# Some shitty mod closed my thread without as much as an explanation. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2007, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941 "2007-11-01T23:21:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/41 "2007-11-02T00:19:52Z")
I’m not defending this ‘just because’, but with those I know, at work and home, jungle fever has become an inocuous term- like “ooh Bob has jungle fever”. This includes prudes. **VCO3** also has a point in that there is no way at that time, a studio would release a semi major film with an offensive title. No way. And no, he didn’t coin the term. Not to mention the pop instrumental of the same title from 1972 that made top 10 on the pop charts. So if the thread is questioned fine, but shouldn’t be on the basis of that term. Plus the backup he just produced… ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/42 "2007-11-02T00:21:18Z")
[QUOTE=DiggitCamara] Well, if he was a one-trick-pony, I might even agree with you. But the thing is, he constantly spews out “provocative” threads (kids who order lobster should get AIDS, people having 500k in the bank yet considering oneself middle-class should be beheaded, etc. etc.). [/QUOTE] So making threads that provoke responses is a bannable offense?! Has this board gone INSANE? I always post in the appropriate forum. I discuss records, books, and movies in Cafe Society, opinions in IMHO, I ask general questions in GQ, and sometimes I pop into GD to debate. When I need to take the gloves off and spew a shiczo rant, I always do it in the pit. That’s what the pit is there for - to flame, to freak out, to let loose the bile without the need for a “cite.” If people disagree with me, that’s fine - that’s what the pit is for! They can bash back like roman gladiators! I can’t stand people telling me I’m doing something wrong for posting controversial or angry things in the pit - **THAT’S WHY THE PIT EXISTS**! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/43 "2007-11-02T00:22:51Z")
Seriously, man. I’m not the only one in this thread trying to tell you, because we _like_ you when you’re not talking about black people, that you _really need to cut it the fuck out_ or you won’t have an out to cut anymore. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/44 "2007-11-02T00:23:05Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] I challenge you to start a post that follows the following format: 1. Is at least marginally interesting and substantive enough to generate a few responses, 2. Contains no offensive references to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, political affiliation, nationality, or any other specific segment of the human race, 3. Doesn’t make any uncalled-for jabs at the media, politics, or specific segments of society whom you feel may be responsible for any perceived oversight your post may contain, 4. Doesn’t take a contrarian point of view that makes your post look like you’re spoiling for another fight. I’m willing to bet you can’t. [/QUOTE] Do a post history search, dumbass. You just described the vast majority of my posts. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/45 "2007-11-02T00:23:45Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] I just can’t even comprehend statements like this; if I happen to be fascinated with race, how does that make me any different than […] [/QUOTE] But you aren’t fascinated with race! You’re fascinated with black people, as if they were some separate species living a glass tank for you to make notes about on your clipboard. You may be attracted to them, or afraid of them, or even just puzzled by them, but you certainly have a very strange attitude which makes the board uncomfortable and you KNOW that. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/46 "2007-11-02T00:25:17Z")
To be honest, the first thing I thought when i saw the thread title was that you were trying to get yourself banned. If you seriously don’t understand the issue with what you said, you need to at least develop some better manners. I’m not even talking about trying to change your perspective, because quite frankly reading some of your posts I don’t think that any kind of statement of facts/arguement etc will dissuade you from thinking your behaviour is acceptable. It’s not. And I don’t think it takes a superbright person to realise that. And since you can type semi-coherently, I’m going to assume that you’re not totally without some kind of smarts, and that you know exactly how bad your behaviour is. Now it’s just becoming boring and pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/47 "2007-11-02T00:25:43Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Not to mention the pop instrumental of the same title from 1972 that made top 10 on the pop charts. [/QUOTE] That was [Jungle Boogie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Boogie) by _Kool and the Gang_. Not Fever. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/48 "2007-11-02T00:25:46Z")
