Exapno_Mapcase:
He made a similar post in the Confederate Symbolism; Time to Stop Nursing Grievances and Relitigating Past and only got mod-noted. That one was better qualified for a warning: it contained an insult and implied violence. The posts are fine for the Pit. In fact, aren’t all joke threads and satiric threads supposed to go in the Pit in any case? No equivalents are ever allowed in Elections or GD, though, not even satiric insults.
Could there ever be a theoretical similar thread that is allowable? That was unlikely from the start. With this as a precedent it’s hard to imagine any such thread ever slipping through.
Not all parody threads need go into the Pit. Parodies of other threads or parodies ridiculing other posters should go there, but other parodies could go in MPSIMS or another forum at the moderators’ discretion.
That’s the case when a parody of a thread by another poster (or the comments of other posters in such a thread). Because you are basically ridiculing other posters, it properly goes in the Pit. (It’s also why a link is required, so people know what is going on.)
Other kinds of parodies don’t need to go in the Pit. They would probably go in MPSIMS (or if a literary work could go in Cafe Society).
Just because it was a parody of Lovecraft doesn’t mean it needed to go in the Pit. I would guess it was put in the Pit because the OP was Pitting Marmite.
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