# Where'd grateful mcgee go? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 3, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668 "2012-04-03T04:13:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/1 "2012-04-03T04:13:22Z")
I’m only asking because I responded to him in the Dating Advice thread, and everything he posted there is now gone. Searching his name shows him as banned, but -some- of his posts are still listed… Which I guess makes me at least feel I didn’t hallucinate his existence. Still… Wha happened? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/2 "2012-04-03T04:16:13Z")
My crystal ball tells me he’s a troll/sock and the mods disappeared all his posts that wouldn’t make too much swiss cheese out of threads. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/3 "2012-04-03T04:57:57Z")
Sent to the cornfield. It’s a _good_ thing he was sent there. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/4 "2012-04-03T08:28:37Z")
Ah, so it’s not just me! Yeah, one of the vanished posts had a reply to me from \*\*Misnomer \*\*☹ ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/5 "2012-04-03T08:37:33Z")
Jesus christ, 9 years here and you don’t know that people who disappear without any announcement are socks, who get banned and removed from the public eye with no questions asked? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/6 "2012-04-03T10:02:17Z")
I’d never known they actually removed posts before. Seems a tad excessive. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/7 "2012-04-03T10:45:06Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Jesus christ, 9 years here and you don’t know that people who disappear without any announcement are socks, who get banned and removed from the public eye with no questions asked? QFT. > [@BigT](#): > > I’d never known they actually removed posts before. Seems a tad excessive. If we can do it without interrupting the conversation too much, yes, we will. We might even remove whole threads from view. It’s because this is the most effective tool we’ve got to discourage trolls and socks. Trolls and socks feed on attention. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/8 "2012-04-03T13:21:21Z")
And shit _freedom_! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/9 "2012-04-03T13:37:40Z")
Or is that, _free dumb shit_? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/10 "2012-04-03T22:42:21Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I’d never known they actually removed posts before. Seems a tad excessive. You shoulda been in here in the old days. We were ANAL about removing posts/threads/DNA. Seriously. The policy has eased up a bit. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/11 "2012-04-03T22:52:54Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > You shoulda been in here in the old days. We were ANAL about removing posts/threads/DNA. Seriously. The policy has eased up a bit. Hell, I remember when we used to delete the letters of the alphabet they used in their names. I’m glad we put a stop to that when we got down to 26 letters. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/12 "2012-04-03T23:14:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Hell, I remember when we used to delete the letters of the alphabet they used in their names. I’m glad we put a stop to that when we got down to 26 letters. Yeah, I remember Ðص£§, that guy was a douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/13 "2012-04-04T00:08:38Z")
We ask that posters send us private messages to get answers to questions like these. But yes, I removed some of his posts. I apologize for disrupting the thread he was posting in and removing some posts that people spent time composing, but in this case I wanted to make sure the poster isn’t rewarded with attention in response to his nonsense. It’s a little extra effort - I wanted to make sure this person leaves and stays gone. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/14 "2012-04-04T00:13:01Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > You shoulda been in here in the old days. We were ANAL about removing posts/threads/DNA. Seriously. Yeah, talk about tedious. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/15 "2012-04-04T00:52:18Z")
And that was back when anal was still shocking! ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/16 "2012-04-04T07:40:10Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > You shoulda been in here in the old days. We were ANAL about removing posts/threads/DNA. Seriously. The policy has eased up a bit. Samtorum: the frothy mixture of context holes and confusion that is sometimes the by-product of anally removing posts. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/17 "2012-04-04T11:51:51Z")
So, anyone who replies to **Hermette** mysteriously vanishes- plus all trace? A scary lady indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/18 "2012-04-04T17:50:21Z")
\ > [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > QFT. QFT? This is a new one to me. What’s it mean? ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/19 "2012-04-04T17:55:18Z")
Quoted for truth? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668/20 "2012-04-04T17:59:59Z")
Huh. All this time I thought it meant “queefed.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-grateful-mcgee-go/617668.md?page=2)