# Aeschines, Statistician Extraordinaire **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 30, 2023, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-statistician-extraordinaire/983380 "2023-04-30T20:03:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 84
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-statistician-extraordinaire/983380/84 "2023-05-01T08:00:16Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > BTW, the concept of “trolling” in the Pit is a joke. And yet, it **is** mentioned in the rules for this category. > [@Revised Forum Rules for the BBQ Pit: read this before posting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revised-forum-rules-for-the-bbq-pit-read-this-before-posting/487209): > > The BBQ Pit is the forum for rants about the outside world or quarrels between posters - often the first turns into the second. Although the standards of discourse are looser than in the other forums, the Pit is NOT a free-for-all - you don’t have to be nice, but you do have to be reasonably civil. Please observe the following rules when posting in the Pit: Rants should be suitable for the Pit Cutesy, “I Pit puppies for being sooo cute!” non-Pittings are not welcome here. Put them in MPSIMS. R… > [@](#): > > **No trolling** > > By trolling, we mean posting of inflammatory comments solely to get a rise out of people. If we feel your primary goal as a poster is to make people mad, you’ll quickly find yourself on the road to banning. On the flip side, the fact that a poster consistently makes you mad doesn’t automatically make them a troll. You’ve been around a bit, I’d have expected you’d know that. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-statistician-extraordinaire/983380)._