# How often do you post in the BBQPit? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 10, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169 "2021-07-10T17:41:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/1 "2021-07-10T17:41:21Z")
Anyone curious about how much emphasis their time here is centered on the pit? Check your stats in your profile summary. Scroll down to see your top six categories where you post the most. _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/2 "2021-07-10T17:54:22Z")
Mostly, probably. It’s the only place where it’s possible to tell someone they’re being a fucktard right there where it’s needed. The rest of the board is like trying to housebreak a puppy by randomly saying “No, naughty!” once every few days while stepping in shit piles and pee puddles all over the house. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/3 "2021-07-10T17:56:47Z")
Hmm, I’m not clean as new fallen snow. I post in the pit. But it doesn’t make my to top 6 categories. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/4 "2021-07-10T17:58:08Z")
Thank you for fixing the poll @What_Exit! ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/5 "2021-07-10T17:59:10Z")
I read the bbq pit often. I don’t post nearly as often. I’m not sure how to tell my ranking though since my profile only shows 1 topic in the pit but I know over several threads I’ve posted in recently. I enjoy the pit more that MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/6 "2021-07-10T18:02:42Z")
Your profile indicates Sixth top category for the pit > [@Oredigger77](#): > > I’m not sure how to tell my ranking though since my profile only shows 1 topic in the pit but I know over several threads I’ve posted in recently. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/7 "2021-07-10T18:07:39Z")
I believe I have only posted in the monthly mini-rants. Otherwise I mostly skim over the topics in the listing under Latest. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/8 "2021-07-10T18:30:28Z")
Your Welcome. I post in the pit more than I thought. Cafe is by far my #1 then MPSIMS, The Pit, IMHO & The Game Room. I’ve started very few threads there. Only one in the last 10 years in fact. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/9 "2021-07-10T18:37:22Z")
The Game Room mostly, the Pit isn’t in my top six. I basically ignore it now. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/10 "2021-07-10T18:49:56Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > I’m not sure how to tell my ranking though Your profile shows you post in the Pit the sixth in frequency. ETA: I was ninja’ed. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/11 "2021-07-10T18:53:14Z")
I have never posted in the pit. Before I was a moderator, I maybe read it once or twice in 20 years. Now I do have to look occasionally. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/12 "2021-07-10T18:59:22Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > Mostly, probably. It’s the only place where it’s possible to tell someone they’re being a fucktard right there where it’s needed. The rest of the board is like trying to housebreak a puppy by randomly saying “No, naughty!” once every few days while stepping in shit piles and pee puddles all over the house. This makes it sound like your only purpose for being here is to tell other posters when they’re being naughty. Is that correct? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/13 "2021-07-10T19:54:50Z")
No, duh, because I do post elsewhere. I just prefer the Pit because so many posts are so annoying (due to arcane rules, inconsistent moderation and a full spate of trolls and rules lawyers) but you can’t just respond like a normal person because reasons. Also, if you had read my post accurately, you would have understood that the infrequent “No, naughty!” method is ineffective and stupid and is not the way to get the desired effect, which is training the dog to piss and shit outdoors rather than in the house. There’s a metaphor there, were you to spend a bit of time sussing it out. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/14 "2021-07-10T20:18:30Z")
I read the Pit sometimes and I think I’ve posted in there twice. If I want to diss someone, I just get together with my neighbors who pit others with a passion. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/15 "2021-07-10T20:33:56Z")
I am as clean as the 2nd-day somewhat tarnished driven-in snow. I occasionally read or post in the Pit, but mostly stay out of it. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/16 "2021-07-10T21:07:43Z")
I think it’s highly variable - if there’s something contentious, I might be more in the Pit than elsewhere, or I might be more in GD or IMHO or CS or GQ. It’s highly dependent on the current threads, but I certainly don’t avoid it, and yet still feel clean as new-fallen powder. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/17 "2021-07-10T21:19:36Z")
Third place for me; I’m really surprised it’s so high. I have never started a thread in the pit. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/18 "2021-07-10T21:20:28Z")
A distant sixth. I’m an occasional poster in Trolls Are Us, and that’s pretty much it. Plus from time to time there’s a thread that catches my eye. Oh, and it was the location of one of my favourite threads of all time: > [@Read the OP, people!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-the-op-people/827422): > > I see this constantly–someone out of necessity gives a thread a breif title, then elaborates in the original post. Then follow dozens or hundreds of replies that do not fit the criteria for the OP, showing that responders didn’t bother to read the actual post before replying to the title. [The latest example is from CS](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=868576), where someone asks about a fictional character meeting a real-life person who isn’t being played by an actor. What follows is–predictably–list after list of characters meeting a r… j ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/19 "2021-07-10T21:55:10Z")
5th, but I think that’s still an artifact of the previous federal administration. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169/20 "2021-07-10T23:01:25Z")
The Pit is not in my profile list at all, and I don’t think I have ever posted there. I do occasionally read a thread or two there, but I am not a fan of the vitriol and bad language that predominates in the BBQPit. It reminds me too much of Junior High School. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-post-in-the-bbqpit/946169.md?page=2)