# Ivory Tower Denizen, Is There a Reason for a Warning Rather than an Explanation? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 23, 2017, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivory-tower-denizen-is-there-a-reason-for-a-warning-rather-than-an-explanation/797033 "2017-09-23T12:01:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 222
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivory-tower-denizen-is-there-a-reason-for-a-warning-rather-than-an-explanation/797033/222 "2017-09-28T12:54:47Z")
Just got this post to me in a GD thread: > [@$400 million bribe if the GOP repeals the Affordable Care Act? It can't be true, right...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/400-million-bribe-if-the-gop-repeals-the-affordable-care-act-it-cant-be-true-right/796934/176): > > Dude, you’re the one in favor of dumping poor people in the gutter to bleed to death. Needless to say, I never said that, and it’s simply a snarky distortion of my position on the issue, just as **Shodan** was accused of doing on the gender identity issue. I have reported it. What do you, Dear Readers of This Thread, feel should happen? My own feeling is that while the rhetorical technique is juvenile and absurd, it should not be moderated, or at best receive a note, and the appropriate counter is for me to respond that I never said any such thing, and he’s miscasting my actual argument. But that wasn’t how **Shodan** was treated. So what’s it gonna be? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivory-tower-denizen-is-there-a-reason-for-a-warning-rather-than-an-explanation/797033)._