# Can the mods require a poster to reply to a question?

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**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")\
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**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, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-mods-require-a-poster-to-reply-to-a-question/925356/9 "2020-11-11T22:40:32Z")

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I think you were justified and handled it very well. I would have preferred if you gave the explicit rationale alongside the modhat request:

> [@"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/925227/56):
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> You’re asking a lot of questions, even after they’re answered. So please, back up this statement that appears to be false at first glance.

Just so that people who haven’t been following the whole thread know right then and there that you suspect him of trolling. As opposed to, putting on your modhat just to tell him he’s wrong in P&E (in context, you clearly did not do that).

~Max

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