# Reopening a thread **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 11, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reopening-a-thread/730690 "2015-09-11T18:19:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reopening-a-thread/730690/21 "2015-09-14T16:22:32Z")
I just want to express my thanks to both _Loach_ and _Colibri_ for being proactive in heading off a thread that was intended to be nothing other than manufactured contraversy by a serial histrionic. There is too much pointless drama and deliberate obtusity in many legitimate discussions as it is; concocting a subject specifically intended to incite valueless commentary and criticism for the sake of ‘stirring the pot’ is unnecessary and unwanted. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reopening-a-thread/730690/22 "2015-09-14T17:15:47Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > valueless commentary But one persons garbage is another persons treasure. In a board with a wide variety of posters much leeway must be given. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reopening-a-thread/730690/23 "2015-09-14T17:40:24Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > But one persons garbage is another persons treasure. In a board with a wide variety of posters much leeway must be given. You treasure pointless acrimony? Because that’s the issue, not the thread content. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reopening-a-thread/730690/24 "2015-09-14T17:45:11Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You treasure pointless acrimony? Because that’s the issue, not the thread content. No, sorry. I wasnt referring directly to the closed thread. He was probably trolling but we’ll probably never know. It was the ‘valueless commentary’ part. A physicist mind find a Games thread valueless while others might love it. Its a value judgment which is why I posted the above. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reopening-a-thread/730690/25 "2015-09-14T18:02:10Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > No, sorry. I wasnt referring directly to the closed thread. He was probably trolling but we’ll probably never know. It was the ‘valueless commentary’ part. A physicist mind find a Games thread valueless while others might love it. Its a value judgment which is why I posted the above. Then your comment was rather irrelevant to what **Stranger** said, which was in reference to the closed thread and ones like it, not to topics in general. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reopening-a-thread/730690/26 "2015-09-14T18:05:03Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Well I learned that women fart audibly in that thread. I suspected it, but I lacked proof. Now, I’m appalled at the hypocrisy of them acting all uppity when a guy rips one. lol you sent me back to Swift’s [The Lady’s Dressing Room](http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180934) in which the besotted Strephon hides in his inamorata’s dressing-room and finds to his dismay that his goddess is not quite as he’d pictured her. > [@](#): > > Thus finishing his grand survey, > Disgusted Strephon stole away > Repeating in his amorous fits, > Oh! Celia, Celia, Celia shits! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reopening-a-thread/730690/27 "2015-09-14T18:07:08Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Then your comment was rather irrelevant to what **Stranger** said, which was in reference to the closed thread and ones like it, not to topics in general. I must have misread. I guess I took the two words out of context. Apologies. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reopening-a-thread/730690.md?page=1)