# Closing thread with 300+ responses, with no explanation?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-thread-with-300-responses-with-no-explanation/932538
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**Created:** [February 9, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-thread-with-300-responses-with-no-explanation/932538 "2021-02-09T16:55:48Z")
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-thread-with-300-responses-with-no-explanation/932538/1 "2021-02-09T16:55:48Z")
[https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transgender-transracial-what-is-the-essential-difference/932117/315](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transgender-transracial-what-is-the-essential-difference/932117/315)
I’m sure there was some kind of reason, but wouldn’t it have been reasonable and courteous to provide an explanation in the closing announcement?
I realize I’m old and cranky, but if this is a new thing that’s going to start happening, I don’t like it.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-thread-with-300-responses-with-no-explanation/932538/2 "2021-02-09T17:00:32Z")
Or sometimes a mod clicks the wrong thing.
Sorry about that. No excuse, can’t even claim to be new on the job at this point. I plain and simple screwed up and closed by accident.
eta: I’m surprised it took 4 hours before someone let us know.
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-thread-with-300-responses-with-no-explanation/932538/3 "2021-02-09T17:15:44Z")
Oh, well. No harm done, then. (and I wondered that myself)
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-thread-with-300-responses-with-no-explanation/932538/4 "2021-02-09T20:29:27Z")
Don’t sweat it, **What\_Exit**. Everyone makes mistakes. We all remember that time **Marley** tried to ban a spammer, and accidentally poisoned a reservoir in Kentucky.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-thread-with-300-responses-with-no-explanation/932538/5 "2021-02-10T01:03:27Z")
Is this why we sometimes we a thread closed and then immediately reopened after a mod post? I had been assuming you closed it on purpose to get a chance to look at the thread before making your note.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2021, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-thread-with-300-responses-with-no-explanation/932538/6 "2021-02-10T01:55:05Z")
That might be the sequence that got interrupted. I’m not sure. I did shut a different thread down for 5 minutes today. Maybe as I was just starting on my coffee when I was reviewing the flags in that thread, I closed it, intending it to be brief and then life happened?
I don’t think so, I think I just screw this one up somehow.
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2021, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-thread-with-300-responses-with-no-explanation/932538/7 "2021-02-10T02:15:57Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> Or sometimes a mod clicks the wrong thing.
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> Sorry about that. No excuse, can’t even claim to be new on the job at this point. I plain and simple screwed up and closed by accident.
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> eta: I’m surprised it took 4 hours before someone let us know.
That’s why you work here and not at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant 😃
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-thread-with-300-responses-with-no-explanation/932538/8 "2021-02-10T22:37:00Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> Don’t sweat it, **What\_Exit**. Everyone makes mistakes. We all remember that time **Marley** tried to ban a spammer, and accidentally poisoned a reservoir in Kentucky.
Of course there was that minor kerfuffle back in 2009 when Google inadvertently banned _the entire internet_. Oops. 😉
In case anyone thinks I’m kidding, here’s a representative article from the event:
> **[Google blacklists entire internet](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jan/31/google-blacklist-internet)**
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> Glitch causes world's most popular search engine to classify all web pages as dangerous
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### Author:  [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-thread-with-300-responses-with-no-explanation/932538/9 "2021-02-10T22:38:45Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Guardian: Glitch causes world’s most popular search engine to classify all web pages as dangerous
Well, they weren’t wrong