# Rex Fenestrarum banned by request **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 24, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381 "2005-01-24T06:19:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/1 "2005-01-24T06:19:02Z")
**Rex Fenestrarum** has been banned after expressing his desire to no longer post here in [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=5756138#post5756138). This appears to have been in response to having been warned (mildly) earlier in the same thread, [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=5753040#post5753040](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=5753040#post5753040) and (less mildly) still in the same thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=5755723#post5755723](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=5755723#post5755723). (This follows earlier observations of intemperate behavior: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5686593#post5686593](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5686593#post5686593) and [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5685564#post5685564](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5685564#post5685564), as well as his exchanges last summer in the instances he referenced in his post cited above.) ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/2 "2005-01-24T07:12:28Z")
Wow, auto-da-fe by defenestration! You don’t see _that_ too often. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/3 "2005-01-24T13:23:18Z")
Looks like a case of posting under the influence of adrenaline. I’m prone to that myself, and I have to constantly remind myself to think before I post when I feel frustrated or angry. I would bet that **Rex** now regrets that last post. ---
**Author:** ![chukhung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chukhung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chukhung)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/4 "2005-01-24T15:54:20Z")
And just one shy of his 1000th post, too… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/5 "2005-01-24T20:05:48Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > **Rex Fenestrarum** has been banned after expressing his desire to no longer post here… If y’all had accommodated **Aldebaran** in his pitting of **Mehitabel** , at least two trainwrecks would have been avoided. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/6 "2005-01-24T20:43:14Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Looks like a case of posting under the influence of adrenaline. Or twelve cups of espresso. And after reading the last two links I finally get his username: “Windows King.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Xamatix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e274bd/32.png) [@Xamatix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xamatix)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/7 "2005-01-24T21:12:03Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > If y’all had accommodated **Aldebaran** in his pitting of **Mehitabel** , at least two trainwrecks would have been avoided. The vitriol’s still hot and boiling huh? Christ, he’s deep in your heart. Who would’ve known? That woman couldn’t even stop talking about him after he was banned. If he’d gotten assistance from the mods with Mehitabel he would’ve never been so upset over Gaudere’s warning. It takes something to make him act like the brainless idiot he was that last week. Not to trash the mods, this. They can’t have their eyes everwhere. I blame the membership. That woman was everywhere with her obsessive posting at him. They should’ve reported her. That would’ve worked. But hey, don’t take that personal Luke. It always showed you’re Aldebaran’s best friend. His friends are mine. Greetings. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/8 "2005-01-24T21:37:47Z")
Does anyone know exactly why **Rex Fenestrarum** was so mad at **Q.E.D.**? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/9 "2005-01-24T21:57:48Z")
> [@Xamatix](#): > > The vitriol’s still hot and boiling huh? Christ, he’s deep in your heart. Who would’ve known? No, no, and certainly not you. My point was that he could have been simply banned after volunteering to leave, others have been after making such statements and now **Rex**. Some people seem to think that the Mods were simply out to get him; this suggests otherwise. I suggest any futher discussion sould be done in some other thread. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/10 "2005-01-24T23:56:52Z")
I must have missed **Rex** , because I don’t recognize the name. Did he hang out in GD? ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/11 "2005-01-25T08:23:17Z")
Shame. Only ran across the guy posting a couple of times, but his name always raised a smile as being genuinely witty and funny. Why ask for yourself to be banned, though, rather than just softly and silently vanish away? Is there something about board rules or protocol that I’m missing? ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/12 "2005-01-25T11:54:39Z")
OK, disregard that last post: just read through the threads, and I guess there’s no etiquette that covers that kind of self-immolation. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/13 "2005-01-25T20:43:26Z")
