# Does What Exit's heavy-handed moderation in the Ukraine war thread improve it or degrade it?

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
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I don’t understand What Exit’s obsession with hijacks in the Ukraine war thread. I am perfectly capable of scrolling past digressions and meanders that don’t interest me. They are far less intrusive and distracting than incessant harping and mod-noting, punctuated by unnecessary thread closures. This isn’t the way we managed breaking news threads for twenty years, and it is not an improvement.

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