# 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:** 96
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drowning-out-others-is-okay-in-the-pit-but-i-wish-it-werent/1031211/96 "2026-06-28T02:10:02Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > My comment about Beck elicited a couple posts and an apology by Beck. No pile on, nothing else. Then another poster revived the thread 3 weeks later for some reason, and everyone was commenting on that poster, with nothing about Beck. Until you came in to relitigate the issue from 3 weeks previous, which was what restarted this mess. > > So don’t blame others for the “pile on.” Go back and review the history which you’ve obviously forgotten or are hallucinating. It was **you** who revived the thread on June 3 with **[this asinine bit of sarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/893)**. It was then revived again by **Chela** , 5 posts and 16 days later. I had I had no participation in that conversation at all until 19 posts later after that. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drowning-out-others-is-okay-in-the-pit-but-i-wish-it-werent/1031211)._