# Moving threads without comment

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-threads-without-comment/578074>\
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**Created:** [April 12, 2011, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-threads-without-comment/578074 "2011-04-12T11:22:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-threads-without-comment/578074/1 "2011-04-12T11:22:58Z")

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This is really more of a curiosity and not a criticism…

Over the years whenever I have seen threads moved from one forum to another there is some sort of explanation from the mods, eg “This doesn’t have a definite answer so I’ll move it (from GQ) to GD”.

For the first time I can remember a thread was moved without comment, namely the “Dear Women video” moved from MPSIMS to GD. Frankly I don’t even recall seeing the little “moved” arrow.

So is this just something common that I have missed in the past?

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-threads-without-comment/578074/2 "2011-04-12T12:19:31Z")

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Nope, that was me screwing up.

Usually I do. In this case, when I moved the thread, I also sent an email to the OP, who’d been complaining about being picked on, that I had done so; I also sent an email letting the GD mods know what I had done. (There’s no automatic notification on the mod loop of forum moves – nor a need for one, most moves are minor housekeeping.) I didn’t realize till about an hour later that I’d failed to post in the thread, which by that time had another slew of posts in it. I figured it would be more confusing to say something then (we can’t insert stuff out of chronological order, even as mods).

Apparently that would have been less confusing.

I apologize for creating that confusion.

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**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-threads-without-comment/578074/3 "2011-04-12T12:47:20Z")

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Thanks for your quick and candid reply. Good to know my memory isn’t fading just yet!

Please feel free to close this as asked and answered.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-threads-without-comment/578074/4 "2011-04-12T14:38:08Z")

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> [@leander](#):
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> Please feel free to close this as asked and answered.

You got it.