# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 320
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6770 "2026-02-28T13:46:00Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > > [@msmith537](#): > > > > I just thought with a user name like @The_Librarian they might be some sort of compulsive book hoarder who took offense to the mere suggestion they might have a problem. > > Gods, you’re a sad old motherfucker. I am now since you hurt my feelings. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6771 "2026-02-28T13:50:14Z")
Liar - trolls don’t _have_ feelings. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6772 "2026-02-28T14:20:15Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Liar - trolls don’t _have_ feelings. That’s racist. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6773 "2026-02-28T14:47:02Z")
Obvious troll is obvious. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6774 "2026-02-28T14:54:23Z")
Yep, that post also clinched it for me. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6775 "2026-02-28T17:46:38Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Obvious troll is obvious. Just to be clear (because it’s not obvious to me), are you inserting yourself into a conversation that has nothing to do with you because I poked fun at @The_Librarian after he told me to “fuck off” and blocked me because I innocuously posted a ChatGPT quote (which I labelled as such). Pretty sure that’s not “trolling” on my part. Might be trolling on your part because as far as I can tell all of this has fuck-all to do with you. Look, if you find me too sarcastic or offensive at times, then I suggest you block me. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2026, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6776 "2026-02-28T20:50:42Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > are you inserting yourself into a conversation It’s a free thread, asshole. _Everyone_ can read the utter crap you post. > [@msmith537](#): > > because I poked fun at @The_Librarian You say “poked fun” , I say “continued your collecting=mental illness bullshit”. Potatoe, po-troll-to. > [@msmith537](#): > > Pretty sure that’s not “trolling” on my part. No, that was just you being a fucknugget. The “hurt my feelings” and especially the “pretty sure that’s racist” is the trolling part. > [@msmith537](#): > > as far as I can tell all of this has fuck-all to do with you. Welcome to the Pit, my sweet summer child. Where when you show your ass, as you did, _everyone_ gets to comment. > [@msmith537](#): > > Look, if you find me too sarcastic or offensive at times Sarcasm is just fine. _Stupid_ is what’s offensive. Especially stupid that thinks it’s being clever, like your entire _ouvré_. > [@msmith537](#): > > I suggest you block me _I_ suggest you go fuck a cactus. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6777 "2026-03-12T14:07:56Z")
I see that **Librarian** has earned a suspension for attacking me. Again. Not that I complained to anyone about it; that’s not my style. They are probably a reasonable person in real life in their milieu, but they are not American, hate pre-trump America, hate cars, hate US attitudes towards nearly everything but driving particularly, and especially hate what the USA has turned into. As to that last item, nearly all Dopers agree w her: we’re passengers on a runaway freight train aimed straight into Hell. As to the other items, she’s a poor fit here. She seems (seemed?) to struggle with being able to hate the behaviors without hating on the people talking about the behaviors. I doubt she’s in any sense a troll, a disingenuous shit-stirrer. But she does struggle with accepting that shouting “Wake up you stupid sheeple!” is not going to materially alter US culture. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6778 "2026-03-12T14:10:42Z")
I don’t think he’s a troll though, did you mean for this to be in the [What were they thinking thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6776)? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6779 "2026-03-12T14:12:04Z")
Actually, that’s a better fit. Oops. If you want to move my post, that’d be great. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6780 "2026-03-12T14:14:02Z")
And done. He gets overheated too often but overall is a very solid member of the board and for a long time. Clearly you need to offer him a banana. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6781 "2026-03-12T14:19:56Z")
Agreed. I read what they have to say and often agree w it. But sometimes … they launch off the deep end. As do most of us; me included. The dose makes the poison and as the warning said, they’re close to ODing. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6782 "2026-03-12T15:42:37Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Agreed. I read what they have to say and often agree w it. But sometimes … they launch off the deep end. That seems my experience as well. I’ve had my clashes (particularly in the Pit where such clashes are appropriate) but otherwise a decent poster. ---
**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 12, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6783 "2026-03-12T15:49:19Z")
The latest one looked like suicide by Mod to me. Throwing in another jab after a clear warning was just silly. They were lucky it was just a suspension. For whatever reason, Tesla cars seem to make otherwise rational people lose their minds. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6784 "2026-03-14T13:37:24Z")
65 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Driving Thread {Posts pulled from What were you thinking thread}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-thread-posts-pulled-from-what-were-you-thinking-thread/1028444/3) ---
**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:** [March 14, 2026, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6785 "2026-03-14T13:38:09Z")
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**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:** [March 14, 2026, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6786 "2026-03-14T13:49:09Z")
This topic was automatically opened after 11 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6787 "2026-03-14T18:52:24Z")
Since I’ve been legitimately brought to task (for the second time no less!) about the overly-general title of this thread, feel free to read this post in the most recent spin-off: > [@Driving Thread {Posts pulled from What were you thinking thread}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-thread-posts-pulled-from-what-were-you-thinking-thread/1028444/80): > > So, I’m being mindful that I’m probably defensive over my title choice - I think I’m balancing for bias, but I’m also probably going to give all benefit of the doubt. So feel free to consider my position partisan in all this! First, you’re not the first to take me to task on this! So the title was a compromise, and was initially with the assumption (which for many of us should be a big WARNING sign) that most of the posters would be posters who were frequent users of the Trolls thread … Where I invited posters to suggest what they felt would be workable new titles that preserved the intent, or added a modified clause to make it more clear to any getting dragged into side-tracks. Ideally, still with an emphasis to keeping the title “clean” enough to allow back-linking. Or to just say “meh, it’s good enough” or “No, now it’s a tradition”. Or you can just throw a flame at me for creating the SNAFU as a brain-dead poster. It’s the Pit after all. And of course, if you want to call me out as a bad Mod, you’re going to have to take that to ATMB. 🥲 ---
**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, 2026, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6788 "2026-03-14T19:57:41Z")
I vote to leave it as it is. This thread has been continuously interesting and amusing. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6789 "2026-03-14T20:09:18Z")
I also vote to leave it as it is. With the addendum that people really should read the OP of a thread they’re considering posting in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=319) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=321)