# Should I be complaining about this? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 19, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193 "2012-09-19T17:22:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/41 "2012-09-19T21:50:45Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I have _always_ wanted a monkey butler! [Take your pick.](http://www.google.ca/search?q=monkey+butler&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=zT1aUKvmMuS2yAGPnIHQDg&sqi=2&ved=0CCQQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=685) ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/42 "2012-09-19T22:46:38Z")
> [@Garfield226](#): > > “Fighting fighting ignorance since…oh, about 2008 or so.” Seriously–since when has the Dope’s mission been “Dumbing things down for the lowest common denominator” (Or “Appeasing stupid, humorless fucks since 1973”?) ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/43 "2012-09-19T23:02:39Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Seriously–since when has the Dope’s mission been “Dumbing things down for the lowest common denominator” (Or “Appeasing stupid, humorless fucks since 1973”?) Since 1973. (Sorry, just playing along with the stating-the-fucking-obvious game). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/44 "2012-09-19T23:48:27Z")
How about BANNEDIT or BANNEDDANA? Or we could, you know, go to the quarry and throw stuff down there.\* \*I can’t fucking believe I just wrote that. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/45 "2012-09-19T23:58:56Z")
Or, if you feel short on fiber, your custom title could be BRANNED. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/46 "2012-09-20T00:40:53Z")
The whole point of the joke was that it was easily mistaken for “BANNED”, and this is precisely the aspect of it that makes it a pain in the butt for the mods. If you suggest “BANNNNNNED”, or argue that people should be able to tell the difference, then the joke isn’t funny at all any more. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/47 "2012-09-20T00:51:08Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Yes. It was hilarious. > > Also we are all too stupid and would be confused. We would see you posting and then see the banned and be all like, “but, but wah?..huh?.. I uh?..-:head explodes:-” and then there’d be no one to post here anymore and then the world would end. > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Just doing my bit to advance the Rapture! That’s not the Rapture. That’s the Rupture! ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/48 "2012-09-20T01:23:34Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Thats the part that would have had me looking up addresses and looking through the ads in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazines. I don’t understand your response. Are you advocating hiring someone for a hit? Are you FUCKING SERIOUS? You’d hire someone killed for an internet post? What are you, some lunatic _Muslim_. :o > [@RitterSport](#): > > I’ve been meaning to ask you this for a long time – for a while, long before there were custom titles, you had Best of the Worst under your user name. How did you do that? He didn’t, I did. He deserved it, and it was the first time we’ve ever done something like that. Hell of an accomplishment, skippy. > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I was unknowingly granted an honorary title for winning the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Don’t know if I was the first to get such an honor. I didn’t even notice that I had a special title until people started posting questions about it. See my above post. > [@VinylTurnip](#): > > On the funny scale it ranked somewhere between necrotizing fasciitis and a _Ziggy_ cartoon, but I think modding you for it is an overreaction. +1 [as ususal, for a synthetic vegetable. One of our more astute posters] > [@Garfield226](#): > > This explains so much. > …Said the admin who let a pedophile post for months on end. The Admin in question had little say on that decision. If you have info that would negate my statement, post it. Otherwise, stiffle yourself. It gets boring. > [@Fenris](#): > > Or, conversely, you could tell those “other people in this community” who “take that kind of thing very seriously” that they should get the sticks out of their collective asses. And if they’re so stoopid as to…y’know…not be able to figure out that a poster who’s title is “Bannned” and who’s still posting _isn’t really banned_, they’re probably too dumb to be allowed on the internet at all without a helper-monkey. > [@Fenris](#): > > Seriously–since when has the Dope’s mission been “Dumbing things down for the lowest common denominator” (Or “Appeasing stupid, humorless fucks since 1973”?) Thanks for showing up, **Fenris**. I was getting the shakes that you wouldn’t be here. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/49 "2012-09-20T01:51:35Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > I don’t understand your response. Are you advocating hiring someone for a hit? Are you FUCKING SERIOUS? You’d hire someone killed for an internet post? What are you, some lunatic _Muslim_. :o That’s Jihad Weekly. Totally different magazine. Geezus people keep this shit straight. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/50 "2012-09-20T02:13:03Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Thanks for showing up, **Fenris**. I was getting the shakes that you wouldn’t be here. \< Lena Lamont \> If I can bring just a little joy into your humdrum life, it makes me feel as if my hard work ain’t been in vain for nuthin’. \< /Lena Lamont \> ---
**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:** [September 20, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/51 "2012-09-20T02:41:17Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The whole point of the joke was that it was easily mistaken for “BANNED”, and this is precisely the aspect of it that makes it a pain in the butt for the mods. If you suggest “BANNNNNNED”, or argue that people should be able to tell the difference, then the joke isn’t funny at all any more. This +1. It could have easily been mistaken even if your ass remains stickless or you can get through life without a Handi-Simian[sup]TM [/sup]. It might have been funny for 15 minutes. If you’re 13. And as Worf says, “I have a sense of humor. It was a joke. I get it. It is not funny, but I get it.” ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/52 "2012-09-20T03:03:06Z")
Frack. Klingon standards of humor are what we are using now? Though Klingons do have a much higher rate of Aspergers/ Socially clueless dufuss than normal humans so I guess it makes some sense to use it here. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/53 "2012-09-20T03:32:33Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I have _always_ wanted a monkey butler! I know how you feel. Alas! I ended up with a monkey butt instead. Be careful what you wish for, or at least don’t mumble. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/54 "2012-09-20T03:37:25Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Frack. > > Klingon standards of humor are what we are using now? > > Though Klingons do have a much higher rate of Aspergers/ Socially clueless dufuss than normal humans so I guess it makes some sense to use it here. I get it… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Molotok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/55 "2012-09-20T04:08:56Z")
How about ‘‘Less hilarious than a rubber chicken’’? ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/56 "2012-09-20T08:12:26Z")
> [@Garfield226](#): > > This explains so much. > …Said the admin who let a pedophile post for months on end. I’m pretty new around here. What in the world are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/57 "2012-09-20T08:19:18Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I’m pretty new around here. What in the world are you talking about? There used to a poster called Cesario who was a self-admitted paedophile and posted here for months, before he was finally banned. [Link](http://boardstest.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=533989)to pit thread. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/58 "2012-09-20T08:32:00Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > There used to a poster called Cesario who was a self-admitted paedophile and posted here for months, before he was finally banned. [Link](http://boardstest.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=533989)to pit thread. Thanks for the info. Only read the first page of the thread before my squick meter started smoking. Having had a pedophile father (and yes, he acted on it), I’m very glad that specimen isn’t around any more. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/59 "2012-09-20T13:28:06Z")
**Cesario** is off-topic in this thread – please drop the hijack, everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193/60 "2012-09-20T14:04:39Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > **Cesario** is off-topic in this thread – please drop the hijack, everyone. You’re bad at doing this and you should quit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-be-complaining-about-this/635193.md?page=4)