> [@](#): > > “In praise of hot black women!” > > Oh my gosh, I just saw the FINEST **sister** when I was out getting lunch. **Straightened hair** with a cute, flippy haircut, light skin, ultra-thin and sexy wireframe glasses, and the most perfectly rounded ass I’ve seen in person. She looked like Rosario Dawson; **maybe there was a little latina mixed in t** here, but we’re only talking 25% max; this was no Tiger Woods CaBlInAsian genetic bouillabaisse. It took every ounce of free will in my body to keep from A) drooling and B) following her to wherever she was going. > > **My white friends and I have a name for a sister like this - “a rosario,” after Rosario Dawson** , who is the queen mother of this type of woman. All hail. > > **White guys don’t talk enough about the fiiiiiiiiiiiiiine black women sharing this world with us, probaly due to latent racism and the media’s inability to create mainstream black female sex symbols, so I just wanted to give it up for her, and those like her."** Besides his history of (a) bringing up topics about Black people with deliberately or obtusely provocative posts, and (b) being obsessed about Black people but never seeming to have participated in threads about Black culture that he didn’t start (where he could have actually learned something), theres the above. 1. Why “sister”? Why not “woman” or “young woman”? (If it was a little girl, I’ll find you myself.) 2. Why “straightened hair”? Why not “nicely styled hair”? 3. Except for possibly referencing someone we might know, why mitigate her Blackness? Surely, there’s a Black woman in the news who would come close enough to serve an avatar? 4. A diversionary tactic if I ever saw one. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/49 "2007-11-02T00:26:07Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] - Genetic bouillabaisse. You make it sound like purebread or, at best, mildly mulatto is good, but anything more is a mutt. [/QUOTE] This post is a shining example of your own bias coming through. WHERE did I say that someone was a “mutt?!” Where did I say anything about anyone being a “purebread” [sic]? There was no judgement in that post, just an observation about what the woman looked like! Your own bias, your own need to be offended and to find offense where there is none is what makes you read it that way. I was talking about the “genetic bouillabaisse” of someone pan-racial like Tiger Woods, where he contains so many nationalities that he’s even made up a joke term for his race (“cablinasian”). ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/50 "2007-11-02T00:26:22Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] (snip) I challenge you to start a post that follows the following format: 1. Is at least marginally interesting and substantive enough to generate a few responses, 2. Contains no offensive references to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, political affiliation, nationality, or any other specific segment of the human race, 3. Doesn’t make any uncalled-for jabs at the media, politics, or specific segments of society whom you feel may be responsible for any perceived oversight your post may contain, 4. Doesn’t take a contrarian point of view that makes your post look like you’re spoiling for another fight. I’m willing to bet you can’t. [/QUOTE] Actually, I’ve seen many of VCO3’s posts (and [threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=442124) ) that are not designed to be provocative but simply in line with a normal thread. (Heck, even “provocative” [threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=442345) of his have been “reeled in” and end up being rather interesting). It’s just that he seems to have the notion that he has to stand out and be “provocative”… or something. And that’s getting to be very annoying. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/51 "2007-11-02T00:27:41Z")
Where’s **banhattan** when you need him? ---
**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 2, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/52 "2007-11-02T00:28:02Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] So making threads that provoke responses is a bannable offense?! Has this board gone INSANE? I always post in the appropriate forum. I discuss records, books, and movies in Cafe Society, opinions in IMHO, I ask general questions in GQ, and sometimes I pop into GD to debate. When I need to take the gloves off and spew a shiczo rant, I always do it in the pit. That’s what the pit is there for - to flame, to freak out, to let loose the bile without the need for a “cite.” If people disagree with me, that’s fine - that’s what the pit is for! They can bash back like roman gladiators! I can’t stand people telling me I’m doing something wrong for posting controversial or angry things in the pit - **THAT’S WHY THE PIT EXISTS**! [/QUOTE] Hey good to see you **VCO3** , gives me a chance to say “Good Bye”. I hope you enjoy your flame-out, it looks like a good one. Jim ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/53 "2007-11-02T00:28:04Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] And anyone who calls me a troll can chug dong [/QUOTE] I just want to say that Dance Hall Days is the best song ever. Also, I love orange soda. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/54 "2007-11-02T00:28:06Z")
[QUOTE=Rico] That was [Jungle Boogie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Boogie) by _Kool and the Gang_. Not Fever. [/QUOTE] I apologize. I was wrong on that one. [Jungle Fever](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chakachas) by the Chakachas. Reached #3 on the charts. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/55 "2007-11-02T00:28:06Z")
