# Thread ban

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ban/1009666>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**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:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-ban/1009666/46 "2024-11-06T01:10:36Z")

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> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> Quite a coincidence that it should happen in two different forums within a week.

Not really. It happens a lot - incessantly - on many topics and in various forms, on a daily basis. That’s what the thread was about.

> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> Or, as a great man put it: [https://youtu.be/4-E-o0ajGAo/#2](https://youtu.be/4-E-o0ajGAo/#2)

Not sure this is the appropriate forum for calling me a liar, even obliquely.

> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> Link? If you don’t want to reveal your youtube ID, send it to puzzlegal, who will confirm that this coincidence happened without revealing your identity.

Not possible. I made the mistake of engaging with the person incorrecting me and they got aggressive and I banned them; the comment is no longer visible to anyone except the person who posted it.

> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> Assuming, arguendo, that the coincidence is real, is it possible that you were offended more by the youtube comment than my post? I mean, maybe my post on its own would have been okay, but you were annoyed by the earlier post, and carried your annoyance over to me. Is that a possibility?

Yes, I arrived in the thread already annoyed (or at least suffering from annoyance-fatigue). I even said so. That is part of what made your joke land badly (that and the fact I wasn’t sure it even was a joke).

> [@Do you correct people a lot? What's your motivation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-correct-people-a-lot-whats-your-motivation/1009660/1):
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> Full disclosure: my own motivation for asking this question is that I just wonder about the motivation of people who do this. I make online videos and I get ‘corrected’ a lot (not just on grammar and word choices - also on everything else); more than half of the time, the ‘correction’ itself is simply incorrect. More than half of the remaining examples (where the correction is _technically_ correct), it really doesn’t matter at all.  
> **Thus, I find myself annoyed by incorrect or unnecessary corrections probably more than the average person, and probably more than I should.**

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