# Modding for content

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**Created:** [January 11, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modding-for-content/567187 "2011-01-11T03:22:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modding-for-content/567187/284 "2011-05-03T13:42:38Z")

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> [@Rand\_Rover](#):
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> . . . but a torture discussion is not on-topic for the waterboarding thread (because whther waterboarding gleaned useful info does not depend on whether or not it is torture).

Unfortunately for your claim, there was no “discussion” of waterboarding as torture. The issue was whether waterboarding or “enhanced interrogation methods” had led to the capture and whether that factoid changed anyone’s opinion regarding the use of such techniques. That the majority of posters simply chose to substitute the shorter word “torture” for the longer euphemism “enhanced interrogation method” was never a point of contention or discussion in the thread until your attempt to hijack the thread for your personal cause.

From the OP of that thread:

> [@Did waterboarding help kill Bin Laden?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-waterboarding-help-kill-bin-laden/580487/1):
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> If this is true\*, and you are/were against waterboarding and/or “enhanced interrogation methods”, does this change your outlook? Do you still claim that it doesn’t result in any truthful intel?

In other words, the whole point of the thread was to discuss exactly what you are pretending we should not discuss, even though the only change is the substitution of a short word–one that appeared regularly in all previous discussions–for a longer phrase.

You are failing to make any case, here, and your interruption, there, remains a case of threadshitting.

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