# Why is CRT a hijack in a thread about the VA election? \[rescinded CRT restriction\] **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 5, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-crt-a-hijack-in-a-thread-about-the-va-election-rescinded-crt-restriction/953839 "2021-11-05T15:08:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2021, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-crt-a-hijack-in-a-thread-about-the-va-election-rescinded-crt-restriction/953839/3 "2021-11-05T15:23:53Z")
The responses to my complaints about the moderation here invariably fall on deaf ears, but I do feel compelled to yet again raise such a complaint. Here we have this: > [@Virginia election-talk me down off the ledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginia-election-talk-me-down-off-the-ledge/953496/196): > > Warning for ZosterSandstorm. This is still talking about and hijacking the thread with CRT. You were specifically noted to stop. I’m going to discuss a topic ban on this subject with the other mods. As of right now, you are banned from this thread. Hopefully you understand this instruction. To everyone else, I’m not sure how to shutdown the CRT discussion, so I will be leaving this closed for a bit a figure it out. As the main hijacker has been removed. Consider my restriction rescinded on … Now, ZS repeatedly ignored mod instructions, warning deserved (and considering he wants to talk about CRT in many / most threads, a topic ban could even be appropriate), but I’m deeply confused about @What_Exit “topic moderation” here. This is a thread about the election in Virginia this week. I’m a Virginian, and a fairly political involved/active one. CRT was the dominant issue in terms of attention received and talked about during this election, both locally and nationally. [Note it was not the “most important issue” as polled by voters–“education” typically ran 2nd or 3rd in most such polls, I’m talking about coverage / dialogue around the election though.] I certainly agree the thread shouldn’t totally abandon the topic of the Virginia election, but I think the moderation essentially ends the thread as it stands, how are we supposed to discuss the election without mentioning and wading into the particulars on the actual policy issue that completely dominated all coverage of the election? It’d be like banning a mention of the coronavirus pandemic in discussing the 2020 Presidential election. I can understand wanting to keep something on topic, but CRT isn’t totally divergent from the topic, it was one of the chief controversies of the election itself. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-crt-a-hijack-in-a-thread-about-the-va-election-rescinded-crt-restriction/953839)._