# Smapti suspended for 3 days for ignoring Moderator Instructions

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**Created:** [November 9, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-suspended-for-3-days-for-ignoring-moderator-instructions/1034735 "2026-11-09T15:55:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-suspended-for-3-days-for-ignoring-moderator-instructions/1034735/1 "2026-11-09T15:55:12Z")

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@Smapti now has 7 warnings in Discourse, 4 in the last year.

This one is especially egregious. I had highlighted **[Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exapno_mapcase)** reasonable request and then I repeated it as the 1st reply.

> [@New plot for Supreme Court - is it possible](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-plot-for-supreme-court-is-it-possible/1034717/1):
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> Please don’t get sidetracked on whether it could get passed. That’s a different thread.

What Smapti wrote as the 4th post:

> [@New plot for Supreme Court - is it possible](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-plot-for-supreme-court-is-it-possible/1034717/5):
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> The numbers aren’t there. McConnell is barely alive. Cornyn and Tillis are lame ducks and have no reason to help Trump after he backstabbed them, and I can’t imagine Murkowski or Collins going along with it either.

So he both ignored Moderator Instructions and went off-topic from the OP as only the 3rd reply to the OP. It was his 4th warning for hijacking/Off-topic also and many moderator notes about the same. He either doesn’t care or doesn’t want to learn.

3 Prior Warnings within year:

> [@The ICE shootings in Minneapolis (1/7/2026)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/1355):
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> play_button Off-topic Post hidden - Do not reply

> [@Speculation About How Republicans Will Run the 2028 Election](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-about-how-republicans-will-run-the-2028-election/1025269/30):
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> I’m aware of your longstanding belief that the entire Republican party and every single soldier and LEO and other person to ever don a uniform in this country is a fanatical Uruk-Hai killing machine that dreams of murdering brown people for Jesus and will slaughter innocent helpless civilians by the millions the minute they’re given the order. What we’ve actually seen is that the people available to Trump for his “crackdowns” are incompetent boobs who can be chased off by grannies in pajamas an…

> [@United States and Israel are bombing Iran {for current/ongoing events, past/future have specific threads}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-states-and-israel-are-bombing-iran-for-current-ongoing-events-past-future-have-specific-threads/1028071/189):
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> play_button What Exit? hid very off-topic post.

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-suspended-for-3-days-for-ignoring-moderator-instructions/1034735/2 "2026-11-09T15:57:22Z")

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Closed on November 9, 2026, 3:57pm UTC


