# First Pit and heartfelt...about Game Zone cheaters **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 3, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-pit-and-heartfelt-about-game-zone-cheaters/179299 "2003-06-03T03:21:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-pit-and-heartfelt-about-game-zone-cheaters/179299/21 "2012-10-24T08:17:24Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Not in the Pit. If he had resurrected a zombie in General Questions I would be the very soul of civility. But one must be willing to change presentation in recognition of venue and context. Echoing what **Autolycus** said, I’d also add: If he’s a new member, he’s not going to know about board etiquette right away, especially if he found the thread through a Google search. Posts like “I’m gonna flame the goddamn bejeezus out of you because you made the colossal Internet faux pas of bumping an old Pit thread, and you know what, I’m totally allowed to because it’s the Piiiiiit” do way more harm than good, cause they scare potentially cool members off. Now if the person really only had written “Me, too!”, then sure, flame away. Fuck those me-too-zombie-bumpers. Fuck 'em right in the ear. But the guy actually did post a reasonable message, so there’s no need for invective. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-pit-and-heartfelt-about-game-zone-cheaters/179299/22 "2012-10-24T09:23:17Z")
Me, too! ---
**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:** [October 24, 2012, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-pit-and-heartfelt-about-game-zone-cheaters/179299/23 "2012-10-24T09:44:14Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > But one must be willing to change presentation in recognition of venue and context. You’re right. In the Pit we can tell you what a pompous shitstain you are for insulting a new poster for actually daring to participate in a thread that interests them because it reached some expiration date you have defined in your own constipated little mind. Read his contribution to the thread, then read yours. I’d trade your 7k posts of drivel on a bet that his would have been more interesting and informative if he hadn’t been chased away, probably forever, by a drooling, junior modding asshat on his very first post. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-pit-and-heartfelt-about-game-zone-cheaters/179299/24 "2012-10-24T11:15:44Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > You’re right. In the Pit we can tell you what a pompous shitstain you are for insulting a new poster for actually daring to participate in a thread that interests them because it reached some expiration date you have defined in your own constipated little mind. > > Read his contribution to the thread, then read yours. I’d trade your 7k posts of drivel on a bet that his would have been more interesting and informative if he hadn’t been chased away, probably forever, by a drooling, junior modding asshat on his very first post. That’s very good. I usually go for condescending and pretentious as well as pompous, but otherwise that’s pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-pit-and-heartfelt-about-game-zone-cheaters/179299/25 "2012-10-24T11:53:30Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Until I saw the post saying this was a zombie thread, I was kinda curious how a zerg rush in AOE2 counts as cheating… Because you have to have the Alien Patch to play as the Zergs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-pit-and-heartfelt-about-game-zone-cheaters/179299.md?page=1)