# Thank You, Smapti **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 28, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082 "2015-05-28T23:15:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/1 "2015-05-28T23:15:46Z")
Smapti, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you. I started a thread, (no I won’t link to it.) and you haven’t gone in there and fucked the whole thing up. That was very thoughtful of you. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/2 "2015-05-29T00:27:56Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Smapti, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you. I started a thread, (no I won’t link to it.) and you haven’t gone in there and fucked the whole thing up. That was very thoughtful of you. The night’s still young. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/3 "2015-05-29T00:29:27Z")
Really, it’s only a very tiny percentage of threads that turn into The Smapti Show. I bet there are vast swathes of MPSIMS and CafeSoc he hasn’t shat upon yet. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/4 "2015-05-29T00:56:13Z")
Marketplace is pristine and unsullied. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/5 "2015-05-29T01:12:23Z")
Is that the asshole who thinks you need to be drawn and quartered if you, say, go one over the speed limit? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/6 "2015-05-29T02:29:04Z")
Only in self defense! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/7 "2015-05-29T03:53:39Z")
Now you’ve done it! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/8 "2015-05-29T03:58:27Z")
Hey, I haven’t fucked up **bobot** ’s thread either. Where’s the thanks for that? OK, so I was busy fucking up a couple of other threads at the time. But still. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/9 "2015-05-29T05:19:35Z")
How about a cap-and-trade system? Each of us starts with credit for ruining, say, three threads a year. Anyone who ruins more than that has to buy thread-ruining credits from someone who hasn’t reached his quota. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/10 "2015-05-29T06:08:51Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > How about a cap-and-trade system? Each of us starts with credit for ruining, say, three threads a year. Anyone who ruins more than that has to buy thread-ruining credits from someone who hasn’t reached his quota. What’s to prevent someone from buying all the credits and making it impossible to ruin any threads? ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/11 "2015-05-29T06:50:46Z")
> [@naita](#): > > What’s to prevent someone from buying all the credits and making it impossible to ruin any threads? Great idea! Let’s start a non-profit called Thread Conservancy. ---
**Author:** ![lilihob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9adbd/32.png) [@lilihob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilihob)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/12 "2015-05-29T11:40:35Z")
I’m new here, so I’m probably missing something. Why does anyone bother with him? Couldn’t it be like the, “hi Opal” meme, so when he posts, someone else posts “Smapti, the unfightable ignorance”, so that newbies like me were warned, and then we just carry on as if he wasn’t there? He is just such an irredeemable creature, and he spoils so many promising debates. I’d like to read all of this board, but he makes my heart hurt. I terrifies me that he might not be a troll. There’s lots of posters here that I disagree with but I often enjoy reading, even if only for recreational outrage, but he taints everywhere he posts. Ed. To add, never posted to the pit before. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/13 "2015-05-29T12:42:16Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Really, it’s only a very tiny percentage of threads that turn into The Smapti Show. I bet there are vast swathes of MPSIMS and CafeSoc he hasn’t shat upon yet. Actually, in Cafe Society, he’s done a great job with the music poll threads. The very opposite of shitting on the forum, in fact, being very contributive and creating a series of threads that lots of posters participate in and enjoy - real value-adding stuff. It’s like he’s two different posters - one whose threads in CS I actively seek out, and the other in BBQ and GD whose name on a post fills me with dread for the shit I’m about to read. Is there some way we can confine him to _only_ posting in CS? Or an “ignore - but only in these forums” option ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/14 "2015-05-29T13:55:00Z")
Your scroll wheel doesn’t work? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/15 "2015-05-29T14:13:44Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Your scroll wheel doesn’t work? Why should I wear out my mouse when I can have the process automated? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/16 "2015-05-29T14:19:18Z")
I thought this was going to be about the Nebraska death penalty repeal thread, where somebody else was responsible (because they asked him to explain his views.) Which other thread is he ruining today? He’s pretty clearly mentally ill. Actually, I think he said as much in one of the Travyon threads. > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Is that the asshole who thinks you need to be drawn and quartered if you, say, go one over the speed limit? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/17 "2015-05-29T14:29:17Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I thought this was going to be about the Nebraska death penalty repeal thread, where somebody else was responsible (because they asked him to explain his views.) Which other thread is he ruining today? > > He’s pretty clearly mentally ill. Actually, I think he said as much in one of the Travyon threads. > > Yes. I assumed it was also about the death penalty thread. He is obviously mentally ill. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/18 "2015-05-29T15:02:27Z")
I cut that sentence off a bit too early - it’s not about the death penalty thread because **bobot** didn’t start that one. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/19 "2015-05-29T15:02:55Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Your scroll wheel doesn’t work? > > Regards, > Shodan I wore one out (and nearly lost my index finger to a repetitive stress injury in the process), but the Greasemonkey script that wishes him and everyone who replies to his deranged ptyalism into the digital cornfield works like a gold-plated charm. Guess I’ll need to tweak it, though, since it didn’t hide this thread from my delicate eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082/20 "2015-05-29T15:05:43Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > I assumed it was also about the death penalty thread. He is obviously mentally ill. According to his own account, he had a severely fucked up childhood. Assuming this is correct, it goes a long to explaining his dysfunctionality. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082.md?page=2)