[QUOTE=Rico] That was [Jungle Boogie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Boogie) by _Kool and the Gang_. Not Fever. [/QUOTE] [Fever](http://entertainment.circuitcity.com/Music/Album.aspx?prodid=DUGR3006.2&si=ccity-prod&store=Music). Chakachas. Much funkier than Jungle Boogie 🙂 No worries. But #11 R&B, #8 pop. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/56 "2007-11-02T00:28:20Z")
[QUOTE=threnodyangelfire] To be honest, the first thing I thought when i saw the thread title was that you were trying to get yourself banned. [/QUOTE] Why? This speaks volumes about _you_. Is talking about race or mentioning races a bannable offense on this board? The way you’d talk about it, you’d think the thread title was “kill all black women” or “black women are inferior.” It was in **praise** of gorgeous black women! ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/57 "2007-11-02T00:31:39Z")
I agree with VC03 that “jungle fever” is not necessarily racist terminology. I see it used as per Wee Bairn’s example above and I would too. I think what it shows is that a lot of SDMB members are uncomfortable talking about black people period and they are so afraid of offending anyone that they think posting an innocuous thread about “I saw a hot black woman today” is offensive. What’s offensive is the number of “consecutive thread titles” and other boring ass shit in MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/58 "2007-11-02T00:32:26Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Besides his history of (a) bringing up topics about Black people with deliberately or obtusely provocative posts, and (b) being obsessed about Black people but never seeming to have participated in threads about Black culture that he didn’t start (where he could have actually learned something), theres the above. 1. Why “sister”? Why not “woman” or “young woman”? (If it was a little girl, I’ll find you myself.) [/QUOTE] What, you’re going to fucking **threaten** me now!? And accuse me of looking at a fucking child? What the fuck is wrong with you? I’m clearly talking about a black adult businesswoman - why would you even infer something like that!? > [@](#): > > 1. Why “straightened hair”? Why not “nicely styled hair”? Because her hair was straightened, which is a specific style of hair. I won’t say “styled hair” if I can be more specific and say “a perm” or “a pixie cut.” [QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] 1. Except for possibly referencing someone we might know, why mitigate her Blackness? Surely, there’s a Black woman in the news who would come close enough to serve an avatar? [/QUOTE] There was - Rosario Dawson. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/59 "2007-11-02T00:35:55Z")
I’m going to say the same thing I said in **GuyinBlueJeans** thread. Walk away while you’re ahead. You seem like a member that CAN ACTUALLY contribute some good stuff…but you seriously need to either start thinking before you post…or actively stay away from certain topics for awhile. I remember we had a few other posters with subjects they weren’t allowed to talk about ( **Silo** and his big penis, **Reeder** and Bush, **Handy** and medical advice, **Evil Captor** and BDSM threads, etc)…maybe if you actually try to not mention (or at least show) your seeming obsession with black people, people might not think you were such a troll. At least it’d be one less thing they’d call you out on. But seriously, it’s time to quit or take a break and post other topics for a bit because you seem to be dangerously close to the edge. I remember you were Suspended already once…the next time I think it’s a longer stretch. : / One that lasts indefinitetly. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941/60 "2007-11-02T00:36:12Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] What, you’re going to fucking **threaten** me now!? And accuse me of looking at a fucking child? What the fuck is wrong with you? I’m clearly talking about a black adult businesswoman - why would you even infer something like that!? [/QUOTE] Sorry, I was trying to be pithy and slightly provocative. Everything else I’ve written in this thread stands. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitty-mod-closed-my-thread-without-as-much-as-an-explanation/424941.md?page=4)