# Is this grounds for thread closure?

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**Created:** [March 31, 2021, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-grounds-for-thread-closure/939061 "2021-03-31T02:21:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-grounds-for-thread-closure/939061/4 "2021-03-31T02:57:13Z")

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Allow me to disagree, you repeatedly said any ‘old’ argument, dictated and arbitrated by you was being stated in bad faith and should be ignored until it goes away.  
And while I don’t agree with anything your ‘bad faith poster’ said, they were willing to agree to minimal steps in the direction you seemed to be wanting to go. There was no effort to coax them, or to provide _additional_ options to find common ground on, which was _theoretically_ the point of your post. It was a declaration that they and their POV was worthless and therefore not to be addressed in the thread.  
Definitely heavy handed for Great Debates.

ETA - for that matter, you were noted early on in the thread for just this, left, and then came back to pretty much double down on the issue you were noted on (noted, not warned mind you). For anyone not involved, it would be this thread.

> [@Is now a good time to talk about gun safety laws?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-now-a-good-time-to-talk-about-gun-safety-laws/938605/125):
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> My useful suggestion is that, moving forward, we just ignore the same old disingenuous talking points rather than turning this thread over to re-litigating the same old bullshit like a thousand threads before. Maybe if we starve the bad-faith debaters of oxygen they’ll eventually return to their own laughing-gas-filled bubbles.

So everyone can make their own judgement.

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