# Beck's in the Pit. Oh, my! (Virtual bad, bad, bad protest!) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 30, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747 "2020-05-30T18:48:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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:** [June 2, 2020, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/141 "2020-06-02T04:26:01Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Y’all better knock it off! Or Beck’s gunna cum in here stompin’ her bare feet and complainin’ that this her is clown car (vehicle, avenue), and that this is her thread. It’s not a BLM thread, it’s not a saucy thread. > > Quick, someone throw her some cheese! > > Cochrane - I’m not sure if I told you what you can do with all the cacti. You can stick them up your ass with a red hot pepper, I mean poker. > > I’m not driving this clown car. I’m just along for the ride, like everyone else here. My, so defensive. The hallmark of a troll. Here, have some of [these](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5150tZamjBL._AC_SY400_.jpg) to go with your Carnation Instant Bitch. And have a [Bag of Dicks](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0790/0465/products/FullSizeRender_2_1024x1024.jpg?v=1499276529) to go along with them. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/142 "2020-06-02T04:58:19Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > My, so defensive. The hallmark of a troll. > > Here, have some of [these](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5150tZamjBL._AC_SY400_.jpg) to go with your Carnation Instant Bitch. And have a [Bag of Dicks](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0790/0465/products/FullSizeRender_2_1024x1024.jpg?v=1499276529) to go along with them. Where’s the rest of the gang? Normally you insidious folks gang up on someone relentlessly. Must be exciting having some new snark. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/143 "2020-06-02T07:39:31Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Fortunately, no one wants a pet octopus. 🐙 I’ll take him! I add one cork or two to the pot…err, aquarium to keep him from getting rubbery? CMC fnord! ---
**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:** [June 2, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/144 "2020-06-02T08:18:53Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Where’s the rest of the gang? Normally you insidious folks gang up on someone relentlessly. Must be exciting having some new snark. Feeling left out, 'putzy? YOU get a [Bag of Dicks](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0790/0465/products/FullSizeRender_2_1024x1024.jpg?v=1499276529)! ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/145 "2020-06-02T12:35:23Z")
Some more bath toys for poor **cockring** , did some meanie take your ding a ling? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/146 "2020-06-02T14:32:48Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Where’s the rest of the gang? Normally you insidious folks gang up on someone relentlessly. Must be exciting having some new snark. Oh, cry me a fucking river, putz. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/147 "2020-06-02T15:26:41Z")
Here are some of the opinions posted in this thread. These are not from the birds of a feather who tower together. > [@Colibri](#): > > …Of course anyone can post wherever they like. But you can’t criticize people for responding in a way appropriate to the forum. You can’t post stupid answers in GQ, or idiotic arguments in GD, or lame-ass OPs in the Pit and not expect blowback. If you don’t want people to give you shit, then stick to one of the fuzzy kitties forums. > [@Eonwe](#): > > I know the internet is new, so here’s [a helpful description of what the kids are calling a “blog”](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog) > > Sorry, but a small group of people with inside jokes and affected communication style to clearly mark insiders and outsiders, who center around and focuses on a single charismatic leader does not make this board “a community”, it defines a small community within the board. Don’t confuse your own comfort and personal in-crowd with the larger population of the SDMB. > > It’s very white of you all to take a cutesy romp into the pit wrt to current events, and then get offended because some people don’t find it funny. Ok, Karen. > [@Amara\_1](#): > > This. Turning this into a cute game is rage-inducing and one of the best examples of white privilege I’ve seen. > It’s not a thread about how to show support or what actions to take; it’s just a thread to make cute jokes. > > Not the time. Not the place. > [@Amara\_1](#): > > Then maybe, just maybe, don’t make this about you or a cute game. > Are you joining protests, giving money, writing letters? **How** are you protesting? Why aren’t you asking people to do that in here? > [@QuickSilver](#): > > Me thinks thou dost protest too lame. > [@bucketybuck](#): > > The only thing she is protesting is that people weren’t giving her enough attention. > [@QuickSilver](#): > > I think your heart’s in the right place. But your ass has no business in The Pit. 