# Closed threads

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closed-threads/962084>\
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**Created:** [April 1, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closed-threads/962084 "2022-04-01T02:06:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closed-threads/962084/1 "2022-04-01T02:06:48Z")

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I clicked on two threads about “race debates”. They had been closed. The threads vanished when I backed out. Is this usual for closed threads?

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closed-threads/962084/2 "2022-04-01T02:25:35Z")

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I think I know which two threads you’re talking about. I suspect that the OP of those two threads got themselves quickly banned (probably for socking), and that may have led to the cornfielding of the threads.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closed-threads/962084/3 "2022-04-01T02:26:54Z")

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Thanks, kenobi.

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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closed-threads/962084/4 "2022-04-01T03:55:49Z")

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> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> I suspect that the OP of those two threads got themselves quickly banned (probably for socking), and that may have led to the cornfielding of the threads.

He was a bad man. He was a very bad man, and he kept thinking bad thoughts about me!

Stranger