# This forum is alive? If yes, please remove this topic and my account. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036 "2010-01-22T21:03:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/1 "2010-01-22T21:03:05Z")
This forum is alive? If yes, please remove this topic and my account. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/2 "2010-01-22T21:07:35Z")
(bzzzttttttt) IT’S ALIVE! IT’S ALIVE!!! MY GOD, IT’S ALIVE!!! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/3 "2010-01-22T21:08:19Z")
Well, OK, if you insist. POOF. WTH? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/4 "2010-01-22T21:09:17Z")
Let’s give the thread the Turing Test. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/5 "2010-01-22T21:09:44Z")
Let me know if you can’t read this. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/6 "2010-01-22T21:11:08Z")
Wow. Not even a month. What did we ever do to you? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/7 "2010-01-22T21:14:57Z")
My posts have a life of their own! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/8 "2010-01-22T21:18:19Z")
I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. …Ah, screw it. Banned. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/9 "2010-01-22T21:28:37Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. > > …Ah, screw it. Banned. I want everyone to know. I myself predicted and suggested the very process of a “courtesy banning” not more than one month ago. They laughed then. I stand vindicated. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/10 "2010-01-22T21:28:55Z")
As I was walking up the stair I saw a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today Oh how I wish he’d go away ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/11 "2010-01-22T21:38:39Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I want everyone to know. > > I myself predicted and suggested the very process of a “courtesy banning” not more than one month ago. > > They laughed then. > > I stand vindicated. The amazing this is, [this looks like spam.](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22This+forum+is+alive%3F+If+yes%2C+please+remove+this+topic+and+my+account.+%22&aq=f&aql=&aqi=&oq=) And now you know: even people who eat paste can be spammers. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/12 "2010-01-22T21:41:16Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > The amazing this is, [this looks like spam.](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22This+forum+is+alive%3F+If+yes%2C+please+remove+this+topic+and+my+account.+%22&aq=f&aql=&aqi=&oq=) And now you know: even people who eat paste can be spammers. Dude, quit bringing me down with all your “evidence”…this is my one moment of glory…just let me have it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/13 "2010-01-22T21:43:27Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > …just let me have it 🙂 Is that another request for a courtesy banning? 😃 (For some reason I’m hearing this post in a Daffy Duck voice.) ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/14 "2010-01-22T21:59:19Z")
The post count is what throws me. Aren’t paying members the only ones with post counts? Why would someone fork over fifteen bucks and then post something like this? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/15 "2010-01-22T22:05:59Z")
The post count is visible because he’s been banned. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/16 "2010-01-22T22:06:28Z")
Apparently banned members get the post count perk as a special bonus. 😛 eta: See, I was right! ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/17 "2010-01-22T22:28:18Z")
I would also like to post in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/18 "2010-01-22T22:32:12Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > The post count is visible because he’s been banned. “We will publically display your thread count” is a great euphmism for “You will be banned”, don’t you think? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/19 "2010-01-22T22:35:43Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Is that another request for a courtesy banning? 😃 (For some reason I’m hearing this post in a Daffy Duck voice.) Duck season…rabbit season…duck season…rabbit season…banning season (oh crap!) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036/20 "2010-01-22T23:57:26Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > The amazing this is, [this looks like spam.](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22This+forum+is+alive%3F+If+yes%2C+please+remove+this+topic+and+my+account.+%22&aq=f&aql=&aqi=&oq=) And now you know: even people who eat paste can be spammers. Someone testing a bot, I reckon. I got the spam vibe from the OP the moment I saw it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-is-alive-if-yes-please-remove-this-topic-and-my-account/526036.md?page=2)