# Moderation of citations and breaking links

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderation-of-citations-and-breaking-links/937796>\
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**Created:** [March 12, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderation-of-citations-and-breaking-links/937796 "2021-03-12T20:01:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderation-of-citations-and-breaking-links/937796/9 "2021-03-13T19:33:40Z")

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This still doesn’t speak to the fact of having this kind of moderation at all. Why did a moderator, acting in that role, see fit to challenge material presented by a poster? Whether the challenge was valid or not is beside the point, as correctly raised by the OP of this thread and others.

I hope this was a one-off error of policy, and will be acknowledged as such, and that this is not the direction that moderation is going to start taking on this board.

And then there’s the apology that’s not an apology.

> [@Knock-on effects of Biden's $1.9 Trillion Pandemic Relief?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knock-on-effects-of-bidens-1-9-trillion-pandemic-relief/937696/49):
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> Your post (slamming Obama) and link to an image site left me questioning the graph posted.

So what? It has never been the moderators’ role to take action, as moderator, for something that is clearly nothing like any kind of rule violation. I think it’s time for this moderator to take off his training wheels and go home.

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