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Since any of the “OMG the world’s going to hell because of TubaDiva” threads is as good as any, I choose this one to suggest that people shut the fuck up about it already. For fuck’s sake. Yes, it’s a horrible injustice. Yes, TubaDiva is the devil and the SDMB is completely unworthy of your trust. So go away and shut up.
I take exception to that! I am not a teen!
And I’ve never considered you average, Marley…
Aww, shucks.
I’m a little suspicious of recent guests with catchy two word usernames who seem oddly well aware of Board history and protocols. The late and unlamented Zero Gravitas springs curiously to mind.
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Yeah, not to mention the latest dickwad who Lynn finally banned,Matt ,something or other! I’m surprised she let him go on for that long. I’m also surprised at what goes on here when you’re sleeping. Wow! How do you guys stay up all night and maintain your edge. Personally I find it hard sometimes to keep track of all the posts and the relationship of one to another. I find myself scrolling back a lot. Guess I haven’t got the right mindset yet.
Now, if you could only do the same thing with another asshat flamethrowerBR , all would be right with the world.
Pot, kettle… :rolleyes:
Who, me?
C’mon, think about it!!! 
TD got hysteria and a suspension to calm the membership. Lynn got nothing. Not even the obligation to apologise to Aldebaran.
There is nothing to question. They don’t accept their own rules why would they accept questioning their actions.
I used to like America and Americans and I used to love this website. Now I say: Fuck you, arrogant American hypocrites. Remembrance of better times is not enough to keep me here. The SDMB of today is not worth one lousy dollar. I’m out of here on April 10, renewal date. I hope to see that many Americans abandon this website in protest for its hypocrisy and double standards. Those who do give us outside America a sign of hope. The SDMB has become a prime example for the sick mindset in America today. The Bush doctrine on mini-scale. Balatant wrong doings covered up and defended. Other opinions and ousiders: banned. Attacks on the Middle East normal. Defence of the Middle East by a Middle Eastern affected very personally by the American war and the American sick minds: banned. When he asked to delete a thread he made after the death of someone he loves, he gets insults of the admins in reply. Shows how personal their hate is for someone they don’t know. Because he is from the Middle East it goes far beyond banning him.
I expect to be banned because I say the truth. I hope they are so stupid to do it. Can’t harm me. It can only put emphasis on their hypocrisy again. I can’t wait to see that and the comments on it. A marvel to read.
I hate you America. I hate the American hypocrisy. I hate the American arrogance. I hate the American indifference to what their country causes in other countries. I hae the American soldiers in countries where they kill civilians. I hate the American mental lazyness. I hate the American voters who rewarded mass murderer by giving him an other term in the White House.
I hate a
Greetings.
I’m not finished.
I hate all of that about you and your country and I am not even affected directly by America’s policies in the Middle East. Imagine how much you are hated in that part of the world. And you still are so stupid to not know why. Look at the posts on this website and learn something about your own fucking mental disease.
Greetings.
I know, I know, I’m new and I should stay out of The Pit! But I really have to say this!
I REALLY,REALLY hope you’re not Canadian!!!
There and now I’ll take my lumps!
I’ll file this under SDMB’s geopolitical influences. I have a glossy orange folder right here that’s been pretty empty… until now.
:dubious:
:rolleyes:
Yap, yap, yap. Jesus Fucking Christ, get over yourself. You and Aldebaran are two of the whiniest, bitchiest, most pathetic assholes that ever shambled out of their own castles of inflated self-importance and sat in front of a computer. In the 5 years I’ve been here, there has been no one quite as irritatingly dumbshit as you and your “close friend” Aldebaran.
Not yet, but hopefully soon.
More yapping.
You serve no useful purpose on this message board. You post on here almost exclusively to bitch about the Administration of this Board, and to bitch about the evil ugly Americans, somehow missing the point that a large majority of this Board is in fact in opposition to the US policies in the Middle East. But hey, there’s no hate like blind hate, right?
The SDMB Staff do welcome dissent as to its policies and procedures - otherwise, there’d be about 200 or so people banned over the last unpleasantness. But there’s a difference between dissent and destructive behaviour.
Your sole reason for joining this Board appears to be to cause trouble, distract from conversations where intelligent adults are posting, act as a front for your “friend”, and to otherwise reduce the quality of life of the Members of this community. By my count, at least 21 of your 24 posts on this Board are to bitch about “Aldebaran, History’s Greatest Martyr”. You are destructive to this community and you increase ignorance with nearly every post you make. You also show no signs whatsoever of changing your same screeching note. I can see no earthly reason why you remain a Member here.
I hope you and Aldebaran can find a home that is happy to allow you sit and bitch and sulk and fume about the Great Satan in Clouds of Sulphur SDMB, the war-criminal Staff Admins here, and all those evil, ugly American butchers that run around here every day committing atrocities against the entire damn planet.
Burlesque Belgian goes Bananas.
I love this place.
and Americans. 
For crissakes, I can’t fathom why you’re still here… Why don’t you jump on one of your little buddy’s fine Arabian chargers and go six feet under with him, if you’re not already there.
I find it highly notable that the Middle East is the world’s primary provider of oil, some of which gets made into rayon, orlon, and other stretchy polyesters. 'Course, there’s Egyptian cotton too. All fit for a King…
-Rav
So Ed Zotti/Cecil has responded here and confirmed the original assertion. Specifically:
So now that we know that Blue Ruin’s comment was essentially correct (TubaDiva isn’t essential from a technical point of view, but is from a practical one), I’ll re-ask the question:
Who else is so indispensible that he/she won’t lose admin rights even if SDMB policy is violated?
For a minute there, I thought your head exploded.
Is that Slim Whitman, I hear?
In the business world people “violate policy” every goddamn day without being fired. If you fired everyone who, in the heat of the moment, violated some policy, you’d be turning over your staff every couple of months. Every two weeks with your sales force.
A manager, a GOOD manager, will look at the extent of the violation, the potential consequences, the potential for recurrence, and the value of the worker, and decide on a course of action. That is exactly what happened here, and I have no doubt that if Tuba did something like this again, she’d be out on her ass.