# Analogies banned in GD

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**Created:** [November 20, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/analogies-banned-in-gd/705192 "2014-11-20T20:17:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/analogies-banned-in-gd/705192/20 "2014-11-21T01:05:28Z")

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It was a terrible analogy.

The problem is: I have never imagined that mods would begin moderating posters who proffer terrible analogies.

Is that the plan, going forward?

Or was this particular terrible analogy sui generis?

For example:

> [@"Some marriages between consenting adults should be recognized, but not others"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-marriages-between-consenting-adults-should-be-recognized-but-not-others/704988/131):
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> “If you don’t know anything about an issue, just make something up, and argue as if it were true.”
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> Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Republican party platform in action.

That’s an absolutely untrue representation of the actual Republican party platform.

Should I report it?

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