# TubaDiva is back as an admin after less than 30 days - how do YOU feel? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 14, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470 "2005-03-14T15:46:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/21 "2005-03-14T16:27:41Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > The irony! It burns! You probably have the teperature of your irony turned too high… or possibly you are not moving it over your dress shirts quickly enough. I, too, never really got the hang of ironying. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/22 "2005-03-14T16:28:08Z")
I feel like congratulating \*\*Tuba \*\*for helping get rid of a child-molesting shitstain. And I feel like saying “Fuck you” to the shitstain’s defenders. ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/23 "2005-03-14T16:28:41Z")
The whole thing is a moot point; the other admins decided what they decided re: **Tuba** , and we can all take that decision as we will. I’m betting a sizable silent amount of people will decide not to re-subscribe, but that’s their decision. I’m undecided at this point, but I have lost all respect for **TubaDiva** , and her mod/admin position. ---
**Author:** ![Stonebow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/24 "2005-03-14T16:30:11Z")
> [@Blue Ruin](#): > > I know I smell an accusation of sock puppetry. In this circumstance, however, I’m sure you won’t even be warned. I’m sure you can understand the suspicion, given the name of the most recent bannee, one of his pet postings, and your seeming arrival from nowhere. Now, to answer your Op…I am with \*\*Machetero \*\* and \*\*Nametag \*\* on this one, and am overjoyed that \*\*TD \*\* has not allowed herself to be railroaded by some of the more vocal members of this board. She has owned up to what she did, I am confident that she’ll not put the Chicago Reader or this board in the same position again, so that’s it as far as I’m concerned. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/25 "2005-03-14T16:30:57Z")
> [@Blue Ruin](#): > > I am Blue Ruin. I read and post on SDMB. I asked you not to be coy, but you decided to be coy anyway. I see no reason to give any weight to what you say, if you are going to act like that. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/26 "2005-03-14T16:34:40Z")
**TubaDiva** did a bad thing after years of doing good things, was suspended, now regrets the thing she did, and is back. How do I feel? Good that this is behind us. The only question that remains is who you really are. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/27 "2005-03-14T16:34:45Z")
I did just realize that **blue** has been around for about a week and a half and has posted on a range of other topics, so my first suspicion was probably unfounded. I’m still baffled that someone who’s been posting for less than two weeks is this concerned about events that transpired a month ago; the fact that I’m not getting a straight answer to my question leads me to think that the straight answer would be very unflattering to **Blue**. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/28 "2005-03-14T16:35:27Z")
I’m a member and have been for 5 years. I’ve also paid my 1st year money. TubaDiva is back as an admin after less than 30 days - how do YOU feel? I’m not surprised one little bit. Any member would be out on their ass without a second’s thought. She would have been the one to do it. People have been banned for all kinds of shite some of the reasons are very poor IMO and Tuba was at the front of these. At the end of the day we can do fuck all apart from stopping giving them money and moving on which is what I’m doing. These threads(especially this one) are beyond pointless. Say it under your own name or not at all. The OP is either a sock or a banned poster. I most likely agree with you but that doesn’t change the fact that posting as a guest on something like this is just plain dumb and most likely counterproductive as this thread will almost certainly be closed down. ---
**Author:** ![Maendosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@Maendosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maendosa)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/29 "2005-03-14T16:35:45Z")
Had I started this topic, it could likely be me being accused of being a sock - I’m a “new member” with less than 50 posts to my name. However, I’ve been reading here since 2000, give or take a month or two. I remember Wild Bill, “Gotchaya!” and various other scandals and tempests in teapots. Just because someone doesn’t have a thousand or more postcount beside their name doesn’t mean they’re “new”, or that they don’t have a full understanding of “dope” issues, or that their opinion is any less valid than yours. Oh, and I think Tuba should resign as administrator. But feel free to disregard my opinion because I’m “new”. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/30 "2005-03-14T16:38:24Z")
How do I feel? I feel goddamed glad I don’t have any identifying personal information anywhere on the internet. I do wish that variants of CatLady weren’t so incredibly common as screen names, though. Lord knows what kind of damaging stuff is out there about some of those people, and if the claims that she didn’t have access to his personal info for comparison to the database are correct, she’s didn’t even bother to confirm that she was posting information about the right guy. I don’t intend to go pissing people off, so it’s not a big concern, but it shouldn’t have to be a concern at all. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/31 "2005-03-14T16:39:47Z")
