# the death of the Dope **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 15, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695 "2019-08-15T12:56:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/161 "2019-08-16T21:17:45Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Simple Monty. Who let you out of the home? You have the same guards as Epstein? You know, if you’re going to post in response to an insult, I really wish you’d try to make responses that aren’t stupid. It’s possible to insult people intelligently, you know? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/162 "2019-08-16T21:20:44Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Simple Monty. Who let you out of the home? You have the same guards as Epstein? This is all about you not being name checked in the Op isn’t it? You effectively hijacked this thread _(not that it matters, it is a pit thread)_ to increase posters’ awareness that you’re also a raging asshole. Well you got my vote, I think you’re a much bigger asshole then \*\*Shodan \*\*based on this thread. Of course I don’t mind **Shodan** , I’m odd that way. You I forgot existed and might again, but you got my attention and I suspect several others for a little while at least. You can roll out the banner, “Mission Accomplished”. Congrats. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/163 "2019-08-16T21:25:11Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > For someone who doesn’t like whining, you sure do whine a lot I think that’s what bothers me so much about octopus, the constant whining. It’s like a fucking mosquito. ETA. I like Shodan. Don’t agree with him, but I think he is a great poster. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/164 "2019-08-16T21:49:18Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > This is all about you not being name checked in the Op isn’t it? > > You effectively hijacked this thread _(not that it matters, it is a pit thread)_ to increase posters’ awareness that you’re also a raging asshole. Well you got my vote, I think you’re a much bigger asshole then \*\*Shodan \*\*based on this thread. Of course I don’t mind **Shodan** , I’m odd that way. You I forgot existed and might again, but you got my attention and I suspect several others for a little while at least. > > You can roll out the banner, “Mission Accomplished”. Congrats. It’s always interesting to see the reaction to posters who promote tolerance of different points of view and the exercise of adult agency compared with reactions to those who bemoan the fact that the dope is not 100% hive mind. I do like your affectation of oh-so-cool disinterest. It’s intriguing. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/165 "2019-08-16T21:53:02Z")
He’s doing the “hive mind” shtick again. We should do a “Octoputz Bingo” game. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/166 "2019-08-16T22:00:44Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > It’s always interesting to see the reaction to posters who promote tolerance of different points of view and the exercise of adult agency compared with reactions to those who bemoan the fact that the dope is not 100% hive mind. Absolutely nothing in this has anything to do with what he said. > [@octopus](#): > > I do like your affectation of oh-so-cool disinterest. It’s intriguing. Oh, I’m sure he’s not faking not caring about you. I forget about you the second I look away from your posts, myself. You’re just not that important to my daily life, O person who exists only as text on my monitor. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/167 "2019-08-16T22:11:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > He’s doing the “hive mind” shtick again. We should do a “Octoputz Bingo” game. Just don’t make it a drinking game, that’s just a thinly disguised suicide. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/168 "2019-08-16T22:16:47Z")
Woke-18! Does anyone have Woke-18? OK, next ball is…Virtue Signaling-25! Again, Virtue Signaling-25! ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/169 "2019-08-16T22:41:40Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > He’s doing the “hive mind” shtick again. We should do a “Octoputz Bingo” game. No! Not Bingo! That’s what I’d did to you fools in my very own pit thread! Be more imaginative. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/170 "2019-08-16T23:22:16Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Hey, since I haven’t said it, let’s just say it here: **Jonathan Chance** does not understand trolling, and is, as a result, an _absolutely terrible moderator_. This is not the internet anyone lives in any more. It never was, and these days _you need to know better than that_. [Moderating] So, as you are very much aware, criticism of the moderation of the board belongs in ATMB, not the Pit. I’ve let this thread stand, because it was just on the other side of the line between “complaining about moderation” and “complaining about other posters on the board.” This post here just sailed right over that line. You get one note on this subject. Do this again, and it’s a warning, and you are not in a position to take a whole lot more of those while retaining your posting privileges. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/171 "2019-08-17T00:08:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I never thought of running his name through the “Slobbovian-to-English” translator. :smack: That’s too bad. You might have then thought to run your own through and found it means “physical and moral coward who has let his family down in the most catastrophic ways.” Your opportunities for growth were considerable. Still, I know you are busy worrying about shit written in the dust on the backs of trucks and dealing with your lingering rage at your parents for making you stop masturbating long enough to go to church on a sunday morning. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/172 "2019-08-17T00:32:12Z")
And… Scumpup wins his place on the towering assholes list. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/173 "2019-08-17T03:10:33Z")
Has this thread made the forums better? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/174 "2019-08-17T03:24:25Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > And… Scumpup wins his place on the towering assholes list. “towering” isn’t the word I’d use, but yeah, he’s like a terminally alcoholic chimpanzee screaming and flinging shit. Has been for years. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/175 "2019-08-17T06:54:22Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > Whups. > > I was about to ask what topics you would consider interesting that were present in the past but which you now find lacking, but then I got to the second-to-last sentence, and realized that the problem is that we’re just not racist and sexist enough for your tastes. > > This has led me to briefly wonder what makes non-racist, non-sexist discussions boring. Is the the lack of ‘spice’? Is it the illicit thrill of saying shitty things and getting away with it what social conservatives (let’s call them) find interesting, tio the degree that conversations that don’t involve them being shits are dull to them for the lack of it? > > Or is it that when there are threads that aren’t full of assholes being assholes, the social conservatives (let’s call them) feel _compelled_ to spend all their time trying to inject back the homey familiarity they prefer, and that even _they_ find the endless repeat of that to be tedious and uninteresting? > > Or… what? What other reasons could there be for a non-racist, non-sexist board to be inherently boring, sheerly and only due to the fact that the people present don’t all suck? What? Some of the most racist and sexist crap I’ve ever seen on this board gets a pass (and a pat in the back more often than not) by the self appointed Woke Commissars. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/176 "2019-08-17T07:31:25Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > That’s too bad. You might have then thought to run your own through and found it means “physical and moral coward who has let his family down in the most catastrophic ways.” Your opportunities for growth were considerable. Still, I know you are busy worrying about shit written in the dust on the backs of trucks and dealing with your lingering rage at your parents for making you stop masturbating long enough to go to church on a sunday morning. Didn’t you literally just threaten to flounce just a day ago? Flounce already, lying shitbag. ---
**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 17, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/177 "2019-08-17T11:31:10Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Some of the most racist and sexist crap I’ve ever seen on this board gets a pass (and a pat in the back more often than not) by the self appointed Woke Commissars. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/178 "2019-08-17T11:36:58Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > That’s too bad. You might have then thought to run your own through and found it means “physical and moral coward who has let his family down in the most catastrophic ways.” Your opportunities for growth were considerable. Still, I know you are busy worrying about shit written in the dust on the backs of trucks and dealing with your lingering rage at your parents for making you stop masturbating long enough to go to church on a sunday morning. When you’re this committed to accosting someone on the internet, maybe it’s time to turn off the internet. Get some help while you’re at it. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/179 "2019-08-17T17:34:08Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Didn’t you literally just threaten to flounce just a day ago? Flounce already, lying shitbag. He’s holding out for bus fare. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-dope/838695/180 "2019-08-18T09:33:26Z")
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