# Why was Silverstreak banned? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 1, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-silverstreak-banned/527291 "2010-02-01T20:57:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-silverstreak-banned/527291/81 "2010-02-03T20:37:11Z")
Eh, I can always finish myself off. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-silverstreak-banned/527291/82 "2010-02-03T20:46:00Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > We don’t have fully functioning sex robots yet. Beta testing is taking a bit longer than I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-silverstreak-banned/527291/83 "2010-02-03T20:50:17Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > We don’t have fully functioning sex robots yet. [Oh no?](http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/01/sex.robot/index.html?iref=allsearch) ---
**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:** [February 3, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-silverstreak-banned/527291/84 "2010-02-03T21:20:06Z")
_Fully_ functioning. As in, gives handjobs and stuff. I don’t know why anyone thought _speech_ was the thing that was really missing in relationships with rubber vaginas. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-silverstreak-banned/527291/85 "2010-02-03T21:35:13Z")
The thing that bothers me is not that the mods can use their own judgment when punishing someone, even if there’s no specific rule. That makes sense. Rule systems that try to cover every eventuality always become overly complicated, and still don’t work any better than more general rules. (See U.S. law, for example.) What bothers me is that there seem to be (a few) bright-line rules that you guys use that are not in the appropriate rules threads. Unless their enforcement requires us not know about them, I’d appreciate them all being put where we can see them. The last two examples I can think of are “No posts that just have a link, even in MPSIMS” and, to quote Twickster, “[W]e don’t allow relationship threads where both people are members of the SDMB.” They’re good rules, but I think it’s remiss to expect people to follow them if you don’t make them obvious. As for sex robots: If they were good, they wouldn’t have time to moderate. And if they weren’t, why would you want them at all? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-silverstreak-banned/527291/86 "2010-02-03T22:38:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Beta testing is taking a bit longer than I thought. And now I have this mental image of \*\*Czarcasm \*\*crooning about his _sek_shual moderating, in the voice of Marvin Gaye. Shrooms ? I don’t need 'em. My brain is naturally fucked up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-silverstreak-banned/527291.md?page=4)