# Satan has been banned
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satan-has-been-banned/57255
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [March 8, 2001, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satan-has-been-banned/57255 "2001-03-08T19:46:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2001, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satan-has-been-banned/57255/101 "2001-03-13T06:10:28Z")
Goodbye Satan.
In the center of the mire between the “Tuba (or Ed) plays favorites” faction, and the “Satan was worth putting up with.” faction is a bit of solid ground. We should look it over, because we end up living on it.
Of course Tuba ( or Ed) plays favorites. I don’t know how many tee shirts and coffee mugs they give her per year for being ringmaster of this seven ring circus, but it certainly is not enough to justify a micromanaged review of her every decision. But, there was never a more vocal group of micromanagers than the teeming millions.
Let me reiterate my dumbfounded awe when I actually considered the plea of the SD moderator, “I have to read every post.”
Gaaaaahk! Run away, run away, run away!
Now if you read every post, and someone is relatively entertaining, fairly productive, coherent, and uses a prose style somewhat resembling the Little Brown Handbook, you are gonna cut that guy a bit of slack, when he screws up. It is not strictly fair, no. But if the guy hangs around for three or four years, and generally puts out a prose product worth reading, the folks who have to read it are going to cut them a break, whatever the rules say. It is a fact of human nature.
That was Satan. He produced a fairly large amount of high quality board fodder. He had a good rep. He was entertaining. And because of it, he got a break. He got another break. He got a third, and to hear some tell it, he got four and five, too. But he didn’t want a break, he wanted a fight. He got that too. He lost. Big surprise.
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### Author:  [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2001, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satan-has-been-banned/57255/102 "2001-03-13T15:39:15Z")
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> I bet Diane doesn’t agree with me. Boohoo.
It would be a safer bet to say that Diane doesn’t care one way or another what you think. :rolleyes:
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> 1. Just because he knows, i still don’t think it’s important.
Yeah, and YOU aren’t a Mod or an Admin, so it doesn’t really matter if YOU think it is important, does it?
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> Bottom line on this one is that I think it’s much more important to look at results of rule-breaking…
No. Bottom line is that you don’t make the rules around here nor are you in position to decide how they are enforced. In other words, it ain’t your ball game, girlie.
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> 1. I disagree with you about the harm Brian was doing. As I said before, i see others behaving just as badly or worse all the time.
And those who DID see the harm should accept your attitude, why? Also, if you see someone behaving just as bad or worse, voice your complaints to a mod. Otherwise, let’s keep to the subject here, Satan.
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> You are just one member of it. I would not presume to speak for the whole community becaus I am just one member of it. Why do you?
This is just hilarious, especially following your list of how the Admin should write and enforce the rules of their message board. You don’t like the way they run the board? There is the door -----\> Bu-bye.
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> . i don’t give a damn what rules are being violated by anyone.
But I am willing to bet that the Admin and Mods on this MODERATED board, DO give a damn what rules are being violated. If you don’t like their rules, find another board or start up your own.
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> 1. As for your misstatements, you are repeating them in this post.
Typical Stoid. I am having a hard time deciding if you really have a hard time grasping things or if it is all just an act.
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> I will continue to feel that he was expected to live up to an even higher standard than others are.
Yep, the rest of us post copyrighted material, continuously attack others unprovoked, receive numerous warnings about our behavior, etc. but it was only poor Brian who finally got banned. Yep. Poor Brian. Isn’t life soooooooo unfair? :rolleyes:
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> I just think that while Brian may have “earned” some sort of censure or punishment, he just as truly “earned” a closer hearing and extra consideration.
It comes down to just one thing Stoid. This is a privately owned board. There is no Democracy. There is no right for a hearing. They don’t owe anyone the right to post. Hell, the Admins have every right to banned you if they don’t like the color of your nail polish. Got it? Good, now get over it.
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> Not least because it bespeaks some deeper problem for a poster with such an overwhelmingly positive reputation to have so suddenly gotten so bitchy, don’t you think? Or care?
Here is where we further differ. While I do care what is happening to a fellow human being, I do not think they have any justification to come onto a public message board and attack others. Brian may have a higher post count or may have been around longer than others, but that does not make it okay or excuse him for treating others like shit just because his life isn’t going well right now. We are NOT his whipping boys.
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> I can assure you, the location makes zero difference.
I can assure YOU that it does make a difference. There are many posters who stay out of the Pit for that very reason. May I also suggest that you click that little thing on the top of your screen that says “FAQ” and learn the differences between forums. Check back with us. There will be a quiz.
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> All respect _like he cares_ gone. My father and my wayward self used to talk about the Books and Cecil and Ed into the morning and now I just have this bitter BILE in the back of my throat regarding it all.
And you are still here, why? Do you like the taste of your own bile? :rolleyes:
Why is it so hard for some of you to understand the simplest of facts?
1. Brian acted like a jerk.
2. Brian got warned.
3. Brian acted like a jerk.
4. Brian got warned.
5. Brian acted like a jerk.
6. Brian got warned.
7. Brian acted like a jerk.
8. Brian got warned.
9. Brian acted like a jerk.
10. Brian FINALLY got banned.
Deal with it.
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### Author:  [@Fatwater\_Fewl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatwater_Fewl)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2001, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satan-has-been-banned/57255/103 "2001-03-13T20:06:28Z")
C’mon folks, a poster has been banned. Nothing we can do or say can, will, or should _change_ that.
We are guests; we do not write or enforce board policy. That is the job (read **duty** ) of the Mods and the Admins.
If you feel you cannot let the matter go, why not take it to IMHO, or The Pit, until you get it out of your system?
jm
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2001, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satan-has-been-banned/57255/104 "2001-03-13T23:32:04Z")
Great suggestion, and I thank you.
I’m closing this thread. If anybody wants to take this up again in the Pit, go to.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
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