# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/161 "2020-06-02T18:11:09Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > 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. Oh please. People have every right to be annoyed, so don’t pull that “how do you live in the world” shit. She blasted onto the board with a clear agenda: to be the center of attention and cultivate a following. She commented on nearly _every_ thread, whether she had anything useful to say (rarely) or not. Then the bad, bad, bad threads started, which should be a bad, bad, bad blog, or at the very least, one omnibus thread. She and her minions act like they’re in a Yahoo chat room, circa 1999, with the cutesy nicknames, groupspeak and forced, painfully dorky sense of community. I do my best to ignore and avoid these days, but I’m with the other posters who felt that this self-centered, tone deaf, inappropriate Pit post was a step too far. Perhaps she realizes that now, perhaps not. The revolving “protest” signature lines and her responses in this thread lead me to believe she has not. ---
**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, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/162 "2020-06-02T18:21:25Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > 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. Thank you Dr. Freud! Just remember Herr Doktor…No one pitted Beck. She came here of her own free will against her better judgement mind you, but that didn’t stop her, did it. She likes all the attention, she doesn’t care where she posts, what she posts, or how she posts it. Beck is going to do Beck,…and no one can stop her. She’s told us as much, you big dummy. Loop loop Loop dee-loop Don’t you have some other rounds you need to go make. ---
**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, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/163 "2020-06-02T18:31:59Z")
> [@MoonMoon](#): > > Oh please. People have every right to be annoyed, so don’t pull that “how do you live in the world” shit. > > She blasted onto the board with a clear agenda: to be the center of attention and cultivate a following. She commented on nearly _every_ thread, whether she had anything useful to say (rarely) or not. Then the bad, bad, bad threads started, which should be a bad, bad, bad blog, or at the very least, one omnibus thread. > > She and her minions act like they’re in a Yahoo chat room, circa 1999, with the cutesy nicknames, groupspeak and forced, painfully dorky sense of community. > > I do my best to ignore and avoid these days, but I’m with the other posters who felt that this self-centered, tone deaf, inappropriate Pit post was a step too far. Perhaps she realizes that now, perhaps not. The revolving “protest” signature lines and her responses in this thread lead me to believe she has not. Bravissimo! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/164 "2020-06-02T18:34:40Z")
> [@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. Pretty much has been my strategy from the get-go. I learned pretty early on that any thread by this poster was going to be boring, BORING and a complete and utter waste of time. Luckily, the threads are clearly labelled and can be avoided with ease. This is the first one I have ventured into for a good long while, and only because I wanted to see reactions of others. If I want to be bored, I will watch paint dry or grass grow. There is no need to ever click on any of this person’s threads. And with that, I bid you adieu! ---
**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, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/165 "2020-06-02T18:47:54Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > My, so defensive. The hallmark of a troll. Are you all out of cheese? corn? cactus? lunchboxes? So, you’ve got nothing basically, which is precisely what you’ve contributed to this thread. Is that your last defense, you’ve got nothing, so you call me a troll. I’ve been here almost eight years, and to my knowledge no one has ever accused me of being a troll. You truly are an obliviate! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/166 "2020-06-02T18:49:23Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > People mock me for being a shut-in No, people mock you for being a shut-in who thinks he has the single absolute morally-authoratative answer to every problem on the planet and makes long rambling posts lecturing everyone about it. _Especially_ the moderators. Being a shut-in is the _least_ of your flaws. ---
**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, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/167 "2020-06-02T18:55:18Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Yeah, this is sound logic. Your evidence she is an attention whore is you claiming she’s an attention whore. I see that your reading comprehension skills persist. Someone claimed that the “real” attention whore could be determined by who has the the second highest post count in this thread. I said that could be “better” determined “by the number of posts one has in a few years time” along with other things I followed with. Do you see the difference between that and claiming that I said that me saying something counts as evidence? Because that didn’t happen. > [@](#): > > 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. One can use a line for fan support without faking “her entire persona.” You have a habit of coming to your own conclusion of what another meant, being totally wrong, and then being a blowhard over it. I guess that’s what shut-ins do? > [@](#): > > All she does is act like a nice person and make threads talking her life It’s not all she does and if you attempt to comprehend what many have already written, you might understand that it’s not just about the threads she starts. But you won’t. You’ll pretend it’s all about hate, conspiracy theories, etc. > [@](#): > > but as evidence of some dastardly plot for attention. > > … > > you can’t get others to hate her > > … > > But you don’t see me trying to turn her into an awful person. > > … > > You’re acting like a conspiracy theorist > > … > 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. Yeah, others here are drama queens. You’re fine. ---
**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, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/168 "2020-06-02T19:04:02Z")
From the original post… > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > (Don’t bite me too hard, you lot of sharks! :)) Awww Becky! Don’t be afraid you have your tower of dolphins swimming about to protect you. ---
