# This wasn't junior moderating

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**Created:** [October 25, 2022, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-wasnt-junior-moderating/973734 "2022-10-25T03:26:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-wasnt-junior-moderating/973734/6 "2022-10-25T04:41:31Z")

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I read through that thread.

This is what you asked:

> [@What did Mike Pence mean by this remark?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/1):
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> So what’s your opinion? What do you think he meant?

We do allow you to restrict the topic of threads, so adding restrictions isn’t a problem. These are the restrictions you wanted on the topic:

> [@What did Mike Pence mean by this remark?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/1):
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> Note: I put this thread in IMHO instead of P&E for a reason. This question is about the correct interpretation of a single sentence. Please restrict discussion to this topic alone.
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> Please no opinions about whether Pence ought to run, Pence’s politics, or Pence personally. You can go to P&E to talk about that.

I get where you are coming from, but since Pence is a politician, and he is being political while speaking, there is a certain amount of political interpretation required in order to answer your question.

Elmer\_J.Fudd’s first reply was a bit off topic. He is saying that Pence is wishy-washy. While you did ask for opinions, this is more of an opinion of Pence personally and not an opinion of what Pence meant.

The next replies by Johnny\_Bravo, Chronos, Steve\_MB, Cervaise, and the second reply by Elmer\_J.Fudd are on topic, and do give their opinions of what Pence was saying. As Chronos said, what you were calling pot-shots were in fact answers to the question. You then went on to complain that everybody wasn’t answering the question when in fact they had answered exactly the question that you had asked, even given the restrictions that you had placed on the topic.

You basically keep telling people how they can and can’t answer your question, even though they did their best to answer it given the constantly changing constraints that you put on the question.

Don’t berate people who are just trying to answer your question, just because their answer doesn’t fit within some extremely narrow band of answers that you had in your mind.

You had a point about the first post being off-topic. The rest of it was poor behavior on your part.

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