I got thinking about this recently due to the rather capricious nature of bannings that occur at my other message board(the Something Awful forum). I’m not talking about coming back with another identity or anything verboten like that. What I want to know is, if you(god forbid) got banned from the SDMB, would you still come back here to read? Personally I would. I don’t post all that much here anyway(as opposed to SA, where I had about 50 post after my first 3 days). I would definately miss reading this board though. So how about you? Would pride and sour grapes keep you away, or are you an addict like me.
I barely post here anyway, but I do read the boards pretty regularly so I’d almost certainly keep doing that. I’m sure it would be frustrating to come accross threads that I really want to post to, but can’t. Although like I said, I don’t post to many threads anyway so that probably would be rare.
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Barring some huge, fiery battle with the mods and the creation of a “Troy’s a goatfelcher” forum, I’m sure I’d lurk here. Hell, this place is easily my biggest source of entertainment. TV’s on sometimes, but it’s usually me on the SDMB with music playing.
I am sure I would as I don’t post much and simply disliking a few people(the mods) wouldn’t change much.
I would create socks asking why I was banned 
I’ve walked the banning line once or twice, I think.
If I got banned, yeah, I would sock puppet and such.
There are other boards, but this one is Unique. I would probably become another Fathom refugee.
I imagine I would still come here to read at first. And then slowly stop coming as I’m sure I would find it quite frustrating not being able to communicate. I think I would end up playing my PS2 a whole lot more.
Sure would.
On one hand, I’m sure I’d want to come here and read, because it’s such good reading.
On the other hand, it would really hurt to be shut out of a community that is so important to me, so I might avoid the boards altogether.
I suppose it would depend on why I was banned.
Why, what have you heard on the grapevine?
After I came out of whatever altered state that’d caused me to be a jerk…yeah, I would.
Unfortunately, I doubt I’d be able to stay away. I’ve tried before.
Since I lurked for over a year before I registered, I still have only about one post per four days, and I don’t really feel like a part of the community, I don’t think it would be so bad.
I visit this place constantly; generally at least once a day. And I have, if I can recall correctly, circa 250 posts to my name in over two and a half years of membership. I only post, anyway, because I feel I somehow should, because otherwise I’m just mooching off the SDMB 
Although it’s great to be able to post if I have something that I just gotta say, I get more enjoyment from reading all the funny, touching and clever things that you guys say at any hour of the day or night that I feel like checking in. So, yeah, I’d sneak back and visit you guys.
Probably very occasionally. There have been times when I’ve sort of drifted off for a few months at a time and didn’t really miss it. In fact it can be hard to really get back into it. I do enjoy it a lot, but I have so many other things that I do online that if I’m not actively participating in a thread it’s pretty easy for me to just even look at the forum.
No, the sick feeling of shame and humiliation when even thinking about the SDMB would be too much for me to bear. It would be as if someone who was once your friend had told you he never wanted to see your face again, and you knew that it was indisputably your fault.
But of course. I learn more from GQ then I learn from school, television and people. Without the SDMB I’d be, dare I say it, a layman!
I imagine I’d really have to yank someones chain good to get banned. I lurked for near a year before posting, and learned well enough what to not do. I endeavor to not do them, so I really don’t plan on getting banned. But, if it ever happened I’d still visit and read. This is the best board on the net. If I felt the need for interaction I’d just go back to using Yahoo more often.
I have to wonder how many people who have posted in this thread already are sock puppets themselves. Not that I’m accusing anyone specifically, but in a thread of this nature it just seems kind of inevitable.
Sterra and Tristan, you know what the official position is here at the Straight Dope concerning sock puppets. We do not take threats such as yours lightly, and we will be keeping an eye on your future postings.
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