# Tom's warning for Slacker. Huh? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 11, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toms-warning-for-slacker-huh/751876 "2016-04-11T10:56:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toms-warning-for-slacker-huh/751876/1 "2016-04-11T10:56:17Z")
[Post here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19250217&postcount=572) Context is a poster who has been making the argument that Democratic administrations, including Obama, have all been so much the corporate water carriers, that why should one bother to vote for one if it is not Sanders. It’s not an all warm and fuzzy response but a personal insult? Huh? The comment seems no worse than bwahaha to me. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toms-warning-for-slacker-huh/751876/2 "2016-04-11T11:00:15Z")
Was told to o knock it off…chose not to…where’s the controversy? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toms-warning-for-slacker-huh/751876/3 "2016-04-11T12:02:54Z")
Whether he actually did or not. I don’t see the insult in that post, either. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toms-warning-for-slacker-huh/751876/4 "2016-04-11T12:51:48Z")
Here’s the offending post and mod note from earlier in that thread: > [@Feel the #extortion Bernie has planned](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feel-the-extortion-bernie-has-planned/750443/549): > > This is psychotic-break level divorced from reality, but I am not going to try to get through to you, and I’m done begging ridiculous people to vote Democratic. Buh-bye, go play in your Jill Stein sandbox; the grownups will take care of the country for you. > [@Feel the #extortion Bernie has planned](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feel-the-extortion-bernie-has-planned/750443/550): > > That’s enough of that. This whole thread is a fine line waiting to be tripped over. > > No more personal attacks at all. SlackerInc, keep it under control. And the latest post that received the warning: > [@Feel the #extortion Bernie has planned](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feel-the-extortion-bernie-has-planned/750443/566): > > I’m not going to waste time and effort begging you to. Go and play in the irrelevant Green Party sandbox, if it makes you feel pure and righteous. I’m all out of fucks to give on that question. The first post is clearly (IMHO) insulting, the second post maybe not so much, but given the previous mod note and the parallel language (go play in your [stein/green] sandbox], I’m not sure what Slacker expected. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toms-warning-for-slacker-huh/751876/5 "2016-04-11T13:10:36Z")
Yeah, the insult is right there. He’s not talking about anonymous voters, but to the poster(s) here on this MB he is responding to. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toms-warning-for-slacker-huh/751876/6 "2016-04-11T13:19:56Z")
It falls within the insult line…especially after I told everyone - and SlackerInc especially - to calm it down. If Slacker doesn’t want to listen to moderation he should be prepared to receive warnings. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toms-warning-for-slacker-huh/751876/7 "2016-04-11T20:15:50Z")
Going bwahahah at someone is not insulting but telling them, even colorfully, to go ahead and waste your vote voting for an irrelevant party, I don’t give fuck, is? Ooookay. Youse all da mods. I’ll move along. (No disagreement that “psychotic break” deserved a note.) ---
**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 11, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toms-warning-for-slacker-huh/751876/8 "2016-04-11T21:21:11Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Going bwahahah at someone is not insulting but telling them, even colorfully, to go ahead and waste your vote voting for an irrelevant party, I don’t give fuck, is? > > Ooookay. Youse all da mods. I’ll move along. > > (No disagreement that “psychotic break” deserved a note.) “If it makes you feel pure and righteous” is, IMO, the most insulting part–it, along with the rest of the post, is pretty clearly calling its object a self-righteous child. The Elections forum has become a goddamn cesspool. I appreciate more mod notes/warnings being given out. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toms-warning-for-slacker-huh/751876/9 "2016-04-11T21:28:10Z")
And yet I see that very valid: is it better to vote for someone who you know has no chance to win and remain “pure and righteous” or (and this is not at the same level?) should one “hold your nose” and vote for a candidate that can win? To stay feeling pure and righteous or to feel compromised is exactly the dynamic being discussed. How is that insulting? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toms-warning-for-slacker-huh/751876/10 "2016-04-11T21:55:23Z")
I think steronz spelled it out pretty clearly in post 4. SlackerInc used almost all the exact same insulting verbiage from the post he was warned for but dropped the bit he figured was the “direct insult” part, basically playing “I’m not touching you!”. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toms-warning-for-slacker-huh/751876/11 "2016-04-11T22:33:48Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > And yet I see that very valid: is it better to vote for someone who you know has no chance to win and remain “pure and righteous” or (and this is not at the same level?) should one “hold your nose” and vote for a candidate that can win? > > To stay feeling pure and righteous or to feel compromised is exactly the dynamic being discussed. How is that insulting? I would regard the more insulting part to be “go play in the irrelevant Green Party sandbox,” indicating the other person is childish. In any case, it it clearly a personal attack directed at the person rather than what they said, which is what Jonathan instructed against doing. I really don’t understand how you can’t see that the post is insulting and a personal attack. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toms-warning-for-slacker-huh/751876/12 "2016-04-12T22:59:51Z")
On it’s own, that post might not have caught attention. But on the heels of a similar remark that was a lot more hostile and a mod note calling for the whole tone of the thread to calm down and specifically calling out **SlackerInc** , it’s appropriate.