**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, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/169 "2020-06-02T19:10:16Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Nah, man. Fuck you. I’m not getting KarsForKids rolled by clicking on your fucking links. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/170 "2020-06-02T19:22:51Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > 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. I couldn’t quite understand this argument some people were making, “If you don’t like her gimmick threads you don’t have to read them, just scroll past them blah blah blah”. Do you see me anywhere near her vomit inducing bad bad bad threads? No, you don’t. Do you see me thread-shitting in those threads, saying what I think about the back slapping morons and their in-jokes? No, you don’t. I stay the fuck away from them and those sort of cliques. So why did I comment in this one? Because it is in the pit and I can finally give my unfettered opinion on the OP. Because the OP is shamefaced in using an important issue just to get herself some e-kudos. Because the OP is patronising as fuck, tone deaf as fuck and the OP seriously needs a dose of perspective. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/171 "2020-06-02T19:24:18Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > From the cheer squad: > etc I’m a founding member of her cheer squad, but I didn’t notice the thread until just now. Was I supposed to post earlier? Sorry. ---
**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, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/172 "2020-06-02T19:28:16Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I’m a founding member of her cheer squad, but I didn’t notice the thread until just now. Was I supposed to post earlier? Sorry. You’re off the squad. Hand in your pom-poms and cheer gear. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/173 "2020-06-02T19:34:00Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Beck Lives Matter Why do people tolerate you, you useless parasite? This is so tone deaf and stupid and is almost typical of your nothing but garbage and white noise posts. Seriously, forget Beck being cutesy and BigT being well BigT and Saucey being whatever she’s being, can’t we focus of this useless idiot instead. Gatopescado: Content free unfunny man forever. Look at your post, are you proud of making light of Black Lives Matter, this week especially? Your posts are garbage. ---
**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, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/174 "2020-06-02T19:37:32Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > 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. What is your obsession with my ass? You keep mentioning it. ---
**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, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/175 "2020-06-02T19:38:03Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > no reason you shouldn’t start all the threads you want to, in any forum you want to. Yes, there are reasons. They are called rules. > [@](#): > > some bozo doesn’t like it, he doesn’t have to click on it. same if the bozo is a she. or footwear. I am a “she,” regardless of what any of you brain dead obliviates think. I’m not a bozo. I’m not a troll. And, I’m not a sock. I don’t really care if you believe me or not. You may like variety Jackie, but you don’t seem to like facts. You can tell the other members of your tower that I don’t drunk post either. The clique is full of lying.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/176 "2020-06-02T19:42:07Z")
I’m not crazy about this board being used as a blog space. It feels kind of lazy to me, kind of a way to capture an audience for stuff that wouldn’t get an audience if the author had to develop a following using more traditional methods. But it’s easy enough to ignore, and a rule against using the board as a daily blog would feel like a bill of attainder about now. Maybe TPTB could add a forum called the Blog Space or something. It might inspire more people to play and if someone wasn’t interested, they could avoid the forum, sort of like I do with The Game Room. OTOH, as someone that’s been SDMBing for a long time, it’s kind of in the spirit of MPSIMS. Because I remember how it started. One poster on the original AOL board ( a high school aged girl, IIRC) was continually starting threads about her day to day life. This annoyed another poster who edited one of the thread titles to Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share. The phrase stuck around, obviously - so in a way all these bad bad bad threads are truly in the spirit of MPSIMS. But that’s not necessarily a good thing. They are easy enough to ignore, though and the ongoing theme in the thread titles keeps me from accidentally clicking on them. ---
**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, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/177 "2020-06-02T19:45:07Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I’m a founding member of her cheer squad, but I didn’t notice the thread until just now. Was I supposed to post earlier? Sorry. Have you got something relevant to the thread topic? Think hard! Never mind. ---
**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, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/178 "2020-06-02T19:46:18Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Why do people tolerate you, you useless parasite? This is so tone deaf and stupid and is almost typical of your nothing but garbage and white noise posts. > > Seriously, forget Beck being cutesy and BigT being well BigT and Saucey being whatever she’s being, can’t we focus of this useless idiot instead. > > Gatopescado: Content free unfunny man forever. > > Look at your post, are you proud of making light of Black Lives Matter, this week especially? Your posts are garbage. His posting history may be a mixed bag, but I think you’ve been whooshed. His, “Beck Lives Matter”, was spot on in the context of the OP. It wasn’t meant to demean BLM as much as to poke fun of the self-importance of OP’s “I Protest!”. At least that was my take. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Undeposable\_Hand](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_undeposable_hand/32/8502_2.png) [@The\_Undeposable\_Hand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Undeposable_Hand)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/179 "2020-06-02T19:52:21Z")
> [@MoonMoon](#): > > She blasted onto the board with a clear agenda: to be the center of attention and cultivate a following. She commented on nearly _every_ thread, whether she had anything useful to say (rarely) or not. Then the bad, bad, bad threads started, which should be a bad, bad, bad blog, or at the very least, one omnibus thread. > > She and her minions act like they’re in a Yahoo chat room, circa 1999, with the cutesy nicknames, groupspeak and forced, painfully dorky sense of community. > > I do my best to ignore and avoid these days, but I’m with the other posters who felt that this self-centered, tone deaf, inappropriate Pit post was a step too far. Perhaps she realizes that now, perhaps not. The revolving “protest” signature lines and her responses in this thread lead me to believe she has not. THANK YOU! And she can go to hell with her fake Brit-speak. She looks ridiculous. I am a fairly new poster (mostly reader) here and made the mistake of reading a few of her cloying look-at-me threads…and now the very sight of their titles in the thread list makes my stomach turn. I’ve been around the 'net long enough to spot a narcissistic message board addict. And I also know that she does it to fill a mile wide hole in her soul. Hmmm, perhaps all is not as chirpy and Pleasantville as she would like her low EQ fandom to believe. And now she has the unmitigated gall to take the most heartbreaking social crisis in decades and turn it into her mirror. Get some self-awareness, sweetheart. Ah. That felt good. ---
**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, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747/180 "2020-06-02T20:02:17Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > His posting history may be a mixed bag, but I think you’ve been whooshed. His, “Beck Lives Matter”, was spot on in the context of the OP. It wasn’t meant to demean BLM as much as to poke fun of the self-importance of OP’s “I Protest!”. At least that was my take. You’re a better man than I am Gunga Din. To the Sherlocks: I’m still a she. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-in-the-pit-oh-my-virtual-bad-bad-bad-protest/854747.md?page=10)