# Why was MSWAS warned?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-mswas-warned/507781>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [August 26, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-mswas-warned/507781 "2009-08-26T16:22:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-mswas-warned/507781/101 "2009-08-27T05:37:03Z")

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> [@mswas](#):
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> Why is it that if I bring up a view that certain people hold I am automatically part of that group? I really don’t see how that follows. _ **The man killed a woman** _. That was a human life, as valuable and big and important as the life of the man who killed her. I posted it because I don’t like that this woman’s life is relegated to being merely a footnote in Ted Kennedy’s bio, that she doesn’t get to be treated like a real and actual person, that she isn’t allowed a thread of her own.
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> _ **emphasis** _ added by me. - **kd99**

Surely you meant to say “The man **murdered** a woman,” no?

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**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-mswas-warned/507781/102 "2009-08-27T05:48:57Z")

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> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Surely you meant to say “The man **murdered** a woman,” no?

Nah, I was swayed by the arguments that he wasn’t a murderer. You can consider my ignorance successfully fought there. 😉

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-mswas-warned/507781/103 "2009-08-27T11:19:51Z")

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> [@mswas](#):
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> \<SNIP\>  
> **Thudlow** Because it was neither a pitting nor a debate.
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> \<SNIP\>

And yet you engaged in debate throughout it all. Even though that thread was in IMHO, it was certainly not a poll - you argued and debated with nearly everyone who expressed an opinion. In a thread with 174 posts you posted 54 times - most of those a direct response to other people’s opinions. 1/3 of a thread where you ask for opinions are posts from you - arguing with people’s opinions. Saying it isn’t a debate doesn’t make it not-a-debate. _Not debating_ makes it not-a-debate.

> [@mswas](#):
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> So my thread was closed yet again. Notice how he didn’t move it to the Pit? He closed it even though he is calling it a Pitting?
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> WTF is wrong with the mods around here?

Just up-thread in this very thread you whined and cried that if it were moved to the pit you would ask to have it closed. So they close it and now you whine and cry and say WTF is wrong with the mods?

> [@mswas](#):
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> Well I put it in IMHO, you can move it. If you move it to the Pit I will ask for it to be closed by **GFactor**.

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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:** [August 27, 2009, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-mswas-warned/507781/104 "2009-08-27T11:58:10Z")

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**mswas** eventually did start a Pit thread about Mary Jo Kopechne, and later made a new thread in MPSIMS. I think this thread has run its course, so I’m closing it.

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