# Who is the mysterious "system" poster?

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**Created:** [January 25, 2021, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-mysterious-system-poster/931431 "2021-01-25T07:21:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-mysterious-system-poster/931431/5 "2021-01-25T13:53:19Z")

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> No clue why **Collounsbury** would warrant such extreme action, considering his value at times to the board. With that said, there was a massive data loss back in the early days of the board. Perhaps he was part of that.

**Collounsbury** was a valuable poster, but he simply couldn’t keep himself from insulting other posters. [He was banned](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collounsbury-6-3-2000-to-11-28-2002/140027) in 2002, back before we imposed suspensions before going to a permanent ban. Several months later he wrote an extremely eloquent and penitent request for reinstatement, promising that he would be good in the future. Within a few months he was back to insulting people again, and was banned once more in 2003. This and other similar instances has colored our opinion about requests to reinstate banned posters.

I do not know why exactly **Collounsbury’s** name has been stripped from all his posts, since other posts made at the time of his banning still have names.

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