# Why was this thread closed?

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**Created:** [August 8, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-this-thread-closed/591906 "2011-08-08T03:17:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-this-thread-closed/591906/1 "2011-08-08T03:17:40Z")

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Czarcasm closed [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=619313) alleging it was a “joke/attack” thread. No one was attacked. Joke threads are a long standing tradition here.

I’d like a citation to a previously existing rule that was broken justifying the thread closure. Not some new rule invented on the spot, but an actual, published rule. I doubt I’ll get a citation, because there is no such rule.

Precedent has been set. Czarcasm has decreed, and apparently the mod loop agrees, that the OP controls his thread in IMHO. Even though established practice prior to the recent fiasco was exactly the opposite. Fine, but that doesn’t mean you can close threads you don’t like, just because you don’t like them. I’d like my thread reopened. I have a few more polls I’ll be starting there. You aren’t going to like them, either. But you need to leave them the hell alone unless you have a cite to a currently existing rule the thread violates.

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