# Please explain where jerk lines get crossed. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 27, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-where-jerk-lines-get-crossed/732670 "2015-09-27T04:23:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-where-jerk-lines-get-crossed/732670/1 "2015-09-27T04:23:15Z")
I’ve asked the question in[this Pit thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=769927) but a Pit thread is no where to get an answer to a serious question. **Miss Spaulding** was given a “note” to cut out posting in Green Font because she kept it up after some number of other posters let her know that they found it annoying. **Shodan** OTOH has no moderation placed on his “Regards” despite that he also persists after some number of other posters let him know that they found it annoying. The justification for the divergent response was given in [the **Miss Spaulding** thread](after some number of other posters let her know that they found it annoying.), specifically [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18331372&postcount=127). > [@tomndebb](#): > > … the difference between an action that is not part of board culture–routine use of colored fonts–and an action in which many people engage–sigs at the end of posts–in which one poster’s choice is found irritating by some number of other posters. > > Lots of posters use sigs, (few as relentlessly as your target), and the “offending” sig is not actually insulting or derogatory. I am well aware that a lot of people choose to be offended, but that is hardly an example of a general action that is outside board culture. > … All well and good. But capriciously applied. In the linked Pit thread a poster again bemoans the annoying frequent usage a nonsensical phrase. It is made clear by the fact that multiple posters have Pitted over this several times that the repetitive nature of its usage annoys many people, even if most of us merely scroll past anything its user posts with at most a rolling of our eyes. It is minimally jerkish to keep it up and again to me is being done in order to provoke a reaction and to draw attention to the poster. It is [clarified](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18718348&postcount=55) in the Pit thread that this is not someone merely making the same bad or stupid joke over and over again (something that arguably _is_ part of board culture) but someone who has set all of his devices to automatically replace every “LOL” he types with his annoying phrase. That use of the board for such performance art behavior is certainly NOT a norm for this board, not part of the board culture. Now I don’t particularly mind skipping his posts but I also would not have minded just skipping **Miss Spaulding** ’s green ones. It does seem to me that we should however have some consistency in how rules are applied. Minimally I would like to hear an explanation of why green fonts crossed a line to being advised to cut it out, but use of autocorrect to insert a phrase repetitively does not, when both annoy many other posters and neither is behavior consistent with board culture. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-where-jerk-lines-get-crossed/732670/2 "2015-09-27T05:03:37Z")
Closed duplicate.