# Should my Thread have been Closed? (Mild) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2005, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-my-thread-have-been-closed-mild/330982 "2005-11-14T11:49:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-my-thread-have-been-closed-mild/330982/1 "2005-11-14T11:49:28Z")
I opened a thread [on MPSIMS](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=344588) about an internet board taking revenge on a person who dealt with one of the members unjustly. It had both amusing and alarming elements. I admit it had the potential to get out of hand. Should \*\*Cajun Man \*\* have closed it? His reasoning seems to be specious. I am aware of no such policy. I think he made it up. I really am not up for an argument on this. The issue is fairly minor. Still, when I tried to send a PM on this, I got some sort of error message, and so here we are. Why was it closed? Should it be re-opened? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-my-thread-have-been-closed-mild/330982/2 "2005-11-14T11:58:54Z")
I think I have seen similar closures on the basis of “let sleeping boards lie,” don’t tempt someone into making a contribution that causes posters on the other board to feela grudge about the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-my-thread-have-been-closed-mild/330982/3 "2005-11-14T12:03:52Z")
[Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=339955) is a recent example. Just to avoid possible troubles. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-my-thread-have-been-closed-mild/330982/4 "2005-11-14T12:07:46Z")
In truth, it seems like all the excitement on that other board seems to be over. I really would like to see some discussion here on the practical, legal and moral issues raised. Whatever. Shame to close it, methinks. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-my-thread-have-been-closed-mild/330982/5 "2005-11-14T12:15:04Z")
This is, actually, a long-standing policy (IIRC, instituted, originally, because of the SDMB IRC channel). ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-my-thread-have-been-closed-mild/330982/6 "2005-11-14T12:25:57Z")
You may be right, I may be wrong. Still I meant no harm and I still think it would have been an interesting discussion. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-my-thread-have-been-closed-mild/330982/7 "2005-11-14T12:36:03Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > You may be right, I may be wrong. Still I meant no harm and I still think it would have been an interesting discussion. I don’t think anyone believes trhat you meant any harm. It would make a better discussion somewhere else, maybe even GD, as a hypothetical. How moral would it be for Dopers to harass another Doper that has committed some wrong? Come up with a good story and let it fly. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-my-thread-have-been-closed-mild/330982/8 "2005-11-14T15:10:18Z")
Frankly I would like to know HOW they found out some of that information. His baby pictures for example. It is sort of scary. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-my-thread-have-been-closed-mild/330982/9 "2005-11-14T21:04:52Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > This is, actually, a long-standing policy (IIRC, instituted, originally, because of the SDMB IRC channel). Yeah, that was part of it. We’ve had Dopers invading other boards, and other boards invading the SDMB, and husband and wife arguments. Mostly our policy is “If you have a beef with someone else, complain to that entity, and don’t drag the SDMB into it.” I, for one, don’t believe that you meant any harm, or intended to violate the board rules, but it is against policy. Lynn For the Straight Dope ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-my-thread-have-been-closed-mild/330982/10 "2005-11-14T22:05:24Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > Yeah, that was part of it. We’ve had Dopers invading other boards, and other boards invading the SDMB, and husband and wife arguments. Mostly our policy is “If you have a beef with someone else, complain to that entity, and don’t drag the SDMB into it.” I, for one, don’t believe that you meant any harm, or intended to violate the board rules, but it is against policy. > > Lynn > For the Straight Dope I hesitate to post after Lynn, but those of us who were around for New Years Eve a few years back remember how disastrous this was. A now-banned member here had gone to the former Left Behind books discussion board and was talking about what had happened there in a thread in Great Debates. The result was a massive incursion of members there “retaliating for the invasion.” While good things eventually happened from it all, no one ever wants to see a repeat of that. There was also an ongoing attack from a, uh, caucasian supremacist board with a name analogous to Line Squall which for good reasons I will not post the actual name of, which caused the staff some endless heartache and frustrated a lot of members by disrupting good discussions.