# CT Shooter Thread in the Pit **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 20, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661 "2012-12-20T20:27:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/1 "2012-12-20T20:27:30Z")
[Closed pending staff discussion of policy issues raised by this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15817885&postcount=735) What policy issues? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/2 "2012-12-20T21:16:52Z")
Looks like a sticky wicket, hey? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/3 "2012-12-20T21:51:31Z")
Yeah, those wicket need a serious discussion on how to keep them from getting sticky. I suggest Pam cooking spray or Vaseline. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/4 "2012-12-20T22:25:45Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > What policy issues? Gun policy. Take it up with Joe Biden. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/5 "2012-12-20T22:28:48Z")
Maybe it was because **Starving Artist** was attempting to sell his cites instead of just giving them away, and deals like that belong in The Marketplace? ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/6 "2012-12-20T22:29:11Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > What policy issues? All threads that go over 15 pages will automatically get a **Starving Artist** tag? ---
**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:** [December 20, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/7 "2012-12-20T22:31:49Z")
Was curious about what policy issues myself… ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/8 "2012-12-20T22:32:13Z")
I expect it’s about the speculation on a poster’s location. I wish it was about the way people respond to Starving Artist and allow him to dominate threads. ---
**Author:** ![Bambro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@Bambro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambro)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/9 "2012-12-20T22:46:18Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > I expect it’s about the speculation on a poster’s location. I wish it was about the way people respond to Starving Artist and allow him to dominate threads. I suspect you’re right, but really they only were using information that he himself has posted to the boards. It’s not like they were bringing up anything he had put somewhere else on the Internet. I imagine he’s probably 20 different kinds of butthurt right now. It makes me smile. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/10 "2012-12-20T22:47:19Z")
Gonna go brush. Bated breath and all. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/11 "2012-12-20T22:55:02Z")
> [@Bambro](#): > > I suspect you’re right, but really they only were using information that he himself has posted to the boards. It’s not like they were bringing up anything he had put somewhere else on the Internet. Not to mention that he basically challenged **RickJay** to figure it out: > [@](#): > > **RickJay** : > But it didn’t take me long to find you’ve said you live in the Midwest, and you’ve described your hometown as “large,” which it certainly would have to be, so I’m compiling a list of all cities that fit that description. > [@](#): > > **Starving Artist** : > You do that, chum. And then when you finally figure it out, my consolation for the annoyance that results will be that you’ve had to waste so many hours out of your life in a fevered attempt to prove me a liar which will only serve to bring more attention both to the fact that I am an honest and truthful poster after all, and that things have indeed gotten so bad in this country that even in my whitebread city murder has increased 60% over the last year alone. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/12 "2012-12-20T23:05:38Z")
> [@Bambro](#): > > I suspect you’re right, but really they only were using information that he himself has posted to the boards. It’s not like they were bringing up anything he had put somewhere else on the Internet. > > I imagine he’s probably 20 different kinds of butthurt right now. Yup, if SA doesn’t want to discuss his location he shouldn’t discuss his location. Any mod or admin could always determine the location of his IP address anyway, but this was deduced entirely from the things Starving Artist himself has posted. He was pretty much taunting participants of the thread to guess where he lived, and they did. Much like the paper towel tube incident, now he is apparently seeking special protections from TPTB in preventing people from discussing information he has posted publicly because he no longer likes the context it is being discussed. And much like the paper towel tube incident, there is really no turning back the clock at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/13 "2012-12-20T23:27:11Z")
We weren’t debating whether or not it was for sale-we were debating the price. I know. Too easy. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/14 "2012-12-20T23:34:13Z")
There a few potential issues that could be involved like SA getting to dictate what people can discuss, Mods goading people into disclosing information, wagers being made on the board or god knows what had gotten into Zotti’s craw this time. I mean who could have possibly predicted what ensued that last time Ed decided to get involved. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/15 "2012-12-21T00:20:56Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > I mean who could have possibly predicted what ensued that last time Ed decided to get involved. What ensued? Did it have anything to do with fucking a cactus? ---
**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:** [December 21, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/16 "2012-12-21T00:24:10Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > What ensued? Did it have anything to do with fucking a cactus? Well, it wasn’t penis that ensued. Definitely not penis. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/17 "2012-12-21T02:14:11Z")
I think it is becoming clear that SA is becoming a megatroll, I decided to virtually avoid replying to him; unfortunately, many are continuing to feed him and IMHO several threads he is getting involved should had been closed a long time ago, in the attempt at containment the moderator even merged another stupid thread with plenty of SA material to that monstrous rapist one. I know that the intention was to keep him committed to his “WINNING” thread, but instead he is metastasizing to other threads. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/18 "2012-12-21T02:37:39Z")
Meh. I look at SA as trifling performance art. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/19 "2012-12-21T02:51:13Z")
SA is the new Dio. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/20 "2012-12-21T03:17:55Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > SA is the new Dio. No he isn’t. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661.md?page=2)