# Debate: You can't say anything "of substance" on this board **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debate-you-cant-say-anything-of-substance-on-this-board/979312 "2023-02-04T19:35:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debate-you-cant-say-anything-of-substance-on-this-board/979312/5 "2023-02-04T20:04:52Z")
> [@Problems with "take it to the Pit" (i.e., pitting someone instead of dealing with it in-thread)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-with-take-it-to-the-pit-i-e-pitting-someone-instead-of-dealing-with-it-in-thread/979277/62): > > The culture of this board is, and always has been, one of hostility and invalidation _if you try to say anything of substance._ Hello! I understand the need for a succinct thread title, but I think you need my full sentence (which you did quote, thank you) in order to say what I wanted to say. I have mostly posted here over the past 15 years in ways that wouldn’t attract the meat axe wielders. I.e., I post about just _stuff_ that doesn’t draw strong opinions. Where I have done otherwise, I’ve paid the hostility and invalidation tax that the SDMB charges. That’s really it. In my MPSIMS thread, I got plenty of good responses (which one can expect here as well), but also the standard kind of troublemakers that inhabit the Dope. Was it worth it? Perhaps, barely, in this case. And my thread wasn’t even very controversial in nature, IMO. Now, people are going to come into the Pit now and tell me I’m wrong and an idiot. But that just makes my point for me. People who are aggressive and hostile think their behavior is totally fine. They _enjoy_ taking other people down and out. I don’t. And people who don’t, in general, are not going to feel comfortable on this board. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debate-you-cant-say-anything-of-substance-on-this-board/979312)._