# Did Marley violate SDMB protocol here?

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**Created:** [March 8, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-marley-violate-sdmb-protocol-here/652378 "2013-03-08T14:33:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-marley-violate-sdmb-protocol-here/652378/15 "2013-03-08T17:59:52Z")

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Another example:

> [@Guys and creepiness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-creepiness/651716/361):
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> Yes, I’d say actually worrying about dying in a house fire is absurd. Do the sensible things you can do to avoid it, mainly installing smoke alarms, and then stop worrying.

> [@Guys and creepiness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-and-creepiness/651716/413):
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> That’s a funny thing to say in a thread where posters have literally said that women who fear stranger rape need to get their mental issues in check, and that it’s so rare that we should take “minor precautions and then stop worrying”.

Your idea–that the burden of proof is on the mods to show that they don’t mod such paraphrases-in-quotes–is absurd. The only point in your idea’s favor is that the burden is trivially easy to meet.

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