# Where do banned members go? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 3, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376 "2004-06-03T01:52:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/21 "2004-06-03T14:26:53Z")
**Collounsbury** has a web log that he keeps now. I read it a couple of times. It’s rather pathetic. He was a very interesting poster, but not having anyone to interact with leaves him with not much to say. He simply posts articles and talks about the middle east (which is his area of expertise). Boring as can be. What makes the SDMB interesting is the interactions between all the different people. If you take any of us (even the most fasinating ones) and put us in a vacume without anyone to respond to then there really isn’t anything left. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/22 "2004-06-03T15:53:08Z")
What about alt.fan.cecil-adams? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/23 "2004-06-03T16:00:36Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > But imagine a board with Jack Dean Tyler, county, the handful of Stormfronters who’ve blown through here… that couldn’t be pretty. I thought Fox had them all signed up for a new reality show. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/24 "2004-06-03T16:06:37Z")
Where do banned members go? To Banned Camp, where they have their initial experimentation with homosexuality and tobacco products. ---
**Author:** ![Scarf-Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Scarf-Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarf-Ace)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/25 "2004-06-03T16:15:32Z")
Into a darkened corner where they gnaw, beaver-like on their own fist, and rock back and forth, muttering evil curses into the foul air that envelops their increasingly bestial form. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/26 "2004-06-03T16:22:46Z")
> [@Rlyehdweller](#): > > What do banned posters do? They sit on the wall, telling you where the show is tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/27 "2004-06-03T16:38:40Z")
> [@JuanitaTech](#): > > Detroit. If they’re good or bad? ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/28 "2004-06-03T16:40:59Z")
Banned Camp. hehehehehe. Everybody knows they are locked away in the Straight Dope dungeon, underneath the offices in Chicago. They spend their remaining days typing out all those email alerts we recieve and put detail on the SD mugs. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tigers2B1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/29 "2004-06-03T17:32:38Z")
> [@Debaser](#): > > **Collounsbury** has a web log that he keeps now. I read it a couple of times. It’s rather pathetic. He was a very interesting poster, but not having anyone to interact with leaves him with not much to say. He simply posts articles and talks about the middle east (which is his area of expertise). Boring as can be. > > What makes the SDMB interesting is the interactions between all the different people. If you take any of us (even the most fasinating ones) and put us in a vacume without anyone to respond to then there really isn’t anything left. **Collounsbury**? — Isn’t he in some sort of halfway home for the universally pissed off? ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/30 "2004-06-03T19:26:50Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > **Where do banned members go?** To play in connecerts? ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/31 "2004-06-03T20:33:51Z")
They go to live on your aunt’s farm, in the country, where they get ot play with kittens and puppies and eat sweeties all day. You can’t visit tho’ cos it’s miles and miles away and the buses don’t go there … ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/32 "2004-06-03T20:55:57Z")
> [@Lobelia Overhill](#): > > You can’t visit tho’ dammit ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/33 "2004-06-03T21:04:36Z")
They’ve gone where the goblins go; Below, below, below, yo ho. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/34 "2004-06-03T21:24:10Z")
Every one knows they are sent to ReNeducation centers. Duh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PeachNoMore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@PeachNoMore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeachNoMore)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/35 "2004-06-04T05:40:35Z")
The banned members end up being the hamsters. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/36 "2004-06-04T06:08:42Z")
On a more serious note, I believe that **Satan** is an active poster at the Pizza Parlor, under the user name **NYCNative**. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/37 "2004-06-04T12:44:04Z")
> [@PeachNoMore](#): > > being the hamsters. Good gad, life in the mines of Moria would be more pleasant. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/38 "2004-06-04T12:49:37Z")
> [@The Asbestos Mango](#): > > I thought he married Drain Bead. Didn’t think they had kids already, but then, well, you just never know what crazy notions those two might take into their heads once they tied the knot. Dear Lord, no. ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/39 "2004-06-04T14:58:24Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Wasn’t there once a board some banned members made, “The Sock Drawer” or something like that? So, are sock trolls and underwear gnomes related in any way? Anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376/40 "2004-06-04T15:08:39Z")
> [@Beauty Personified](#): > > So, are sock trolls and underwear gnomes related in any way? Step 1: Get banned Step 2: … Step 3: Profit! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-banned-members-go/248376.md?page=3)