# Colibri's "Political" moderation

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-political-moderation/739880
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**Created:** [December 9, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-political-moderation/739880 "2015-12-09T00:58:24Z")
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### Author: ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2015, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-political-moderation/739880/19 "2015-12-09T03:46:24Z")

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> [@Habeed](#):
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> An argument could be made that perhaps these posts are still against the rules, however, _which rules_ were violated?

> [@Factual Questions Rules & FAQs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/factual-questions-rules-faqs/447561/1):
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> 1. **Political, religious, or professional jabs, hijacks, and [trolling](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mtroll.html) prohibited.** The purpose of General Questions is to get factual questions answered. In order to accomplish this we need the threads to stay on topic… We don’t tolerate political, religious, professional or personal jabs or insults.

Pretty clear, really. Note that “political” is not the same as “partisan,” as some people, including you, seem to assume.

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> Colibri has slapped me with a warning point because I “should have known better”. How should I have known better than to make a non-political post complaining about a problem with the United States because it was political?

I’ve explained to you at considerable length by PM why political posts are not permitted in GQ. In fact, I reversed a previous warning because I thought you actually understood the rule after our discussion. It seems that I was mistaken.

Note that whether a post is factually true is not a defense against the “no political jabs” rule in GQ, which I have previously explained to you. Much of your post was not relevant to the OP of the thread in question, and would have been better suited to GD than GQ.

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