# Why hasn't this thing been banned yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 1, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760 "2010-08-01T02:19:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/121 "2010-08-02T05:38:59Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > > [@Guinastasia](#): > > > > Wait – I thought you said you were going to work? Hmmmm… > > Oh for god’s sake, Sherlock, he’s going to bed early because he has a job. It ain’t that hard. I think his “job” is catching up on remedial English at summer school. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/122 "2010-08-02T05:44:37Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > I think his “job” is catching up on remedial English at summer school. Still, gotta get up early for that. He doesn’t want to get marked tardy, he could miss out on a gold star. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/123 "2010-08-02T06:27:40Z")
> [@bullrun](#): > > …I’ll bet I make more money than most of you. Don’t be so sure. For instance, we have a tax attorney here that makes, like, BILLIONS of dollars. ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/124 "2010-08-02T06:38:12Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > > [@bullrun](#): > > > > …I’ll bet I make more money than most of you. > > Don’t be so sure. For instance, we have a tax attorney here that makes, like, BILLIONS of dollars. _grabs popcorn_ ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/125 "2010-08-02T07:18:07Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Putting you on my ignore list is nowhere near enough for what you deserve for being such a shitty person. People like you are a net drain to society at large, and I’m hoping at some point that society will actually evolve to the point where we don’t tolerate such people. > > But if even a board that has it’s first rule as “Don’t be a jerk” won’t do anything, then I predict our society is going to be full of people like you eventually, and I weep for that society, for as short a time as it would last. Um, **BigT** , you really want to think this one over again. Nonconstructive people have always be with us, will always be with us. And barring enforcement mechanisms, they sure as heck will continue to thrive on the internet. The challenge is in creating institutions and systems that are robust with respect to such shenanigans – curbing it entirely on a semi-anonymous message board isn’t especially realistic. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/126 "2010-08-02T07:20:14Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > > [@BigT](#): > > > > Putting you on my ignore list is nowhere near enough for what you deserve for being such a shitty person. People like you are a net drain to society at large, and I’m hoping at some point that society will actually evolve to the point where we don’t tolerate such people. > > > > But if even a board that has it’s first rule as “Don’t be a jerk” won’t do anything, then I predict our society is going to be full of people like you eventually, and I weep for that society, for as short a time as it would last. > > Um, **BigT** , you really want to think this one over again. Nonconstructive people have always be with us, will always be with us. And barring enforcement mechanisms, they sure as heck will continue to thrive on the internet. The challenge is in creating institutions and systems that are robust with respect to such shenanigans – curbing it entirely on a semi-anonymous message board isn’t especially realistic. Don’t mind him, his favourite thing is to be outraged at other peoples outrage. All outrage is wrong and jerkish, unless it’s his own outrage. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/127 "2010-08-02T07:50:22Z")
I like him… Despite his racist tendencies and a further propensity towards talking bollocks, you’ve gotta admit he’s feisty… although that might be down to his medication… kinda reminds me of me when I was 10 and had first learned to type…you know, how the words just come flowing from your fingers like the beginnings of a dam bursting… and shit. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/128 "2010-08-02T09:09:41Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > It’s so true…the left wingers on this board claim to want dialogue and now when faced with the most articulate spokesperson your side has to offer they run scared.! LOL! We (left wingers on this board) don’t want you’re damn rightwing dialogue, we want dailogue! Fuckin’ “Charter Members” and poeple with bestial user names … WHARRGARBL! Back in the good ol’ days of the pit … **G.camelopardalis** (the only good Pit mod!) would have banned all yuor man asses! You hate this place that much? Why don’t you start your own fucking message board! Probably be dumb enough to make me a charter member there to! CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/129 "2010-08-02T11:41:56Z")
> [@bullrun](#): > > To El Kabong… > You are probably nothing more than a lliberal nazi. You are a racist and a bigot and you freely call everyone else those names to hide your position. You can of course cite the no doubt frequent instances of my calling everyone else names on this board. Likewise, you can, of course, explain what who I am racist in favor of and who I am bigoted against, with examples of how I have displayed this racism and bigotry though my posts to this board. Feel free to do so. You know, at some point you’ve got to do a little more than string some words together and assume they make a coherent and factual argument. Again, how effectively are you at getting your message across? Are you giving the impression that you are an intelligent, sensible, logical person who marshals facts to back up his opinions, and are you actually convincing anyone of the correctness of your position? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/130 "2010-08-02T13:12:50Z")
