Why was Strunk banned?

[Sarahfeena]

@Jodi

Wait a sec – do you know that ATP was banned for being Strunk and/or QSS, or are you just guessing?

I’m not challenging you, I’m just trying to keep up.

No, sorry, I am not. I know nothing other than what I THINK I MIGHT know, by putting two and two together.

What I was trying to say there is that if I AM right, and it was Pliny (which we may never know), I would be surprised in the sense that I would never have expected to be him.

[What_Exit]

@Contrapuntal

I’m pretty sure she is guessing. **Pliny **was banned an hour before **QSS **outed himself. I reported his post, and about ten minutes later **QSS **was banned.

I suspect, they must have got a dozen reports of that post. I reported it around the same time. I am sure we were not the only ones.

Jim

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

@Contrapuntal

I’m pretty sure she is guessing. **Pliny **was banned an hour before **QSS **outed himself. I reported his post, and about ten minutes later **QSS **was banned.

Dunno, of course, but my gut feeling agrees with Sarahfeena, I don’t believe that was really prr, I think it was someone else trying to screw with everybody concerned.

[Stranger_On_A_Train]

@Sarahfeena

I think it was because he was a sock. According to Pliny was just banned, as well, apparently for having more than one screen name.

Thank Og for that. He was starting to damage my calm.

Stranger

[Sarahfeena]

@Contrapuntal

I’m pretty sure she is guessing. **Pliny **was banned an hour before **QSS **outed himself. I reported his post, and about ten minutes later **QSS **was banned.

Dang, and I thought I was so smart. Of course, it’s possible that the mods were onto him before the post you reported, and that the timing of that was a coincidence. It seems like it would be a bigger coinicidence for Pliny to be banned for having more than one screen name, right in the middle of all this, and for him not to be the culprit.

I am still of the mind, though (like ETF), that it had something to do with the PRR/Liberal thing. The names of the two new posters and the subjects of the threads they were starting seems like just too much of a coincidence to not be related.

[Contrapuntal]

@EddyTeddyFreddy

Dunno, of course, but my gut feeling agrees with Sarahfeena, I don’t believe that was really prr, I think it was someone else trying to screw with everybody concerned.

Oh, sure. I was just referring to whether it was Pliny. It seems it it were, then all the banninating would have happened at once. I’m thinking **Strunk **and **QSS **were the same. In retrospect, it is obvious. As I said in my post to him, he was claiming something that we have no way of confirming. I suspect **prr **would have been a bit more clever,and dragged it out longer.

[Squink]

@Contrapuntal

**Pliny **was banned an hour before **QSS **outed himself.

Well, ignoring the evidence in ATMB, and looking at just his last post, Pliny was obviously banned for being too pedantic in GQ :eek:

Still, QSS posted “Whoops! Busted.” before being banned. Could be he found that out by attempting to log into a name that had just been banned.

[What_Exit]

@Stranger On A Train

Thank Og for that. He was starting to damage my calm.

Stranger

If this is not a joke could you explain, I barely know who Pliny is?

Jim

[enigm4tic]

@Omegaman

Fuckin’ new posters .

yeah those asshats… who actually STARTS posting here, honestly.
Wait.
Shit.
:smack:

heh I always got the trolling impression from Strunk, obviously just around to rile things up, and I kept track of the prr thing and saw the qss reference but figured that could have been terrible coincidence, since he didn’t seem to be particularly trolling (in the threads I read, at least)

:shrug:

[What_Exit]

@Squink

Well, ignoring the evidence in ATMB, and looking at just his last post, Pliny was obviously banned for being too pedantic in GQ :eek:

Still, QSS posted “Whoops! Busted.” before being banned. Could be he found that out by attempting to log into a name that had just been banned.

No that was either an admission that he was a sock or a very bad taste joke. I suspect the very bad taste joke.

Jim

[Contrapuntal]

@Squink

Well, ignoring the evidence in ATMB, and looking at just his last post, Pliny was obviously banned for being too pedantic in GQ :eek:

Linky no worky.

Still, QSS posted “Whoops! Busted.” before being banned. Could be he found that out by attempting to log into a name that had just been banned.

Anything is possible, I guess. If Pliny was QSS, and the mods knew it, why wait an hour and a half to ban QSS? Especially in light of this post by tomndebb, posted at 2:15?

