# Stop responding to the racists. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 2, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-responding-to-the-racists/627041 "2012-07-02T23:25:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-responding-to-the-racists/627041/41 "2012-07-03T06:02:13Z")
**Mister nyx** , may I humbly suggest you sign out and take a breather? Maybe come back tomorrow with a good night’s rest and a hard day’s work behind you. Because right now, you’re in a downward spiral that is not particularly productive, or will fail to be very soon. ---
**Author:** ![MG-42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@MG-42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MG-42)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-responding-to-the-racists/627041/42 "2012-07-03T06:03:01Z")
Don Quixote vs the windmill. /grabs popcorn ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-responding-to-the-racists/627041/43 "2012-07-03T06:06:00Z")
> [@mister\_nyx](#): > > Obviously responding to your posts is risking my membership privileges. Please get off the cross. We need the lumber. (I said nothing about your posting privileges being at risk.) ---
**Author:** ![mister\_nyx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@mister\_nyx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mister_nyx)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-responding-to-the-racists/627041/44 "2012-07-03T06:10:06Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Please get off the cross. We need the lumber. (I said nothing about your posting privileges being at risk.) Did you notice how your moderator – a representative of your rules, I would think – said how he had no problem with a racist who suggested another poster was a rapist on the basis of his national origin? Just curious, because if you had it would seem like you’d have other, bigger concerns right now than complaining at me. In multiple forums, even, as you’ve made clear. ---
**Author:** ![florez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@florez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/florez)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-responding-to-the-racists/627041/45 "2012-07-03T06:49:22Z")
mister nyx, We are human beings, and nothing is ever going to be perfect. I have not been here long, and I was disturbed and impatient over the NDD thing, but IMO the mods worked in good faith to do what they had to do, and still be reasonable about maintaining a free speech policy. They have been very clear about reasons for the BANNING, and I think Miller did some great problem solving early on by trying to contain that mess with the omnibus thread. We will probably always have racists here and everywhere, and dealing with them is a non-stop challenge, but I think if you step back a little, you will see that your anger is at the racists, haters, and phobes, and not so much at the mods who are doing their best here. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-responding-to-the-racists/627041/46 "2012-07-03T07:26:28Z")
[Moderating] As I said when I merged up the other threads, anyone starting a new thread about **New Deal Democrat** would be dealt with extreme prejudice. In light of that instruction, **Left Hand** is now required to sit at the back of the Pit. **mister nyx** , as a reminder, insulting moderators because you disagree with our decisions as moderators is against the rules. Please confine your complaints about the staff here to ATMB. Since there’s really nothing about this thread that isn’t currently violating one rule or another I’m going to go ahead and close it. [/Moderating] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-responding-to-the-racists/627041.md?page=2)