# Overreaction in banning this guy? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 9, 2001, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805 "2001-07-09T10:31:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/41 "2001-07-09T15:21:29Z")
I have always found that it works best if you soak your finger in warm water and use a needle to dig it up a little bit so the tweezers has something to grab on to. Also, why do they call them tweezers if it is only object? What is the plural? Tweezerzers or tweezoids? ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/42 "2001-07-09T15:24:59Z")
A needle? OK. Err… **Scylla** , you have smelly feet! ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/43 "2001-07-09T15:25:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diane \* > \*\*I have always found that it works best if you soak your finger in warm water and use a needle to dig it up a little bit so the tweezers has something to grab on to. > > Also, why do they call them tweezers if it is only one object? What is the plural? Tweezerzers or tweezoids? \*\* Not sure about the plural, but be careful when you fish it out. If it breaks in half, you’ve got a long road ahead. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/44 "2001-07-09T15:26:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CnoteChris \* > **You guys and gals, with your tennis hijack, ruined that. Instead of getting some kind of resolution, it got dismissed without any serious response.** This would be a bad moment to complain that your comments are hijacking my hijack, right? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/45 "2001-07-09T15:31:46Z")
Put it this way and maybe it will make more sense where I’m coming from- A few people are sitting around a table discussion an issue. It can be any issue, I don’t care. A person walks over to the table and decides to plug his/her ears and start singing, “Red sails in the sunset, so bright and pretty…” The people involved kind of look at this guy and try to move forward, but he’ll have no part of it. As a matter of fact, he’ll sing even louder, “Red sails in the sunset, so bright and pretty…” He or she keeps it up to the point that no further discussion can take place. He’s singing has drowned out all further talk. Why? Because he/she feels it isn’t worth discussing, and people opinions on the topic aren’t worth hearing over his insessant singing. Yeah, he’s making a point. An incredibly smarmy way to go about it, if you ask me, and incredibly rude and insulting too. \*Wow, I see upon preview nothing’s changed. Intelligent discussion, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/46 "2001-07-09T15:31:52Z")
I’m gonna try to dig it out with some nailclippers, and the awl on my swiss army knife. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/47 "2001-07-09T15:33:29Z")
I feel dumb. I tried to catch my post so I could add “one” but I wasn’t quick enough. Sometimes teeth work good on slivers if you first get them out far enough. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/48 "2001-07-09T15:39:14Z")
I’m just not convinced about the whole nailclippers thing. Are you sure your swiss army knife doesn’t have tweezers? ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/49 "2001-07-09T15:40:41Z")
NO! Don’t use nailclippers! You could clip off some skin and it would really hurt bad. I think blue sails are prettier in the sunset, but that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/50 "2001-07-09T15:43:56Z")
Nope, I got it. Where were we? Oh yeah. Cnotechris: I got a better analogy. Say you go out to dinner, and there’s this one guy, all he does is talk aobut taxes. It’s a social dinner, so people are polite for a while, but the guy keeps droning on and on. After a while he’s ignored, but he keeps talking. So, pretty soon everybody just starts interrupting him with no sequitors whenever he starts his little tax-spiel. Eventually he gets the point and everyone enjoys their dinner. Such are these anal retentive mod critiques. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/51 "2001-07-09T15:44:13Z")
I don’t believe this. I’ve never seen so much jackass behavior coming from so many posters I once admired. This is so, ‘In your face Chris, we think your too stupid to respond to you’ that I really, truly, am dissapointed in the lot of you. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/52 "2001-07-09T15:48:58Z")
I’d love to comment on everything in this thread. I find it very interesting. But I am going to be very busy for the next few weeks. You see I have to go hunt down every thread that I find boring and hijack with a Hamburger Helper comment. If I don’t do that, how will the Teeming Millions know what I do and don’t find important? They need to know so they will not offend me in the future. Carry on. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/53 "2001-07-09T15:50:08Z")
excellent analogy **Scylla** Look at it this way **Chris** anyone can post to the thread. the question you should be asking is ‘why aren’t other people answering the OP instead of the hijack?’ ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/54 "2001-07-09T15:51:56Z")