Hopefully germane to the thread: I was under the impression that you could only be banned “by request” if you sent a private e-mail to a mod or admin specifically requesting the same. Is this a change of policy, or a specific response to **Rex** ’s (unusually extreme, mind) case? I ask because I’ve been under a lot of outside pressure lately (family health issues, a fundraising project, and other assorted strains), and I’ve been thinking about taking an extended break from here. Not that I’d melt down like **Rex** did, but if I mentioned it in a thread, I wouldn’t want it to be immediately interpreted that I wanted a “ban-by-request.” ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/14 "2005-01-25T21:22:15Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > Does anyone know exactly why Rex Fenestrarum was so mad at Q.E.D.? I do get condescending vibes from **Q.E.D.** at times. It seems he has little patience with dumb questions that have been asked again and again in GQ. It’s no way near “junior modding”, but sometimes I want to say “Dude, why do you respond, if it annoys you that much?” It’s not something I’d ever pit him for, we all have our quirks. But I can see that someone with a thinner skin, who may have clashed with Q.E.D. before, might develop a grudge. just my €.02 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/15 "2005-01-25T21:25:08Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > I ask because I’ve been under a lot of outside pressure lately (family health issues, a fundraising project, and other assorted strains), and I’ve been thinking about taking an extended break from here. Not that I’d melt down like **Rex** did, but if I mentioned it in a thread, I wouldn’t want it to be immediately interpreted that I wanted a “ban-by-request.” Give the Mods some credit; I think they’d only do that if the remark was made by a known troublemaker (i.e.: one who has racked up several warnings). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/16 "2005-01-25T21:28:49Z")
Figures I’d think of something else after I hit submit. One can also email **Tubadiva** , **Lynn** , **Dex** , or some other Admin. and ask to be put on sabbatical. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/17 "2005-01-26T04:56:12Z")
> [@](#): > > I was under the impression that you could only be banned “by request” if you sent a private e-mail to a mod or admin specifically requesting the same. Well, the “by request” tag _was_ a bit facetious, reflecting the “suicide-by-mod” nature of that final post, (and is solely my responsibility as the staff member making the announcement; it should not be construed to reflect the opinions of the rest of the staff, the Chicago Reader, or any of its minions). It is always possible that following that final post **Rex** never intended to return to post again anyway. If someone truly wants to take a sabbatical, e-mailing an Administrator is the way to go. (The posting priveleges can be suspended without adding a “BANNED” label under the username. However, that sort of magic is reserved for actual Administrators and not handled by low seniority Moderators such as I.) ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/18 "2005-01-26T05:20:10Z")
> [@The Gaspode](#): > > I do get condescending vibes from **Q.E.D.** at times. It seems he has little patience with dumb questions that have been asked again and again in GQ. Yeah, it’s true. It’s one of my character flaws. OTOH, **Rex** never struck me as particularly thin-skinned, so I doubt that’s it. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/19 "2005-01-26T14:21:32Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Well, the “by request” tag _was_ a bit facetious, reflecting the “suicide-by-mod” nature of that final post, (and is solely my responsibility as the staff member making the announcement; it should not be construed to reflect the opinions of the rest of the staff, the Chicago Reader, or any of its minions). Thanks for the clarification. Cheers, **tom**. ---
**Author:** ![Xamatix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e274bd/32.png) [@Xamatix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xamatix)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381/20 "2005-01-26T14:32:38Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > No, no, and certainly not you. > > My point was that he could have been simply banned after volunteering to leave, others have been after making such statements and now **Rex**. Some people seem to think that the Mods were simply out to get him; this suggests otherwise. > > I suggest any futher discussion sould be done in some other thread. Sure I’ll make a thread about it. There’s a world of difference between the name calling and outright insults of Rex Fenestraum and what Aldebaran posted. Remember, I said in the OP of my thread the mods could ban me if they found reason. Got banned. I mailed them. Aldebaran mailed them. There’s the post of LurkMeister. All thThey took all that into account in their investigation. That’s where good moderating shows. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rex-fenestrarum-banned-by-request/286381.md?page=2)