# Is there any recourse for dubious modding?

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**Created:** [March 4, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-recourse-for-dubious-modding/531248 "2010-03-04T05:46:58Z")
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### Author: ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2010, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-recourse-for-dubious-modding/531248/4 "2010-03-04T06:31:44Z")

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[Here is a link to the thread that prompted this discussion.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12132677)

[**ambushed** was warned for this post.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12132677#post12132677) It begins as follows:

> [@Why does evolutionary psychology get such a bum rap?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-evolutionary-psychology-get-such-a-bum-rap/524521/94):
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> So, you somehow imagine _that’s_ a valuable contribution, do you, **orcenio**? That and all the rest of your delightfully simplistic and endearingly naive, sophomoric, far too full-of-yourself for a backwoods community-college student pseudo-pedantry?
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> How proud the hill folk must be! Why, you probably still have all your own teeth and everything!

And continues in this vein. He hasn’t disputed the warning, but thinks **orcenio** should have been warned for some other posts, including [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12044928#post12044928):

> [@Why does evolutionary psychology get such a bum rap?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-evolutionary-psychology-get-such-a-bum-rap/524521/93):
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> Enough hot air for a sauna. Yeah, you’d fit in well with philosophy majors.

[and this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12133579#post12133579)

> [@Why does evolutionary psychology get such a bum rap?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-evolutionary-psychology-get-such-a-bum-rap/524521/97):
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> Yep, yours is a simple case of red-faced bluster. Bluster away, pal.Lol, you’re suppose to mix argumentative points and logic within your flaming; otherwise people will only see your hot air. 😉

Those comments are not exactly polite, but I didn’t feel they rose to the level of being personal insults. So I didn’t issue a warning to him and I think that was the correct decision. I did give **orcenio** a note saying he should avoid any other personal remarks and stick to the arguments. (I admit I forgot to do this while I was writing my warning to **ambushed**. I did it in a separate note the following morning.)

The rest of the problems **ambushed** has with me come from private messages.

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