# Lynn, please provide cites for the rule you have asserted **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynn-please-provide-cites-for-the-rule-you-have-asserted/487359 **Category:** About This Message Board **Created:** [February 25, 2009, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynn-please-provide-cites-for-the-rule-you-have-asserted/487359 "2009-02-25T13:24:42Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 16
### Author: ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin) #### Post date: [February 25, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynn-please-provide-cites-for-the-rule-you-have-asserted/487359/16 "2009-02-25T17:12:58Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > I lack an answer. I’m rather surprised it wasn’t shut down, actually. > [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Not every thread that should be locked down is. They usually have to be reported, or be obvious enough that the casual browsing moderator figures it out. 😉 A moderator participated in the thread, and took moderator action to ensure that because it was an “insult game” it was placed in an appropriate forum: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10393837&postcount=45](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10393837&postcount=45) > [@Top the previous poster's insult.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-the-previous-posters-insult/470677/45): > > You dimwits couldn’t even put this in the right forum! > > I kid, of course. But since this is kind of an insult game, I’m moving this to the Game Room. The forum that smells funny. So let’s not have any more of this nonsense of “Contests to see who can come up with the most creative insults have never been allowed in any forum,” or assertions that if there are such threads it is because they flew under the mod’s radar. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynn-please-provide-cites-for-the-rule-you-have-asserted/487359)._