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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4504234" data-attributes="member: 177">Okay, to answer the question - no OP, whether it be of a poll thread or any other thread, gets to dictate what gets discussed.  OPs don't "own" their threads.  Like anyone else, they have a right to politely request a particular behavior, but no right of enforcement, and they don't get to make demands.  I repeat, just for clarity - everyone has the right to politely ask for others to be polite.We do have a tradition that an OP may request a thread be closed if it wanders too far from their intent.  The mods will honor that request if we feel the thread isn't going anywhere useful, but failing to follow the OP's desire is in and of itself not sufficient for thread closure.  Well, a couple things I probably ought to note:1) "and I highly doubt any of you are qualified enough, or in-the-know enough to be making such declarations" - um, you're just plain wrong here.  There's several EN Worlder's who have math, physics, and statistics backgrounds who are more than qualified to speak on the subject. Perhaps you didn't mean to, but you insulted everyone who thinks they might be qualified.  By declaring that you doubt their knowledge, you're basically asking them to prove you wrong.  So, my advice, if you don't want a particular branch of discussion to come up, don't be dismissive or insulting of the folks who might speak on that branch.  Bad tactical move.2) If you want a discussion to trend a certain way, you might want to try asking a moderator to help you in that regard, rather than trying to police it yourself.  We have a "report a post" function for a reason.  I didn't see you report any post, but perhaps I missed it.  If you did use it, please let me know and I'll see why it wasn't acted upon.</blockquote>

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