# New rule proposal **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 4, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936 "2006-02-04T01:45:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/1 "2006-02-04T01:45:44Z")
Could we make a new rule that all threads glorifying Jackson will be moved to the Pit? And by glorifying, I mean anything that doesn’t acknowledge that he was a murderer and terrorist. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/2 "2006-02-04T01:47:29Z")
Just to clarify, I’m talking about the Indian Hater. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/3 "2006-02-04T02:12:06Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Just to clarify, I’m talking about the Indian Hater. Oh… [puts back the Judas cradle, the iron maiden of Nuremberg and the rack back into storage] ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/4 "2006-02-04T02:46:12Z")
I love this. Of course, I’d love it even better if all 4000 or so of us get to have special rules for our pet peeves. Wait a sec. Let me get out my list. Sorry it’s so long… ---
**Author:** ![Taran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Taran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taran)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/5 "2006-02-04T03:15:26Z")
I’m not saying Jackson was a good guy, 'cause he definitely wasn’t, but we don’t have such rules for Hitler, Pol Pot, or any of the other genocidal maniacs who make Old Hickory look like a piker. (And I admit, until I read the second post I was thinking, “Sure, King Kong was a bit long and the slo-mo effect was overused, but I don’t think…_ohhhhhh_”) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/6 "2006-02-04T03:19:43Z")
Look, he was found innocent of pedophilia. Sure, he’s a bit strange, but hasn’t he been punished enough by the late night comedians? Actually, while we’re at it, how about we ban all GD threads on the Holy Roman Empire? I’m so SICK of all these Charlemagne threads! ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/7 "2006-02-04T03:41:54Z")
I’m really disappointed w/this request of yours. your inability to have any nonpit type comments on the person should not preclude any one else’s interest in having a conversation. or is this another satirical thread to comment on some one else;s unreasonable request? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/8 "2006-02-04T03:53:07Z")
I hated “Lawyers In Love” as much as the next guy but I think this is unreasonable. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/9 "2006-02-04T04:02:03Z")
Why are you picking on poor Tito? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/10 "2006-02-04T04:16:56Z")
Jackson who? ~ She who lives in Nashville but has refused to set foot in the Hermitage for over forty years… ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/11 "2006-02-04T04:20:05Z")
So I can’t interest you in a ticket to the Jefferson/Jackson Day Dinner? 🙂 TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/12 "2006-02-04T07:28:21Z")
I don’t remember any indians at all in King Kong. Some stereotypical naitve islanders perhaps… ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/13 "2006-02-04T07:46:35Z")
> [@Taran](#): > > I’m not saying Jackson was a good guy, 'cause he definitely wasn’t, but we don’t have such rules for Hitler, Pol Pot, or any of the other genocidal maniacs who make Old Hickory look like a piker. Well, if the thread is saying that Hitler was a fine young man who did a lot of good for Germany, was admired by his contemporaries, misunderstood by posterity, and made into a monster by Jewish revisionists, then fine by me — shoot that sucker off to Giraffe. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/14 "2006-02-04T07:48:22Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > So I can’t interest you in a ticket to the Jefferson/Jackson Day Dinner? > > 🙂 > > TubaDiva Definitely. Would you have enough tickets for a few thousand of my friends? (We’d like backstage access, please.) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/15 "2006-02-04T12:35:10Z")
Could we also have a rule that all threads glorifying liberal principles could be whisked off to the Pit, where conservatives would have access to the range of choice epithets needed to excoriate such misguided thinking? ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/16 "2006-02-04T14:24:05Z")
Can we have a rule that inserts “Doofus” under Lib’s username? ---
**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaucho)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/17 "2006-02-04T14:30:53Z")
For a libertarian, you really like rules. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/18 "2006-02-04T14:32:28Z")
I propose a ban on the misuse of the word “[glorify](http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/glorify)”. Talking about Jackson is not _de facto_ “glorification”. Likewise, video games do not “glorify” violence everytime someone gets whacked; television programs do not “glorify” sex just because someone gets it on; and movies do not “glorify” drugs just because someone smokes a joint. > [@](#): > > Main Entry: \*\*glo·ri·fy \*\* > Pronunciation: 'glOr-&-"fI, 'glor- > Function: transitive verb > Inflected Form(s): **-fied; -fy·ing** > Etymology: Middle English _glorifien_, from Middle French _glorifier_, from Late Latin _glorificare_, from _gloria_ > 1 a : **to make glorious by bestowing honor, praise, or admiration b : to elevate to celestial glory** ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/19 "2006-02-04T15:33:55Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > Can we have a rule that inserts “Doofus” under Lib’s username? How about a rule forbidding personal insults in this forum? Oh, wait. Not that it would be enforced in this instance, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936/20 "2006-02-04T15:37:57Z")
> [@gaucho](#): > > For a libertarian, you really like rules. Why should a libertarian dislike rules? This is a privately owned site, and whether its rules suit us is a decision we all are free to make. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rule-proposal/342936.md?page=2)