# You've been BANNED **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 13, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741 "2000-10-13T01:22:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sk8rixtx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sk8rixtx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sk8rixtx)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/1 "2000-10-13T01:22:05Z")
I just tried to post something about 3 minutes ago and I was taken to an error page, saying that the administrator has banned my IP address. Whats goin’ on? It’s fine now, but it kinda freaked me out. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2000, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/2 "2000-10-13T01:29:45Z")
A bug in vB. For about five minutes there it banned EVERYBODY. It’s fixed now. Sorry for the inconvenience. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/3 "2000-10-13T01:37:09Z")
Thank God! (And TubaDiva.) Here I was hopping over to see if I could post if I disconnected and reconnected (on the hope I’d get assigned a different IP number). You can ignore my email, Tuba. Of course, now you all have been cheated out of the most brilliant post ever written, because I didn’t bother to save it. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/4 "2000-10-13T02:51:14Z")
Ignore mine, too. It sounds like you might be getting quite a few. ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/5 "2000-10-13T06:31:14Z")
**TubaDiva** said: > [@](#): > > A bug in vB. > > For about five minutes there it banned EVERYBODY. I have this mental image of **concrete** getting out a new sock during this period, and discovering it was banned before it ever posted anything. ---
**Author:** ![fierra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/6 "2000-10-13T13:48:38Z")
Somehow MisterEcks, that makes it all worth while. Thanks for that image! ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/7 "2000-10-13T16:14:30Z")
OK ignore the email from the LIONsob and I too then. ---
**Author:** ![Absinthe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Absinthe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absinthe)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/8 "2000-10-13T18:40:34Z")
testing 1,2,7,9,13,234,432,4 ---
**Author:** ![sk8rixtx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sk8rixtx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sk8rixtx)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/9 "2000-10-13T20:22:58Z")
Testing… just making sure I’m still not banned… ---
**Author:** ![Fonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Fonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonz)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/10 "2000-10-13T21:44:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MysterEcks \* > \*\ ***TubaDiva** said: > > > [@](#): > > > > A bug in vB. > > > > For about five minutes there it banned EVERYBODY. > > I have this mental image of **concrete** getting out a new sock during this period, and discovering it was banned before it ever posted anything. \*\* I have a mental image that Concrete has a mental image of you getting a mental image that you were banned. That would cheer me up. As one of the banned-in-error crowd, I love the thought of what you bluenoses would do in that case. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/11 "2000-10-13T22:33:43Z")
First, concrete was certainly not banned in error. Second, having been there myself, and being a “bluenose” (I guess, it’s not a term I’ve ever heard before, so I have no idea if I qualify), I think I can answer as to what an appropriate response would be. OK, I got an email one day (Cinco de Mayo, as a matter of fact) saying that I was banned for also using the user name FlatULance, who was some moron troll that put my email address into his profile. Here is my response to Tuba: > [@](#): > > FlatULance is not me. I don’t know what evidence you might have, but I assure you that I have only posted to the SDMB under one name. Please let me know how I can clear this up, as I have an addiction to maintain, and I’m pretty sure I can show that FlatULance is not me. > > -Jeremy Waterfall, AKA waterj2 See, pretty reasonable. Within about ten minutes, my posting privileges were restored. So don’t use being banned in error as an excuse for having a personal vendetta against the SDMB. Is this what your mental image of a “bluenose” being accidentally banned were, or is the truth not as exciting as your paranoid imagination. ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/12 "2000-10-13T22:45:39Z")
**Fonz** said: > [@](#): > > As one of the banned-in-error crowd, I love the thought of what you bluenoses would do in that case. I’m sure I’d object to that characterization, if I knew what it was. (I assume you don’t mean “sexual prude,” which is the only way I’ve seen “bluenose” used.) I seem to recall you were also one of the left-in-a-huff crowd. What happened, nobody cared so you came back? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/13 "2000-10-13T22:50:36Z")
> [@](#): > > **bluenose** _noun_ > > A puritanical person: _“Bluenoses demand restraint against the porn and violence that are the staple of popular culture”_ (Charles Krauthammer). > > - **blue´nosed´** _adjective_ _The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition_. 1992, Houghton Mifflin Company, Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/14 "2000-10-13T23:09:36Z")
