# Is there a criteria for closing threads? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 28, 2021, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-criteria-for-closing-threads/931701 "2021-01-28T17:55:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![damuriajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@damuriajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/damuriajashi)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-criteria-for-closing-threads/931701/4 "2021-01-29T20:04:43Z")
> [@Selective Magnet School in Virginia moving towards a lottery system](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-magnet-school-in-virginia-moving-towards-a-lottery-system/922347/826): > > I was going to go through this whole mess of a thread and issue warnings, but I don’t have the bandwidth tonight. This will be staying closed, though. This is the most recent thread that was closed. The thread had recently gained 2 new participants that proceeded to yell at each other. Having participants yelling at each other is not unique to this thread. Perhaps the mods thought the thread had turned into a dumpster fire. This seems very subjective. Now in this thread:[Academically/Intellectually Gifted Education is problematic but necessary](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academically-intellectually-gifted-education-is-problematic-but-necessary/931706) I am being told to stop trying to derail the thread with discussions of race. I found this confusing because race is brought up in the OP and in a dozen posts by others throughout the thread. It seems like the OP is allowed to say that tests are racist and I am not allowed to rebutt that conclusion because that would be injecting race into the debate and turning the thread into a dumpster fire? Given these things, how is this much different from telling me that only one side is allowed to present arguments connected to race and education? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-criteria-for-closing-threads/931701)._