# BBQ thread moved to elections - Bogus **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 13, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-thread-moved-to-elections-bogus/771871 "2016-11-13T18:26:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-thread-moved-to-elections-bogus/771871/1 "2016-11-13T18:26:09Z")
Thread title pretty much says it all. There was a thread - How much of a surprise were the election results? It was started in the pit. It was moved to elections because OMG, at some points it was becoming too nice. Which I think is bull malarky for at least two reasons. First of all, who ever got in the last “fuck you” of sorts wins. Then, perhaps someone else comes along, doesn’t notice it aint in the pit no more and then breaks some rules. And again, OMG, some folks weren’t actually foaming at the mouth (kinda the inverse of no fighting in the war room I suppose). And to me the optics (gotta use that new catch phrase) look bad. The move happened two hours after somebody reamed the democratic party AND the liberals and the liberals HERE for not being able to see the forest for the trees. Well, we can’t have that. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-thread-moved-to-elections-bogus/771871/2 "2016-11-13T19:02:24Z")
Huh. I thought this was going to be a complaint that it should have been moved to Café Society. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-thread-moved-to-elections-bogus/771871/3 "2016-11-13T19:18:42Z")
The OP didn’t mean to start the thread in the pit and requested that it be moved to the forum that he meant to start it in. Post 6 in the thread ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-thread-moved-to-elections-bogus/771871/4 "2016-11-13T21:46:33Z")
OP asked to have it moved. Big damn deal. (ETA: OP asked to have it moved while the thread was still nothing but civil, too. Big damn deal.) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-thread-moved-to-elections-bogus/771871/5 "2016-11-13T21:52:58Z")
Would it be too much of an effort post a link? No. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=810388](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=810388) Oh, and bogus complaint. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-thread-moved-to-elections-bogus/771871/6 "2016-11-13T21:55:50Z")
Maybe you should swear more. I hear that helps threads stay in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-thread-moved-to-elections-bogus/771871/7 "2016-11-13T22:05:57Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Maybe you should swear more. I hear that helps threads stay in the Pit. I wasn’t meant to be in the Pit at all. > [@Was the election result really so surprising?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-election-result-really-so-surprising/771490/6): > > Also, I mistakenly put this in the Pit. Will a mod please consider a move to GD or IMHO? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-thread-moved-to-elections-bogus/771871/8 "2016-11-13T22:57:11Z")
I will admit to not visiting the Pit very much but other than a few F-bombs that has to be one of the dullest ones I’ve seen. The move was probably well served beyond being requested just to maintain the standards of low standards some of us expect in that forum. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-thread-moved-to-elections-bogus/771871/9 "2016-11-14T00:23:25Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Huh. I thought this was going to be a complaint that it should have been moved to Café Society. Heh. Tastes thread. Needs more asshole… Okay, if the OP wanted it moved…then it needed to be moved…and it didn’t have near enough asshole for the PIT. But what about when this happens again and it gets nasty fast? Is it going to be moved? Or shut down? Or left in the pit? Seems like a can of worms no matter what you do there (though my inclination would still be to leave in the pit…barring something like some thread about someone’s mother dying of cancer sorta thing). I guess you guys can work that conundrum out. PS. Might help to announce WHY it was moved when doing so. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-thread-moved-to-elections-bogus/771871/10 "2016-11-14T00:35:19Z")
Oh and apologies to Miller et al for any claims of impropiety. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbq-thread-moved-to-elections-bogus/771871/11 "2016-11-14T17:50:15Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > PS. Might help to announce WHY it was moved when doing so. Just like it tends to help to read the whole thread before both responding to it, or bitching about moderation within it.