I’m not happy Tuba did a bad thing. I can understand the reason she did. I’m glad she’s back. ---
**Author:** ![Stonebow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/32 "2005-03-14T16:40:15Z")
> [@Maendosa](#): > > Oh, and I think Tuba should resign as administrator. But feel free to disregard my opinion because I’m “new”. :rolleyes: If it comforts you to think that, go ahead. But you might want to read my response to it back in my other post. Given the recent issues with another poster, I think you’d have to be very naive to ignore the possibility of a sock being involved in this thread. This has nothing to do with being ‘new.’ It has everything to do with a very fishy set of circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/33 "2005-03-14T16:40:20Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > The irony! It burns! Ze Goggles! Zey do nossing! 🆒 ---
**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:** [March 14, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/34 "2005-03-14T16:40:40Z")
> [@Uvula Donor](#): > > I feel like congratulating \*\*Tuba \*\*for helping get rid of a child-molesting shitstain. > > And I feel like saying “Fuck you” to the shitstain’s defenders. No one is defending the “shitstain”, Einstein, you’re saying “fuck you” to the air. People are upset at the way **Tuba** handled the rightful banning of the “shitstain.” As for the question posed in the OP, I am not happy about it. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/35 "2005-03-14T16:41:25Z")
> [@NotWithoutRage](#): > > but I have lost all respect for **TubaDiva** , and her mod/admin position. Yep. I find it amusing though that lately we’ve had a lot of guests who seem to be extremely well-versed in our past history, thought they’ve only registered in the past month or so. But of course, they’ve been “lurking for years.” ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/36 "2005-03-14T16:42:20Z")
**Maendosa** them’s the breaks I’m afraid. Everyone here has read the “I’ve lurked for years” line from countless returning trolls/banned members. Unfortunately good honest people get caught up in the crossfire but there is no way to actually tell so most posters that I can see have their bullshit meter set to high. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/37 "2005-03-14T16:42:49Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > I’m still baffled that someone who’s been posting for less than two weeks is this concerned about events that transpired a month ago; the fact that I’m not getting a straight answer to my question leads me to think that the straight answer would be very unflattering to **Blue**. > > Daniel Who the fuck cares what this person’s “stake” is? Or are you so elitist that you honestly feel only charter members can feel anything having to do with this message board? Given that a sizable number of people were pissed a month ago, I hardly think this is an unfair rant. The fact that this person is a guest doesn’t diminish the rant. It’s ironic, isn’t it, that those who praise TD for not being “railroaded” by the opinion of some are indeed trying to shout down those who hold a differing view. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/38 "2005-03-14T16:44:30Z")
> [@Maendosa](#): > > Had I started this topic, it could likely be me being accused of being a sock - I’m a “new member” with less than 50 posts to my name. Nonsense. You’ve been around for over a year. The series of unfortunate events transpired last month. The OP has been around 11 days. Had you started it, I wouldn’t have thought twice about your motives for doing so. Furthermore, you’ve just given an accounting of your history here; **Blue** is being coy about his/her history here. It’s absurd to equate the two of you. As for my feelings? I think the whole thing was a tempest in a teapot–but I often feel that way about people’s concerns about online privacy. Daniel ---
**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:** [March 14, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/39 "2005-03-14T16:46:59Z")
> [@dantheman](#): > > Who the fuck cares what this person’s “stake” is? Me. > [@](#): > > Or are you so elitist that you honestly feel only charter members can feel anything having to do with this message board? No. > [@](#): > > Given that a sizable number of people were pissed a month ago, I hardly think this is an unfair rant. The fact that this person is a guest doesn’t diminish the rant. The fact that **they weren’t here when this went down** makes me wonder why they’re stirring the shit now. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Maendosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@Maendosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maendosa)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470/40 "2005-03-14T16:51:19Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Nonsense. You’ve **been around for over a year**. The series of unfortunate events transpired last month. The OP has **been around 11 days**. Had you started it, I wouldn’t have thought twice about your motives for doing so. Bolding mine. No, I’ve “been around” for over 5 years now. I’ve felt like posting for just over a year. That’s the point - you’ve no idea how long the OP has “been around”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-is-back-as-an-admin-after-less-than-30-days-how-do-you-feel/294470.md?page=3)