# I think it's bullshit that the Positive abortion news of the day thread was closed. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 6, 2019, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773 "2019-09-06T05:17:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/21 "2019-09-06T14:23:09Z")
> [@TheCuse](#): > > Didn’t one of the mods tell you to go ahead and start a thread? And you announced it here? And a mod commented in your thread that others need to remember the rules? And then you THANKED the moderator who chimed in? > > If so, why ask if you should get a warning, or if the thread should be closed? > > There’s no need to pretend to be some sort of martyr. It’s called a rhetorical question. Czarcasm isn’t advocating for himself to be warned, he’s asking why this thread deserves a warning while his does not. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/22 "2019-09-06T14:25:45Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You’ve got to be kidding. That was not an honestly intentioned thread. It was clearly intended as a poke at the “Positive Gun News Thread.” **engineer** was right to close it. My thread wasn’t a poke at anyone or anything and I explicitly stated as much. The thread you mentioned was explicitly, literally intended as a poke at the negative gun news threads. The OP stated this explicitly. The difference in moderation is confusing. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/23 "2019-09-06T15:02:47Z")
The thread was an entirely reasonable thread on an entirely reasonable subject. I was going to post a story in it, though I hadn’t gotten around to it yet. The phrasing of the title references other threads, yes. There are additional threads that do the same thing that have not even gotten a moderator’s note or a title change for it, let alone been closed with a trolling warning. Colibri and engineer\_comp\_geek, do you seriously think that there’s no such thing as positive life stories involving an abortion? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/24 "2019-09-06T15:20:59Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Engineer Comp Geek, what did I say or imply in that thread indicating that I was trolling in that thread? All my posts there were sincere and personal. Everyone’s posts were sincere except the one guy determined to bring the threadshitting and rules-lawyering. > > There was no point to be made until you decided there was one. Kindly consider explaining the reasoning, re-opening the thread, and rescinding the warning. Your clever 11-dimensional chess isn’t convincing anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/25 "2019-09-06T15:22:32Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > That was not an honestly intentioned thread. It was clearly intended as a poke at the “Positive Gun News Thread.” To me it sure looks like an honestly-intentioned thread, with a _title_ that was intended as a poke at the “Positive Gun News Thread.” ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/26 "2019-09-06T15:25:47Z")
Then what about the kayak/yak threads? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/27 "2019-09-06T15:27:24Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > But knowing the background it was hard to take any of it as serious as I would have wished. In a parody would it be wrong to stretch the events to make your point? I think giving it a head shot and putting it away was the best action and when you look how few of the posts were on topic … I read the OP and wondered if it was only a parody, but then I read the OP’s second post and other stories in the thread, and I was able to adjust my opinion and take it seriously. When presented with new information, it’s useful to reconsider your opinions. And the off-topic posts were all made by a single poster, or were responses to him. Maybe those hijacks could have been dealt with, instead of a “head shot”. I think the mods are rightly frustrated by some of the BS in the ATMB thread on gun control, and I can understand overreacting to this one. But that’s what the closure and warning were - an overreaction. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/28 "2019-09-06T15:28:33Z")
A year or so ago, a friend of mine posted a series of family pictures, with blanks spaces in them where certain family members should’ve been. The missing family members were those born to a mother who had had an abortion at a young age. Had abortion not been an option for her, my friend suggested, her life would’ve taken a drastically different turn, and she wouldn’t have been able to start a family later, on her own terms. He, and his own children, would never have existed. The thread topic is 100% legit, and this warning and closure are not at all in line with board culture or rules. Please reconsider them. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/29 "2019-09-06T15:28:47Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > The thread was an entirely reasonable thread on an entirely reasonable subject. I was going to post a story in it, though I hadn’t gotten around to it yet. Me too. Entirely reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/30 "2019-09-06T15:40:25Z")
So it’s not possible to discuss how having an abortion may have positively impacted one’s life, but it’s perfectly fine, a few threads over, to tell a female poster to go masturbate herself and another poster. Coincidentally, also in an abortion related thread, btw. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/31 "2019-09-06T15:41:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Personally I’d like to see the thread re-opened with a mod note about not bringing baggage from the gun thread into it. I’d certainly like to hear people’s positive experiences with abortion (or as positive as they can be, given the topic). It’s a subject where that side of the argument doesn’t get much attention. And perhaps change it to “Positive Abortion Stories” rather than specifically “News”. I’d say that even handed moderation would require that they request the OP to rename the thread- not positive/negative by itself, but something more specific- “Positive Anti-Abortion News” or “Positive Pro Choice News” for example. Otherwise, there’s a lot of ambiguity, and tacit endorsement of a particular viewpoint as positive through the mere existence of the ambiguously named thread. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/32 "2019-09-06T15:47:19Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > So it’s not possible to discuss how having an abortion may have positively impacted one’s life, but it’s perfectly fine, a few threads over, to tell a female poster to go masturbate herself and another poster. Coincidentally, also in an abortion related thread, btw. > > Cool. :eek: Linky? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/33 "2019-09-06T15:53:37Z")
FTR, \*\*Bone \*\*started the “Positive Gun News of the Day” thread \*itself \*as a retort to the Pit’s “Stupid Gun News of the Day” thread. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/34 "2019-09-06T15:54:17Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > :eek: > > Linky? [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=881441](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=881441) Note the OP telling the poster to go rub one out and pick up some astroglide. Oh, and the handy-j. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/35 "2019-09-06T16:03:51Z")
…and the dig at the Other Board… ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/36 "2019-09-06T16:11:13Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > FTR, \*\*Bone \*\*started the “Positive Gun News of the Day” thread \*itself \*as a retort to the Pit’s “Stupid Gun News of the Day” thread. Two and a half years later. Not exactly a hair-trigger response (sorry). Regards, Shodan ---
**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)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/37 "2019-09-06T16:15:42Z")
I am now reconsidering my intent to start a “Positive Black Licorice News” thread. I wouldn’t want to get a warning for trolling all the black licorice haters. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/38 "2019-09-06T16:26:21Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I am now reconsidering my intent to start a “Positive Black Licorice News” thread. I wouldn’t want to get a warning for trolling all the black licorice haters. Ugh don’t get me started on how disgusting black licorice is. There are some topics too much of a hot button for this board. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/39 "2019-09-06T16:30:24Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Ugh don’t get me started on how disgusting black licorice is. There are some topics too much of a hot button for this board. :mad: You are truly among the culinary unenlightened. Australian Black Licorice is nothing less than divine! :o ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-bullshit-that-the-positive-abortion-news-of-the-day-thread-was-closed/839773/40 "2019-09-06T16:32:03Z")
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