# New rule in Cafe Society? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 1, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-in-cafe-society/527278 "2010-02-01T19:16:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-in-cafe-society/527278/41 "2010-02-02T15:32:09Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Café Society, 20 January 2005: [don’t be a jerk and spoil the fun that others are having.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5741176&postcount=16) Yes, definitely a classic, unambiguous case of threadshitting. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-in-cafe-society/527278/42 "2010-02-02T15:50:10Z")
So you agree that “being a jerk and spoiling the fun that others are having” = “threadshitting”? > [@stpauler](#): > > I was enjoying that thread until you and the other poster threadshat. Then we had to take a time out for your crap and move the spotlight. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-in-cafe-society/527278/43 "2010-02-02T23:10:42Z")
I don’t want this to seem like threadshitting, when I say that for me the biggest mystery is how anyone can post things [like this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12055653&postcount=56) without realizing they are shitting all over the thread? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-in-cafe-society/527278/44 "2010-02-02T23:25:41Z")
> [@tacoloco](#): > > Lissener will NEVER see that point, IMO. Yeah. He seems to genuinely think that that was a good mystery associated with “Lost.” Or so he claims. Like when you ask someone if they have a stick up their ass, they get pissed, and you say, “No, I genuinely am concerned for your health! Maybe you should see a proctologist.” ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-in-cafe-society/527278/45 "2010-02-03T12:20:59Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > That would limit his ability to play the “poor, pitiful, misunderstood me” card. MOD HAT ON: Please, this is a thread that **lissener** began about a mod ruling; it’s not a thread about **lissener** himself (nor should it be, in this forum) and personal attacks like that are out of line. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-in-cafe-society/527278/46 "2010-02-03T14:37:05Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > FWIW, I will of course abide by this new standard of what threadshitting is. If you comb through my many, many posts in my history on this board, you’ll see that I’m not much for threadshitting anyway: I don’t lob driveby turds with the sole intent of vandalizing, sabotaging a thread. If I express a negative opinion, it’s an honest opinion that I’m prepared to debate and defend. Being unpopular doesn’t make it threadshitting. Can we get a ‘wiping away a teardrop induced by raucous laughter’ smiley? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-in-cafe-society/527278/47 "2010-02-03T15:51:29Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > MOD HAT ON: Please, this is a thread that **lissener** began about a mod ruling; it’s not a thread about **lissener** himself (nor should it be, in this forum) and personal attacks like that are out of line. Sorry. I wasn’t riffing on [Zevon](http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/poorpoor.htm) to describe **lissener** , though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-in-cafe-society/527278.md?page=2)