# Hey Frank.  You said that you would leave the thread open for a bit.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 29, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-frank-you-said-that-you-would-leave-the-thread-open-for-a-bit/342046 "2006-01-29T04:21:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-frank-you-said-that-you-would-leave-the-thread-open-for-a-bit/342046/1 "2006-01-29T04:21:23Z")

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OK Frank. Really.

It may have been nice if my thread titled “Question about mapping 500 cities has disappeared.” In GQ, Had a response from a moderator, in stead of just a lock down.

If a moderator had added that “You responded to a thread posted by a sock and …….” Could have saved us a lot of grief. All I saw was a very reasonable thread disappearing, and questions about it getting locked down. Should I count on other posters to tell me it was ‘probably a sock’? Shouldn’t a moderator moderate?

Sad really. I was just trying to help them. The person that I was responding to was in no way acting like a jerk or trying to incite anything. They just needed some help.

> [@lissener](#):
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> Dude, one of the more obvious rules around here is that if a moderator closes your thread, you don’t just take it upon yourself to reopen it. Sheesh

Dude, it wasn’t my thread. I was just trying to help someone with a mapping question.

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-frank-you-said-that-you-would-leave-the-thread-open-for-a-bit/342046/2 "2006-01-29T04:23:35Z")

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> [@enipla](#):
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> Dude, it wasn’t my thread.

**enipla** , this is the _fourth_ thread you’ve opened on this subject.

This is an official warning.

DO NOT open another thread on this subject.