# Clarification, Tom?

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**Created:** [August 11, 2012, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-tom/631184 "2012-08-11T11:18:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-tom/631184/20 "2012-08-11T19:28:48Z")

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> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#):
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> Better, but I’d still like to know what part of the post that **Tom** felt was harassing. It seems like a plain-vanilla repeated request for a cite to me.

The issue was the repeated question, not the wording or some part of the post:

> [@Jared Diamond responds to Romney's misrepresentation of "Guns, Germs, and Steel"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jared-diamond-responds-to-romneys-misrepresentation-of-guns-germs-and-steel/630473/68):
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> Persistent badgering for an answer is harrassment and it will stop.

> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#):
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> Maybe he should have made it plain that he was posting outside of his capacity as a Mod?

He was moderating the thread.

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