# I Pit all the MPSIMS tards who are currently drowning the Pit in boring crap **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614 "2009-07-01T19:34:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/101 "2009-07-03T12:09:26Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > I Pit all the MPSIMS tards who are currently drowning the Pit in boring crap. The fault lies with the tards who changed the rules to make the Pit more like MPSIMS, the tards who moved complaints about moderators to ATMB, the moderator tards who enforce tarded rules that make it a semifelony to say “turd” or “cunt” or “regards Shodan”. They are the ones who changed the Pit into MPSIMS II. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/102 "2009-07-03T14:41:41Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > The Pit used to be my favorite forum on the SDMB. A place where people could argue about issues they disagreed about or simply vent their frustrations about posters that were driving them up a wall. Now it’s MPSIMS for people to complain about every and any minor irritation in their lives, or to “rant” about things that any non-stupid person already knows are universally accepted as bad. Which makes it boring as fuck to read. > > \ > > Jesus fuck, people. Go “rant” in MPSIMS about the minor frustrations of life and stop crapping up the Pit with this garbage. After the black and white rules are considered, what’s considered pitty enough is determined by the mods. This OP looks like a thinly disguised swipe at the current modding here - without the balls to actually say so. Of course, that would have to be posted in MPSIMS (where this belongs). As it is this is just another whiny rant to those who don’t give a shit about such things and have the good sense not to open “rants” about mundane things. What I’m noticing is **Giraffe** ’s lack of addressing the real problem here, the rules change that got us here in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/103 "2009-07-03T15:00:26Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > … rules that make it a semifelony to say “turd” or “cunt” or “regards Shodan”. You probably know this already, but I have run into people who didn’t, and so, in the interests of precision, I am going to step in and correct your post: You can use the word turd in a post, even to insult another poster. You can use the word cunt in a post, but not to insult another poster. I don’t know what you’re referring to with the “regards Shodan” comment. See here: [Restricted language in the Pit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=508858) ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/104 "2009-07-03T16:21:28Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > What I’m noticing is **Giraffe** ’s lack of addressing the real problem here, the rules change that got us here in the first place. That’s because he can’t start such a thread here in the Pit; such discussions now go in ATMB. And [he did](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=522485). It got dismissed as whining that we can’t call the mods bad names anymore. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/105 "2009-07-03T18:02:42Z")
> [@Syntropy](#): > > That’s because he can’t start such a thread here in the Pit; such discussions now go in ATMB. And [he did](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=522485). It got dismissed as whining that we can’t call the mods bad names anymore. Ok, point taken (I hadn’t seen that thread). Still, blaming the posters for acting on policy change is weak. If the current pit mods are OK with the topics OP’d here, then the system is working just fine. If **Giraffe** is not OK with it he should have complained in the appropriate forum. I feel his pain, but the fact is the pit will not be the “place where people [can] argue about issues they disagreed about or simply vent their frustrations about posters that were driving them up a wall” in **Giraffe** ’s dream pit because the rules don’t allow things to be the way they once were. ---
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/106 "2009-07-03T20:09:22Z")
> [@Polerius](#): > > Doesn’t any non-stupid person already know that it is universally\* accepted as bad that the Pit “ain’t what it used to be”? > > So what does that make this thread, by your own logic? > > Yeah, yeah, someone is going to come along and try to be edgy and tell me to do something to myself or to a dog or a corpse or whatever. Go ahead and allow people to bask in the awesomeness of your “wit”. > > - By Pit denizens Well, **Polerius** , you’re one of the biggest contributors of “stupid shit that makes no sense” on the board. You’re also quite the little toady about how us “mean” people are wrong. So, in response to your superb logic: Shut up, you ignorant yokel. > [@PlainJain](#): > > Still, blaming the posters for acting on policy change is weak. If the current pit mods are OK with the topics OP’d here, then the system is working just fine. Wrong. This is exactly the kind of idiotic drivel that fills up MPSIMS. So, according to your logic, if the government was happy with segregation, I guess the system was was working fine. If two homos can’t get hitched because pastor Bob thinks it’ll make him want to suck dick, I guess the system is working fine. Not to mention that a bunch of these crap threads got moved, so I guess they _don’t_ belong in the pit. I will admit, however, that I don’t think the rules changes actually did anything. It’s not like if I called you a cunt you’d just go away. ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/107 "2009-07-03T20:50:36Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > Well, **Polerius** , you’re one of the biggest contributors of “stupid shit that makes no sense” on the board. You’re also quite the little toady about how us “mean” people are wrong. So, in response to your superb logic: Shut up, you ignorant yokel. Congratulations, everyone lucky enough to read your post is now basking in the awesomeness of your “wit”. Epic poems will be written about you, and may one day displace The Iliad and Odyssey in schools across the nation… ---
