# pacific\_smoke

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific_smoke/433784>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 16, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific_smoke/433784 "2008-01-16T21:16:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific_smoke/433784/1 "2008-01-16T21:16:06Z")

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Yes, I’ve been here long enough to know but for the life of me I can’t figure it out…

pacific\_smoke has ‘BANNED’ in their profile after only 2 posts.

I’m guessing that it’s a member that has already been banned for something else and was spotted via an IP check or something but their post in GQ seems more ‘together’ that usual.

Any answers before this get’s closed ? 🙂

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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific_smoke/433784/2 "2008-01-16T21:20:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Ponster]  
Yes, I’ve been here long enough to know but for the life of me I can’t figure it out…

pacific\_smoke has ‘BANNED’ in their profile after only 2 posts.

I’m guessing that it’s a member that has already been banned for something else and was spotted via an IP check or something but their post in GQ seems more ‘together’ that usual.

Any answers before this get’s closed ? 🙂  
[/QUOTE]

WHAT is it about people who don’t get the fact that _**you aren’t supposed to ask these questions in the message board itself! (You send a polite e-mail to a moderator if you want the answer)**_

I’m only making a vehement statement about this because you say you’ve been here “long enough to know.” That’s long enough to at least read the stickies at the top of the forum page, I would think. 😉

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**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:** [January 16, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific_smoke/433784/3 "2008-01-16T21:22:42Z")

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The chorus stands up and sings “spam spam spammity spam.”

But yes, send an email next time, please.

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**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific_smoke/433784/4 "2008-01-16T21:28:42Z")

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Also, at the top of each forum we currently have this annoucement:

[Questions about a thread or poster who disappeared?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/announcement.php?f=2)

> [@](#):
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> If you have a question about a thread or poster who “disappeared,” please email a moderator rather than post an inquiry. In probably 95% of such cases, the thread (or poster) that vanished was an attention-seeker – notoriously, spammers , socks, and trolls. They’re out for any attention, even negative attention, and we don’t want to give it to them. They disappear, as do their posts. And as do posts about them.
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> So, if you have a question about such, please email a moderator.