# Closing threads

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**Created:** [December 14, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-threads/928063 "2020-12-14T23:55:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![damuriajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@damuriajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/damuriajashi)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-threads/928063/30 "2020-12-16T16:21:08Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Why would I have any reason to assume you were talking about yourself?

Maybe by reading what I wrote and not interpreting it in the worst light possible.

> [@BigT](#):
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> You were egging on the other poster as much as they were egging you on.

Yes, it escalated. I can’t tell you you have to start reading from the first post on but this is the first time in the thread I can find myself responding to GIGO:

> [@Selective Magnet School in Virginia moving towards a lottery system](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-magnet-school-in-virginia-moving-towards-a-lottery-system/922347/255):
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> The intent in this case is clear. They are trying to increase the black and hispanic population. A worthy goal that comes at a discriminatory price. This particular writer is a fairly active anti-asian academic. She and a colleague of hers in the gender/cultural studies department are two of the primary apologists of anti-asian discrimination in affirmative action. Lotteries are not evil. They are just a stupid way of selecting for academic merit. And when you go from a reasonably good …

And this is his first response to me:

> [@Selective Magnet School in Virginia moving towards a lottery system](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-magnet-school-in-virginia-moving-towards-a-lottery-system/922347/261):
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> That is nice /s Do you have a cite for that, BTW there were more than just that writer in that cite. Yep, not evil, just stupid. As usual that is just an opinion, it does not deny that lotteries are a way to deal with limited resources so as to be more fair. As I saw others comment, you should ask why is that those resources are limited, schools then need more help then to avoid the shortages. Trying to make this a wedge issue is what some are still trying to do.

what is the point of the “/s” or prefacing a statement with the comment “as usual…”

And this sort of thing is repeated for several responses before I start getting short with GIGO. But the escalation was not by me and my response was not immediate, I let it go for a few posts before it started to get annoying.

So, yes. By the end, there is no real difference but if someone stepped in early on when the sniping started it might never have gotten there. It’s not like I have not tried to flag posts that start us down this road but I have received responses from various moderators in various threads effectively telling me to sit down, shut up and just take it until someone actually crosses a line. I’m saying that perhaps it would make sense to cut off this sort of sniping before it crosses the line.

If post 246 is NOT his first post then I will take another look but I almost never instigate this sort of shit because I know that this board tilts in one direction and turning GD into the pit only works against non-woke opinions.

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