# What constitutes an off-topic comment?

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**Created:** [April 19, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-constitutes-an-off-topic-comment/656134 "2013-04-19T14:37:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-constitutes-an-off-topic-comment/656134/45 "2013-04-19T18:17:05Z")

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> [@Munch](#):
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> Marley, this is disingenious. To tell kayaker to not bring up Cesario and his months of constantly inappropriate and unmodded sexual comments, and then to come back at Oakminster that you can’t think of any instances of inappropriate and unmodded sexual comments?

Since you’re apparently not even making a token effort to read the posts (I did not say I can’t think of an example, I said I wasn’t looking), I’m giving you a warning for ignoring mod instructions. Don’t post in this thread again.

> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> So if I was either being a jerk or hijacking, why wasn’t I officially warned? Is it your contention that I violated one of those (old) rules?

Because **Ellen Cherry** decided the comment deserved a note and not a warning. Is there a problem if she decided a reminder was in order and not an official slap on the wrist?

> [@Sorority girl's warning letter to sisters goes viral - It's epic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorority-girls-warning-letter-to-sisters-goes-viral-its-epic/656104/22):
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> In a thread where a woman’s vitriol (however entertaining) is the subject, I’m thinking overt sexual remarks are out of place. The words “fuck” and “suck” aren’t being used in regards to sex and it seems like these responses are being made because the thread deals with sororities: an all-female group.
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> This isn’t a warning, just a reminder that everyone needs to be mindful of off-topic remarks, including those which have at their base a knee-jerk view of women as sex objects.
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> Again: NOT a warning. A reminder.

I’m not sure why you’re calling the rules on thread hijacks or being a jerk old rules; they’ve been around forever and we’ve always enforced them. I’m not arguing that you broke a different rule; I’m trying to explain where these comments actually did come off as jerkish and we don’t allow that.

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