# What was the point of killing this thread?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-point-of-killing-this-thread/830150>\
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**Created:** [February 25, 2019, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-point-of-killing-this-thread/830150 "2019-02-25T02:13:35Z")\
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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:** [February 25, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-point-of-killing-this-thread/830150/21 "2019-02-25T17:21:19Z")

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I don’t see any thread drift there. The question was whether any ex president had ever stood for vice-president. A discussion of the constitution that allow it or restrict it is directly relevant. To put it another way, the answer to the OP’s question is “no”, but a better answer to the OP’s question is “no, and here’s why the law makes it unlikely for it to happen.”

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**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-point-of-killing-this-thread/830150/22 "2019-02-25T17:25:27Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> 🙂
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> I’m not saying it’s not difficult. I’m just saying that if a thread doesn’t continue past “end this hijack,” it turns out in retrospect to have been a bad move. It’s worth paying attention to the occasions in which the last post in a thread is a moderator instruction, and figuring out why the instruction killed the thread, and whether it was really worth doing.

when you come up with a way to tell that a mod post will be ‘the last one’ at the time of the post (other than the obvious closure ones) - do let them know so they can plan in the affects and plan accordingly.

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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-point-of-killing-this-thread/830150/23 "2019-02-25T17:28:37Z")

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I’m realizing that, while I think it was a bad call, it was a very minor bad call, and there’s no point in my engaging in an endless thread on the subject. My apologies for blowing it out of proportion; I’m out.

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**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-point-of-killing-this-thread/830150/24 "2019-02-25T17:54:33Z")

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> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#):
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> Clearly, it’s difficult, especially given the number of reports about ‘end this hijack’ (including by LHoD) we see each week.

Classy.

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