# The non-offensive version of soulfrost's "Madam, I must protest" **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 8, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-offensive-version-of-soulfrosts-madam-i-must-protest/591913 "2011-08-08T04:01:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 60
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-offensive-version-of-soulfrosts-madam-i-must-protest/591913/60 "2011-08-08T15:41:04Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > And honestly, I’m not that fussed either way about avatars, I kind of like them, but if TPTB here just plain don’t want them, fine, say so. That already happened almost a week ago: > [@Avatars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/590594/259): > > We see no great advantage to avatars and a number of downsides (among them, my skin will crawl), so have no plans to add them at present. It’s been said in the past, too. > [@NineToTheSky](#): > > Would it not be possible to reinstate SoulFrost and perhaps just suspend him for a while? Then rescind those warnings. He wanted to be banned. He made that abundantly clear and he acted on it. I appreciate the consideration you’re showing here and I know nobody likes seeing longtime posters banned precipitously, but he made it clear he wanted to be escorted out of here to prove a point. We gave him a chance to step back from the edge and didn’t provoke him, and he didn’t want to take the opportunity. I think we try to be respectful of people who’ve been here a long time, but we’re not obliged to tell people “you don’t really mean that” when they’re committed to being banned because of one injustice or another. I don’t think there’s much else to say about this except to point out you’re showing more concern about **SoulFrost** ’s participation here than he did. Like any banned poster, he can ask for reinstatement if he wants it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-offensive-version-of-soulfrosts-madam-i-must-protest/591913)._