# Welcome our new administrator Marley23 **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 7, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456 "2011-09-07T02:01:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/61 "2011-09-07T15:46:17Z")
So…how’s it going? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/62 "2011-09-07T15:46:29Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Congrats! I’m sure the running of the boards will be in good hands with you as an administrator. You were saying? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/63 "2011-09-07T15:48:00Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > You were saying? [Nice job breaking it, hero.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceJobBreakingItHero) ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/64 "2011-09-07T15:48:25Z")
Epic. Simply epic. Board history. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/65 "2011-09-07T15:49:53Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > You were saying? Careful with those wildcards, Bro. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/66 "2011-09-07T15:50:00Z")
Ah, that tricky first day on the job…😃 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/67 "2011-09-07T15:51:07Z")
😃 Man, and I thought I did wrong when I first came a mod and I accidentally clicked the magical button to permanently delete someone’s post. ---
**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/68 "2011-09-07T15:51:26Z")
It was the raisins. Raisins ruin everything. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/69 "2011-09-07T15:53:32Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > You won’t be missed. I don’t even like cashews. It’s only one Cashew. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/70 "2011-09-07T15:56:23Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Epic. Simply epic. Board history. Before my joke gets out of hand, I should explain seriously that I did ban one IP address this morning right before whatever happened happened. The obvious inference is that that ban caused the big lockout. Even if that’s the case, I don’t know of any reason it should have done that. It was not a broad ban and the range I banned was only used by a couple of spammers located in India. I hope Jerry can tell us what happened at some point. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/71 "2011-09-07T15:58:04Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:47, topic:595456”] **Marley** as admin. If I was a spammer, I’d be fleeing in terror right about now. [/QUOTE] “We had to destroy the message board in order to save it.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/72 "2011-09-07T15:58:20Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Before my joke gets out of hand, I should explain seriously that I did ban one IP address this morning right before whatever happened happened. The obvious inference is that that ban caused the big lockout. Even if that’s the case, I don’t know of any reason it should have done that. It was not a broad ban and the range I banned was only used by a couple of spammers located in India. I hope Jerry can tell us what happened at some point. Uh huh. Sure. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/73 "2011-09-07T15:59:17Z")
Apparently, there’s a little bit of India in all of us. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/74 "2011-09-07T15:59:27Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Before my joke gets out of hand, I should explain seriously that I did ban one IP address this morning right before whatever happened happened. The obvious inference is that that ban caused the big lockout. Even if that’s the case, I don’t know of any reason it should have done that. It was not a broad ban and the range I banned was only used by a couple of spammers located in India. I hope Jerry can tell us what happened at some point. I’ve always said that the “Ban This IP Address” button and the “Ban Everything BUT This IP Address” button were set too close together on the board. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/75 "2011-09-07T16:01:34Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Before my joke gets out of hand, I should explain seriously that I did ban one IP address this morning right before whatever happened happened. The obvious inference is that that ban caused the big lockout. Even if that’s the case, I don’t know of any reason it should have done that. It was not a broad ban and the range I banned was only used by a couple of spammers located in India. I hope Jerry can tell us what happened at some point. Did you try and ban Little Bobby Tables? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/76 "2011-09-07T16:01:43Z")
[Homer]It was my first day[/Homer] Srsly, congrats. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/77 "2011-09-07T16:02:27Z")
Don’t blame him, blame the spammer with the IP address _._._._ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/78 "2011-09-07T16:03:28Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > “We had to destroy the message board in order to save it.” Look, if you people want your spam eliminated, you’re going to have to put up with the entire internet being banned once in a while. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/79 "2011-09-07T16:07:56Z")
\*\*Marley \*\*broke the boards! \*\*Marley \*\*broke the boards! \Ha ha!\ ---
**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:** [September 7, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456/80 "2011-09-07T16:15:59Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > “We had to destroy the message board in order to save it.” He was trying to set the information free. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-new-administrator-marley23/595456.md?page=5)