# The moderation here is getting ridiculously heavy handed

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**Created:** [July 23, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moderation-here-is-getting-ridiculously-heavy-handed/693869 "2014-07-23T19:46:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moderation-here-is-getting-ridiculously-heavy-handed/693869/42 "2014-07-23T22:01:32Z")

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> [@So factual jr modding is OK now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-factual-jr-modding-is-ok-now/693512/24):
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> I thought we all decided there was a Czarcasm exception to that rule? You know, like a cop not giving another cop’s wife a ticket for something that anyone else would have gotten a ticket for.

> [@So factual jr modding is OK now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-factual-jr-modding-is-ok-now/693512/29):
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> You want to make nasty comments like that about another poster, go to the Pit (where I don’t have to pay any attention to them.)

> [@So factual jr modding is OK now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-factual-jr-modding-is-ok-now/693512/73):
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> I still don’t understand why saying “Poster X gets an extra break because of special circumstance Y” is insulting to Poster X.

> [@So factual jr modding is OK now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-factual-jr-modding-is-ok-now/693512/77):
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> Funnily, it’s an “insult” that probably wouldn’t fly in the pit, either. Because you can’t pit moderator decisions, which is really what such a comment is bringing attention to.

So, yeah.

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