# Wookys Warning in the Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 16, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560 "2019-11-16T23:32:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/1 "2019-11-16T23:32:25Z")
Chronos, Wookinparub was responding to a post and not insulting the poster directly, imo. Could you please review the OP and her response and perhaps reconsider the warning? I forgot to add ‘Thread’ to the title. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/2 "2019-11-16T23:34:15Z")
How about a link? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/3 "2019-11-16T23:38:44Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > How about a link? [post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21970239#post21970239) [warning](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21977215#post21977215) I think the warning was a little harsh. Possibly worth a note. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/4 "2019-11-16T23:45:39Z")
Yeah, I don’t think, “You, sir. (or madam) are the poster child of rude movie goers” quite rises to the level of a warning. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/5 "2019-11-16T23:54:51Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Yeah, I don’t think, “You, sir. (or madam) are the poster child of rude movie goers” quite rises to the level of a warning. I agree. Wow was that a mild criticism. “If you do this you are being rude” is not remotely an insult. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/6 "2019-11-16T23:56:29Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > How about a link? I deserve a warning for this. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/7 "2019-11-17T00:32:45Z")
Neither comment deserved a warning, IMO. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2019, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/8 "2019-11-17T00:49:19Z")
I don’t spend enough time in CS to say for sure but going from the OP to say post #50 it at least needed a “tone it down or else” or something. And having read the first two pages twice now ---- how did that all happen? IMHO several people got way serious way fast for the subject. But that could just be me. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/9 "2019-11-17T00:59:09Z")
THAT got a warning?! Yeesh. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/10 "2019-11-17T02:21:15Z")
I’ll read this thread in a sec, I’m just reading another thread on my phone, hang on… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/11 "2019-11-17T02:29:24Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I’ll read this thread in a sec, I’m just reading another thread on my phone, hang on… lSWYDT ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/12 "2019-11-17T08:30:56Z")
That was a bullshit warning. Especially so long after the fact \*and \*having closed the thread down anyway. The other one, for **JAQ** , not so much - that was “wishing harm upon”, plain as day. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/13 "2019-11-18T17:07:12Z")
To be honest, I chuckled at **WOOKINPANUB’s** description of me. I definitely didn’t take it as an insult. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/14 "2019-11-18T17:13:08Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > [post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21970239#post21970239) > > [warning](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21977215#post21977215) > I think the warning was a little harsh. Possibly worth a note. I agree. It’s an attack against the poster, not the post, so it’s technically a personal attack, but calling someone “rude” hardly rises to the level of a personal attack meriting a warning. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/15 "2019-11-19T01:48:45Z")
He even called him “sir” fer chrissakes. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/16 "2019-11-19T03:25:36Z")
I normally don’t wade into mod critiques, but I agree that the warning was a misunderstanding. It wasn’t intended to be an insult in the context of forum participation. It was one of those “People who do X annoy me, and well, since you do X, you’re the kinda guy who annoys me.” ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/17 "2019-11-19T14:48:10Z")
We have a thread asking if certain behaviour is rude or not and we get someone who says that if you are doing something in that way then you are being terribly rude? How shocking! ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/18 "2019-11-19T16:00:40Z")
God, what an idiotic warning. If saying, essentially, “You are a rude person for doing this” rises to the level of a moddable personal insult, we’re down the rabbit hole. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/19 "2019-11-19T16:23:40Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I agree. Wow was that a mild criticism. “If you do this you are being rude” is not remotely an insult. +1 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560/20 "2019-11-19T18:56:09Z")
I concur. This warning might have been better as a Note. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookys-warning-in-the-movie/843560.md?page=2)