# Pitting assholes who send e-mails in response to forum posts **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114 "2003-11-03T06:39:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/41 "2003-11-10T11:02:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*I’m sure this post will get me another batch of hate mail. Oh, well. \*\* **click** Sent. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/42 "2003-11-10T11:17:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*BTW, who on earth would send nasty mail to that master of diplomacy **Mangetout** , of all people?! \*\* There have been a few (and although they made reference to the SDMB, the messages did not betray the identity of the sender); one of them was just an ordinary threat of bodily harm, but not referencing any particular thread. Another one was a message telling me that I am ‘a Horse’s ass’ in reference to an observation I made that usernames terminating in long strings of numeric digits often turn out to be trolls. I can’t recall the details of any of the others. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/43 "2003-11-10T12:23:37Z")
Maybe we could have a new thread in which people describe all the negative mail they’ve received from here. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/44 "2003-11-10T12:42:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*Oh, you wouldn’t _believe_ some of the shit that shows up in my inbox some days. > > Of course, it’s all coming from one or two problem children with sticks up their asses, so I’m not too worried just yet. And often, it’s quite hilarious. [ul][li]Some nitwit we banned (I honestly forget what his name was) e-mailed me and explained that he was a US attorney (at least I think that’s what he said, the e-mail was filled to the brim with spelling and syntax errors), and that he had arranged for my access to the United States to be revoked, what with my admitted background of abuse of alcohol and marijuana and all. Never did get that anal visitation at customs, though. [_]This other guy (an American residing in China) keeps e-mailing me ever since we banned him (and then banned a few returnee registrations), calling me a Nazi as well as an overly PC left-wing bastard. Yeah, I know. He can’t write for shit, either.[_]Various one-off insults, usually by 5 post wonders that weren’t meant to be on the SDMB, judging by their hostility and lack of verbal skills.[/ul]I tend to forward them to my fellow mods, for laughs. Then, they get deleted. [/li] > I’m sure this post will get me another batch of hate mail. Oh, well. \*\* So that’s what **December** & **Zenster** have been up to. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/45 "2003-11-10T15:51:18Z")
Thanks for posting that Coldfire. I always wondered what kind of flame emails the mods get. Any chance of posting a couple for our general amusement? I’ve gotten several emails from here, all of them very polite. This doesn’t seem like a place that would care for flaming. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/46 "2003-11-15T01:18:30Z")
**dantheman** : Reverse-elitist? Saints preserve us! We _shorely_ cain’t have the _unwarshed_ knowin’ things! Bah. It’s been an etiquette rule on Usenet since before your time, little man. It’s also the only way a place like this works. (Remember fighting ignorance?) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/47 "2003-11-15T01:22:38Z")
I really hate to be the one to break it to you, **Derleth** , but we’re not in Usenet. You might notice some differences if you look really hard. You also seem to be misunderstanding what “reverse-elitist” means. That’s cool. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/48 "2003-11-15T22:01:37Z")
I haven’t gotten too much email since I’ve been on here, and no hate mail, unfortunately. All the email I _have_ gotten has been cordial, usually asking for something that I offered in a thread or to compliment me on something I’ve said (although that’s a rarity 😉 ) I don’t see a problem with using email for something that would otherwise be seen as hijacking a thread, or wasting bandwith. Of course, using an email to tell someone to “shut up” is stupid. We’ve got the Pit for that for cryin’ out loud. Oh, to be able to check out a Mod’s inbox on any given day… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/49 "2003-11-16T17:59:40Z")
I’ve had quite a few e-mails actually \>smug\< and ALL of them have been from ladies. One of these ladies I hope to visit next year, the rest will just have to form an orderly queue 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/50 "2003-11-16T18:07:10Z")
I’ve had quite a few e-mails actually \>smug\< and ALL of them have been from ladies. One of these ladies I hope to visit next year, the rest will just have to form an orderly queue 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Matchka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Matchka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matchka)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/51 "2003-11-16T18:35:16Z")
