# New poster Sear-Pretentious Jerk **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 14, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167 "2017-03-14T15:17:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [March 14, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/1 "2017-03-14T15:17:29Z")
Instead of using my name when posting about something I said, he addressed my as “C #133”-first initial and post number. When I told him that I would prefer he just use my name instead of his code/shortcut, he [responded with this pretentious crap:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20065324&postcount=316) > [@](#): > > C #315 > > Thanks much. > Message received and understood. > > When the picture doesn’t make any sense, a piece of the puzzle is missing. > > For simple names like Joe Blow, typing it out is not too burdensome. > But if I made a typing error in typing such pseud (as I have in the past), there’d be a stink about that. > > There’s also a word in the English language that can be pronounced like your pseud, > but they are not spelled the same. > > Perhaps the obvious solution might seem: > > - type out the simple ones, > - cut & paste the more complicated ones. > > For a long time, to avoid spelling such pseudonyms inaccurately, I did indeed C-&-P them. > But that is tedious, cumbersome, and in the long haul, prohibitive. > > It is flattering to be referred to by initial. > > JC comes to mind. But there’s also: > TR > FDR > JFK > LBJ > GWB > > among a few more distinguished others. > > In addition, that format, arrived at by posting perhaps 100,000 or more, since the previous millennium, > imparts the additional benefit of informing all the other posters and lurkers which specific post I’m commenting on > so they may put my comment in full context, if they wish to do so. It’s a courtesy and convenience to them. > > However, if you’re more comfortable inferring insult where none is intended or implied, that’s fine. > But in that case, why not simply ignore me? > > Yuku, where I’m an administrator, has an “ignore” feature. > Whether “boards” offers such feature, I do not know. > But if not, I invite you to ignore me the old-fashioned way, and be sure and enjoy your Pi Day (3/14) with extra gusto. > > kind regards > > s #~316 It’s too much trouble to type(or even cut and paste) anyone’s name, but not too much trouble to act like a jerk at length? I don’t give a shit about how he did it at his own board “since the previous millennium”-this isn’t his board. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/2 "2017-03-14T15:25:21Z")
That fuck better not try fucking with _my_ name. I’ll fuck his shit right up. Fucker. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/3 "2017-03-14T15:25:23Z")
Sounds like a Sheldon Cooper wannabe. ETA: Without any of the charm. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/4 "2017-03-14T15:26:48Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > That fuck better not try fucking with _my_ name. I’ll fuck his shit right up. Fucker. For real, the UI here makes it super easy to use folks’ actual names. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/5 "2017-03-14T15:32:34Z")
His stupid “shortcut” and refusal to quote properly(which fucking _contains_ the name of the person that is being quoted, for fuck’s sake!) makes people scroll back to whatever post he is referring to to find out who “C”, “f”, “GB” etc. are. How the hell is this convenient? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/6 "2017-03-14T15:33:08Z")
**ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED** _Provoke Czarcasm into Pit response_ Reward: 1,000,000 Durpcoins Magic Troll Amulet +1 Socks ---
**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:** [March 14, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/7 "2017-03-14T15:39:28Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > **ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED** > _Provoke Czarcasm into Pit response_ > > Reward: > 1,000,000 Durpcoins > Magic Troll Amulet > +1 Socks How much is that worth in “jugs of ale”? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/8 "2017-03-14T15:41:35Z")
To be fair, our ATMB FAQ doesn’t seem to mention board etiquette for referring to other posters (“use official username in bold type”), which I think it probably should. And we do sometimes abbreviate long usernames ( **LHoD** , **BPC** , etc.) when acceptable to the poster. But the OP is quite right that insisting on using one’s own annoying idiosyncratic conventions after the existing conventions have been explicitly pointed out is the act of a pretentious jerk. Five to three says that **sear** will respond to the mod action by whining about the unfairness and inefficiency of it all for at least two more posts. If instead he cheerfully apologizes and proceeds to comply with SDMB nomenclature conventions without any more fuss, I owe him an apology. ETA: [Hoo baby](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20065441&postcount=318). No crow-eating for me today. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a “suicide by mod” before. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/9 "2017-03-14T15:47:32Z")
I c & p usernames all the time b/c I am dyslexia and this way I know I am getting the name right . I find this the easiest way to post a person name ! Don’t let the jerk get to you ! ---
**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:** [March 14, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/10 "2017-03-14T15:48:09Z")
His response after Jonathan Chance warns him is almost too precious for words: > [@Jerk](#): > > JC #317 > > Please ban me permanently immediately. > As I am both moderator & administrator elsewhere on the Internet, I’m constantly exploring current events sites, my primary interest. > > I have no wish to post at any site where one poster has a VETO over the posting style of another; particularly when my posting style is so highly refined and benevolently intended. > > If I had the power to permanently ban myself here, I’d already have done so. > If you do, please do. > If you do not, please make whatever arrangements are necessary to ban the pseud “sear” (all lower case if you please) in all fora at this site, for all future time. > > Many thanks in advance. > > s > > PS > Your failure to ban me permanently risks my cyber-return, to deliberately violate this silly rule; until you do. > Please spare all concerned that needless formality. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/11 "2017-03-14T15:55:27Z")
Pleases, thanks…and an open threat to troll heavily. Passive-Aggressive much? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/12 "2017-03-14T15:58:18Z")
😕 And why TF is the normally sane **kayaker** trying to persuade him to change his mind about quitting? ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/13 "2017-03-14T15:58:58Z")
My, what delicate flowers we are. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/14 "2017-03-14T16:00:03Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > 😕 And why TF is the normally sane **kayaker** trying to persuade him to change his mind about quitting? I very much doubt he’s being serious. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/15 "2017-03-14T16:02:03Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > My, what delicate flowers we are. “And will no one will speak for the passive-aggressive jerks?” ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/16 "2017-03-14T16:02:37Z")
Snow+beer+avoiding homework, looks to me. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/17 "2017-03-14T16:12:10Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > For real, the UI here makes it super easy to use folks’ actual names. I see what you did there. It’s like driving a LHD car on the wrong side of the road. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/18 "2017-03-14T16:20:07Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I see what you did there. It’s like driving a LHD car on the wrong side of the road. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/19 "2017-03-14T16:23:53Z")
Czarcasm, get over yourself. Are you honestly so angry that someone called you “C” that you had to call a grownup to take care of it? Lots of people do things that make the board harder to read to read. IME, the people that get warned (or banned) are the new members like this person or the one that posted everything in green (insert grapist joke, move on) or bump old threads. The ones that don’t get in trouble are the people that have been around for ever (sorry, no interest in naming names). But as a random example, how is referring to you/your post as C#133 anymore confusing than discussing a poll thread that’s 3 pages deep and mentioning that you voted for option number 2, but totally disagree with 4. Keeping in mind that that means we all have to scroll back up each time someone says that (also, at least on my computer, they’re not numbered). Anyways, lighten up Francis. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > His stupid “shortcut” and refusal to quote properly(which fucking _contains_ the name of the person that is being quoted, for fuck’s sake!) makes people scroll back to whatever post he is referring to to find out who “C”, “f”, “GB” etc. are. How the hell is this convenient? Refusal to quote properly? How many people go through all the trouble to do the ‘quoth’ bullshit, which makes it so you can’t quote that post without going through the trouble of now unnesting the now messed up quotes? Shall they be issued warnings as well? It also seems pretty pretentious to me, we get it, you read The Raven. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167/20 "2017-03-14T16:30:47Z")
And that’s two votes for the passive-aggressive troll wannabe. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-poster-sear-pretentious-jerk/782167.md?page=2)