# Topic Ban is Unfair and Unjustified **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 28, 2018, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-is-unfair-and-unjustified/822097 "2018-09-28T07:59:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-is-unfair-and-unjustified/822097/21 "2018-09-28T08:58:24Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Not at all. It’s just hypocritical to continually be passive-aggressively trying to start a board war over it (and I say this as someone who used to complain about Giraffe until I actually understood how the symbiosis works and benefits both boards). Parasitism is the more accurate term. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-is-unfair-and-unjustified/822097/22 "2018-09-28T08:59:28Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > You need more wood for that cross you’re building for yourself? Obvious baiting knowing I can’t respond is poor form. But you all do you all. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-is-unfair-and-unjustified/822097/23 "2018-09-28T09:02:48Z")
What would that make someone from here who just lurks there to feed their own snark here, a parasite’s-parasite? Naah,\* this board \*benefits by having a place to blow off steam about things here. It’s less needed now that the Dark Cuntless Days are over, but it’s still a nice safety valve, I think - especially while the “no pitting mods” rule still exists. Symbiosis is accurate. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-is-unfair-and-unjustified/822097/24 "2018-09-28T09:04:41Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Obvious baiting knowing I can’t respond is poor form. But you all do you all. I don’t see how it would require any talking about misogyny by you to respond to that comment, so I don’t see how it’s baiting. Unless you mean you can’t respond _civilly_ in ATMB, in which case, t[here’s a handy thread for that](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=863026). ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-is-unfair-and-unjustified/822097/25 "2018-09-28T09:07:54Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Still doesn’t change the fact that the ban is resulting from responses to what I posted and not what I posted. What others post is out of my control. You’re too invested in this now to reverse. You got an angry mob. I get that. But it’s unfair. …my understanding of topic bans (and mods please feel free to correct me) but people aren’t allowed to bait you into a discussion when you don’t have a right-of-reply. Can the mods clear that up? ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-is-unfair-and-unjustified/822097/26 "2018-09-28T09:16:08Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I don’t see how it would require any talking about misogyny by you to respond to that comment, so I don’t see how it’s baiting. > > Unless you mean you can’t respond _civilly_ in ATMB, in which case, t[here’s a handy thread for that](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=863026). What in the hell are you talking about? I’m not going to be baited by kambuckta’s non factual representation of posts I can’t talk about because _other_ people responded poorly to these non factual representations. Which is precisely what I predicted would happen. Speech or posts are falsely labeled a dishonest mob howls in faux outrage and then sanctions are imposed. Hecklers Veto but without the threat of violence. Very insidious and very clever. Hat’s off to you all. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-is-unfair-and-unjustified/822097/27 "2018-09-28T09:20:23Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > What in the hell are you talking about? What are _you_ talking about?\* I’m\* the one you accused of baiting you, not **kumbuckta**. And _my_ post was about your faux-martyrdom. How would _that_ be baiting? ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-is-unfair-and-unjustified/822097/28 "2018-09-28T09:30:35Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > What are _you_ talking about?\* I’m\* the one you accused of baiting you, not **kumbuckta**. And _my_ post was about your faux-martyrdom. How would _that_ be baiting? Dammit Dibble, the cross thing you wrote was in response to my response to kambuckta. _That_ is a derailment! It’s late. I got to get some sleep. I’m already sad with the statement that I’m not retro snark worthy. :(:(☹ ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-is-unfair-and-unjustified/822097/29 "2018-09-28T09:40:50Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Dammit Dibble, the cross thing you wrote was in response to my response to kambuckta. _That_ is a derailment! Still doesn’t make my pointing out your poor attempt at assuming the mantle of victimhood is “baiting”. > [@](#): > > I’m already sad with the statement that I’m not retro snark worthy. I don’t think a poster _who’s only been here 3 years_ qualifies as retro-_anything_, here or elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-is-unfair-and-unjustified/822097/30 "2018-09-28T11:35:02Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Why not indulge yourself with a few personal insults then go snark? Nope. That would result in a warning, and ye ain’t worth it. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-is-unfair-and-unjustified/822097/31 "2018-09-28T11:43:36Z")
I’m closing this. You are you just intentionally antagonizing each other and all of you should be ashamed of yourselves. Stop it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-is-unfair-and-unjustified/822097.md?page=1)