# Bullshit modding in the IMHO avatar thread (yeah, you knew it was coming)

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**Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-modding-in-the-imho-avatar-thread-yeah-you-knew-it-was-coming/591393/23 "2011-08-04T00:56:04Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Closing it was certainly one of the options, but since the OP posted, almost at the start of the thread:I thought it would be a bit unfair to him, since he actual gave a link to the ATMB thread for people to debate in and all.

Hang on just a second, don’t try and claim you acted on my account. If I thought people were going to get warnings out of nowhere I wouldn’t have started the bloody thing in the first place.

I asked for debate to go to the ATMB thread because I knew what the thread would turn out like. Quoting myself from the other thread:

> [@Avatars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/590594/283):
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> I asked that people keep the debate to the ATMB thread for a very simple reason. This thread and others like it have shown that a small number of people will jump into the thread and repeatedly make the same arguments, just using different stupid analogies each time, until the well is well and truly poisoned.
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> Consider it like a polling booth. We did not need people hanging around outside it making snide remarks and trying to influence voters. No problem whatsoever though with people coming out of the booth and saying what way they voted and why.

I never wanted a comment free zone, just to stop people from trying to influence voting by shouting the loudest. Instead you warned two people for just giving their opinion once after voting, and another for something that was just a bit of a tangent.

There was no need at all, and I am not having this put on me.

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