# The worst of the worst (SDMB version) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 20, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693 "2016-04-20T00:54:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/21 "2016-04-20T05:41:42Z")
Well, that was long-winded, innit? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/22 "2016-04-20T05:57:58Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Well, that was long-winded, innit? I loved it. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/23 "2016-04-20T06:03:58Z")
And I’m going to have to be in the minority and say I enjoy **adahar** ’s presence at the Dope. He’s entertaining, somewhat intelligent and harmless. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2016, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/24 "2016-04-20T06:24:41Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > And we can take some comfort in a number of names that could have gone here, but who have been banned. It would be poor etiquette to name any names, so I’ll just say, “Good riddance to bad rubbish.” I frequent other forums where this is not the case, so yeah, I gotta say, thank god for the willingness of the mods here to exclude people from threads (or the board as a whole) on account of being either unwilling or unable to meaningfully contribute to it. Surprised **Drunky Smurf** wasn’t mentioned yet. He’s largely the exception to the above rule. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/25 "2016-04-20T07:51:43Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > And I’m going to have to be in the minority and say I enjoy **adahar** ’s presence at the Dope. He’s entertaining, somewhat intelligent and harmless. Mostly harmless. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/26 "2016-04-20T07:56:40Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > But I’ve got big hands. Really big hands. The exception that proves the rule. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/27 "2016-04-20T08:17:32Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > once she’s checked which way the SDMB wind is blowing, attacking a minority viewpoint. The SDMB and … other places. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/28 "2016-04-20T09:31:17Z")
And this board would be a feeble board without all who have been mentioned. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/29 "2016-04-20T12:17:42Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > **D’Anconia** and **Doorhinge** are priceless, and are more in the line of generalists, and their role is to be completely wrong about absolutely everything, always, which is actually quite an achievement and makes them useful idiot savants if you merely invert everything they say to its logical opposite. **D’Anconia** isn’t really on my radar, but you’re spot-on regarding **Doorhindge**. the smugness he brings to his idiotic posts amazes me. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/30 "2016-04-20T12:22:39Z")
I’ll toss in russian **heel** who whines incessantly about problems of his/her own creation. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/31 "2016-04-20T12:33:31Z")
Can we get some linked examples? I don’t want to have to search through a poster’s history to find something to hate, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/32 "2016-04-20T12:40:41Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > …poofreading. WTF is that, some kinda gay book club? ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/33 "2016-04-20T12:43:48Z")
Shit y’all, I need to up my game. My lies and deception must just be too subtle. Maybe I should pick an obsession. We had some guy obsessed with global warming get banned. Maybe I can take his place. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/34 "2016-04-20T12:44:38Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > **D’Anconia** isn’t really on my radar, but you’re spot-on regarding **Doorhindge**. the smugness he brings to his idiotic posts amazes me. D’Anconia has zero ability to ever admit he makes a mistake. He first got on my radar for his contemptuous dismissal of the claims of [Sylvester Magee](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=745822&highlight=sylvester+magee). Start at post 45. His skepticism of all of Magee’s claims is all right, but he refuses to budge even an inch, no matter what. Since then, every thread I’ve encountered him in has had the same dynamic: he seems to think that if he admits to the tiniest error, it will destroy his world. He’s an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/35 "2016-04-20T13:45:37Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > WTF is that, some kinda gay book club? You’ve heard of reading tea leaves, right? Same thing, but with cheesy poofs. You’re welcome, ignorance fought. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/36 "2016-04-20T13:54:21Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Surprised **Drunky Smurf** wasn’t mentioned yet. He’s largely the exception to the above rule. Speaking for the other members of the **Drunky Smurf Fan Club** we think that you should go bite yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/37 "2016-04-20T14:15:19Z")
What, no\*\* ITR Champion\*\*? He isn’t around a lot anymore but his debate dishonesty still just astounds me. Any thread he starts becomes a trainwreck. I feel bad for the science students he supposedly teaches and the political party he claims to support. He’s Stephen Colbert’s character without the satire. Sometimes I wonder if he’s a liberal plant. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/38 "2016-04-20T14:26:21Z")
I tend to avoid threads with **Adaher** in them, even though I have him blocked, because stupid people keep trying to argue with him and it derails every goddamned thread he’s in. So really, as bad as he is, the real enemies are the morons who keep engaging him. I agree with the OP on **Guinistasia**. I think she’s dialed it back a bit, or at least I don’t tend to see her around as much, but yes, her entire multiple-tens of thousands of posts history is “watch which way the wind is blowing, jump in late to pile-on”. **Smapti** has some value in the wrestling threads, but his whole outlook on the world is so painfully damaged that I would not care to be in the same room as him. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/39 "2016-04-20T14:34:58Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > D’Anconia has zero ability to ever admit he makes a mistake. He first got on my radar for his contemptuous dismissal of the claims of [Sylvester Magee](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=745822&highlight=sylvester+magee). Start at post 45. His skepticism of all of Magee’s claims is all right, but he refuses to budge even an inch, no matter what. Why should **D’Anconia** budge an inch in that thread? Magee claimed to be 130 years old, which is very unlikely to be true, and to be a former slave, for which the documentation is pretty scanty. You didn’t produce any evidence to overcome the skepticism. Nor did anyone else. If you want to take those kinds of claims at face value, too bad for you. It’s always amusing how the much-vaunted skepticism of the SDMB gets turned on and off depending on how much y’all want to believe. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bruce\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693/40 "2016-04-20T14:44:09Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Speaking for the other members of the **Drunky Smurf Fan Club** we think that you should go bite yourself. Seconded. > [@Chimera](#): > > I agree with the OP on **Guinistasia**. I think she’s dialed it back a bit, or at least I don’t tend to see her around as much, but yes, her entire multiple-tens of thousands of posts history is “watch which way the wind is blowing, jump in late to pile-on”. I think she’s charming and that the “pile on” criticism is ironic, even if there is some truth to it. Notice how many of the posters being named are right of center? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-of-the-worst-sdmb-version/752693.md?page=3)