# sad flower **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 18, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-flower/606669 "2011-12-18T20:55:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-flower/606669/1 "2011-12-18T20:55:22Z")
I take it that **sad flower** was banned because **Idle Thoughts** decided s/he was a troll? Or is the lack of a post here because the mods decided s/he was a sock? Just wondering… ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-flower/606669/2 "2011-12-18T20:57:53Z")
Doesn’t the absence of a mod announcement usually indicate the latter? ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-flower/606669/3 "2011-12-18T20:59:27Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Doesn’t the absence of a mod announcement usually indicate the latter? Yeah but the way **Idle Thoughts** closed the pit thread made me wonder about the first one. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-flower/606669/4 "2011-12-18T21:03:42Z")
Not to play junior mod, but the moderators prefer that you email them with questions like this. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9034110#post9034110](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9034110#post9034110) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-flower/606669/5 "2011-12-18T21:04:56Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Doesn’t the absence of a mod announcement usually indicate the latter? I don’t think trolls with only a handful of posts get announcements either. If sad flower was a sock (which was my guess) I’m curious as to who get banned with him/her. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-flower/606669/6 "2011-12-18T21:07:30Z")
My WAG was that “she” was read by the mods as a troll, and dispensed with summarily (they’ve done that before). She was good for a few early morning laughs for me… ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-flower/606669/7 "2011-12-18T21:09:24Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Not to play junior mod, but the moderators prefer that you email them with questions like this. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9034110#post9034110](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9034110#post9034110) Oh! Oops. I’d seen people asking about this here so I didn’t know that we weren’t supposed to. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-flower/606669/8 "2011-12-18T21:18:51Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Not to play junior mod, but the moderators prefer that you email them with questions like this. What he said. **curlcoat** , please take this question to private messages or email.