# 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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> [@GreysonCarlisle](#):
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> What’s the actually-a-troll to not-actually-a-troll ratio that would make that purpose constructive? You might catch a handful of trolls (who would have eventually been caught anyway), but you’ve unfairly attacked at least that many innocent new posters, some of whom say Fuck this place and leave.
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> It’s not worth the cost.

What’s the evidence for the vast numbers of innocent newbies being driven away by the Pit?

> [@GreysonCarlisle](#):
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> It’s not your call. Not alone, not in a group. Present your case to the mods.

And yet the mods themselves find it useful.

> [@DrDeth](#):
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> Cite?

Here’s a cite from today:

> [@Most common reason to be Pitted Appears to be Dishonesty?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-common-reason-to-be-pitted-appears-to-be-dishonesty/946422/322):
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> The Trolls R Us Thread occasionally picks out socks before we notice them. They often provide links to the actual thread where the trolling is happening.

> [@DrDeth](#):
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> And even so it is over 4000 posts long, even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a a while.

“It doesn’t work, and when it does work it doesn’t count.” Got it.

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