# Bad precedent

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-precedent/535594>\
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**Created:** [April 9, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-precedent/535594 "2010-04-09T23:45:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-precedent/535594/57 "2010-04-11T02:35:24Z")

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> [@Fenris](#):
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> Edited and deleted post. Why bother? It’s not like anything we say makes a difference on anything substantial.

Actually, it does quite often. As the unofficial Board Historian 🙂 you should know this.

I think the outcries of the members have caused mods/Admins to quite often rethink decisions, and quite often reverse them. This would almost never have happened in the first five years of the Board.

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