😉 > [@harmonicamoon](#): > > ..It is obvious that she is in a race to win the “most threads posted” in the shortest amount of time award. And she has plenty of free time to do it…let me know when you get your award. > [@digs](#): > > Beck, I think the issue here is that your threads belong in MPSIMS. They’re about your feelings, and I click on them when I want to see what you’re doing today, and what funny thing happened to you today, and how you’re feeling today… perfectly mundane and pointless stuff you need to share. > > But in other forums, people expect a higher content to words ratio. > > Most of the posts in this thread are yours, and most of them are about how you’re feeling… about racism, about the forums, about how people are treating you. You need to add something to people’s understanding of the issues, not just emote. > > By the way, I _love_ the idea of one big\* Beck’s Diary\* thread in MPSIMS. I’d read it, and even your original post in this thread could go in there: “THIS is what I’m dealing with today, it’s bad bad bad and I’m pissed!” > [@chela](#): > > Yep I needed to read this again, it is a cutesy romp without merit and this thread is in poor taste. > [@DummyGladHands](#): > > And the thread is stupid, stupid, stupid. > [@QuickSilver](#): > > Given sufficient time, almost every [thread reveals its soundtrack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cDLZqe735k). > > \*\* > [@Eonwe](#): > > No you grow up. :rolleyes: > > Look, I don’t have any problem with any fun anyone wants to have here. We’re all here by choice for entertainment. My only point is that the implication that what happens at your specific table in the lunch room is somehow automatically meaningful to everyone else in the cafeteria and the building itself is incorrect and self important. > > “someone who’s done more to make this board a community than anyone else” . . . some relatively regular posters have found a fun way to pass the time together. This does not mean they’ve made the board a better place. It means they’ve found something meaningful _to themselves_. That’s all. > > You know what’s racist? Assuming that "I can’t protest, but let’s all talk about what we would do, if we ‘could’ " is just a cathartic exercise. You know, between us whites for whom none of this is particularly personal, and for whom nothing material is at stake. > > It must feel good to have a safe space where black people are an extreme minority and out of sight/out of mind where we can just kind of imagine that just feeling bad about the state of the world is enough to excuse other behavior. I think/hope we can all agree that walking into a room full of black people right now saying, “hey everyone! Let’s share what our protest signs would say if we could protest, but you know, we can’t, because the effort/risk isn’t worth it to us,” would be inappropriate. Why do you think it’s appropriate here? > [@CarnalK](#): > > You can protest in any way you want. Here’s the thing though: you’ve rather intentionally, istm, built up a certain “brand” here. That’s fine but you should realize people are going to take your content through that filter which you made easy by using your “bad, bad, bad” trademark to discuss mass protests over someone’s fucking murder by police. > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Huh, I thought I didn’t have a right to be annoyed at all the real estate occupied in MPSIMS by the OP of this thread. I was perfectly capable of scrolling past thread after thread after thread, and if that pullulating content seemed to be pushing everything else aside, well, she has the right to post as much of it as she wants. Clearly she has struck a chord with a number of other posters, long may they all prosper. > > I just hope the same doesn’t start happening to other forums on this board. You know, the ones with actual content. > [@CarnalK](#): > > Right, but if you protest something serious like a goofy twit, some people are going to get annoyed. You didn’t even try some variety of “if I may be serious for a moment…” > [@Amara\_1](#): > > Are you seriously drawing an analogy between being (mild) criticism and being shot by rubber bullets? While people are getting seriously hurt by them due to police brutality? > > Really?!! > > Why are you making this all about you and your feelings instead of the actual people being hurt? This isn’t being an ally; this is putting your feelings above the actual lives of other human beings. You are are being hurtful and self-centered here. Please stop. > [@QuickSilver](#): > > This is no longer a protest. At best, it’s turned into a reflexive tick. At worst, a petulant 😛 for being called on to consider that a cutesy tone (™) is not uniformly applicable to all subject matters. > [@CarnalK](#): > > “an avenue to get content out”? And you disdain a blog? Alrighty then. > [@saucywench](#): > > I’ve read every word everyone has written in this thread. I can’t remember the last time I read one of your threads. I can’t help seeing your shit all over the place though, because you’re all over the place. I don’t search for you. Don’t fucking flatter yourself. It’s hard to avoid you. In any given thread, you are usually one of the first to respond. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/148 "2020-06-02T16:31:33Z")
