# How should the Pit be changed, if at all? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 126
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-the-pit-be-changed-if-at-all/946859/126 "2021-07-21T18:46:04Z")
This thread has a great example of typical newbie behavior: > [@The Space Needle's Nuts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-space-needles-nuts/379015/17): > > Just a wild guess but would it be such that they really don’t need to be “tightened”? If they are 6 feet across, it might be that their weight alone makes them sufficiently tight. Then, with a few welds there wont be any movement. I don’t know, just speculating. They probably googled something related to the nuts and bolts holding the space needle in place, found that thread, and posted their reply, not reading the forum rules or even the date on the other replies. They seem friendly enough and one would hope they stick around, but odds are pretty damn good that this will be the only thread they ever post in. No troll accusations needed. I’m hope I’m wrong and they stick around because new posters is always a good thing. But we’ve seen this happen time and time again. So, sorry @GreysonCarlisle, but without a comparison of your sublist of “people accused as trolls” to the general rate at which new posters leave after a handful of posts, I am not impressed. Eta: I’m not naming the poster or linking a specific post to avoid accusations of running newbies off --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-the-pit-be-changed-if-at-all/946859)._