# There's more than a Chance this warning was unwarranted **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 18, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634 "2020-07-18T02:03:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/21 "2020-07-20T10:45:45Z")
- .5 test (On edit) Yep, it thinks you are starting a bulleted list. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/22 "2020-07-20T12:27:26Z")
``` +.5 test .5 test ``` requires 4 spaces in front and minimum of 5 non-space characters ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/23 "2020-07-21T00:50:16Z")
I responded to a specific warning and used specific citations to back up why I thought the warning was bogus. I will now leave intact in your post of 501 words the part that actually address my specific complaint: > [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > First off, all of the stuff about math is entirely irrelevant to the issue at hand. Ah, the “I was told there would be no math” defense. Thanks for spending 3% of your post on what is the issue at hand (and since it’s my OP, I think I know what that issue is). That issue was _this warning and your defense of it_. This only bolsters my secondary point, that the only reason I was warned was because of my past. So thanks for conceding that even if you lack the intellectual integrity to concede the logical conclusion that the warning was indefensible (your entire “defense” can be summed up as “well, you posted it, and you’ve been a dick.”) The fact remains that to justify your warning to me you had to literally change the definition of a word and also omit a word I used changing the meaning of my post in the process; the latter item is the kind of thing that will get posters warnings as you well know. So I am not surprised that you couldn’t defend it. I guess I was hoping you would realize when I spelled it out to you that you might say “you know, Left Ear, you may have a point. You keep on trying to not be a dick and I’ll make sure to warn or ban you if you fuck up.” You could even decide that would likely happen some day and part of your 485 other words is pretty much saying exactly that. But no. Instead you spend 485 words saying what I actually got out of the way in the very first paragraph of the OP - that you usually had a point. You don’t this time (or you would have defended it) and you can write 5,000 or 500,000 or five million words on anything except the specific warning that I took issue with if you like. I won’t be around to read it. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/24 "2020-07-21T06:51:35Z")
Well, I’ll be on the veranda, since you’re already on the cross ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/25 "2020-07-21T12:45:08Z")
Would you have been happier, if you’d been warned for this comment, which came 5 hours earlier than the post that was the official reason for your warning: [That’s a bullshit narrative. That you would mindlessly spout a bullshit narrative is not a shock, but you repeating the bullshit narrative doesn’t make it something other than a bullshit narrative.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-to-improve-trump-s-odds-of-re-election/914869/149) You don’t need to answer that question — there’s already enough irrelevant microparsing in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/26 "2020-07-21T13:24:37Z")
You may, of course, take all of this as you will. I don’t have the ability to make you see the truth. However, I can tell you that I believe you are wrong. Many, many posters find themselves on a form of enhanced oversight due to their creating a pattern of disruptive behavior. I don’t think you’d find many other posters who would disagree that such does occur. It’s also the case that people who exhibit a pattern of disruptive behavior frequently find themselves in trouble for minor infractions in a ‘straw-camel-back’ situation. Nonetheless, you are free to keep to your narrative at your discretion. And I will keep to mine. But know that if you keeping to yours means you won’t change your behavior you will get removed from Great Debates and Politics & Election and possibly from the SDMB as a whole. In the end, the choice is entirely yours. No one else controls your fate but you. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/27 "2020-07-21T13:33:11Z")
I see an an inappropriate level of personal invective on both sides of this, IMO. If one poster deserved a warning, then they both did. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/28 "2020-07-21T14:50:19Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > I see an an inappropriate level of personal invective on both sides of this, IMO. If one poster deserved a warning, then they both did That’s not a good idea, then both of them start ATMB threads complaining about the warning and accusing the other one of starting it and accuse Jonathan Chance of bias or declawing cats or something. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/29 "2020-07-21T15:11:19Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > I don’t have the ability to make you see the truth. Now that would be a kickass superpower to have! Forget flying, super strength, X-ray vision… imagine what someone could do with the ability to make people see the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/30 "2020-07-21T17:32:07Z")
Well, it would from many a blunder free us. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/31 "2020-07-21T17:32:35Z")
Nah, I still use two spaces after periods. That’s what’ll really be my downfall. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/32 "2020-07-21T17:42:30Z")
It’s never too early to change. Think about all of the time that you’ll save. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/33 "2020-07-21T23:25:14Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Well, it would from many a blunder free us. Is it just me? I can’t parse this sentence at all. ---
**Author:** ![RealityCheck71](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitycheck71/32/3493_2.png) [@RealityCheck71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityCheck71)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/34 "2020-07-21T23:49:50Z")
It would free us from many blunders. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/35 "2020-07-22T00:48:03Z")
An foolish notion. It’s from a poem. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/36 "2020-07-22T07:12:07Z")
> [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](#): > > Is it just me? I can’t parse this sentence at all. It’s a sick Burns. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/37 "2020-07-22T15:23:08Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Well, it would from many a blunder free us. See, if you had typed “It wad frae monie a blunder free us” it would have been so clear. And oddly, maybe I just had to switch gears from prose to poetry, but it parses for me fine this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/38 "2020-07-22T15:29:14Z")
I’ll take the blame, here. Truly, my low class translation was entirely the fault. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/39 "2020-07-23T01:24:49Z")
I rather like your eminently accessible translation. I was able to parse it just fine. It enriched my experience immensely. Thank you. The original Burns I never would have been able to benefit from. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634/40 "2020-07-23T04:57:09Z")
# O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.” ― Robert Burns [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-more-than-a-chance-this-warning-was-unwarranted/915634.md?page=3)