Oh, I guess he couldn’t have been referring to me. I am quite the afficionado of soft-core pornography (you know, Cinemax at about 2AM type stuff). Then again, he said it about MysterEcks, who seems to be equally unfit for thee label. That’s got to be one of the least appropriate accusations made against the regulars here. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/15 "2000-10-14T02:35:42Z")
Maybe he meant it in the USN sense of the word. -OK, who here has traveled north of the arctic circle on a naval vessel? ---
**Author:** ![User\_10K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@User\_10K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/User_10K)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/16 "2000-10-14T02:47:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tomndebb \* > \*\*I’m pretty sure that it is simply coincidental that _bluenose_ has those two separate meanings. > > The aspect of being puritanical probably is drawn from the Blue Laws and is simply an insulting way to identify a person who would be willing to impose Blue Laws (no retail commerce, no movies or theaters, and no alcoholic sales on Sunday, for example) on society. > > Nova Scotians get their blue noses from being out in the arctic gales along the Grand Banks fisheries. \*\* [sub]**And another [/sub]** > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Inky- \* > \*\*Anybody have any idea where the “Blue” in “Blue Movie” comes from? You think it has any correlation to the term “Blue Nose” used to describe a puritanical, easily offended person? \*\* I’m not sure if MysterEcks is the Novascotian kind, but he certainly is the easily offended person kind. ---
**Author:** ![Mu\_Mu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Mu\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mu_Mu)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/17 "2000-10-14T03:51:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fonz \* > \*\*I have a mental image that Concrete has a mental image of you getting a mental image that you were banned. > \*\* I love it! I found out exactly how it affected the \_\_\_\_\_\_'s. (bluenoses? 😕 maybe you’re thinking of brownnoses…Let’s just say the _blankety-blanks_) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Danielinthewolvesden \* > \*\*I had the same message, and sent off the same “WTF” to Tuba. Please ignore that, Tuba, no need to reply. For just a minute, i thought my sins had caught up to me. \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sk8rixtx \* > \*\*Just after it happened I posted a thread about it in ATMB. Still awaiting responses. I swear I almost cried when I got that message. \*\* There are more reactions here (unfortunately most of those feeling “on the hotseat” aren’t troll-obsessed.) \*\* [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=42003](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=42003) \*\* ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/18 "2000-10-14T04:07:40Z")
**User 10K** said: > [@](#): > > I’m not sure if MysterEcks is the Novascotian kind, but he certainly is the easily offended person kind. I don’t suffer twits gladly, if that’s what you mean. Whatsamatter, are you still pissed that I didn’t suffer _you_gladly in that one thread? **Mu Mu** : see my above comment on twits. ---
**Author:** ![Fonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Fonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonz)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/19 "2000-10-14T04:20:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MysterEcks \* > \*\*I seem to recall you were also one of the left-in-a-huff crowd. What happened, nobody cared so you came back? \*\* No. Never left. My friends were pissed, but they post now and then too. Our 1-hour problem was the board mods couldn’t imagine two couples sharing a couple of computers. They have a way of saying “no need to tell us if you share a computer with others”, then ban you when you don’t, then are shocked when people get taken aback, like \*\*Danielinthewolvesden \*\*and **Kat** there above, who sent testy emails. If you think you wouldn’t, then you must not care about the board very much. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741/20 "2000-10-14T04:21:49Z")
Speaking of twits, have you noticed the odd correlation between twits and posters who’s sigs mention a reason for their user name? Like they’re trying to convince us that they’re not sock puppets before anyone’s accused them. Just one of those things that makes you go “hmmm”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-banned/36741.md?page=2)