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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
What bothered me about the thread is that Jeff does NOT intervene in similar threads. Say we replaced the issue with one of the all too familiar MIL debates and OP said:

Husband and wife disagree about allowing MIL to watch children - she allows too much TV and we don't, so I want not to allow kids at her house. I don't want to hear about whether or not my approach is the right one, I only want opinions on how to get my husband to see things my way.

Would Jeff ever intervene here? 
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Here is the question posed by the original poster of the other thread:

"If you and your spouse disagreed on medicating your child, how did you get on the same page?"

In subsequent messages, she was quite clear that she did not want to have a debate about medication itself. I was -- and still am -- sympathetic to the original poster because I have seen countless threads on the topic of drugs turn into useless flamewars. I have not prevented you from expressing your opinion as this thread amply demonstrates. If you feel "censored" because you were prevented from hijacking a thread, it is simply because you consider your own need to confront another poster to be more important than that poster's desire to receive the information she is seeking. This is a common trait of zealots of all stripes.

As for your example above, you are really asking the wrong question. The real question is not whether I would have intervened, but whether I would have intervened had disruptive posts in the thread been reported to me? Someone took the initiative to report posts in the other thread and to specifically request that I keep an eye on it. Have you ever reported a post to me and fail to notice any response?  You are asking a lot to expect one individual to react with perfect consistency with regard to every single thread on this website. 
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WTF is up with you, Jeff? Is there something particularly offensive about what I wrote that you need to call me a zealot or say I personally felt "my own need to confront another poster" to be more important than her desire to get info? First of all, I didn't realize the two things were mutually exclusive. Second, I didn't even say anything on that post - I just pointed out that you censored it. So why not go ahead and look and see how I did NOT confront her. I confronted you, for censoring. This response is defensive and uncalled for, completely. Way to stoop to name-calling as a response to what I thought was a fairly thoughtful post. Oh well. I guess you're allowed to have bad days too, but this is disappointing. [/quote]

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