# Closing threads **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 14, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-threads/928063 "2020-12-14T23:55:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-threads/928063/32 "2020-12-16T16:39:09Z")
Just a note here, the forum software collapses the cite until you click on it. so it makes the “Yep, not evil, stupid” line to sound as I’m directing it to the poster, the “Yep, not evil, just stupid.” is a reply to this: > [@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): > > Lotteries are not evil. They are just a stupid way of selecting for academic merit. And when you go from a reasonably good way of selecting for academic merit to a stupid way and the end result is a tradeoff of 4 fewer asian students to achieve an increase of 1 black student 1 hispanic student and 2 white students, it is discriminatory against asians. Speaking in general, it is really not good to dismiss more educated opinions with accusations that are based on reports from partizan sources. That is why me and others in the past in this message board realize that when launching those accusations against cited people the one making the accusation needs a cite from better sources. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-threads/928063)._