# Marley--disagree with your modding **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 3, 2012, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-disagree-with-your-modding/620723 "2012-05-03T05:48:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-disagree-with-your-modding/620723/10 "2012-05-03T14:24:56Z")
The main post at issue was this one: > [@Obama's Ad on bin Laden, Romney: Fair or Foul?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-ad-on-bin-laden-romney-fair-or-foul/620415/86): > > Based on how the Republican Party have comported themselves in the last 3-4 years, Obama has freebies to go as far as he wants with wild claims, hypocricy, and downright filthy play. Shit, he could even rape a few 9 year-old girls if he wanted and he’d still have the moral high ground on the rabble of derelects who have sought only to block and never to perform. I don’t think that’s merely colorful language or exaggeration intended to illustrate a point. It’s just disgusting, and I don’t see it as having a place in any kind of halfway serious discussion. I don’t think the only difference between GD and Elections and the Pit is that you can add “And you’re stupid” to the end of that post. There can be plenty of sarcasm and harsh criticism in GD and Elections, but there has to be a limit to the amount of sheer invective you can dump on someone else. That’s especially true when the invective is barely related to the thread topic. I would also expect a post like that to get an angry response from almost any conservative and many liberals and become a distraction and a topic of discussion in itself. We’ve had good debates in the Pit, but the comment is more in line with the kind of venting you get in a lot of Pit threads than something I expect to see in a debate forum. To their credit, **Inigo Montoya** and **silenus** understood where I was coming from with that mod note and I think the thread has gotten back on track. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-disagree-with-your-modding/620723)._