# My second F\*\*\* - wanky OP's

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-second-f-wanky-ops/27182>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 28, 2000, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-second-f-wanky-ops/27182 "2000-07-28T11:56:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-second-f-wanky-ops/27182/1 "2000-07-28T11:56:31Z")

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Not a GD but it’s related so I’ll post it here and leave it in the hands of  
the great unseen one.

OK, Seems to me that, on one level, the SDMB operates like this:  
There’s threadphobes – never post an OP  
There’s threadaholic’s – do **nothing** in their lives but post OP’s  
and there’s the vaguely balanced somewhere inbetweenies.

Everyone’s got their own thing, so that’s ok. However, I’ve recently developed a hack-‘em-into-small-pieces-and-feed-‘em-to-the-dog aversion to those folk who post contentious OP’s and then just disappear – you can have a lively thread going, maybe 50 posts long, and the damn OP just vanishes after expressing one view in the opening post.

That might be fine if subsequent posts agreed or didn’t introduce something else. But it just seems some people either like the attention – sad, sad lives – or are immune to fresh observations about their stance on a given issue.

My view: If you start a contentious thread, follow the damn thing and even maybe contribute a little \*\* so you don’t look fucking stupid - or sad – or just plain ignorant\*\*

Have a better day than me, cheers.

(That’s the second f\*\*\* in 260 odd posts – but it felt so gooooood!)

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**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-second-f-wanky-ops/27182/2 "2000-07-28T12:39:30Z")

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[Moderator Hat: ON]

If you _know_ it’s not a GD, why did you post it in GD? Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. And, no, it’s not even “related.”

Moderators are not here just for you because you’re too lazy to put your messages where they belong.

In fact, I think rather than doing your work for you and moving this to the Pit, I’ll just lock it up. You can go repost it in the Pit if you want to.

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David B, SDMB Great Debates Moderator

[Moderator Hat: OFF]