# Ultra's suspension **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 1, 2021, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396 "2021-01-01T02:29:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/1 "2021-01-01T02:29:06Z")
Yeah, maybe stupid and insensitive, but that is not ‘Trolling’. C’mon. Close the thread. Maybe a terse message, possibly a warning, but really? Suspension? This seems like an over-reaction. I don’t know this poster’s whole history, but I certainly recognize the name. I really don’t think they were trying to yank anybody’s chain. And that is what ‘Trolling’ is, as far as I understand the term. I’d chalk it up to just maybe “Bad Judgement” and move on to a better New Year. Just sayin’. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/2 "2021-01-01T02:45:43Z")
Yeah, I was thinking about starting a thread on that, too. Really stupid piece of modding. I would go so far as to say if anybody got anything from it, it woupd be IvoryTowerDenizen for threadshitting (which I don’t support actually happening). If mentioning that some aspect of the fallout from Covid is suspension level trolling, then there are dozens of us that should be suspended, including the posters in [this](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572) thread. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/3 "2021-01-01T02:53:22Z")
A link? ---
**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 1, 2021, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/4 "2021-01-01T02:55:23Z")
> [@Dick Clark's New Year's Rocking Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-clarks-new-years-rocking-eve/929391): > > It’s a bummer. I understand the need for no crowds, but it is just depressing. And the mask thing seems forced. There are about 11 people in Times Square and they are all wearing masks for the TV. I’m changing the channel. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/5 "2021-01-01T02:57:27Z")
Here’s the link. [Dick Clark's New Year's Rocking Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-clarks-new-years-rocking-eve/929391) I agree that “trolling” is overreacting. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/6 "2021-01-01T03:00:54Z")
Yeah, I…ah…what? How is that even remotely trolling? It is the mildest of mild griping and complaining. In any given month, there are perhaps a hundred comment/posts made by Dopers that are more deserving of discipline than that. ---
**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 1, 2021, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/7 "2021-01-01T03:03:25Z")
He disguised an anti-mask rant as a Café Society thread supposedly about Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve show. He knew what he was doing. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/8 "2021-01-01T03:04:30Z")
Yep, the anti-mask part made it trolling. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/9 "2021-01-01T03:07:05Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I would go so far as to say if anybody got anything from it, it woupd be IvoryTowerDenizen for threadshitting \*jaw falls onto the floor in disbelief Way to be supportive to someone who just lost her mother, pal! ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/10 "2021-01-01T03:14:02Z")
It looks as though **UltraVires** crime was not being able to see the future to know that **IvoryTowerDenizen** was going to post that they lost their mother. ---
**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 1, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/11 "2021-01-01T03:15:18Z")
Also, at this late stage in the game talking about “…11 people in Times Square and they are all wearing masks for the TV” is nothing but a direct insult, wrong in fact and wrong in tone. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/12 "2021-01-01T03:16:57Z")
Jesus, I regret starting this. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/13 "2021-01-01T03:17:20Z")
Wrong, I saw the Op before I saw any other post. When I get a chance I review every New Café thread to see if it fits a Tag and then tag those that do. That Op, bringing up masks. Finishing up 2020 looked like Trolling 101 to me. No one posting is that clueless. He’s trolling. He was trying to get a rise from people. He succeeded in this case, except as a Mod I could warn or suspend him. * * * Don’t sweat it **Gato** , if you didn’t start it someone else would have. Happy New Year’s everyone. ---
**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 1, 2021, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/14 "2021-01-01T03:17:51Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > It looks as though **UltraVires** crime was not being able to see the future to know that **IvoryTowerDenizen** was going to post that they lost their mother People have been losing loved ones to this pandemic for a long time now. Are you saying that this _fact_ shouldn’t have been considered before the post was made? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/15 "2021-01-01T03:21:13Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > stupid and insensitive Maybe he’ll be less stupid and insensitive in 2021. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/16 "2021-01-01T03:22:09Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Happy New Year’s everyone. Thank you. To you as well. And my condolances to IvoryTower. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/17 "2021-01-01T03:25:22Z")
I’m going to have to defend UltraVires on this one. Having a small crowd at Times Square on New Years Eve is a depressing sight. There have been a lot of depressing sights this year. Pointing this out is not part of some anti-quarantine agenda. I’ve lost several family members to Covid. I have other friends and family members who are currently hospitalized because of it. But I’m not offended by what UltarVires posted. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/18 "2021-01-01T03:29:13Z")
I just think that UV’s post looked a lot worse after ITD posted their sad news about their mother and that’s not UV’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/19 "2021-01-01T03:29:44Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Having a small crowd at Times Square on New Years Eve is a depressing sight. There have been a lot of depressing sights this year. Pointing this out is not part of some anti-quarantine agenda. I don’t think it was “pointing out a small crowd” that got him suspended. I suspect it was the two comments about masks in a four-sentence post. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396/20 "2021-01-01T03:33:30Z")
Absolutely. Without any question. That looks like trolling. Finding the small crowd depressing is quite understandable. The anti-mask messaging is trolling in this case, in a New Year’s Eve Café thread. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultras-suspension/929396.md?page=2)