# Why was "Is there a bottom line to all these “Sovereign citizen” cases?" thread closed?

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**Created:** [September 20, 2021, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-is-there-a-bottom-line-to-all-these-sovereign-citizen-cases-thread-closed/950973 "2021-09-20T04:18:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-is-there-a-bottom-line-to-all-these-sovereign-citizen-cases-thread-closed/950973/47 "2021-09-24T17:35:27Z")

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> [@gdave](#):
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> My concern is that an entire thread got nuked, including a large number of comments made in good faith by several posters (including me), and rather than making clear to posters who’s posts were cornfielded what exactly happened to them and why, and instead of making even a pro forma apology for the inconvenience, **What\_Exit** seems to be just kind of waving the whole thing off as a non-issue.

I mentioned this upthread. There were a lot of people who put time and effort into that thread and were dismissed out of hand. Just ban the socks and leave all the posts alone. Going thru all that work to get rid of their posts is giving them more attention than just quietly banning them and moving on.

And could one of the mods weigh in on this question?

Is this [post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-middle-class-conservatives-dying-without-life-insurance-and-savings/949788/101) how a sock removal is supposed to work? I don’t think I’ve seen this before. Seems like a poor result if you are trying to erase all traces of a sock.

> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> For some reason the other night, in at least 3 threads, using this tool caused the entire thread to be taken for the move and the thread closed and auto-set to delete in 7 days. I don’t know why this happened. It has never happened before and I’ve done this enough times over the past year where if it was likely to happen, it should have before.

Thanks for the info. Do I understand correctly that this was being done one thread at a time? Or can you just use Sock Name\>Replies To Sock Name and delete all of the sock’s posts and replies over the whole board?

I assume this was reported to Discourse. Any help there?

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