# Not dead...is not dead **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 3, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-dead-is-not-dead/797841 "2017-10-03T02:12:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 51
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-dead-is-not-dead/797841/51 "2017-10-04T11:56:34Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’m well aware that, at this point, it doesn’t matter. But what about going forward? What about when one of your favorite performers is rushed to the hospital? Are you okay with Idle calling them changing the thread title to RIP because he wants to go to bed and contrary to all news reports, he considers them dead? Tom Petty was one of my favorite performers. It didn’t bother me a bit. In fact, I even posted in the thread before **Idle** did: > [@Tom Petty suffers cardiac arrest \[Update: RIP\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-petty-suffers-cardiac-arrest-update-rip/797821/76): > > It was already changed when CBS erroneously reported his death. It doesn’t seem worth the effort to change it, then change it again when he ultimately does pass on. He’s off life support and isn’t expected to live. If you’re trying to get **Idle** to admit to some kind of wrongdoing, I’m afraid you’re going to be as successful at it as resisting the Borg is. But if you want to play Jean-Luc Picard, have at it. Threads like this one are why I would never want to be a mod. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-dead-is-not-dead/797841)._