# On the closing of the Omegaman thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 30, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094 "2007-05-30T17:40:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/81 "2007-05-30T23:32:29Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] You know, you’re not actually in a position to dictate what others may or may not post here. [/QUOTE] Actually, he politely asked that the other poster not make any posts directed toward him. I don’t see any “dictating” there. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/82 "2007-05-30T23:36:42Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] Actually, he politely asked that the other poster not make any posts directed toward him. I don’t see any “dictating” there. [/QUOTE] Since when is, “I do believe you are full of shit,” considered “polite?” ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/83 "2007-05-30T23:38:02Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Since when is, “I do believe you are full of shit,” considered “polite?” [/QUOTE] Well, that part wasn’t. In his request though, he did say “please.” edit: But can you point out where he was dictating anything? ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/84 "2007-05-30T23:40:37Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] Actually, he politely asked that the other poster not make any posts directed toward him. I don’t see any “dictating” there. [/QUOTE] So telling someone they “are full of shit” is ‘polite’ in your neck of the woods? Civilization awaits you. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/85 "2007-05-30T23:41:22Z")
[QUOTE=RedFury] So telling someone they “are full of shit” is ‘polite’ in your neck of the woods? Civilization awaits you. [/QUOTE] I guess you missed the “please” part. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/86 "2007-05-30T23:42:21Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] Well, that part wasn’t. In his request though, he did say “please.” edit: But can you point out where he was dictating anything? [/QUOTE] “Please shut the fuck up, dumbshit.” Polite? I don’t really think so. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/87 "2007-05-30T23:43:24Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] “Please shut the fuck up, dumbshit.” Polite? I don’t really think so. [/QUOTE] Did he say that? I must have missed it. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/88 "2007-05-30T23:45:59Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] You know, you’re not actually in a position to dictate what others may or may not post here. [/QUOTE] I realize that but the same goes for you too my friend. This is getting a little unfocused as I can see you people think I’ve lost my marbles. think what you will. I would like to say this before I go and watch a good movie and relax though. I need the prayers of those of you with good hearts . You know who you are but I’ll mention a few **little plastic ninja , happy scrappy hero pup and Sampiro** and even **Siege**. That fucker is still out there. All the pieces in place.(as in chess) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/89 "2007-05-30T23:54:33Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] Did he say that? I must have missed it. [/QUOTE] No, that was an illustration that using the word “please” does not automatically make a request polite. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/90 "2007-05-30T23:56:39Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] Well, that part wasn’t. In his request though, he did say “please.” edit: But can you point out where he was dictating anything? [/QUOTE] _Please_, might I call you an uncivilized, unthinking, asshole? Do note I said “please.” What a fuckin’ retarded discussion. It’s all yours Cochran/Shapiro. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/91 "2007-05-30T23:56:56Z")
[QUOTE=RedFury] Storm in a teapot. Guy’s as close as it comes to a basketcase. Pitting fuckin’ _Satan_?! Fuck. You’re either on too many drugs or are lacking a bunch. Might be “fun” running into such a nutter at a bar – with a couple under your belt – but I see no reason at all why the SDMB has to give a venue to every street-corner, apocalyptic merchant-of-doom nutcake, a voice. After all, we’ve still have more than enough Neo-con ideologues doing that. Although, obviously, after their utter and complete failure, in much more subdued ways. Not like they have much of a choice either. And then, there’s also **Shodan**. Just how much lower do you guys want the overall intellect of this place to go down? [/QUOTE] A basket case huh ? I’ve done lot of drugs but I gave them up for alchohol(gave that up too) .At least you’re here to keep the intellect curve high. Did I ever say I was smart ? I love this board and hope I don’t get banned but the reason I come here is to learn. You can find out anything you want to know from the smartest people all over the world . A hundred years ago that would have been impossible, now just a click away . So what do you do for a living **Redfury**? You seem like the 007 type of guy to me. I could be wrong, though. Have been before , will be again. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/92 "2007-05-31T00:03:47Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] I thought it was incoherent. No, it wasn’t the subject matter, but the lack of grammar and a clear train of argument that made it incoherent for me. It seemed very stream-of-consciousness, rather than a reasoned, thought-out argument. Is QM quantum mechanics? Regardless, I think even if the subject matter itself is unfamiliar, you can tell whethere there’s a problem of yourself not understanding and and incoherence of the post itself. I might not get what you mean by A, B or C, but I can see you’re arguing A plus B equals C. Plus I could always ask the person with the unfamiliar subject matter to explain or dumb it down for me; an incoherent poster wouldn’t be able to. Perhaps any guideline would work better as used against a pattern of posting, rather than a single one. [/QUOTE] Quantum mechanics? Too difficult for me to understand. I can make any small block engine run Ford, Chevy, and I love Dodge’s . You think you could make something like that run like a top ? Well I am not going to pat myself on the back nut last year I cleared over A hundred grand working with dirty crap like cars and parts. Isn’t that a hoot. Got to watch out though, Satan’s big on vanity. He’s real full of himself. Reminds me of some other people I know. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/93 "2007-05-31T00:05:19Z")
