# That has already been defined as "Snaking" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 10, 2004, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459 "2004-10-10T08:36:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/21 "2004-10-11T03:28:04Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > Now that we’re in the Pit, let me say to you, stop playing innocent. Put down the spoon and get away from the pot. Oops, I can’t remember everything… We’re in the “Pit?” Aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh! (Runs screaming away, unable to deal with extra-keyboardian manipulation.) ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/22 "2004-10-11T03:52:29Z")
> [@SnakeSpirit](#): > > Watch out for **look!ninjas** - he/she (aka E) is an emerging cognitive force in the ‘doper board!’ > > Welcome. We have many clocks that need cleaning here. Hey now, **look!ninjas** was helping you out. No need to insult her and talk about cleaning her clock. (Think I have the gender right there…) So let me get this straight. You started a thread in ATMB to bitch about a moderator (ironically, because they had acted on a thread in the wrong forum). When that was answered and shut down, you started a thread to bitch about that moderation in MPSIMS. Now it’s been moved to the Pit, where it should have been three threads ago, and you’re still bitching, and taking swings at people who are helping you out. What the fuck? ---
**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/23 "2004-10-11T03:55:31Z")
> [@Atticus Finch](#): > > Hey now, **look!ninjas** was helping you out. No need to insult her and talk about cleaning her clock. (Think I have the gender right there…) > > So let me get this straight. You started a thread in ATMB to bitch about a moderator (ironically, because they had acted on a thread in the wrong forum). When that was answered and shut down, you started a thread to bitch about that moderation in MPSIMS. Now it’s been moved to the Pit, where it should have been three threads ago, and you’re still bitching, and taking swings at people who are helping you out. What the fuck? Huh? Not “her Clock”… Shit. tolo much wine to cover too much whine… Se ya Monday. Sorry for any missattributions, Sssssss ---
**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:** [October 11, 2004, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/24 "2004-10-11T04:13:32Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I work in betting and I have no clue what’s going on. In America, the prime sport for betting is (American) football, and the bookies have devised an ingenious system called the point spread to save themselves laying odds. Rather than deciding on odds for a game, they simply decide how much the favored team ought to win by. So, if, say, the Dallas Cowboys are playing the Arizona Cardinals and are favored by three and a half- and you bet on the Cowboys- you only actually win if the Cowboys win by four or more. Does that help? ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/25 "2004-10-11T04:44:25Z")
That’s as head-asplody as calculus. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/26 "2004-10-11T12:25:29Z")
What _is_ the definition of **snaking**? Is it: 1. Purposefully creating a thread in the wrong forum to piss off people? 2. Ignorantly creating a thread in the wrong forum and pissing off people? 3. Creating any thread that he’s slithered into a partisan debate? 4. Freaking out and claiming to be repressed by the moderators when he’s fucking up anyway? 5. Spinning news stories so hard that they wander over to the guard rail to hurl? 6. …? ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/27 "2004-10-11T13:59:27Z")
> [@Atticus Finch](#): > > Hey now, **look!ninjas** was helping you out. No need to insult her and talk about cleaning her clock. (Think I have the gender right there…) I think the suggestion was that I am now going to be cleaning people’s clocks, not that he is going to be cleaning my clock. Maybe. I don’t know. I’m not even sure what he’s talking about - all I did was supply a link. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/28 "2004-10-11T16:18:12Z")
1. Being a jerk, even though there’s some sort of law against it? ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/29 "2004-10-11T21:42:38Z")
Offering people jobs in time-piece maintenance and repair probably belongs in a different forum. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/30 "2004-10-11T21:48:33Z")
Snakespirit: I know we’ve had a few run-ins in the past. But I ask this question in sincerity. Why do you have such a problem with putting threads in the correct forum? It happens with you a lot it seems. I’ve said before that it appears intentional, but it could be something else entirely. What’s the scoop? Still just not familiar with the Board’s fora and rules? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/31 "2004-10-12T00:32:03Z")
I’m going to take a WAG and say **SnakeSpirit** frequently has multiple browser windows open to different fora on the boards and frequently forgets which forum is in which window. Possibly following links to a thread in another forum, gets in the notion to post a new thread, and forgets he isn’t in the forum he was originally in. Or something like that. Also, there are some blurred boundaries between some fora - IMHO and Cafe Society or GD, for example. Or MPSMS and the Pit. MPSMS frequently contains threads of mild-to-moderate whining and bitching by people. Maybe **SS** is having some issues with recognizing those boundaries. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/32 "2004-10-12T00:39:26Z")
Understandable. Hell, the Universe itself is boundaryless. Not infinite, especially if we take into account the Big Bang, but definitely with no boundaries. Yeah, no boundaries. No boundaries. No boundaries. WARPNER’S ON!!! ---
**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/33 "2004-10-12T07:03:04Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > What _is_ the definition of **snaking**? > Is it: No, none of the below. At one time it was applied to anticipating the objections of the opposition, but had been ruled as an “ad hominum” attack by the moderators against anyone who has “snake” in their screen name, and thereby an invalid and unfair attack. ---
**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/34 "2004-10-12T07:05:40Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Snakespirit: > > I know we’ve had a few run-ins in the past. But I ask this question in sincerity. Why do you have such a problem with putting threads in the correct forum? It happens with you a lot it seems. I’ve said before that it appears intentional, but it could be something else entirely. What’s the scoop? Still just not familiar with the Board’s fora and rules? You and I have had run ins??? Really??? Just how deep down he rabbit hole do you want to go? Sssssssnake ---
**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/35 "2004-10-12T07:07:16Z")
> [@The Asbestos Mango](#): > > I’m going to take a WAG and say **SnakeSpirit** frequently has multiple browser windows open to different fora on the boards and frequently forgets which forum is in which window. Possibly following links to a thread in another forum, gets in the notion to post a new thread, and forgets he isn’t in the forum he was originally in. > > Or something like that. > > Also, there are some blurred boundaries between some fora - IMHO and Cafe Society or GD, for example. Or MPSMS and the Pit. MPSMS frequently contains threads of mild-to-moderate whining and bitching by people. Maybe **SS** is having some issues with recognizing those boundaries. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/36 "2004-10-12T13:35:27Z")
> [@SnakeSpirit](#): > > Just how deep down he rabbit hole do you want to go? I don’t. That’s why I said that I ask the question in all sincerity. I just didn’t want anything to color that. Still care to answer the question? ---
**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/37 "2004-10-12T22:08:32Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > Predicting negative behavior by a fellow Doper _was_ defined at one time as _snaking_. Repremands from a mod were forthcoming. > > Why is **Snakespirit** allowed to break that rule and I’m not? 😃 Because you can’t make name-linked ad-hominum attacks on yourself. by definition? ---
**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459/38 "2004-10-12T22:15:41Z")
> [@The Asbestos Mango](#): > > Also, there are some blurred boundaries between some fora - IMHO and Cafe Society or GD, for example. Or MPSMS and the Pit. MPSMS frequently contains threads of mild-to-moderate whining and bitching by people. Maybe **SS** is having some issues with recognizing those boundaries. For **Munch** - I guess that’s about as close as I’m able to come. I didn’t want to start a pit thread targeting **CK** , and MPSIMS seemed like the place for comments of a personal nature. Yeah, I don’t always get what should be posted where, and judging by how many threads have been moved that were started by other people than me, I’m not the only one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-has-already-been-defined-as-snaking/268459.md?page=1)