# Question about when or if you can state opinion

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**Created:** [July 6, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-when-or-if-you-can-state-opinion/790644 "2017-07-06T19:42:08Z")\
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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> although I can see where **iianyiiii’s** might have bordered on junior mod’ing.

This was iianyiiii’s post:

> [@Are you a male or a female?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-male-or-a-female/790451/56):
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> Women aren’t things to be traded or shared – the innapropriateness of such jokes would probably be obvious were the poll in question about the race of Dopers rather than gender. We don’t share or trade women any more than we share or trade black people.
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> Let’s all try to be better than the society we came from.

This is a mod’s description of what is and what isn’t jr. modding:

> [@What constitutes Junior Modding?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-constitutes-junior-modding/783056/3):
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> _“I don’t wish to continue this line of discussion in this thread but will be glad to in a different one that is more subject specific.”_ - No problem, stating personal preference.
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> \*“You may not discuss this further in this thread on penalty of official sanction.” \*- Junior modding.
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> Things in between are context dependent. Generally a poster expressing their own desires without hint or implication they are imposing or enforcing some rule on other posters is okay. Even making requests is perfectly acceptable and common,\* “can we keep this thread about red hens, and not yellow or white ones, please?”\*
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> In the thread in question, it’s fine for \*\*Superdude \*\*to express his desire to not wish to participate in a discussion about certain aspects adjacent to the thread topic. I’d say a better practice if he wished to avoid a certain line of discussion is to mention it once and follow through with that, but it’s not a rule violation in that instance to mention it a few times as he did, based on my reading.

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20093503&postcount=3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20093503&postcount=3)

Going by Bone’s description, I don’t think iianyiiii even bordered on jr. modding.

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