# The Anthracite was Banned FAQ **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2001, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305 "2001-07-31T04:11:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/61 "2001-08-01T03:12:54Z")
Just to clarify my unclear position above - S’what happens when I post a quickie on my way out the door. My disgust is not with the mods, admins, or Una. It is with the drama that arose from the situation. The fact that so many people who did not have a clue what was going on found the need to post assumptions, jump to conclusions, send massive e-mails, and create rumors. As I said above, I do think it would have been better left off the boards for the simple reason that there are those few who like to turn situations such as this into a huge drama. Those few who can’t comprehend the words “It is a matter between Una and the Mods. Please trust us and leave it at that”. That should have been enough for us all to drop it. It’s too bad that those words were not enough, that people still felt the need to make it their business when it is not. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/62 "2001-08-01T03:46:06Z")
True, **Diane** , and I confess to overreacting when I first heard about it. But the important thing is: **Coalette** ain’t DEAD, people! She isn’t even that far away! Jimminy Christmas! ---
**Author:** ![fierra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/63 "2001-08-01T07:29:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > **Coalette** That’s cute! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/64 "2001-08-01T07:53:01Z")
Una, I hope your problems are resolved and you choose to return to this board. Thank you for coming back long enough to explain what would otherwise have been a mystery. Hopefully everyone’s learned something from the needless speculation on what happened: if you don’t know what’s going on, you don’t know what’s going on; if it’s none of your business, it’s none of your business; and, if you have no reason to assume the worst, you have no reason to assume the worst. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/65 "2001-08-01T07:59:01Z")
If I was wrong, it was in the fact I made my past errors known here. I agree my past on this board has been very dramatic…I am not blind, I am not stupid. I emailed Una after her email but I was honest in my post and honest in my email, something that I think is important to realize here. I want Una to have the best, I explained my reasoning to state what I stated. I am not one to pull punches. I am not one to sugar coat things, I never have been and I think you all know that what I state comes from my heart with good intentions. Was I overly harsh? Possibly, depending upon how well you know me but I have never been one to give one a fluffy view of things. If you have an issue and I disagree with it, I will tell you. Honesty is important to me, which is why I keep coming back to this place. I have learned a lot from the people that gave me the harshest critism even if I didn’t like them. I have learned a lot from those in my life, on here, on AOL and in my real life that have stopped me in my tracks to tell me I am not being realistic or that I am being unreasonable or that my actions or others actions that centered around me were wrong. Did I like it? Hell no. In fact I hated it at the time. But I reflect on those critisms and have learned a lot from them, in an unwilling manner but I learned. My only wish is the best for Una, I think she knows that. Because I had a negative light about this thread and not a completely supporting word to say I am viewed as being overly harsh. Okay I can accept that but I think the whole thing could have and should have been handled better. I apologize to Una for coming across as an ass as that was not my intention. I also explained to her why I feel this way (I think.) But if I haven’t learned from my own mistakes here (that are obviously being thought about here) then how the hell can anyone grow? If I see something someone does or says on here I disagree with (friends or not) then I think it is my duty to say something, much like many of you do. So we’re all pots, we’re all kettles and we’re all black. ---
**Author:** ![JustAskAnyone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JustAskAnyone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAskAnyone)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/66 "2001-08-01T10:24:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*I have a question. And it is an honest, innocent question that I hope is not percieved as bitchy because certainly I have no idea what’s going on in this situation, but it’s a thing that’s plagued me since I’ve been here. > > Why did Anthracite need to announce that she was going on sabbatical to the boards or the mods or anything? Why not…just stop posting. > > When I go on vacation in September, I’ll just not be posting for a week. I don’t suppose I’ll be getting an ‘on vacation’ message under my name. > > I’ve noticed that several people have done this, “asking for their posting privileges to be removed for a while”. Why? Why not just stay away from the board? > > I don’t get it. > > jarbaby \*\* ---
**Author:** ![JustAskAnyone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JustAskAnyone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAskAnyone)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/67 "2001-08-01T10:28:59Z")
I did preview, then submit…but something went awry. This is what I said though… **jarbaby** , I think that they put her on Sabbatical rather then having her just vanish and raise concern as to what happened to her. No one would notice if I disappeared, because I am just a lurker. You’re only going to be on vacation for a week, so you’ll be back. But what would people think if you went on vacation for say…a month? People would notice you missing, and there would be concern. Basically I think that her status is just to let people know that she is okay and that she is fine IRL (though I guess **fierra** would let us know if something wasn’t). In other words, she is fine and shall return once she gets things straightened out, hence “Sabbatical” rather than just plain disappearance 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/68 "2001-08-01T12:35:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by techchick68 \* > \*\*So we’re all pots, we’re all kettles and we’re all black. \*\* Naw, I’m honkie through and through. Awkwardly and embarassingly white. Oh? You didn’t mean it that way? 