# START has been reinstated. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 29, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056 "2005-08-29T03:08:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/21 "2005-08-29T19:31:53Z")
I tried to tell everyone they were different people, but nobody listened to me then. Just like I bet nobody is listening to me now… ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/22 "2005-08-29T19:53:06Z")
I’m sorry, **BBVL** , did you say something? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/23 "2005-08-29T21:24:58Z")
> [@rfgdxm](#): > > Are your logs that inadequate? I cannot stand idly by and let our server be thusly maligned. The logs, being computer-based, are perfect, changeless and eternal. It is the humans that are flawed and prone to mistakes. Please find it in your heart to forgive us! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/24 "2005-08-29T21:29:48Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > Perhaps it is time for you to take a chill pill, or move your crusade to the Pit? I appreciate your support, Model of 2005, but the comment of members are always appreciated. What would the board be without our posters, but an empty wind-blown plain, covered with the tumbling tumbleweeds? I for one enjoy seeing the spirited remarks of our more out-spoken members, and am often humbled by their all-too-accurate criticisms, as well as gratified by their kind compliments. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/25 "2005-08-29T22:08:39Z")
Welcome back, **START**. _You make a grown man wiii-ild…_ Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/26 "2005-08-29T22:43:45Z")
> [@Arnold Winkelried](#): > > I appreciate your support, Model of 2005, but the comment of members are always appreciated. What would the board be without our posters, but an empty wind-blown plain, covered with the tumbling tumbleweeds? > I for one enjoy seeing the spirited remarks of our more out-spoken members, and am often humbled by their all-too-accurate criticisms, as well as gratified by their kind compliments. :dubious: Methinks I detect a hint of sarcasm. Just a hint. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/27 "2005-08-29T22:56:31Z")
Not me. I think he meant it, straight up. Now, how does one IP get confused with another IP, with both posters involved sounding so damned much like each other? ---
**Author:** ![rfgdxm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rfgdxm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfgdxm)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/28 "2005-08-30T00:11:55Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Now, how does one IP get confused with another IP, with both posters involved sounding so damned much like each other? It could be possible if 2 posters lived in the same town, used the same ISP, and also had dynamic IPs. ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/29 "2005-08-30T00:28:26Z")
Has anyone actually laid eyes on START yet? I’m hoping this isn’t one of those McMurphy deals. Remember how we all thought he was faking, and then the Chief had to put him out of his misery? :eek: Just sayin’ ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/30 "2005-08-30T01:12:10Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > I tried to tell everyone they were different people, but nobody listened to me then. Just like I bet nobody is listening to me now… Actually, I reread your comment last week. And then I went and reread posts by the two posters involved. I agree with you. So far. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/31 "2005-08-30T03:24:41Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > :dubious: > > Methinks I detect a hint of sarcasm. > > Just a hint. I think so too. But then again, it’s possible that **Arnold** _enjoys_ incessant whining. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/32 "2005-08-30T03:45:16Z")
I’m not saying this is the case here, but just speculating as to how much it’s possible to find socks out… were someone to post exclusively under one screen name at work, and exclusively under another at home in a different city entirely, wouldn’t the screen names have two different IPs? ---
**Author:** ![bob\_loblaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@bob\_loblaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_loblaw)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/33 "2005-08-30T04:43:01Z")
have START & KyleRayner1 been notified of the unbanning and invited back to the board? (i.e emails sent to registered adresses?) and will their registration periods on the sdmb be extended by appx. 2 months (the length of the bannings?) or possibly even longer, as a good-will gesture, given the error was not that of the posters in question, but that of board administration? …just wondering, in the interests of ignorance-fighting. ---
**Author:** ![rfgdxm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rfgdxm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfgdxm)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/34 "2005-08-30T04:43:15Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I’m not saying this is the case here, but just speculating as to how much it’s possible to find socks out… were someone to post exclusively under one screen name at work, and exclusively under another at home in a different city entirely, wouldn’t the screen names have two different IPs? Most definitely, unless both work and home ISPs were the same. In that case both handles would come from the same IP range. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/35 "2005-08-30T04:57:05Z")
> [@bob\_loblaw](#): > > have START & KyleRayner1 been notified of the unbanning and invited back to the board? (i.e emails sent to registered adresses?) **KyleRayner1** just posted in GD. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/36 "2005-08-30T13:03:08Z")
> [@bob\_loblaw](#): > > and will their registration periods on the sdmb be extended by appx. 2 months (the length of the bannings?) or possibly even longer, as a good-will gesture, given the error was not that of the posters in question, but that of board administration? **Kyle Rayner1** ’s join date was moved to August 27, presumably to give him another month of guest membership. That makes him one of the few posters with posts that predate his join date. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/37 "2005-08-30T13:25:08Z")
Hey, our error, he gets another bite at the apple 'cause he didn’t get the time promised, we do say 30 days. I hope he subscribes. your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/38 "2005-08-30T13:35:45Z")
> [@Good Egg](#): > > Should we press the start button, then? No, no, **re** -start button. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/39 "2005-08-30T13:47:31Z")
Reinstartment, huh? I hope **START** does indeed come back. I was disappointed to think he’d committed suicide-by-sockpuppetry, I thought he was a good presence on the board. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056/40 "2005-08-30T14:10:37Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > DON’T LET’S, maybe? > [@TMBG](#): > > This is the worst part > Could believe for all the world > That you’re my precious little girl > But don’t, don’t, don’t let’s start > I’ve got a weak heart > And I don’t get around how you get around 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/start-has-been-reinstated/319056.md?page=3)