# Pitting Honeybadger **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 7, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183 "2018-03-07T15:40:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/641 "2023-11-09T21:16:49Z")
I’m not really all that interested in defending this poster, but that particular thread really got meanspirited, I thought. The responses weren’t even that clear, and I was trying to follow along. There was no way he was going to provide a cite, so the repeated requests for that were wasted. It just felt like kicking someone when he was down, teasing the dumb kid, something like that. It seemed worse than other threads started by this poster. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/642 "2023-11-09T23:08:34Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > …or maybe he’s completely oblivious to where he hears/reads things?. Or maybe he’s completely oblivious. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/643 "2023-11-10T01:10:42Z")
After that massive dump of a threadshit plus highjack he pulled in my thread about the American Climate Corps just so he could trot out his climate science denial yet again, he doesn’t have a leg to stand on regarding, well, damn near anything. He may actually believe he’s _just asking questions_, but what he’s really doing is trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/644 "2023-11-10T01:14:59Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > After that massive dump of a threadshit plus highjack he pulled in my thread about the American Climate Corps just so he could trot out his climate science denial yet again, he doesn’t have a leg to stand on regarding, well, damn near anything. Yeah, what he did with that Climate Corps thread was really fucked up. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/645 "2023-11-10T01:44:17Z")
But, to be honest, it should not have surprised a single solitary soul in the Universe. The only twist on the matter was it was a _twofer_ of his usual stunts. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/646 "2023-11-10T01:48:01Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > just so he could trot out his climate science denial yet again I thought he was barred from climate change arguments, or was that someone else? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/647 "2023-11-10T01:50:47Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I thought he was barred from climate change arguments, or was that someone else? Oh he definitely isn’t. It’s one of his repeated schticks. **But** , climate change denial is against the board rules in general as a “tired topic”. And he received a warning partially for violating that rule in that thread. (It was also for hijacking the thread.) ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/648 "2023-11-10T01:52:58Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I thought he was barred from climate change arguments Correct. That is what precipitated him deciding to leave completely for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/649 "2023-11-10T01:56:56Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > > [@needscoffee](#): > > > > I thought he was barred from climate change arguments > > Correct. That is what precipitated him deciding to leave completely for a while… Maybe he can be barred from “let’s talk about sperm” questions. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/650 "2023-11-10T02:16:07Z")
Please!! ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/651 "2023-11-10T02:25:29Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Maybe he can be barred from “let’s talk about sperm” questions. If he’s not allowed to talk bollocks, he won’t have much else to say. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/652 "2023-11-10T02:58:10Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Oh he definitely isn’t. It’s one of his repeated schticks. I need to correct myself, at least in this thread below, it’s mentioned that he has a ban on discussing climate change matters. > [@Honeybadger warning over global warming disinformation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honeybadger-warning-over-global-warming-disinformation/990881): > > In honeybadgers pit thread, he received a warning for posting climate change disinformation, a banned topic. [https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/583](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/583) It doesn’t sit well with me though, as he was also responding to a rhetorical point I made. As I said in the thread, it reminds me, ironically, of the one-sided forum rules of climate disinformation and conspiracy theory forums. I’m not really sure what the ideal thing to happen is though. That is the thread where HDBC requested a ban from the site, which was granted, at least until he decided to come back. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/653 "2023-11-10T20:54:08Z")
And in his ATMB thread, in his self-described effort to explain his MO, he’s just called all of us here dumb. I’m now wondering what the over-under is on that thread (a) getting booted to The BBQ Pit, (b) locked without a warning, (c) locked with a warning, and (d) locked with a banning. I would consider (d) to be an early birthday present. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/654 "2023-11-10T21:25:54Z")
I look at it as yet another attempt to pull a Jeremy Clarkson “so sorry” while immediately silently mouthing “not really”. He will again claim, as he always does, that he wants to be informed, educated, etc etc etc. Which he did in all of his threads before I put him on ignore, and where he always ignored all the people who were telling him why his ideas were so whack. This is for the threads where he’s not just being an evil bigot mind you. I do NOT find his act convincing. As I’ve said before upthread, some Mod with a strong stomach should go through the evidence, the probably dozens, if not hundreds of similar claims of wanting the ideas to be evaluated while ignoring all content but his own, and conclude he’s operating from a position of complete dishonesty. And then ban him. I doubt anything that’s deniably a direct attack/insult in his new thread will get him warned or banned. But I hope this whole circus of warning → self ban → return puts the mods in the mind to judge him in light of his entire posting history. And that the shit he’s skated by on in the past with notes become warnings in the future keeping in mind his posting in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/655 "2023-11-10T21:29:44Z")
Creeped me right out. But I guess it was my fault. I just can’t understand why he even brought the semen/spinal fluid thing up. It makes little sense to use that as an example unless you’re trying to shock or just be creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/656 "2023-11-10T22:11:49Z")
Or trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2023, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/657 "2023-11-11T00:22:16Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/N1KvgtEnABY/hqdefault.jpg "Dr. Strangelove - Precious Bodily Fluids") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY&t=66s) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2023, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/658 "2023-11-11T02:19:42Z")
But I do deny them my (microdose) essence. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/659 "2023-11-18T23:55:53Z")
Just thought I’d point out a comment Honeybanjo made in another thread: > [@Oh boy ... (implanted?) memories?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-implanted-memories/993015/26): > > I often write stories about things from my past. I always embellish… If that were me, I wouldn’t hang out a site that fights ignorance… or tell everyone here that I don’t always tell the truth. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/660 "2023-11-19T00:11:47Z")
> [@digs](#): > > If that were me, I wouldn’t hang out a site that fights ignorance… or tell everyone here that I don’t always tell the truth That is the stupidest comment I have ever seen. I write fiction loosely based or inspired by true stories. As far as I know that is a pretty common practice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183.md?page=34)