# Jonathan Chance, you are being silly.

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**Created:** [March 21, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathan-chance-you-are-being-silly/715616 "2015-03-21T16:59:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathan-chance-you-are-being-silly/715616/7 "2015-03-21T17:33:09Z")

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For clarity’s sake, here are the mod notes. Notice that the notes are not for “comment and link style” posting, but for _cross posting the exact same comment,_ cut and paste style, in multiple threads.

> [@Stupid Republican idea of the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20209):
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> BrainGlutton, you posted this exact same thing in three different threads. Please refrain from the cut and paste style of posting in the future. If you have something to add, at least try to be creative about it.

> [@Stupid Republican idea of the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20210):
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> BrainGlutton, you posted this exact same thing in two different threads. Please refrain from the cut and paste style of posting in the future. If you have something to add, at least try to be creative about it.

> [@mhendo](#):
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> I’ve been critical of some of **BrainGlutton** ’s threads in the past, especially his tendency to start a thread with nothing more than a cut-and-paste quotation and a link.
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> But your recent moderating of his posts about Ben Carson is silly. Despite the fact that the three posts he made were identical, each was completely appropriate and relevant for the thread in which it was posted.
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> [First post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18222769#post18222769)  
> [Second post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18222777#post18222777)  
> [Third post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18222784#post18222784)
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> Most ridiculous was your moderating of his contribution to the Stupid Republican Idea of the Day thread. That thread contains over 20,000 posts. It is one of the longest threads in the history of these boards, and there are literally hundreds—probably thousands—of posts in that thread that contain little more than a link and a quote.
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> Your decision to moderate each of those instances was not only dumb, it had a more detrimental effect on those threads than the posts you were moderating.
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> As i said, i think that there \*\*\*are \*\*\*times when **BrainGlutton** posts in non-productive ways, especially when he is the thread creator and simply starts a thread with a link and a quote. But those posts were completely fine in the context of the three threads where they appeared.
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> If you have a throat problem, take some medicine rather than looking for excuses to clear it in public.

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