sausagewrench has the second-highest number of posts in this thread. That should tell you who the real attention whore is. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/149 "2020-06-02T16:41:07Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > sausagewrench has the second-highest number of posts in this thread. That should tell you who the real attention whore is. The one with the highest number of posts?.. C’mon now. Everybody gets irrationally irritated by something, or someone. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/150 "2020-06-02T16:49:39Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > The one with the highest number of posts?.. > > C’mon now. Everybody gets irrationally irritated by something, or someone. Yeah, check out [this](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=897350) thread. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/151 "2020-06-02T16:54:12Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > sausagewrench has the second-highest number of posts in this thread. That should tell you who the real attention whore is. You know better than that. The REAL attention whore isn’t determined by the (second?) number of posts in one thread. I’d say it’s better determined by the number of posts one has in a few years time, claims that she’s “kinda afraid” to start a thread here, which is total bullshit- she loves both the negative and positive attention, and makes it all about her from the beginning with a thread title announcing her arrival here so her cheerleaders can fawn over her. There’s more, but you already know it. The “I’m a sickly, bored lady just trying to post here” schtick worked on a lot of people. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/152 "2020-06-02T16:55:57Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > sausagewrench has the second-highest number of posts in this thread. That should tell you who the real attention whore is. That would make Beckdaweck the biggest attention whore in the thread, and you the third biggest. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/153 "2020-06-02T16:56:02Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > The one with the highest number of posts?.. > > C’mon now. Everybody gets irrationally irritated by something, or someone. At least **Beck** backed down and apologized for making this thread. Should she buy **sw** a lunchbox, too? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/154 "2020-06-02T17:07:33Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Yeah, check out [this](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=897350) thread. Nah, man. Fuck you. I’m not getting KarsForKids rolled by clicking on your fucking links. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/155 "2020-06-02T17:12:36Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > At least **Beck** backed down and apologized for making this thread. Should she buy **sw** a lunchbox, too? I think she’s mostly sorry it didn’t go the cute way she hoped it would. That’s okay. Some of the best lessons we learn are the hardest. And still she managed to go out under protest! ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/156 "2020-06-02T17:38:10Z")
From the cheer squad: > [@cochrane](#): > > To all the whiners: If you see a thread started by **Beck** , don’t fucking click on it. How fucking hard is it to scroll past it? You’re not being forced to read them. No need to threadshit, just scroll on by. Go fuck a cactus, all of you. You too, **Colibri** , since you’re not posting as a mod. > > **Beck** , post anywhere you want. The complainers are all being bad, bad, bad. > [@cochrane](#): > > You get a cactus! > And YOU get a cactus! > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Wut!!??!! :eek: > > People _Hate_ me? > Well…I never… > > I’m teasing you **TMW** , no one is liked by all. And my over-posting TMI gets on some peeps last raw nerve. > [@cochrane](#): > > And YOU get a cactus! > [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > no reason you shouldn’t start all the threads you want to, in any forum you want to. > > some bozo doesn’t like it, he doesn’t have to click on it. same if the bozo is a she. or footwear. > > as for my sign, Black Lives Matter says it all. > [@Spoons](#): > > Not me, **Beck**. I appreciate your presence here. Stick around and keep on keeping on. > [@kambuckta](#): > > I too think you’re a pain, but you’re a benign pain. 😃 > > There’s plenty of malignant cunts on this board…you are a refreshing change from them. > > Keep on doing what you’re doing Beck. > [@psychobunny](#): > > I don’t know what my sign would say but my message for Beck is the same-where are the effing kitty pictures??? > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Thx, but I’ll not be doing a ‘blog’. > > I’m fine, really. