# When did this change?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-change/512087>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 30, 2009, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-change/512087 "2009-09-30T08:14:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-change/512087/41 "2009-10-01T21:43:43Z")

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> [@yojimbo](#):
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> Somebody called a mod or an Admin a cunt and it all went downhill from there. The mods where not to be abused. Then Ed decided that telling other members to go fuck themselves etc was was too harsh for the board and would cause problems.
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> Ed made the changes, lots of people disagreed, some left, two new boards were set up by people and a few joined them.
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> And here we are. Being treated like children.

They’re to be called clefts and protuberances now.

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**Author:** ![wmfellows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@wmfellows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wmfellows)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-change/512087/42 "2009-10-01T22:39:46Z")

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> [@Liberal](#):
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> That simply is false. … So, you’re simply wrong. Sorry.

Uhuh. I do find your pirouettes impressive, for a Cherokee as it were.

> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#):
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> That’s too funny. I appreciate the support and all, but I wasn’t exactly in a “labour camp”. … You can’t climb up on my cross when it doesn’t exist, man.

??? Mate, it was a joke - mostly to myself. I don’t know how you read Labour Camp, but it wasn’t any reference to this board. Jaysus.

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-change/512087/43 "2009-10-02T02:34:06Z")

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> [@wmfellows](#):
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> Uhuh. I do find your pirouettes impressive, for a Cherokee as it were.

Apparently since you cannot point out any errors or misstatements I made, you resort to insuling me. Was I wrong that Ed enjoined a multi-page thread working out the pit rules? Was I wrong that Dex reversed a ban on Seven to a suspension? Was I wrong that mods have re-opened closed threads and rescinded warnings after members have complained or explained? No. I wasn’t. Therefore, there are no pirouettes of any kind, impressive or otherwise. And besides, there is no reason that an Indian is any less capable than anyone else of doing pirouettes if s/he so desired to do them. Finally, the “as it were” is a tacked-on non sequitur intended obviously to question my veracity. I’m afraid you have nothing, wmfellows. Nothing of substance anyway.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-change/512087/44 "2009-10-02T02:37:15Z")

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Whoa. This started out being a question (that did get answered, albeit snarkily) and has now turned into personal attack.

Enough on all counts. I’m closing this thread.

wmfellows, you don’t attack people in ATMB. If you have a problem with Liberal’s ethnicity (or anything else), you can take it to the Pit. I am counseling you – next time will be a formal Warning.

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