# Warning for using a phrase that the OP used without receiving a warning?

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**Created:** [December 20, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-for-using-a-phrase-that-the-op-used-without-receiving-a-warning/845151 "2019-12-20T17:15:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-for-using-a-phrase-that-the-op-used-without-receiving-a-warning/845151/12 "2019-12-21T20:45:31Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> Personally, I think that thread should have been closed right away, because it was clearly not a hypothetical. Shut it down as inappropriate to GQ, with invitation to start a new thread in GD, or just punt it to GD or Elections right away. Then this situation wouldn’t have arisen.

You appear to have missed this part of the OP (color added):

> [@Impeachment Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeachment-question/845070/1):
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> This is a hypothetical question, not intended to refer to any real person, living or dead. I just want to know the law.

While the question is clearly not a hypothetical, the actual question being asked is a question about the law. The question is not about the situation that spawned it, only about the law that is applicable to it.

Moving the thread to GD or Elections completely ignores the actual question being asked.

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