# Threads where every poster is banned? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 17, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004 "2018-02-17T16:25:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/1 "2018-02-17T16:25:52Z")
Some times when I note a banned user that had a very low or (very high) post count, I like to dig through some of their latest posts to see if I can figure out what they did to be banned. Today some link-surfing led me to [a (short) thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=153053) where everyone who had posted in it is now banned. (I’m betting that there were fewer unique posters than there were usernames.) Any idea what the longest thread is where everybody posting in it is now banned? (Put here in the Pit instead of ATMB or MPSIMS because of the potential harshness in discussion of banned posters.) ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/2 "2018-02-17T16:45:03Z")
That was just after they got the new banhammer. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/3 "2018-02-17T17:04:25Z")
Hi, archivist from the future! Isn’t it weird how this thread is 99%\* posters who are now banned? No one saw that coming… [narrator: “Everyone saw that coming.”]\*\* \*luckily, it’s everyone but me \*\* that’s something we did back in the twenty-teens. Look up _Arrested Development_ on your HuTubeFlix™ Implant ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/4 "2018-02-17T17:34:38Z")
This thread was from 2002. Back then I think it was much easier to get banned: now there is usually a systematic progression of warnings, suspensions and finally banning. I can remember reading an old thread thinking great poster, then notice the poster is banned, do a search to see the explanation–and the reason seems to be that the poster challenged a mod’s authority–and immediately got banned. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/5 "2018-02-17T17:39:06Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > This thread was from 2002. Back then I think it was much easier to get banned: now there is usually a systematic progression of warnings, suspensions and finally banning. > > I can remember reading an old thread thinking great poster, then notice the poster is banned, do a search to see the explanation–and the reason seems to be that the poster challenged a mod’s authority–and immediately got banned. It’s no easier to get banned now vs then from what I remember. There are only four posters in that thread and it’s sixteen years old. It’s not that unlikely. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/6 "2018-02-17T17:44:32Z")
What happens to you when you’re banned? Is it like hell? Or boredom? Maybe it pushes you over the cliff of normalcy into the pits of real people and real events. It must be horrendous!! ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/7 "2018-02-17T17:46:51Z")
The horror. The horror. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/8 "2018-02-17T17:49:45Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > It’s no easier to get banned now vs then from what I remember. There are only four posters in that thread and it’s sixteen years old. It’s not that unlikely. As **PastTense** says, it is much harder to get banned now than it was in the early days of the board. (Of course, excluding spammers, trolls, and socks, which then as now were shoot on sight.) It was fairly arbitrary early on; later it took the votes of just two mods (one of them an admin) to ban; now it takes a consensus of the mods. And we have a graded series of steps from warnings through suspension to banning. Procedures were formalized when the board went Pay-to-Post to avoid banning paying customers without clearly documented reasons. This said, it wouldn’t surprise me if there were only two posters in that thread instead of four. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/9 "2018-02-17T17:51:19Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > What happens to you when you’re banned? I understand it is like Limbo: a blank, featureless nothingness. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/10 "2018-02-17T17:54:50Z")
Sounds similar to my RL. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/11 "2018-02-17T17:56:49Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I understand it is like Limbo: a blank, featureless nothingness. Bull, they make new accounts and come back as multi-legged sea creatures. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/12 "2018-02-17T17:59:01Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > As **PastTense** says, it is much harder to get banned now than it was in the early days of the board. (Of course, excluding spammers, trolls, and socks, which then as now were shoot on sight.) It was fairly arbitrary early on; later it took the votes of just two mods (one of them an admin) to ban; now it takes a consensus of the mods. And we have a graded series of steps from warnings through suspension to banning. Procedures were formalized when the board went Pay-to-Post to avoid banning paying customers without clearly documented reasons. It’s certainly more formalized and less capricious now but in my opinion there were some posters who went on for years acting out who would have been banned sooner under a more formalized system. It’s tough to say. It was a more close knit place back then and more people knew each other personally. > [@](#): > > This said, it wouldn’t surprise me if there were only two posters in that thread instead of four. Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/13 "2018-02-17T18:13:36Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Bull, they make new accounts and come back as multi-legged sea creatures. Is it those giant Antarctic isopods? Because those are very cool. (No pun intended.) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/14 "2018-02-17T18:13:45Z")
If you look at the posters, the OP was banned within 10 minutes or so of starting that thread. Two of the other posters were banned within a few weeks and one of them was still active a couple years later. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/15 "2018-02-17T18:22:48Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > What happens to you when you’re banned? Is it like hell? Or boredom? Maybe it pushes you over the cliff of normalcy into the pits of real people and real events. It must be horrendous!! if you’re on the shit list, it’ll tell you you’re _persona non grata_ when you try to log in. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/16 "2018-02-17T18:26:01Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > It’s certainly more formalized and less capricious now but in my opinion there were some posters who went on for years acting out who would have been banned sooner under a more formalized system. It’s tough to say. It was a more close knit place back then and more people knew each other personally. I would agree that standards of behavior have tightened from the earliest days. On the other hand, the multiple warning/suspension system gives people the chance to change their behavior before they reach the brink. Years ago, you would have been simply banned at the point that today gets a suspension. Posters petitioned to be allowed back in and were sometimes reinstated (but most ended up being banned again). ---
**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:** [February 17, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/17 "2018-02-17T18:41:54Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I would agree that standards of behavior have tightened from the earliest days. On the other hand, the multiple warning/suspension system gives people the chance to change their behavior before they reach the brink. > > Years ago, you would have been simply banned at the point that today gets a suspension. Posters petitioned to be allowed back in and were sometimes reinstated (but most ended up being banned again). Oh yeah. I meant to bring that up. There were lots of second chances after banning but very few made it work. It’s definitely a better system now. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/18 "2018-02-17T18:43:02Z")
Well, there was that one brief time when all the posters in all the threads were banned… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/19 "2018-02-17T18:43:56Z")
Do only posters who were permanently banned count, or do people who were temporarily banned count? Because there was that one time that **Marley** went mad on power and banned everybody… Edit: … How on earth did we just simulpost that? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004/20 "2018-02-17T22:37:14Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Well, there was that one brief time when all the posters in all the threads were banned… 🙂 Ahh, I remember that. I got SO much done… caught up on work, reorganized my closet, painted the house (inside and out), started our local Esperanto Club, ran a cutthroat campaign for Esperanto Club President, and still had time to learn Esperanto so I’d fit in. But I do appreciate the mod notes and warnings that posters get nowadays. Partly so people can dial it back… but also because then I know to keep an eye on that thread for the drama of Death By Mod. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-where-every-poster-is-banned/809004.md?page=2)