# Can the mods require a poster to reply to a question? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 11, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-mods-require-a-poster-to-reply-to-a-question/925356 "2020-11-11T19:02:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-mods-require-a-poster-to-reply-to-a-question/925356/18 "2020-11-11T23:31:24Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > Kearsen made one claim which was challenged, which is that the number of people harmed by ACA was greater than the number which was helped. **What\_Exit** put the modhat on for this specifically, > [@"Supreme Court to hear latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-to-hear-latest-challenge-to-the-affordable-care-act/925227/63): > > But @Kearsen essentially said both sides had done nothing to address the healthcare problem. That’s clearly, demonstrably, factually, stupefyingly wrong, but all he’s done is move the goal posts to what Democrats did _wrong_ . > [@"Supreme Court to hear latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-to-hear-latest-challenge-to-the-affordable-care-act/925227/80): > > They only thing they have done wrong is defend the ACA instead of craft a better version. > [@"Supreme Court to hear latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-to-hear-latest-challenge-to-the-affordable-care-act/925227/83): > > You still haven’t answered the question. You made what appears to be an incorrect claim above. Please back it up or apologize for the mistake. > > **Modhat: I’m not allowing you to ignore this.** The “essentially… both sides” “incorrect claim” is probably this: > [@"Supreme Court to hear latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-to-hear-latest-challenge-to-the-affordable-care-act/925227/16): > > If the ACA gets struck down, it isn’t like it is a giant surprise and **both parties should have been working** together on something the entire time. > > Bunch of lazy fat rich punks. The incorrect and demonstrably false part would ostensibly be that the Democratic party was not trying to work with Republicans on a replacement for the Affordable Care Act (I don’t know for certain that they were, but I am aware of proposals coming out of that party). **Kearsen1** claimed that both parties should be working _together_, which implies that the parties were not working together, which is actually true. Then he says politicians (?) from “both parties” are a “[b]unch of lazy fat rich punks”, which implies that neither party tried to work with the other to replace the ACA. I think _that_ is the claim **Kearsen1** was called out on, and told he could not ignore. ~Max --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-mods-require-a-poster-to-reply-to-a-question/925356)._