# Wondering if this would result in banning **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 25, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385 "2013-02-25T23:32:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/21 "2013-02-26T18:47:33Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > 😕 I consider [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=289696&page=1&pp=50) to be one of the best things to come out of this messageboard since Fenris’ mod origin stories. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/22 "2013-02-26T18:50:15Z")
Anyone else thinking of just how one would boobytrap a pair of jackboots or make a SDMB coffee mug of C4 with a built-in contact switch? Just me? Oh ---- OK then. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/23 "2013-02-26T18:57:33Z")
Just to give something like a quasi-serious answer: the mods have never discussed this kind of situation during my time on the staff, and I doubt they did before, either. We don’t have any kind of policy that covers this situation or lots of other crazy hypotheticals, and I’ll go ahead and say I don’t think we’re going to make one up. If it happens and we need to deal with it, we’ll deal with it. I kind of doubt a poster who was known to have killed another poster would really feel comfortable participating here and hearing about it regularly, but I’ve been surprised about that kind of thing before. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/24 "2013-02-26T20:29:32Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I consider [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=289696&page=1&pp=50) to be one of the best things to come out of this messageboard since Fenris’ mod origin stories. Wow. I can’t even imagine what precipitated that thread but I was in stitches reading that. That is some funny stuff, that is. Thanks for the link. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/25 "2013-02-26T20:39:48Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Serious question: did you superglue them to Hitler before or after you set them on fire? And were you in a plane on a treadmill at the time? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/26 "2013-02-26T21:01:47Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > And were you in a plane on a treadmill at the time? I tried to be. Thing is, I knew the plane was departing from either gate A, B, or C, and I chose gate A at random. But then the flight attendant showed me that gate B was full of Hitler clones glued to the corpses of Charles Manson and a bunch of ugly children, and offered me the chance to switch my choice to gate C. I didn’t switch, because hey, fifty-fifty chance of being right. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/27 "2013-02-26T21:02:18Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I kind of doubt a poster who was known to have killed another poster would really feel comfortable participating here and hearing about it regularly, but I’ve been surprised about that kind of thing before. You’ve dealt with that kind of thing before?:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/28 "2013-02-26T22:18:09Z")
The big problem with killing another poster wouldn’t necessarily be any repercussions on this board. The big problem would be that it would pretty much ruin your B list singing career. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/29 "2013-02-26T22:42:46Z")
Dear Yogi: PM to follow with a list of SDMB usernames for your immediate attention. The word “attention” will be defined in the PM. Yours Truly, colonial ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/30 "2013-02-27T00:03:53Z")
I’ve heard behind closed doors in smokey rooms filled with cheap coffee mugs you can rape another poster during rape month and get a pass. And February is rape month so you still have a few days left (though to be honest this years one has royally sucked). Not sure the SDMB has murder month so who knows… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/31 "2013-02-27T03:00:55Z")
If we just wing 'em, would we get only a suspension? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/32 "2013-02-27T04:38:42Z")
I don’t know about banning but you won’t be able to collect any deathpool points on them. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/33 "2013-02-27T15:52:42Z")
Expanding briefly on what **Marley** said: as a general rule, we do not apply SDMB rules to non-Board related activities. There have been (and could be) exceptions, but “being a jerk” (as per **JSexton** ’s joke above) means “being a jerk on our Message Boards.” Thus (still hypothetical) we almost certainly would not ban someone because they’d been caught forging checks… unless one of the checks was their membership fee for SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/34 "2013-02-28T02:59:35Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > … > Thus (still hypothetical) we almost certainly would not ban someone because they’d been caught forging checks… unless one of the checks was their membership fee for SDMB. Membership is the line in the sand. It’s open season on Guests – hell, we oughta have some contests for that. But if you kill a Member, you are depriving the SDMB of revenue. The only way to avoid banning is to pay their annual fee, for the rest of your life. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/35 "2013-02-28T03:10:04Z")
**C K Dexter Haven** is kidding, but in case this leads to a misunderstanding: we don’t have access to payment data. If your figurative SDMB check bounced, we wouldn’t know about it. You’d just lose your membership and become a guest. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/36 "2013-02-28T03:11:22Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > **C K Dexter Haven** is kidding, but in case this leads to a misunderstanding: we don’t have access to payment data. If your figurative SDMB check bounced, we wouldn’t know about it. You’d just lose your membership and become a guest. Then that hit squad thing is just a rumor? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/37 "2013-02-28T03:12:01Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Then that hit squad thing is just a rumor? I can neither confirm nor deny that. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/38 "2013-02-28T15:03:53Z")
[del]The first rule of Hit Squad is that you do not talk about Hit Squad.[/del] ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/39 "2013-02-28T22:13:32Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Membership is the line in the sand. It’s open season on Guests – hell, we oughta have some contests for that. But if you kill a Member, you are depriving the SDMB of revenue. The only way to avoid banning is to pay their annual fee, for the rest of your life. I think this is an exciting new revenue proposal that we should immediately begin pursuing. I’ll start rewriting the membership FAQ right away: > [@](#): > > **Q: What are the benefits of membership?** > A: You get to live. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wondering-if-this-would-result-in-banning/651385/40 "2013-02-28T23:11:06Z")
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