# How reprehensible do YOU want to be in the Pit?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 27, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-reprehensible-do-you-want-to-be-in-the-pit/844084 "2019-11-27T19:57:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-reprehensible-do-you-want-to-be-in-the-pit/844084/105 "2020-02-16T02:02:30Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> I wanna take it sideways.
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> Fewer rules, but more enforcement of “don’t be a jerk,” with a new standard being, “Goddamn, you suck.”
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> People can post whatever they want here. But if it becomes clear to you that they’re just a terrible person, you ban them. Maybe they’re being terrible by poking people right in the trauma. Maybe they’re being terrible by being supercilious trolls. Maybe they’re being terrible by insisting on pedantic rules-parsing down to the individual electron. Whatever: in the Pit, they’re revealing themselves to be awful posters, and they got to go.
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> Instead of the lawful neutral modding elsewhere, moderate the pit chaotic good.

Bumping to revisit this, because this is the kind of vile shit I was thinking of:

> [@margin has the self-awareness of a barnacle.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/12):
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> Anyone else thinking the cat killed itself?

> [@margin has the self-awareness of a barnacle.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/15):
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> That’s some mouth on you, you blow your dead cat with that mouth?

> [@margin has the self-awareness of a barnacle.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/29):
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> Margin is just being a wet blanket, she had a recent CATastrophe you see…

If ever there were an occasion for “goddamn, you suck” moderating, this would be it.

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