[QUOTE=RedFury] _Please_, might I call you an **uncivilized** , unthinking, asshole? Do note I said “please.” What a fuckin’ retarded discussion. It’s all yours Cochran/Shapiro. [/QUOTE] Rich, very rich. Did you break your keyboard while typing that? ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/94 "2007-05-31T00:11:22Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] Quantum mechanics? Too difficult for me to understand. I can make any small block engine run Ford, Chevy, and I love Dodge’s . You think you could make something like that run like a top ? Well I am not going to pat myself on the back nut last year I cleared over A hundred grand working with dirty crap like cars and parts. Isn’t that a hoot. Got to watch out though, Satan’s big on vanity. He’s real full of himself. Reminds me of some other people I know. [/QUOTE] Er, what? Quantum mechanics wasn’t even brought up by me - it was by **Liberal** (ok, technically he brought up “QM” but I wouldn’t have brought quantum mechanics into my post if he hadn’t). And I’m not even claiming to understand it; you’ll note that I said I probably wouldn’t be able to follow along with particular terms used in the subject. I didn’t claim to understand the subject, I didn’t claim to be better than you for understanding it, and I don’t recall boasting at any point. I’m even one of the people who’s said they prefer you didn’t get banned, and defended you as not a troll. I hear Satan’s quite big on veiled insults and false accusations, too. I politely suggest you get on with that film. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/95 "2007-05-31T00:19:56Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] A basket case huh ? I’ve done lot of drugs but I gave them up for alchohol(gave that up too). [/quote] Good for you. Although you certainly could have fooled me on either by you postings. Guess you’re just too keen now, Pitting Satan and all. > [@Omegaman](#): > > So what do you do for a living **Redfury**? You seem like the 007 type of guy to me. I could be wrong, though. Have been before , will be again. Closets I’ve gotten to spies where my own house-helpers. Than again, as a 007 – with a license to kill of course – I could be lying. Which do you think is more plausible? Satan included of course. As for what I do for a living, as little as possible. Its worked-out great so far and I’d guesstimate over 3/4 of my life are over. And if I died tomorrow, It’d be no great whoop – especially to moi. BTW, what/who, exactly is “Satan” if not your god’s own invention"? Fuck both imaginary psychotic mother-fuckers. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/96 "2007-05-31T00:23:17Z")
[QUOTE=Giraffe] In a faceless, written medium, all we have to go on are your words. [/quote] Which tends to contradict **fluiddruid** ’s claim that she doesn’t care about a thread’s content. > [@](#): > > The best way to avoid being mistaken for a troll is to not post like a troll. It seems the near-unanimous verdict of everyone else that no trolling was involved. But the mods didn’t like what the thread was about. So, lockdown, followed by **Contrapuntal** ’s “circling the wagons”. And this - > [@](#): > > There’s only so much space on the front page of each forum, and sometimes you have to make choices. has got to be the lamest excuse this week. What happens, exactly, when too many threads appear on the first page of a forum? Do the hamsters die? _:shrugs:_ Oh, and FTR - > [@Liberal](#): > > I gave you a pretty hard time in the recent past, and I feel like now I want to thank you because you really seem to be going out of your way to allay concerns about a heavy bias on your part. A sentiment I need to reinforce to you, **Diogenes**. This was a righteous thread. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/97 "2007-05-31T00:27:16Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] “Please shut the fuck up, dumbshit.” Polite? I don’t really think so. [/QUOTE] Yeah, you have to say “With all due respect” first, to make it polite. Watch: “Please shut the fuck up, dumbshit.”=not polite. “With all due respect, please shut the fuck up, dumbshit.”=polite. You guys feel free to come to me any time you want advice on manners. \ ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/98 "2007-05-31T00:29:28Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] Rich, very rich. Did you break your keyboard while typing that? [/QUOTE] All’s fine on my end, thanks for the faux concern. But is that really your final word? Pretty weak if I must say so myself. Care to give it a more substantive ending? Come on! Surely you can do better than that! Or mayhaps not. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/99 "2007-05-31T00:29:51Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] And this -has got to be the lamest excuse this week. What happens, exactly, when too many threads appear on the first page of a forum? Do the hamsters die? [/QUOTE] I think the argument is, since there’s only so much space on the first page, any thread that’s incoherant rambling or otherwise just a bad thread forces good threads off the first page. It’s sort of Gresham’s Law of Message Boards. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094/100 "2007-05-31T00:32:29Z")
[QUOTE=RedFury] All’s fine on my end, thanks for the faux concern. But is that really your final word? Pretty weak if I must say so myself. Care to give it a more substantive ending? Come on! Surely you can do better than that! Or mayhaps not. [/QUOTE] Nah, you’re either really angry or just boorish. Neither of which is appealing. Enjoy your evening. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-omegaman-thread/406094.md?page=6)