# "You're too ignorant to post in this thread" -- really?

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**Created:** [January 12, 2010, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-ignorant-to-post-in-this-thread-really/524627 "2010-01-12T05:38:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-ignorant-to-post-in-this-thread-really/524627/80 "2010-01-13T23:49:54Z")

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> [@Silverstreak\_Wonder](#):
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> Ahhhh, we were told warnings would be issued if we did not leave

**Czarcasm** asked that the computer topic be taken elsewhere, because that wasn’t the subject of the thread. He said warnings would be issued after the tangent kept going.

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> We were not “just asked to start a new thread”

You were:

> [@Immortal Spirit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immortal-spirit/524753/56):
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> [Moderator Pleading]Please take the “self-aware computers” hijack elsewhere, please.[/Moderator Pleading]

He took a harsher tone when this “pleading” was ignored. You think this is how it works in China?

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> What country are these mods in, anyway? Why stop a peaceful discussion?

**Czarcasm** ’s in the notoriously repressive Pacific Northwest, I think. And all he did was ask that the tangent be taken to a new thread.

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