# The Dopes Who Break GD Rules **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 4, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264 "2006-08-04T00:38:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264/21 "2006-08-04T02:16:36Z")
[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman] BTW, thankyou for adding some excitement to my thread 🙂 [/QUOTE] You’re welcome. I’m a main eventer now, but I worked the preliminary matches back in the day. Ok, it was 1971 and I was posting on my etch-a-sketch, but still… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264/22 "2006-08-04T03:17:51Z")
Piffle. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264/23 "2006-08-04T04:01:14Z")
Gesundheit. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264/24 "2006-08-04T05:33:33Z")
[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman] Don’t be so silly. When you call all a person’s statements silly than you’ve implied that person is silly. [/QUOTE] All of **TyCobb** ’s posts to the SDMB to this point _have_ been pretty silly, but this is still not the same as calling TyCobb himself silly (or worse); there is always the possibility he will come to realize the error of his ways and post something not-silly. I admit I’m not terribly sanguine about that, but I suppose one should cling to hope and resist despair and all that. Really, I thought I was being pretty lenient with old TY; if someone told me a Pit thread would result from those two threads, I would have expected it to be along the lines of "What’s wrong with the stupid mods that they can’t even recognize a troll when they see him? Why wasn’t **TyCobb** banned, his computer hacked into, his bank account crashed, and his legs broken? The mods around here have totally lost it! :mad: " ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264/25 "2006-08-04T05:37:52Z")
[QUOTE=MEBuckner] Really, I thought I was being pretty lenient with old TY; if someone told me a Pit thread would result from those two threads, I would have expected it to be along the lines of "What’s wrong with the stupid mods that they can’t even recognize a troll when they see him? Why wasn’t **TyCobb** banned, his computer hacked into, his bank account crashed, and his legs broken? The mods around here have totally lost it! :mad: " [/QUOTE] Well. since ya brought it up… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264/26 "2006-08-04T14:54:23Z")
I’m with **Oakminster**. \*_TyCobb_ must be eliminated to protect what’s left of the SDMB gene pool. And rather than breaking his legs, remove his nutsack to protect what’s left of the world’s gene pool. We didn’t get to Phelps in time; let’s not make the same mistake here. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264/27 "2006-08-04T15:09:04Z")
Sigh. And now **TubaDiva** has missed her spot: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382584](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382584) This was clearly the time for the mods to cue up _Enter Sandman_ and let one of them hit the ring with a Singapore Cane to dispense justice while we chant SDMB! SDMB! SDMB! in the finest ECW tradition… ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264/28 "2006-08-04T15:30:52Z")
So do we now chant “We Want Tables!” “We Want Tables!” “We Want Tables!”? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264/29 "2006-08-04T15:46:22Z")
[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman] No. I edited the post to be concise and to the point. I had no issue with the rest of the post. Surly you can understand that. [/QUOTE] I don’t understand. And don’t call me Surly. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264/30 "2006-08-04T15:57:31Z")
Does anyone want to take book on how long it will be until a Pit thread is opened protesting the closure of the “STFU” thread? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264/31 "2006-08-04T16:14:03Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] Does anyone want to take book on how long it will be until a Pit thread is opened protesting the closure of the “STFU” thread? [/QUOTE] I was tempted to do so myself, not as a pitting, but as a question about moderation. Shouldn’t the STFU thread have been moved to the bbq pit, not closed? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264/32 "2006-08-04T16:52:10Z")
I suppose it could have been moved. Unfortunately, all the **GD** Mods happened to be away from their keyboards, this morning, so it went on quite a while before a staffer caught it. Given that **TyCobb** does not seem to actually participate in the threads he starts, moving it here would have been more an exercise in letting the TM wax facetious at an absent target than an actual **Pit** ting. If some **Pit** Mod wants to say they’ll accept the thread, I guess we could move it over here and re-open it to see how many bad jokes it could collect before he gets himself banned and we wound up closing the thread, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264/33 "2006-08-04T18:51:56Z")
[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman] My sense is that personal insults are once again getting out of hand in Great Debates. I wouldn’t be pitting this except for the attacks on a guest in this thread and the participation of a mod which appears to sanction the negative behavior. See [14yr old girls are really women](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382441) Here’s what I’m talking about. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=glee] All SDMB posters who make meaningless generalisations from a couple of personal experiences are called Ty Cobb. I know this. [/quote] You think this is a personal insult or an attack? :smack: I merely paraphrased Ty Cobb’s ‘logic’ so he could realise how wrong it was. I’m a teacher - this is my calling. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopes-who-break-gd-rules/367264.md?page=1)