# Drowning out others is okay in the Pit, but I wish it weren't **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 26, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drowning-out-others-is-okay-in-the-pit-but-i-wish-it-werent/1031211 "2026-06-26T21:48:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 182
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drowning-out-others-is-okay-in-the-pit-but-i-wish-it-werent/1031211/182 "2026-07-04T02:57:04Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > we are talking when a thread is started purely to insult a fellow poster. The not very active thread in question was literally called “a mild pitting” and not much of an insult there: > [@Mild Pitting of Beck](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691): > > Over in CS, Beckdawreck is engaging in what I can only describe as “hotdish trutherism”; I.e., she asserts that Tim Walz must be lying about being a championship-winning hotdish cook, because he doesn’t “look” like he cooks. I barely ever engage with her and I don’t really care one away or another about her Kathy-esque rants, but at some point she really oughta learn that the things her gut is telling her aren’t necessarily true and just because you think it doesn’t mean you have to post it. … Seriously a pretty reasonable thoughtful constructive complaint. And moderately cleverly expressed with the “hot dish trutherism” bit. That’s a thread created to purely to insult her? That’s the savagery of the fearsome Pit? Okay @Mighty_Mouse did a more Pit style insult: > [@Mild Pitting of Beck](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/3): > > If you didn’t learn it at the knee of an illiterate confederate veteran, you don’t need to know it. I give it an 8. Not hateful and cleverly mocks her … thing. And right off Beck was complaining about being offended in the Pit, and @wolfpup was jumping in to call that beyond the pale … “needlessly cruel”? I’m sorry but c’mon … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drowning-out-others-is-okay-in-the-pit-but-i-wish-it-werent/1031211)._