# Thread ban

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**Created:** [November 4, 2024, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ban/1009666 "2024-11-04T12:27:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ban/1009666/26 "2024-11-05T18:04:52Z")

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Okay, I invite people to consider the following:

> [@Do you correct people a lot? What's your motivation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-correct-people-a-lot-whats-your-motivation/1009660/51):
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> I think you meant to say:
> 
> Do you correct people alot? What’s you’re motivation?

Basically the same joke as mine, a deliberately incorrect “correction” to the OP. And he did so AFTER seeing the mod note to me. No mod note given. Anyone think it should have been?

Or this:

> [@Do you correct people a lot? What's your motivation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-correct-people-a-lot-whats-your-motivation/1009660/61):
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> Yep. That accounts for quite a wedge of the corrections I see - people enforcing an imaginary rule.
> 
> Two in particular from the past week:  
> …  
> “You must not start a sentence with a conjunction!”  
> And why not, exactly? Or is there actually a rule?

where:

1. the OP doesn’t actually seem to be very annoyed by my joke, he’s responding to it with humor, carrying on the joke.
2. he’s doing so after the mod instruction not to reply to my post
3. It is somewhat directed at my post, but I’m not allowed to respond. Don’t the mods frown upon that?

Anyone think he should be modded for it?

To be clear, I don’t think either of these warrant mod action, and they are both objectively worse than my post. The mod note and the instruction not to post in the thread ought to be withdrawn.

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