**Cnote** - I see your point. I just don’t agree with it. And I’ve expressed _why_ I don’t agree with it. **Jester** has posted similarly why he doesn’t agree with it. In fact, far from the “discussion” being in full flow, you seem to be the only one concerned that the **Silo** thread got hijacked in that way. Maybe that indicates something? Not to mention that your ire of this hijack has directly resulted in us all being half way to Cuba by now. pan ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/55 "2001-07-09T15:52:02Z")
CNote, I’m sorry that you feel that way, but here is yet another analogy. While Scylla’s pertained to this thread, I’ve got a counter one to your take on the Silo thread. Same situation. Bunch of people sitting around at dinner, having a conversation. A topic comes up that a large number of people at the table disagree on. Debate ensues. Gradually, the debate turns into a grudge match. People are screaming, yelling, bringing up past incidents and whatnot, and it’s just getting all around out of control. They’re all talking past each other, saying the same arguments over and over again. Nothing’s sinking in, and they just keep getting angrier and angrier. One person at the table, we’ll call him Johnny, finally realizes that nobody’s going to get anything solved by all of this. Figuring that a change of topic would be preferable to someone getting a fork in his eye, Johnny chimes in with a Non Sequitor. For a second, the people arguing just stop and stare. Then, they come to the realization that nobody was getting anywhere with all that arguing anyway, and laugh. Conversation changes over to the humorous topic brought up by Johnny, and everybody’s friends again. Situation has been officially resolved. Sometimes it’s better just to resolve a fight, especially if nobody’s going to win it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/56 "2001-07-09T15:52:15Z")
The good Swiss Army Knives have a little tweezers and toothpick. You could try a leatherman but that could be described as overkill I guess. Oh and as for the OP. I think Ivanisevic is to reliant on his serve. Poor little Tim. Oh hold on I meant … ---
**Author:** ![Xerxes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/d2c977/32.png) [@Xerxes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xerxes)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/57 "2001-07-09T15:55:26Z")
[disclaimer]I have no interest in this, or the Silo thread, and haven’t (to my recollection) posted to either[/disclaimer] > [@](#): > > He is, however, perfectly within is rights to let us know what he thinks of that discussion. I too thought that the subject had probably had run its course. That said, should we expect any and all of the tennis-playing, splinter-removing fraternity to be accommodating if someone successfully and arbitrarily hijacks _their_ thread? Of course we should. I’m also somewhat mystified why [one thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=77332) in which someone asks hypothetically about an admittedly illegal enterprise creates such mayhem, while in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=77388) another hypothetical question about an illegal act is treated quite differently. But I guess we’re busy talking tennis. New balls, please. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/58 "2001-07-09T16:05:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kabbes \* > \*\*Not to mention that your ire of this hijack has directly resulted in us all being half way to Cuba by now. > \*\* Bullshit. You were well on your way to hijacking this thread much like you did the Silo thread, simply because you don’t like it. I just got in here on commented on it before it really got going. Saying I’m responsible for this thread being hijacked? Utter bullshit, and again, pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/59 "2001-07-09T16:10:07Z")
**Xerxes** - first and foremost, I see a material difference in the two threads you’ve referenced. One of those differences is tone (the cigarette thread was more an incredulous “what are they doing!” kind of question). The second difference concerns the subject matter. This privately owned, loss-making site is particularly fearful of being seen to endorse drugtaking since it is a hotbutton topic. A question about cigarette theft doesn’t have the same impact. This is their right, as owner of the board. I note too that the fuss is _not_ about the eminently justifiable closure of a thread. It is about **manny** ’s non-banning of a newbie. It is about **manny** choosing to respond to a stupid question about the thread closure that was posted in the wrong forum with a touch more ire than **Badtz** felt was warranted. It is, basically, a non issue. Secondly I object to the phrase “arbitrarily hijacking” - there’s nothing arbitrary about it. The original comment by **L\_C** was not a hijack in the classic sense - it was a comment on the direction the argument was taking. Others clearly empathised with this position and joined in. The protaganists then took the opportunity to back off from the argument. This is hardly the same as a big _smooch_ from Flirt\_Queen in the middle of a debate about abortion taxes taken at gunpoint in China. Bur indeed do feel free to hijack any _free-for-all fight_ I have become the cause of. Should I ever start one. pan ---
**Author:** ![Hibbins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ce73a5/32.png) [@Hibbins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hibbins)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/60 "2001-07-09T16:12:33Z")
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