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8298948&postcount=390

[Miller]

@Contrapuntal

Anything is possible, I guess. If Pliny was QSS, and the mods knew it, why wait an hour and a half to ban QSS? Especially in light of this post by tomndebb, posted at 2:15?

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8298948&postcount=390

As I understand it, only an Admin can revoke posting priviledges. Might not have been any Admins around to pull the trigger when tom~ posted that.

[hajario]

@Squink

Still, QSS posted “Whoops! Busted.” before being banned. Could be he found that out by attempting to log into a name that had just been banned.

No.

He was busted because he accidentally referred to Liberal as Libertarian which was Lib’s former name here. Someone new would not have known about it.

[Sarahfeena]

@Contrapuntal

Linky no worky.

Anything is possible, I guess. If Pliny was QSS, and the mods knew it, why wait an hour and a half to ban QSS? Especially in light of this post by tomndebb, posted at 2:15?

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8298948&postcount=390

This is getting so confused. See, I think Pliny was banned for being STRUNK, not QSS. It wasn’t until after both Pliny and Strunk were banned that QSS posted his “admission of guilt” that you reported, and was subsequently also banned. No other poster has been banned today that I know of, so this led me to believe that I was right about:

1. Strunk and QSS being the same person

2. Both of them being Pliny

[Spice_Weasel]

Why was Strunk banned?

Bad grammar.

Would have to agree I’m pretty much shocked that According to Pliny was banned.

Ooooh, the drama!

[mrklutz]

@EddyTeddyFreddy

mopery, dopery, and multiboard jerkdom?

Dang, ETF. I think you’ve been composing poetry too long around here. Even when you’re writing prose, you nearly break out into dactylic meter.

Mopery, dopery, multiboard jerkdom…

Sounds like a great first line to me.

[tomndebb]

@Sarahfeena

I am interested to know why Eleusis’ Pit thread “To Liberal: I’m not pitting you…I’m just confused” was locked. Apparently, it was due to the investigation into Quentin’s identity, but he didn’t really have much to do with that thread, as I recall. I think it should be re-opened.

That thread was closed because

1. already a trainwreck, the idea that we would go for an additional 12 pages arguing over whether QSS was a sock of prr or of someone else would have killed the last remaining hamster
2. we had just recently gotten some closure on some long-term board antipathies (“feuds” seeming to be a bit too strong a word, in context), and the idea of continuing the rancor with new insults seemed counterproductive.

I have already let the Pit Mods know of my action and have told them that I will not get my nose out of joint if they reverse it, so you are free to petition them to re-open that thread if you are desperate to continue it, although I would think that new threads on individual topics might be more appropriate.

(I am not involved in the actions regarding Strunk (who had no “final straw” since everything he did was trash) or Pliny, so can provide no further information on those topics.

[ /explaining, not Moderating ]

[Sarahfeena]

@tomndebb

That thread was closed because

1. already a trainwreck, the idea that we would go for an additional 12 pages arguing over whether QSS was a sock of prr or of someone else would have killed the last remaining hamster
2. we had just recently gotten some closure on some long-term board antipathies (“feuds” seeming to be a bit too strong a word, in context), and the idea of continuing the rancor with new insults seemed counterproductive.

I have already let the Pit Mods know of my action and have told them that I will not get my nose out of joint if they reverse it, so you are free to petition them to re-open that thread if you are desperate to continue it, although I would think that new threads on individual topics might be more appropriate.

No, that explanation seems perfectly reasonable and logical to me…just didn’t get what one had to do with the other.

(I am not involved in the actions regarding Strunk (who had no “final straw” since everything he did was trash) or Pliny, so can provide no further information on those topics.

[ /explaining, not Moderating ]

Also a fair point…I didn’t expect anyone to fill us in on the “whole truth,” I was just speculating.

[tomndebb]

And just to frustrate everyone further: the staff generally chooses to NOT discuss the ways in which evildoers are caught, so speculate to your hearts’ content, we will probably not validate your speculations.

Sorry.

[Contrapuntal]

@Miller

As I understand it, only an Admin can revoke posting priviledges. Might not have been any Admins around to pull the trigger when tom~ posted that.

Poor word choice on my part. If whoever banned Pliny knew he was QSS, why not ban them both at the same time? I suppose that Pliny could have been banned for being Strunk, and that later it was found that he was QSS as well, as **Sarahfeena **suggests above. But tom’s statement makes it seem like QSS was under suspicion separately. I merely speculate.