# Problems with Jamaica and reggae music are "off topic" in a thread complaining about Bob Marley

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-with-jamaica-and-reggae-music-are-off-topic-in-a-thread-complaining-about-bob-marley/650140/7 "2013-02-13T02:22:09Z")

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[Here is the thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=681954), and here is the post:

> [@When is enough Bob Marley enough?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-enough-bob-marley-enough/649950/49):
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> Jamaica is a horrible, horrible place, though that’s a combined effort between the traditional Christians and the reggae culture/Rastas. They all do their part to make what’s already the shithole of the English-speaking world ten times worse for sexual minorities. Lots of blame to go around.

There’s room in that thread for a discussion of homophobia in reggae music, but saying Jamaica is horrible and the shithole of the English-speaking world is off topic. Your view of Christians and Rastafarians isn’t all that relevant either. You do have a habit of wandering into threads and expressing a barely-relevant opinion in the most vitriolic manner possible, and you need to stop doing that. I believe you’ve been mod-noted for it a few times and since that didn’t work, I am hoping you’ll pay attention to the warning. This has nothing to do with Obama or anything else. This kind of behavior is annoying regardless of the political views or artistic tastes of the person doing it. And I didn’t post in that thread, so you weren’t warned for disagreeing with me.

> [@colonial](#):
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> I recently got dinged for referring to another member as “disingenuous”. I mean Jeeez.

I doubt **Colibri** ’s warning is relevant to this discussion, but [here it is.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15983546#post15983546)

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> It’s becoming clear to me that the SDMods must be operating under a quota system-

No, we don’t. Normally I would ignore a comment this ridiculous, but this is the second time someone has asked about it recently and I’d like to make sure nobody reasonable could think it even might be true.

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