be used on many more after this.
The thing is **Quadgop** , I had already mentioned that I entered an enquiry to a specific mod as **Marley** suggested. He clearly was expecting negativity beyond what I was willing to offer.
But let me be honest. I regret whenever I feel that my intentions are misinterpreted. My sense is that I have conditioned **Marley** to expect that I am a shit disturber. To some degree that might be true. But I always want to be appreciated by this community and that includes the mods. That is paramount. Yet whenever I get an “anti social” thought in my head, I’m going to present it. I can’t help that.
In this case, I have clearly gone all the way to show understanding for the administration position. I deliberately avoided to draw attention to a specific thread. I did feel it neccessary to make the mods aware what it feels like to make your SDMB contributions dissapear forever. I don’t think that deserves any admonishment whatsoever
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### Author:  [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/13 "2011-01-03T22:13:31Z")
**Miller** has now answered my question .
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/14 "2011-01-03T23:46:24Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#):
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> The thing is **Quadgop** , I had already mentioned that I entered an enquiry to a specific mod as **Marley** suggested. He clearly was expecting negativity beyond what I was willing to offer.
>
> But let me be honest. I regret whenever I feel that my intentions are misinterpreted. My sense is that I have conditioned **Marley** to expect that I am a shit disturber. To some degree that might be true. But I always want to be appreciated by this community and that includes the mods. That is paramount. Yet whenever I get an “anti social” thought in my head, I’m going to present it. I can’t help that.
>
> In this case, I have clearly gone all the way to show understanding for the administration position. I deliberately avoided to draw attention to a specific thread. I did feel it neccessary to make the mods aware what it feels like to make your SDMB contributions dissapear forever. I don’t think that deserves any admonishment whatsoever
You’ve been here for ten years. For every minute of those ten years posters have been told never to start a thread about threads disappearing.
But you open one. And are given the standard boilerplate that everyone has gotten for ten solid years.
So you open a second thread complaining about the first thread. (Without a link. A ten-year-poster not bothering with a link because everybody should know every post you make in all your awesome wonderfulness.) With the implication that you were somehow personally singled out because you got the standard boilerplate which you should have known about for ten years.
And then you continue complaining that the mods have it in for you.
And you want to be appeciated by the community.
Your intentions were not misinterpreted. In this thread they were interpreted precisely and exactly. :rolleyes:
Your appeciation will be commensurate, I’m sure.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/15 "2011-01-04T00:13:46Z")
I did jump to a conclusion a bit as far as **The Flying Dutchman** ’s reason for posting that other thread. My mistake. I wouldn’t say I assumed _ill_ intent because there’s nothing wrong with asking what happened to a thread; we just ask that users handle those with a private message instead of a thread. But I can see my response came off more harshly than I intended it to.
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### Author:  [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/16 "2011-01-04T00:21:02Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> I did jump to a conclusion a bit as far as **The Flying Dutchman** ’s reason for posting that other thread. My mistake. I wouldn’t say I assumed _ill_ intent because there’s nothing wrong with asking what happened to a thread; we just ask that users handle those with a private message instead of a thread. But I can see my response came off more harshly than I intended it to.
Thankyou **Marley** , much appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/17 "2011-01-04T00:34:25Z")
Ewww, get a room 🙂
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/18 "2011-01-04T01:10:35Z")
Can we close this one now, or will someone come in and bitch about _that_?
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/19 "2011-01-04T01:16:08Z")
> [@samclem](#):
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> Can we close this one now, or will someone come in and bitch about _that_?
Yes. 😃
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley/566255/20 "2011-01-04T01:28:05Z")
I’ve closed this one as it would appear that every issue has been answered to everyone’s satisfaction. If I"m incorrect, email me and I’ll reopen(maybe).
**samclem**. Moderator
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