# Acceptable conduct in the Pit - NON-PIT RULES APPLY

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acceptable-conduct-in-the-pit-non-pit-rules-apply/477615>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 17, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acceptable-conduct-in-the-pit-non-pit-rules-apply/477615 "2008-12-17T19:33:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acceptable-conduct-in-the-pit-non-pit-rules-apply/477615/184 "2008-12-18T15:38:51Z")

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> [@Bear\_Nenno](#):
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> I have a news flash, Ed. The board exists BECAUSE WE POST HERE! We are not your guests anymore than you are ours. If you chase everyone away, you will no longer have a board, and no longer have a job. Your life is more dependant on keeping us happy than ours is dependant on obeying your rules. You can’t make up rules that everyone hates and expect them all to thank you for mercifully letting them visit your wonderful message board.
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> I want to be clear about this: Your revanue is dependant on site traffic which is a direct correlation to the quantity of posters and posts. You are making money off us being here. Maybe you should start acting like it. You guys are not running this board as a favor to us. You are running the board because it’s the last thread of hope in your otherwise failed media enterprise.

> [@Sapo](#):
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> I want to be clear about this: You need us a whole lot more than we need you. If you like getting paychecks, you better perk up and listen before you are the undisputed divine ruler of nothing.

**Bear\_Nenno** and **Sapo** , this attitude isn’t welcome here. I need to keep the users in general happy. I don’t need to keep **you personally** happy. If you think your non-participation will lead to a mass exodus, I invite you to take a six-month posting sabbatical and see if the board collapses. If you know of some message board, or for that matter a business of any kind, where the proprietors are charmed by this sort of absurd posturing, you should spend all your time there and not here. This is not the place for you.

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