> [@bullrun](#): > > To Smeghead… > The last refuge of a lib who has nothing to say…jumping on a typo. Go away smeghead. You are simply wimpy. I do believe that’s the first time in my eight years here that I’ve been called a “lib”. Can you give me any indication from my posts of my liberal tendencies? I very consciously keep away from political discussions on this board, and I don’t think anyone here, even those with more than one and a half brain cells to rub together, could correctly deduce my political leanings from what I’ve written here. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/131 "2010-08-02T13:19:52Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > THIS IS THE MORNONIC TWIT THREAD > > if you post here you are a mornonic twit You need a spelling lesson from[this guy](http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR1sckRuSfaE-e4p7v2PeN_6CPAbb9GBUXJbRtHaC54aosVtHU&t=1&usg=__H1JH3ew7Y9EZTpa9n-yteAw3No4=)! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/132 "2010-08-02T13:25:50Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I do believe that’s the first time in my eight years here that I’ve been called a “lib”. You post here. Ipso facto … you eat arrugula and have solar panels on your roof to power your yoga mat. No use in arguing. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/133 "2010-08-02T14:17:55Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > > [@Smeghead](#): > > > > I do believe that’s the first time in my eight years here that I’ve been called a “lib”. > > You post here. Ipso facto … you eat arrugula and have solar panels on your roof to power your yoga mat. No use in arguing. Do you know who else posts here? [del]Hitler![/del] **bullrun**! ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/134 "2010-08-02T14:27:32Z")
The conservative sense of persecution really amazes me at times. If you were at least a bit witty (like some of the longer term conservative posters) that would be one thing… but yo mama jokes? really? ---
**Author:** ![heatmiserfl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@heatmiserfl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heatmiserfl)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/135 "2010-08-02T14:51:45Z")
Well, I gotta admit that I find ole’ Bullsy a breath of fresh air. No coded language. No pretending to be compassionate (or even trying to convince themselves). He just comes right out and says what Real 'Markans think. Here’s what I’m hoping to see from Bullsy: Disingenuous poster: Africans are not as advanced because they have lower IQs. Other poster: What? Are you suggesting that they are genetically inferior? First, there is strong debate on whether small differences in intelligence can be scientifically measured. Hell, general intelligence itself is extremely elusive. Furthermore, race is only a superficial construct that only loosely correlates with genetic differences, in which intelligence differences is very difficult to find. [cite, cite, cite] Disingenuous poster: Look, I’m not racist or anything but I’m gonna bring in some shitty cites to prove to you (and myself) that race real and, therefore, Africans have lower IQs. [shitty cite, shitty cite, shitty cite]. Here’s some cites on IQs. Look at how blacks are different even adopted ones Other poster: Didn’t I just say that both race and IQ are scientifically ambiguous at best? Bullrun: Well, of course the blacks are stupid. Why, I was just at the Mickey Dees the other day and I can give you video proof of their stupidity. It’s just like you liberals with your high-falutin’ science to try to rationalize what I see every day when I pick up my dinner! I want my country back!!! ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/136 "2010-08-02T15:10:40Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > The conservative sense of persecution really amazes me at times. > > If you were at least a bit witty (like some of the longer term conservative posters) that would be one thing… but yo mama jokes? really? Yo mamas so fat it takes a DSL line just to download a picture of her pinky toe 🙂 The time to update yo mama jokes may have finally come… ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/137 "2010-08-02T16:05:40Z")
> [@bullrun](#): > > To JOE BUCK 20 > > Typical liberal response. A lot of you report me and when I merely threaten to do the same…suddenly I am a bully…and I want to go off crying to the teachner. Fuck you JOEBUCK..and anyone who agrees with you. Reminder: > [@](#): > > The following expressions should not be directed at other posters. > > * * * > > fuck you [Restricted language in the Pit - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=508858) Please avoid this in the future. No warning issued. **Gfactor** Pit Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/138 "2010-08-02T16:08:00Z")
Typical liberal moderation. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![GHO57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/139 "2010-08-02T16:16:32Z")
> [@Gfactor](#): > > > [@bullrun](#): > > > > To JOE BUCK 20 > > > > Typical liberal response. A lot of you report me and when I merely threaten to do the same…suddenly I am a bully…and I want to go off crying to the teachner. Fuck you JOEBUCK..and anyone who agrees with you. > > Reminder: > > > [@](#): > > > > The following expressions should not be directed at other posters. > > > > * * * > > > > fuck you > > [Restricted language in the Pit - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=508858) > > Please avoid this in the future. No warning issued. > > **Gfactor** > Pit Moderator Just out of curiosity… being new and an English-as-a-third-language type person… The “directed at other posters” part is a bit unclear, is it supposed to mean “other posters” in general, or just “another poster”. Like, would that rule cover “Fuck everyone”? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760/140 "2010-08-02T16:18:18Z")
“Fuck everyone”, no. “Fuck **posters X & Y** ”, or pronouns indicating same, yes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-this-thing-been-banned-yet/548760.md?page=8)