# Muldoon's Squishiness **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 29, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muldoons-squishiness/204394 "2003-09-29T00:27:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muldoons-squishiness/204394/1 "2003-09-29T00:27:51Z")
I’m not actually ranting, this is just the forum for this. Could someone point me to the thread were the above mentioned poster was banned and why? Most of his stuff I read was interesting, and I thought he might actually be a cool poster.😕 ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muldoons-squishiness/204394/2 "2003-09-29T00:31:50Z")
I don’t think he was banned for anything in a thread; rather, he was a sock. A mod will be along shortly to point out that this sort of thing is usually better handled by email. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muldoons-squishiness/204394/3 "2003-09-29T00:34:27Z")
I surmised it was probably better handled by mail, though I thought perhaps a discussion was in order. A sock? Why? ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muldoons-squishiness/204394/4 "2003-09-29T00:35:49Z")
Feel free to close this thread, mods. I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muldoons-squishiness/204394/5 "2003-09-29T00:51:24Z")
A mod explained in an earlier thread that he was a sock for WSLer. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muldoons-squishiness/204394/6 "2003-09-29T01:35:55Z")
> [@](#): > > I surmised it was probably better handled by mail, though I thought perhaps a discussion was in order. Any discussion that needs to happen should be done in email. This is for the privacy of the banned poster as much as anything else. What’s more, we don’t listen to pleas of “Unban Poster X” from third parties. Poster X will have to apply for reinstatement him/herself. Lynn For the Straight Dope ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muldoons-squishiness/204394/7 "2003-09-29T02:47:12Z")
Ok. I got from the december and thaidog threads that a Pit thread could be started. Apologies. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muldoons-squishiness/204394/8 "2003-09-29T03:03:14Z")
**December** was something of a special case. He was a very long-term, very controversial poster, and his banning was a fairly controversial decision. It was something that affected the community as a whole, so the powers that be allowed a discussion thread to run as long as it stayed pretty clean and above the belt. The thaidog thread isn’t so much a request for reasons behind the banning as it is a continuation of a board joke. Presumably, the only reason it’s still open is that it’s a bit of fluff that doesn’t invade anyone’s privacy. And threads _can_ be started, but the mods and admins prefer that we don’t. If you have questions, they prefer that you ask them privately. If you have a complaint, or feel that the banning was unjust, a thread bitching about the situation is usually okay. They’d really prefer you to handle that privately, too, though.