# 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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**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-this-thread-closed/591906/2 "2011-08-08T03:47:36Z")

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> [@Oakminster](#):
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> Precedent has been set. Czarcasm has decreed, and apparently the mod loop agrees, that the OP controls his thread in IMHO.

There’s been no such decree. That hasn’t been the rule in the past, and it won’t be in the future, either. The OP has some input in the direction of the thread and we frequently moderate to keep threads on topic as the situation dictates. We get it, **Oakminster** - you didn’t like the moderating in the IMHO avatar thread and the ATMB thread that commented on it. This is not a good way to prove your point.

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