# regarding "Using the name "Straight Dope."" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 20, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-using-the-name-straight-dope/133065 "2002-10-20T04:53:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-using-the-name-straight-dope/133065/41 "2002-10-21T19:56:00Z")
Well, **Arnold** , although there’s a 12-minute gap between your earlier post and mine, I had not seen it when I posed my question. A small matter of my failure to refresh thread plus several hamsters out for their afternoon kibbles break is probably the cause. Thanks for the (repeated) answer, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-using-the-name-straight-dope/133065/42 "2002-10-21T22:42:31Z")
I didn’t mean that you hadn’t read my post, Polycarp, but that I wanted to make sure your concerns were addressed. However, I don’t want anyone to think that I am backing down with my tail between my legs, which would be an affront to the person that inspired my SDMB screen name, so I will add that I am ready to meet you (Polycarp) in a steel-cage fight any time, any where. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-using-the-name-straight-dope/133065/43 "2002-10-21T22:56:05Z")
Fight !! Fight!!! :pulls up lawn chair:: ::Remembers comments from admins re: pulling up lawn chair comments, puts lawn chairs away, wonders what she’ll do with the “Arnie vs. God” t-shirts:: ---
**Author:** ![wedgerat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@wedgerat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgerat)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-using-the-name-straight-dope/133065/44 "2002-10-21T23:29:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bandanaman \* > \*\* > > So are they crazy, or normal? \*\* Now, you know I was emotionally disturbed when I posted that. The post was pretty much “hey, this disturbed me.” I feel I can be excused a few inconsistensies. What I _meant_ was “these people seem to be the type I would normally associate with, except for this little glitch.” I was wondering aloud how people could be so wildly different, in one area, but seem perfectly normal in the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-using-the-name-straight-dope/133065/45 "2002-10-21T23:41:39Z")
If you’re in another MB and you link to a thread here, is that OK? Or is it tantamount to saying that you’re a member here? Conceivably, you could link a thread here to another MB and _not_ be a Doper, but I suppose that’s unlikely. Personally, though it’s been a long while since I questioned or complained about a moderator action, I think this policy’s going a bit too far. I don’t care whose house it is or whether the management has to justify anything to me. It just doesn’t seem jerkish enough to merely mention that you’re a member here, somewhere else, **unless** the manner in which you do so is deliberately and obviously aggressive, jerkish, or otherwise a bad reflection on the Doper community. But I don’t post anywhere else so it doesn’t matter in my case. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-using-the-name-straight-dope/133065/46 "2002-10-21T23:46:19Z")
Once again, I’ll reiterate what I said in the other thread. We are NOT making policy here. Saying you’re from the SDMB is NOT verboten as long as an issue is not being made of it. The only reason we banned Lucki was because of the imminent possibility of a board war and the fact that we specifically asked people NOT to go over there for the time being. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-using-the-name-straight-dope/133065/47 "2002-10-21T23:49:22Z")
Sometimes, I’ve commented on the policies, only if people have said, “Wow, this board is so fascist!” And I’ll say hey-this board is really lenient! At the SDMB, they don’t put up with crap like that. And they’re right." I have said we’d kick your ass in the past. But I don’t do that nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-using-the-name-straight-dope/133065/48 "2002-10-21T23:50:53Z")
And BTW, I just want to make it clear that I know it’s okay to say we post here, and I’m not questioning that. I just want to make sure I don’t make an error. I have to be anal, I suppose. But you still love me, right? Right??? **crickets chirping** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-using-the-name-straight-dope/133065/49 "2002-10-21T23:59:00Z")
lets break it down to this. Luckii was asked, as we all were, not to go over there throwing the name of the SD about. We were asked no to go over there and try to incite debate with them, as the ignorant jackass element of SF will use it as an excuse to spam us. the less contact between these two specific boards at this time the better. Luckii violated this rule and was banned. Perhaps he can apologise and everything will be gravy again. Until then, we should all make muffins, or wear a hat to work tomorrow, you know, normal shit. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2002, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-using-the-name-straight-dope/133065/50 "2002-10-22T00:14:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus \* > \*\*Once again, I’ll reiterate what I said in the other thread. We are NOT making policy here. Saying you’re from the SDMB is NOT verboten as long as an issue is not being made of it. The only reason we banned Lucki was because of the imminent possibility of a board war and the fact that we specifically asked people NOT to go over there for the time being. \*\* Now I understand. Makes sense to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-using-the-name-straight-dope/133065.md?page=2)