# Anyone else receive snarky mod comments when reporting a post or thread?

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**Created:** [January 13, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-receive-snarky-mod-comments-when-reporting-a-post-or-thread/930465 "2021-01-13T20:28:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-receive-snarky-mod-comments-when-reporting-a-post-or-thread/930465/29 "2021-01-14T04:52:00Z")

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Actually, I persuaded him to delete it. It was during the frenzy of the 2000 election, and I posted a  
thread repeating what several others had already posted, and he lost it.

Here is **manhattan’s** classic response.

> [@How do I keep IE from automatically chenging the text size?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-keep-ie-from-automatically-chenging-the-text-size/143703/26):
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> As it happens, I am the fucking hall monitor. If you don’t want help, don’t ask. You insult another user and you’re done here. That is not how we do things here. So knock it off.

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