# A pitting used to suffice now you got to get yourself suspended to count around here

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-used-to-suffice-now-you-got-to-get-yourself-suspended-to-count-around-here/350379>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 29, 2006, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-used-to-suffice-now-you-got-to-get-yourself-suspended-to-count-around-here/350379 "2006-03-29T06:23:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-used-to-suffice-now-you-got-to-get-yourself-suspended-to-count-around-here/350379/61 "2006-03-31T05:07:00Z")

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> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> Lemme get this straight: a bunch of folks around here are paying their subscription fees, than asking to be suspended?
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> Hey! Pay not to post! Dang, it **is** a stroke of misunderstood genius!

I can top that. Anyone who wants to can send me a check for $99.95, and I’ll suspend them from my message board, which doesn’t even exist. Think of it; you can be a prima donna without all the bother of registering or posting.

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**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-used-to-suffice-now-you-got-to-get-yourself-suspended-to-count-around-here/350379/62 "2006-03-31T05:08:47Z")

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> [@Zoe](#):
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> **roger** : You are angered by things which were never about you – the extra work for the mods, the confusion of other posters, the discouragement of lurkers. Your tendency to empathize must be weighing heavily on your shoulders.

Oh yes, **Zoe** , and how! No man is an island and all that. To quote Vincent once more, how I suffer for their sanity!

**Frank** , indeed. What more can one say? Perhaps only to note that nature has ordained it thus, that there should always be bottom-dwelling creatures who shun the light.

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