# "Ask The.." thread in Great Debates

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**Created:** [September 17, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-thread-in-great-debates/554097 "2010-09-17T16:20:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-thread-in-great-debates/554097/115 "2010-09-19T01:26:28Z")

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> [@PlainJain](#):
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> > [@Fenris](#):
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> > Because the thread is about “What’s life like there?”, not “What her views on international politics, morality, or whatever other idiotic hijack you feel like attempting in yet another thread”.
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> I’m sorry this is just not true. There is a link on the first page of thread that will take you straight to the OP to read for yourself. In it you will find **Shinna** talking about living over the green line, making a political statement by being there and that the world at large thinks people such as himself are crazy for living where he does. He then goes on to say “if anyone has **any** questions”, ask them.
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> I agree that it was wrong to move it to GD. But after it was, it was wrong for **Tom** to limit the scope of the questions.

Once I saw the thread, I knew that it was not going to remain in Great Debates. I needed to halt the hijack long enough for the staff to consider the issue and decide which forum would best suit the thread. Unfortunately, I saw the thread moments before I had to leave for work, so whatever choice I made, (including possibly temporarily closing the thread or sending it back to MPSIMS with a hasty note to that forum’s Mods), was going to be an incomplete and troubling action.

I had no problem with questions about the OP’s views of Eretz Yisrael or how the the OP viewed international opinions on the settlements. On the other hand, I have never agreed with the notion that every poster is entitled to badger any other poster to demand a specific answer. Once a poster has responded, as long as the response is not evasive, further badgering for a different answer is simply harrassment. (Employing the word “criminal” aimed at the OP was also out of bounds, but in the limited time I had to address the matter–and with the thread having been punted across a couple of fora–I was not going to make an issue of that when I posted my admonition, hoping that my instructions would stop that tack.)

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