# The good doctor's post was okay - it's Bodoni's that's idiotic **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 12, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325 "2006-04-12T03:27:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VegemiteMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/df788c/32.png) [@VegemiteMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegemiteMoose)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/21 "2006-04-12T04:16:31Z")
At this point I can only suppose that **drmark** is placing bets with someone along the lines of: Let’s guess how many responses _this_ thread gets before it’s shut down. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/22 "2006-04-12T04:24:07Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > What I DO know is that **askeptic** has fallen foul of said rule by deliberately rendering a member of the board’s name incorrectly. > > Does that make him a tool too? A whole toolbox? Think of it - if Winston had only been able to clone **askeptic** , he would have been able to finish all his jobs. Oh bullshit. You’re allowed to call people names in the Pit and make mockeries of their Doper name. Get bent, **roger**. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/23 "2006-04-12T04:30:22Z")
No homophobic vilification in ANY fora, **Guinastasia**. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/24 "2006-04-12T04:32:27Z")
> [@VegemiteMoose](#): > > At this point I can only suppose that **drmark** is placing bets with someone along the lines of: Let’s guess how many responses _this_ thread gets before it’s shut down. Nah. The bets will be placed on which moderator will stay up all night keeping an eye on things before exercising their power by, yeah, closing it. Then they will sleep easy. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/25 "2006-04-12T04:33:33Z")
> [@roger t00lhill](#): > > What I DO know is that **askeptic** has fallen foul of said rule by deliberately rendering a member of the board’s name incorrectly. Oh for fuck sake **roger TOOLhill**. There is no such rule in the pit you whiny sissy. Now fuck off back to MPSIMS where you can pass your lame ass off as witty. We don’t have to be polite to your pathetic bullshit here in the Pit. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/26 "2006-04-12T04:36:07Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > No homophobic vilification in ANY fora, **Guinastasia**. ??? What are you talking about? How did \*\*Guin \*\* do that? There is no rule about mocking names in the Pit. This was clarified in a thread about \*\*Liberal \*\* actually. Roger are you feeling okay? You usually aren’t this hostile. You are the same Roger that loves CS Lewis aren’t you? Jim ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/27 "2006-04-12T04:42:48Z")
Personally, I doubt that there’s be much appreciable difference if we simply replaced every one of the “doctor’s” OP’s with [this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7279455&postcount=75) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/28 "2006-04-12T04:45:12Z")
If I may… drmark’s behaviour, I have observed, is to contend that life is meaningless and to heap scorn on those who disagree. There’s little in his behaviour that suggests the scholarly maturity I think might be expected from someone who holds a PhD in clinical psychology and some experience in that field. That many express doubt that he actually has such credentials is, I feel, unsurprising. If he is reading this, and actually has some experience with psychological experimentation, I invite him to see if he can make his next ten posts as non-confrontational and emotionless as he can. I’ll even do it with him. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/29 "2006-04-12T04:45:50Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > ??? What are you talking about? > How did \*\*Guin \*\* do that? “Bent” is old British slang: [ > [@](#): > > bent Adj. 1. Homosexual, as opposed to ‘straight’. Derog. [Mid 1900s] ]([http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/b.htm](http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/b.htm)) ---
**Author:** ![VegemiteMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/df788c/32.png) [@VegemiteMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegemiteMoose)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/30 "2006-04-12T04:46:41Z")
Hmm. Perhaps I wasn’t clear. I don’t mean that he is being persecuted. At all. He’s a jerk and good at it. I mean that I wonder if he is crafting specific OP’s with the intent of seeing how many responses he can get _knowing full well_ that they’re going to get justifiably shut down. And then betting on it. Literally. He Pits Microsoft and marriage for Og’s sake. Are you really this clueless **roger**? ---
**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:** [April 12, 2006, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/31 "2006-04-12T04:47:57Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Personally, I doubt that there’s be much appreciable difference if we simply replaced every one of the “doctor’s” OP’s with [this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7279455&postcount=75) Ah, yes, savior the genius of DrMark, the only poster other than Andrewt85 that could screw up a pitting of Bill Gates, one of the easiest targets in the world. Memories, sweet Memories. Roger do us all a favor. Click on DrMark2000’s user profile and the select Fine all thread start by drmark2000. Jim ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/32 "2006-04-12T04:50:40Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Roger do us all a favor. Click on DrMark2000’s user profile and the select Fine all thread start by drmark2000. The thread on the ignore function was one of the most magnificent examples of sheer malicious baiting and bad faith debating I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/33 "2006-04-12T04:56:31Z")
> [@VegemiteMoose](#): > > Are you really this clueless **roger**? Indubitably. As roger would say. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/34 "2006-04-12T05:16:15Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > Reasonable points were made? Where? Maybe not, but many OPs have been equally idiotic and weren’t closed. It seems rather arbitrary to me. Though maybe \*\* Lynn Bodoni \*\* assumes the OP was trolling. So, I don’t feel strongly about this issue. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/35 "2006-04-12T05:30:04Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > Oh for fuck sake **roger TOOLhill**. You may mock a poster’s username, in the Pit, outside the quote box. If, as you did in this quoted post (#25), you alter a poster’s username _inside_ the quote box, you are in trouble. I shall leave it to the Pit mods to decide if this should be an official warning. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/36 "2006-04-12T05:31:04Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > Maybe not, but many OPs have been equally idiotic and weren’t closed. It seems rather arbitrary to me. Well, moderating decisions _are_ pretty arbitrary. In this case, there’s a pattern of borderline behaviour. Individually, his threads blend in with a lot of the nonsense around here. Collectively, they suggest a childish hostility toward this board and its membership. Personally, I think [these](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=360837) [three](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=364892) [threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=364868) betray a level of immaturity we’re better off without. A suspension was well-justified and there is no indication his behaviour has changed, so the subsequent banning will be, too. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/37 "2006-04-12T05:44:41Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > You may mock a poster’s username, in the Pit, outside the quote box. If, as you did in this quoted post (#25), you alter a poster’s username _inside_ the quote box, you are in trouble. I shall leave it to the Pit mods to decide if this should be an official warning. As **Frank** noted, insulting changes to usernames don’t belong in quote tag attributions, even in the Pit. I’m not going to chalk it up as an official warning this time, but if you do it again it’ll be both a warning and an unrelenting barrage of expletives so filthy they’ll make anyone standing in the same zip code as you blush. ( **Veb** ’s been practicing…) ---
**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:** [April 12, 2006, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/38 "2006-04-12T05:54:51Z")
> [@Filthy Prehensile-Tongued Beast](#): > > …if you do it again it’ll be both a warning and an unrelenting barrage of expletives so filthy they’ll make anyone standing in the same zip code as you blush. Ooh, I’d love to see that. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/39 "2006-04-12T06:13:37Z")
**roger** , you ignorant slut. (I really wish I got more opportunities to say that.) Sorry, but you’re wrong. He’s a jerk, and even before I realized it was the same attention whore who has been hell-bent on getting himself banned, it was clear he’d started the thread just to jerk people around. The closing actually seemed kind of merciful. You took his posts in good faith, and I try to take everybody’s posts that way - but not everybody posts in good faith. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325/40 "2006-04-12T08:20:36Z")
Please don’t ban him before his master post is online. I’ve been so looking forward to it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-doctors-post-was-okay-its-bodonis-thats-idiotic/352325.md?page=3)