# Thread Games: Have the kind "questions" within threads, and responses, become more personal?

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**Created:** [June 14, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-games-have-the-kind-questions-within-threads-and-responses-become-more-personal/816096 "2018-06-14T16:05:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 16, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-games-have-the-kind-questions-within-threads-and-responses-become-more-personal/816096/40 "2018-06-16T13:19:03Z")

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> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> …If you prefer, in the future I will just move on if I have trouble with your posts rather than ask for clarification.

Please don’t. Asking for clarification is fine. In the above snark fest, I responded to your discrete and non-offensive post with “snark+:)” The 🙂 was for you; the snark was to those who thought your post was part of their pile on.

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