😉 I almost started talking about how it isn’t our “duty” to call it as we see it, but I realized that, while it is unpleasant to call out friends when we disagree with their actions, it is really inherent in friendship. If we, as friends, can’t say it, who will? Some jerk in the Pit, that’s who. However, that duty comes into direct conflict with the need to be specially tolerant of our friends’ foibles. ESPECIALLY since we all have foibles of our own THEY need to tolerate. Conclusion? You’ve known me THIS LONG and you still expect me to come up with a CONCLUSION? Okay, how about “I agree and disagree with just about everything and we have to strike a balance between tolerance and speaking our minds?” ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/69 "2001-08-01T17:50:52Z")
I just want to say I hope all goes well for you **Anthracite** and hope to see you back soon. All the Best. ---
**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 1, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/70 "2001-08-01T22:52:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Redboss \* > \*\*What I think is touching, dear **Anthracite** and other readers, is that **Dr Seigleo** made his first (and so far only post) in [this closed thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=79707) because as a regular lurker in GQ he saw a ‘banned’ sign under the coal-queen’s name. He was concerned about his favourite poster. > > And **Dr. S** , in case you’ve strayed out of the “intelligent” part of the Boards, my hat is off to you too. > > Red(“bunnies and fawns forever!”)boss \*\* Um, no. Dr. Seigleo was, let’s all sing in chorus now, Sei-gleo. Silo. To add to the surreal quality of that situation, he also contacted us and asked if his designation could be changed to “On Sabbatical” as well. That’s not going to happen. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/71 "2001-08-01T22:59:21Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by TubaDiva \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Um, no. Dr. Seigleo was, let’s all sing in chorus now, Sei-gleo. Silo. > > To add to the surreal quality of that situation, he also contacted us and asked if his designation could be changed to “On Sabbatical” as well. That’s not going to happen. > > your humble TubaDiva > Administrator \*\* All I have to say to that is… BWAAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/72 "2001-08-01T23:30:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TubaDiva \* > Um, no. Dr. Seigleo was, let’s all sing in chorus now, Sei-gleo. Silo. > > To add to the surreal quality of that situation, he also contacted us and asked if his designation could be changed to “On Sabbatical” as well. That’s not going to happen. HA! That’s funny. Whatever else you may think of him, the boy’s got a sense of humour 😉 On a side note: that new Pepsi drink, Sierra Mist, doesn’t feel nearly as good shooting out through my nose as it does sliding down my throat (of course that can be said about most things :D) ) ---
**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:** [August 1, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/73 "2001-08-01T23:33:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Whammo \* > \*\* > > All I have to say to that is… BWAAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!! 😃 \*\* That is just…too good. I’m laughing my ass off. Sorry. _snicker_ ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/74 "2001-08-01T23:53:18Z")
I don’t know what to make of this situation, plus, if the lady isn’t coming back to read the messages for her, it’s kinda pointless, right? ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/75 "2001-08-02T01:04:25Z")
Come back when you can. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/76 "2001-08-02T01:40:54Z")
Drama, too much frickin drama. I tend to agree with **techchick** and **jarababyj** ,why not just stop posting, instead leaving with mystery. Or maybe Una should have taken a cue from [Rysdad](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=75907). But, whatever the reasons, Una come back when you feel comfortable. I miss **Rysdad**. ---
**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/77 "2001-08-06T19:14:03Z")
Wow, can things happen on here while you are gone for just over a week! Handy gets 10,000, neat threads start and die, something happens with Anthracite, and who knows what else I missed. Well, all the luck to you Anthracite. I hope everything works out fine. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/78 "2001-08-06T19:23:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mauvaise \* > \*\*On a side note: that new Pepsi drink, Sierra Mist, doesn’t feel nearly as good shooting out through my nose as it does sliding down my throat (of course that can be said about most things :D) ) \*\* Please contact Monster104 about a new trial substance for testing, Mauv. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/79 "2001-08-06T19:37:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manservant Hecubus \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Mauvaise \* > > \*\*On a side note: that new Pepsi drink, Sierra Mist, doesn’t feel nearly as good shooting out through my nose as it does sliding down my throat (of course that can be said about most things :D) ) \*\* > > Please contact Monster104 about a new trial substance for testing, Mauv. 😃 \*\* Thank you, Monster too, but if (_IF_) I’m going to test a new _cough_ trial substance – I’ve got my, well, let’s just say I won’t need Monster 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305/80 "2001-08-06T23:56:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TubaDiva \* > \*\*Um, no. Dr. Seigleo was, let’s all sing in chorus now, Sei-gleo. Silo. \*\* D’oh! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anthracite-was-banned-faq/74305.md?page=3)