# Moving threads
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-threads/350752
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [March 31, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-threads/350752 "2006-03-31T20:48:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-threads/350752/1 "2006-03-31T20:48:29Z")
From [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=365265)
> [@](#):
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> **Moderator Notes:**
> Though asking for nothing but opinion, this thread just doesn’t feel right for this forum.
>
> Moved from IMHO to MPSIMS\>
Do mods ask each other if one can boot a thread from one forum to another. I mean Frank may not _feel_ like this thread fits in _his_ forum, but what if the mods don’t _feel_ like it fits in their’s either? Do y’all every get in pissing contest over this kind of stuff? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-threads/350752/2 "2006-03-31T20:50:43Z")
We move them as we see them. No asking involved. We only make mistakes 1.9% of the time. 🙂
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-threads/350752/3 "2006-03-31T21:36:27Z")
I ought to move this somewhere just to prove the point . . . hmm . . .
Aw, heck with it. They’d just move it back.
TubaDiva
I never get to have any fun!
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### Author:  [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-threads/350752/4 "2006-03-31T22:24:54Z")
I’ve only been here a few years but I have seen threads passed around to three forums only to have to end up back in the original one on the fourth move.
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-threads/350752/5 "2006-04-01T15:06:44Z")
Generally speaking, once a Moderator has moved a thread, he/she says so in the thread. Another moderator will respect that decision (even if disagreeing with it) and not move the thread multiple times. Our topics are not as clear as “politics” and “chemistry,” our forums are distinguished mainly by discussion style rather than by topic, so there’s room for multiple interpretations. We basically respect and don’t try to second guess each other.
The main exceptions are accidents (I meant to move the thread to GD but moved it to MPSIMS accidentally) or when a thread changes direction significantly.