# The Closed "MEN!!!" Thread and My Insatiable Curiosity **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 30, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closed-men-thread-and-my-insatiable-curiosity/96130 "2001-11-30T15:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closed-men-thread-and-my-insatiable-curiosity/96130/1 "2001-11-30T15:25:31Z")
I won’t link to the thread because Lynn has said that it will soon be deleted, but a recent Pit thread labeled “MEN!!!” was closed because “For newcomers, we have a mentally ill person who persists in posting pathetic sob stories, all about how she’s having a rough life. Generally, she’s lying about the particulars.” Curiosity is about to kill me and I am nosy as all hell. Is this poster a sock? I have looked for other posts and the only thing I have found that would suggest a sob story is something about a piercing. Have other posts been deleted? Does this person have a past either here or elsewhere of posting threads for sympathy? Should we take anything written by this person with a grain of salt? Take her out back to the woodshed and kick her ass? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closed-men-thread-and-my-insatiable-curiosity/96130/2 "2001-11-30T15:32:45Z")
It’s a sock of someone who had posted here previously under another name. If you want more details, e-mail me; I’d prefer not to discuss it on the board. Woodshed sounds like a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closed-men-thread-and-my-insatiable-curiosity/96130/3 "2001-11-30T15:39:35Z")
> [@](#): > > If you want more details, e-mail me Incoming! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closed-men-thread-and-my-insatiable-curiosity/96130/4 "2001-11-30T15:46:02Z")
Oh, and please lock or delete this thread to stop the rumor mongers and conspiracy theorists. Diane - who should have e-mailed a mod in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closed-men-thread-and-my-insatiable-curiosity/96130/5 "2001-11-30T16:30:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diane \* > **Oh, and please lock or delete this thread to stop the rumor mongers and conspiracy theorists.** You called? I heard that the thread (any thread) was closed becasue the poster had secret information about the evil plot by the Mods to overthrow the government of Paraguay! And the poster will be taken out behind the barn and will never be seen again. And I heard that the poster (any poster) was dating one of the Mods! :eek: Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closed-men-thread-and-my-insatiable-curiosity/96130/6 "2001-11-30T16:31:58Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closed-men-thread-and-my-insatiable-curiosity/96130/7 "2001-11-30T16:47:44Z")
If it’s not overstepping **John** ’s wishes, did this sock have sick and dying child in the hospital while he/she posted in MPSIMS? Hmmm? (Feel free to ignore this if you feel it shouldn’t be answered here.) ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closed-men-thread-and-my-insatiable-curiosity/96130/8 "2001-11-30T16:52:30Z")
No, the poster isn’t dating one of the mods but rather all of them, including the Nazi and the pervert mod. Don’t breathe another word of this or you could find yourself wearing cement slippers in the bottom of Lake Mead with a hunk of wood from the woodshed stuck up your butt. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closed-men-thread-and-my-insatiable-curiosity/96130/9 "2001-11-30T17:01:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diane \* > No, the poster isn’t dating one of the mods but rather all of them, including the Nazi and the pervert mod. You mean there’s a designated pervert mod?🙂 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closed-men-thread-and-my-insatiable-curiosity/96130/10 "2001-11-30T17:06:54Z")
I’m going to lock this thread as Diane wishes. [sub]singing to self: “Honesty, is such a lonely word… everyone is so untruuuuee…”