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I can get plenty of attention. I have no problem doing that in IRL or here online. > [@wolfpup](#): > > Along with a many others on this board, I fully support that. You’re entertaining and amusing (in a good way) and an asset to the board. > > Do they call you “saucy wench” IRL? I bet it’s not a term of endearment. > In addition to your other positive attributes, Beck, I like the spunky way you’re defending yourself in this thread. In this case, “fuck you” is exactly the succinct response that bullshit post deserved. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > When Cecil Adams (you know the perfect master?) comes out of his dotage to back me up, y’all will see. > > Come-on Cecil, no need to social distance on a message board. > (If you are anywhere near Chicago, stay safe. I do worry so.) > beck, protesting in her own small way. > (ETA, thx **wolfpup** ) > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > **Saucy** , I have no grief with you, really. I don’t dislike anyone at all. You’re probably right. I misinterpreted what I thought a ‘pit’ thread should be. I own that. > I never thought any of those things you listed, that people said to you. What other people called you or made comments about your gender or Doper name, I cannot own. > As I said in a post after your first comment, I regretted, almost immediately, making this thread. I do learn. And I retain what I learn. You can bet it will be a cold day in hell before I make another pit thread. > **Dork** , “Yep, dude your poster would be a little wordy!” she said in her best ‘pit’ voice. Grr. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Oh, yeah, **Saucy** , I don’t pull out my lack of health for sympathy. > I say it here as a way to explain one reason why I could never really march and protest. > > I wish I could. > [@Helena330](#): > > Oh, please. Anyone can post in those threads. I have once or twice, but that’s it. If I see something that interests me, I’ll do it again. Or not. That you choose to feel like an outsider is just that: your choice. Then you make the choice to be pissed off about some imagined slight. Grow up. > > I also fail to see what’s wrong with the original intent of the thread. I read and watch what’s going on with horror, probably like most people here. We have a pandemic, police killing black people, arresting reporters and brutalizing citizens, a president who supports it all, and much more. It’s some privilege right there to bitch about a thread on a message board. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > ## Umm? No, I won’t stop. It’s my prerogative. Sorry you don’t like it. If I didn’t like something I damn sure wouldn’t read it. > > I still protest the treatment of Mr. Floyd and his death. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I do own that, **CarnalK** , like I said I am more than my profile on the SDMB. > I’m disgusted with the murder(s) of Black men by LE. > I protest that. > > Just like Trump’s not gonna stop the protesters in the street, no one can tell me not to be outraged and protest in my own way. > Curse me, mouth me, tell me I’m wrong all you want. I reserve my right to protest. > Your rubber bullets can’t touch me. > > * * * > > I protest, I protest, I protest. > [@Gatopescado](#): > > Beck Lives Matter > [@cochrane](#): > > sausagewrench has the second-highest number of posts in this thread. That should tell you who the real attention whore is. Pan-Pan Saucy to tower This is The Pit, remember? This is not The All-Things Beck appreciation thread. Take your love fest somewhere else. This forum has rules, just like the rest of them. One of them is… The Pit is not someone’s personal diary. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/157 "2020-06-02T17:45:12Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > ( **Saucy** , I have no ‘cohorts’ or ‘cheer squad’ this is all me, oh nice poetry there) This is a HUGE load of BS. Not only do you have cohorts, but you encourage them and suck up to them to get them to defend you even more. The sad thing is that I really like game threads, light-hearted threads and encourage everyone to post as much as they like. But when you don’t get your way in a thread, you go running off to cry to your posse who jump in to defend you. You give rise to a lot of malignant forces on this board. I rarely read or post in MPSIMS because it’s not worth running into you and ultimately them. I wasn’t going to post in this thread, but watching you pretend all of this nonsense is annoying. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > If I didn’t like something I damn sure wouldn’t read it. This is another load of BS. I haven’t done a search, but I’m fairly certain you’ve posted multiple times in ATMB complaining about some poster or another that you obviously couldn’t just stop reading. