# Incorrect Warning (IMO)

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**Created:** [July 11, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incorrect-warning-imo/724832 "2015-07-11T02:36:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incorrect-warning-imo/724832/102 "2015-07-15T18:40:37Z")

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> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> FX said, “a thread” not “that thread”.

Of course, but I tend to just let people make mistakes. Trying to correct every wrong thing on the internet is a fruitless and impossible task. Not that some people won’t try. For example, here is a Mod instruction/warning.

> [@Can homosexuality be cured?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-homosexuality-be-cured/725173/19):
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> It was not a well-written OP, but from this point on, everyone will regard the OP to have actually posted …

So in order to not run afoul of Mod directions, you have to mentally change what was written, and regard it as the Mod has told you to regard it.

This is actually how GD works you see. You have to mentally imagine what is on the page is something else now. Because a Mod ordered you to do so. And not following a Mod’s instructions is a serious offense. So if you somehow forget to mentally change what you see on the page, you can get an infraction, which can lead to being banned.

Ain’t that a hoot?

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