Were the 1920’s style e-mails? Actually, I never thought of sending an e-mail to a particularly offensive poster (whose alais raises my hackles to this day)–I figured the e-mail would turn up in The Pit and wouldn’t life be just grand THEN! I should put the poster on my ignore list, but I my curiosity about the next hostile and inane comment is greater than my distate for the immininet comment itself. So I just shut up and deal. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/52 "2003-11-16T19:55:10Z")
I got a hate email a couple of years ago from some guy who didn’t like my website. It was such a shock that it actually brought tears to my eyes. Haters suck. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/53 "2003-11-16T19:56:39Z")
I got some stupid mails meant for **Dex** and **Arnold** in response to an ATMB thread. Seems this one particular moron needed to get his posts deleted to feel like he had a life. I forwarded his stuff to the Admins so they could have the several different addresses he used for me. Haven’t seen that fool back yet. 🙂 In Soviet Russia, e-mails post you. I got nothing here… ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/54 "2003-11-16T20:25:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by monstro \* > I got a hate email a couple of years ago from some guy who didn’t like my website. It was such a shock that it actually brought tears to my eyes. Your site is bloody great. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/55 "2003-11-17T03:08:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by monstro \* > > I got a hate email a couple of years ago from some guy who didn’t like my website. It was such a shock that it actually brought tears to my eyes. I’ve just viewed your site. It was beautiful. It actually brought tears to _my_ eyes. Very nice work. Oh yeah. Bollocks, bastard, shit and dammit! Rotten asshole emailers. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/56 "2003-11-17T04:12:46Z")
I got my very fiirst e-mail of this type just today. Seems some schmuck in my “Emigrating from Turkmenistan” thread in GQ decided he would pass judgement on my friend’s love life, in response to my request for assistance in helping her fiance get the hell out of a dictatorship with a horrendous human rights record. Apparently my 20-something friend doesn’t know how to pick men, or nice American girls should stay away from furriners. one of those two. After a mod told him to knock it off, he decided to take it to e-mail. I thought about writing him back, but then he would have my name IRL, and I’m not that crazy about that idea. I still think he’s a condescending schmuck, though, and if I get any more e-mail from him, I will block his address and report him to SDMB administration. (I wasn’t the one who called in the mods in my own thread, BTW; I don’t know whether someone else did, or they just stumbled across it.) Some people need to get a life. ---
**Author:** ![Dreaming\_of\_Maria\_Callas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@Dreaming\_of\_Maria\_Callas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dreaming_of_Maria_Callas)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/57 "2003-11-17T04:57:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eva Luna \* > **I still think he’s a condescending schmuck, though, and if I get any more e-mail from him, I will block his address and report him to SDMB administration.** While I hate people who flame me by e-mail for board posts, I don’t like the idea of the SDMB administration doing anything about things that occur entirely off the board. If one allows their e-mail address to be visible (I don’t, anymore), then one chooses to be open to those sorts of messages. UnuMondo ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/58 "2003-11-17T05:05:43Z")
I had posted my e-mail address in that one thread, for an unrelated purpose; normally I don’t allow it to be visible. It was just extremely obnoxious and sneaky that he e-mailed me to get around the warning not to give unsolicited, unrelated, unwanted advice in a GQ thread. I totally understand that the administration might not do anything about it, and I’m cool with that. I’m a grownup, and I understood the risk of posting my e-mail address. It’s not like posting my name, address, and home phone number, though. It pisses me off when people have no sense and no concept of personal space. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/59 "2003-11-17T11:38:11Z")
But you kind of have to expect that possibility if you publicly list your email address. It goes with the territory. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114/60 "2003-11-17T13:00:42Z")
I expected the possibility, but that doesn’t mean I can’t still be pissed off and disgusted at the person who took advantage of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-assholes-who-send-e-mails-in-response-to-forum-posts/211114.md?page=4)