# Mods, you are playing their ignorant game if "climate change deniers" is offlimits. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 9, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-you-are-playing-their-ignorant-game-if-climate-change-deniers-is-offlimits/630931 "2012-08-09T03:49:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 49
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-you-are-playing-their-ignorant-game-if-climate-change-deniers-is-offlimits/630931/49 "2012-08-10T15:05:53Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > This is Tomndebb making up a brand new rule on the spur of the moment. And it’s a rule I support. I just don’t like the disingenuous “Gawrsh! It’s always been that way” crap. What new rule are you imagining? Telling various feuding posters to stop pursuing a specific line of abuse for the duration of a specific thread has been a standard practice for years. > [@Fenris](#): > > So since “denier” is off the table, . . . It isn’t prohibited in Great Debates. It was prohibited as a direct epithet for a specific thread. With a negated major, your conclusion fails to follow. On the other hand, referring to other posters with epithets such as “Repugnicans” or “Dumbocrats” is prohibited in Great Debates. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-you-are-playing-their-ignorant-game-if-climate-change-deniers-is-offlimits/630931)._