# How should the Pit be changed, if at all?

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**Created:** [July 19, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-the-pit-be-changed-if-at-all/946859 "2021-07-19T23:19:50Z")\
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> [@I can't believe they shut down TOP (The other Place)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-shut-down-top-the-other-place/826505/1):
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> There was a [MoveOn.org](http://MoveOn.org) petition to shut it down!? wtf?  
> Hope I find a decent home here - I’m a refugee 😕  
> dig this
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> Are you kidding me?!

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> Topix is a website that is based for people to use fake names as there log in name so they can say anything they want, true or false, about other individuals. There is no trace of the actual person that starts or replies to each topic. Children and…

The first link from your list leads to this post. A poster opens a thread, their very first thread, complaining about how a site dedicated to misinformation was shut down. So they came here, to a site allegedly dedicated to fighting ignorance.

I’m not calling them a troll, but someone wondering about their motives is hardly an “unfair attack”.

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