# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/21 "2012-12-21T04:00:12Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > SA is the new Dio. **Dio** made sense most of the time – as when his ego wasn’t an impediment to his judgement. Plus he had some real knowledge of (most) the issues he spoke of. **Starkers** , for the most part, only makes sense to himself. Plus he is mainly clueless about…well, everything he carries on about.. A closed mind is like a steel trap…nothing get’s in, and nothing get’s out. ---
**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, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/22 "2012-12-21T04:41:56Z")
**Dio** may have had his faults, but **Starkers**? San Andreas. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/23 "2012-12-21T05:08:04Z")
> [@27 dead, 18 children](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-dead-18-children/644050/720): > > The only problem, of course, is that Oklahoma isn’t “Midwestern.” It’s really a southern, Bible-belt state, but it seems to fit the available evidence better than any Midwestern city. I’m originally from Kansas City, and know a number of people from Oklahoma. We all refer to these areas as “the midwest”, because, well, they are. Don’t get hung up on “the plains” or any of that nonsense - “the midwest” is a demographic description, not a geographic one. People in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, north Texas, Iowa, etc. all very much identify with being from the midwest, because once you get bogged down in the cookie-cutter suburbia, it’s all pretty much identical. Anyway, calling Oklahoma “the South” is definitely in error. They most certainly don’t self-identify with that. ---
**Author:** ![Krav\_Manga](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krav_manga/32/3153_2.png) [@Krav\_Manga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krav_Manga)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/24 "2012-12-21T05:28:06Z")
Are personal attacks and accusations of trolling allowed in ATMB now? ---
**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, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/25 "2012-12-21T05:28:38Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > No he isn’t. Excellently played, bravo. I wrote that in jest of course referencing the earlier comments about their respective talents at dominating threads. ---
**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, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/26 "2012-12-21T05:58:18Z")
> [@Krav\_Manga](#): > > Are personal attacks and accusations of trolling allowed in ATMB now? Well, I will have to apologize for this one, you are correct, I got confused with the location and I thought that we where on the pit. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/27 "2012-12-21T09:56:28Z")
It is a shame that a thread that was very active discussing an important thing which was not nearly as contentious as it could have been given the emotions and fora was closed for what are now, to me anyway, nebulous reasons. If the problem as some contend in this thread is a thread shitter, do something about thread shitting (and those who thread shit as a way of life), but shutting down the whole discussion because of one tangent seems counterproductive to this board’s mission. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveroptic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiveroptic/32/8257_2.png) [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/28 "2012-12-21T09:57:50Z")
Hey, I thought it was in The Pit, too. So then will somebody please move there where it would be much more fun? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/29 "2012-12-21T11:32:32Z")
We have some pending business we’re sorting out here and we’ll be back to you as soon as possible. In the meantime, let me remind you that the place for venting about other posters is the Pit and not About This Message Board. To avoid further Pit action here, I am closing this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661/30 "2012-12-22T01:51:42Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > [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? [See post.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15822821&postcount=736) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-shooter-thread-in-the-pit/644661.md?page=1)