# snfaulkner, come in here... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 30, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snfaulkner-come-in-here/828649 "2019-01-30T01:06:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snfaulkner-come-in-here/828649/33 "2019-02-01T00:53:41Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > He called a heartfelt post by a currently clearly quite affected poster a “screed”. Could have just shut his trap and moved on. So yes, he’s a pustule of a human. A little pustule, in the scheme of things, but still a pustule. About that “screed” thing, the term was bounced around a lot in the OP until the following was said: > [@...so why hasn't Elmore been banned yet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-hasnt-elmore-been-banned-yet/828645/1): > > Elmore knows how to play the game. His rants are intelligible, and short enough that most people would not characterize it as a “screed.” This implies that “is really long” is a defining attribute of screeds. M-W agrees; [its first definition of the term](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/screed) is “a lengthy discourse”. Only when you get to its third definition do you run into anything like a negative implication other than length: “a ranting piece of writing”. So he used a term that was already very much in play in the thread to describe the OP that, based on the attribute of the word that the OP focused on, exactly describes the OP. The bastard! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snfaulkner-come-in-here/828649)._