# I'm protesting my Warning **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 21, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-protesting-my-warning/846746 "2020-01-21T14:51:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-protesting-my-warning/846746/37 "2020-01-21T19:06:30Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > What I hate the most, though, is this thread. You can’t just ask it once as a gotcha. You have to pretend that it was sincere and challenge the Warning. Posts like yours are why it’s so easy for the mods to assume that everyone is lying to get out of being in trouble. I agree and I think that’s a very valid point. For the kind of statement made by the OP, it should get a warning just because of how it was stated in GQ. A question like that can very easily be taken as trolling, so it should be phrased in a way to make clear it is a genuine question relevant to the discussion. This kind of post in GQ, in and of itself, should garner a warning: > [@Why are pretty much all mass shooters male?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-pretty-much-all-mass-shooters-male/846501/7): > > How do you define male? > Are you implying that men and women are different? The obvious assumption is that it’s meant as a threadjack. If the question is being asked earnestly, then there should be more context around it to avoid that very reasonable mis-assumption. If the OP had included some stats about many mass shooters were cis- versus trans- gendered, the question might be more relevant. I thought it was trolling when I first saw it, and the convoluted explanations being offered up now are just confirming what I initially thought. I’m really glad this side discussion ended up here rather than derailing the original thread. Especially in GQ, if someone can’t phrase their questions in a way to avoid these kinds of derailing arguments, they really need to reconsider what they post. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-protesting-my-warning/846746)._