# "The Usual Suspects"

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**Created:** [December 21, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-usual-suspects/564961 "2010-12-21T15:41:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-usual-suspects/564961/69 "2010-12-21T23:56:18Z")

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> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#):
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> As far as I know, the word isn’t banned. My memory could be faulty, but I seem to recall that a bunch of clever people started saying “buckeye” in threads that had nothing to do with buckeyes, but in which the poster who didn’t like the word had posted, and a moderator might have said “that will be enough of that.”

That’s my understanding. Some folks took it way too far and were basically pursuing the user in question about the board, trying to bait said user repeatedly after the subject had been long dropped. It was obnoxious behavior by a few that was addressed as such.

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