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I look at it like this: people will read my bad, bad, bad threads. So its an avenue to get content out. I don’t see why you think this. If you do a quick search on the threads you’ve started. [I just did]. Go to advanced search, put in your username and use the drop down menu to threads user started. You’ll see that your bad bad bad threads get an average amount of view count. It’s the same amount of views that anyone else would get for starting any other thread, roughly between 1,500-2,000. The only threads that got much more than that is this one and the ones where you talk about your illness. People read threads. As you say, that’s the function of message boards. Your bad bad bad threads aren’t different than any other thread in terms of view count or people participating. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > You can bet it will be a cold day in hell before I make another pit thread. I hope you’re telling the truth here. I came to the Pit to read about the riots because I was so angry about them, then I read this thread and your trivializing of the issue and was disgusted. But worse, you stunk up the Pit with the same thing you’re doing in MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/158 "2020-06-02T17:55:25Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > You know better than that. The REAL attention whore isn’t determined by the (second?) number of posts in one thread. I’d say it’s better determined by the number of posts one has in a few years time, claims that she’s “kinda afraid” to start a thread here, which is total bullshit- she loves both the negative and positive attention, and makes it all about her from the beginning with a thread title announcing her arrival here so her cheerleaders can fawn over her. There’s more, but you already know it. The “I’m a sickly, bored lady just trying to post here” schtick worked on a lot of people. Yeah, this is sound logic. Your evidence she is an attention whore is you claiming she’s an attention whore. You’re actually affirming the consequent, aka “begging the question.” Dopers should be smarter than those logical fallacies. It’s interesting how, because you can’t get others to hate her, you’ve escalated from her being someone who is posts a bit too much and annoys you to someone who is faking her entire persona for attention. You actually think it’s more likely that someone would have the time to post like she does if they were faking than if she was actually a retired sick woman stuck in her house. You see her talking like a normal person not as evidence that she’s lonely and is getting her socialization on here, but as evidence of some dastardly plot for attention. You’re reaching. You’re acting like a conspiracy theorist–taking the less likely scenario and treating it like it’s more likely. Anything she does that contradicts your theory is just proof she’s lying and bamboozling people. Your ire is very, very much out of proportion to her actual “offense.” All she does is act like a nice person and make threads talking her life that some people find uninteresting or slightly too frequent. And, yes, slightly, she gets two or three threads at most on MPSIMS–she’s easily avoidable. She has not made 50 threads active at once, so she’s not ever taken up half the page. The appropriate level of response is “Hey, could you please reduce the number of threads you make?” And, even then, that’s kinda overkill when you can so easily avoid them. I do it all the time. I’m not always in the mood to read it, either. But you don’t see me trying to turn her into an awful person. People mock me for being a shut-in, but I have to wonder how people who get this angry at such utterly minor annoyances that are part of everyday conversations can function in the real world. Half the population is extroverted. How the fuck do you deal with them if you think they’re all attention whores? You call her an attention whore, but you and those who get this angry are just fucking drama queens. You need someone to hate. You pick someone nice to get people upset at you, and so that she will be less likely to defend herself. That makes more sense than any normal human being being this angry about some old lady who likes to chat about her life. Who, and I repeat, you could easily choose to ignore. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/159 "2020-06-02T18:09:38Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > At least **Beck** backed down and apologized for making this thread. Should she buy **sw** a lunchbox, too? You still don’t get it, do you. No one said for Beck not to make threads. It’s just that this type of thread does not belong in The Pit. Let me dumb it down for you. Cue Sesame music… One of these threads is not like other One of these threads just doesn’t belong Can you tell which thread is not like the others By the time I finish my song? I apologized too early on, but I’m over it now. Yeah, she can buy me a lunchbox. And, you can take that lunchbox, your cacti, your bag o’ dicks and shove them up your ass with a red hot pepper, you stupid twit. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/160 "2020-06-02T18:10:38Z")
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