**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 3, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/108 "2009-07-03T20:58:17Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Ok, point taken (I hadn’t seen that thread). Still, blaming the posters for acting on policy change is weak. If the current pit mods are OK with the topics OP’d here, then the system is working just fine. If **Giraffe** is not OK with it he should have complained in the appropriate forum. I feel his pain, but the fact is the pit will not be the “place where people [can] argue about issues they disagreed about or simply vent their frustrations about posters that were driving them up a wall” in **Giraffe** ’s dream pit because the rules don’t allow things to be the way they once were. But the primary Pit mod already said he was just too busy to weed out the MPSIMS stuff and asked members to help by reporting them. Did you even read this thread? Better the pit should be empty that to have the threads it has had lately. ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/109 "2009-07-03T22:37:35Z")
I wasn’t here for this supposed Golden Age of the Pit. But I gather that **Giraffe** and **ivn1188** are endeavoring to simulate its awesomeness here in this present thread. If so, all I can say it that the old Pit was pretty fucking stupid and I can see why people decided to dispense with it. And if “My life was better when I could call people cunts on the internet” doesn’t count as “mundane pointless shit” (which, _pace_ the forum’s title, does not actually have to be shared with anyone), I don’t know what would. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/110 "2009-07-03T22:47:58Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > But the primary Pit mod already said he was just too busy to weed out the MPSIMS stuff and asked members to help by reporting them. Did you even read this thread? > > Better the pit should be empty that to have the threads it has had lately. Agreed. It’s not a lack of moderation, it’s the posters who open threads in the wrong forum that are the problem. It amazes me that long-time, even Charter Members, pretend not to know the rules and etiquette of the board. ---
**Author:** ![Casserole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b77776/32.png) [@Casserole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casserole)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/111 "2009-07-03T23:05:56Z")
Has bitching about a problem ever solved anything? If you want to see a change in the threads started in the pit, then complain up a storm about something _you_ find pitworthy! This thread doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/112 "2009-07-03T23:14:39Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > I wasn’t here for this supposed Golden Age of the Pit. But I gather that **Giraffe** and **ivn1188** are endeavoring to simulate its awesomeness here in this present thread. If so, all I can say it that the old Pit was pretty fucking stupid and I can see why people decided to dispense with it. They can’t simulate it’s awesomeness because the rules now prohibit some of what made it awesome and more importantly the posters that made it awesome grew bored and moved on. Now it feels like visiting the neighbourhood where you grew up and realizing how much smaller it is then you remember and a lot of your friends have moved away. Oh well, lots of other hangouts on the 'net. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/113 "2009-07-04T04:30:47Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > After the black and white rules are considered, what’s considered pitty enough is determined by the mods. This OP looks like a thinly disguised swipe at the current modding here - without the balls to actually say so. Of course, that would have to be posted in MPSIMS (where this belongs). As it is this is just another whiny rant to those who don’t give a shit about such things and have the good sense not to open “rants” about mundane things. > > What I’m noticing is **Giraffe** ’s lack of addressing the real problem here, the rules change that got us here in the first place. I disagree. While I of course strongly opposed (and still oppose) the rule changes, this thread is only about the posters who are getting on my nerves with their banality. Some posters seem to want any and all changes to come through the mods – if there’s behavior you don’t like, there should be a rule against it or the mods should intervene to stop it. Conversely, if something is technically within the rules, then it’s OK. I thought that was pretty retarded when I was a mod here and I think that’s pretty retarded now. We all have a responsibility to make this an interesting place to post at, and that includes speaking up about things that are wrong. I think many posters have incorrectly interpreted the rule changes as license to post threads in the Pit that should have either been posted in MPSIMS or written on a piece of paper and then thrown away. I said so. Disagree if you want, but don’t assign hidden motives that aren’t there. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/114 "2009-07-04T04:54:13Z")
Hey! Stop advocating tree wasting!!! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/115 "2009-07-04T05:21:33Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > I wasn’t here for this supposed Golden Age of the Pit. But I gather that **Giraffe** and **ivn1188** are endeavoring to simulate its awesomeness here in this present thread. If so, all I can say it that the old Pit was pretty fucking stupid and I can see why people decided to dispense with it. And if “My life was better when I could call people cunts on the internet” doesn’t count as “mundane pointless shit” (which, _pace_ the forum’s title, does not actually have to be shared with anyone), I don’t know what would. Your post, for one. Don’t you have a thread to start about Britney’s comeback or something? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/116 "2009-07-04T06:14:26Z")
> [@Casserole](#): > > Has bitching about a problem ever solved anything? Yes, it’s solved my problem of having too many friends. ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/117 "2009-07-04T06:33:42Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > Your post, for one. Don’t you have a thread to start about Britney’s comeback or something? Oh, is this what the old Pit was like? Because if so: Auuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggh…so withering. Don’t call it a comeback, bitch, she’s been here for years. ---
**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 4, 2009, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/118 "2009-07-04T13:00:38Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > I wasn’t here for this supposed Golden Age of the Pit. But I gather that **Giraffe** and **ivn1188** are endeavoring to simulate its awesomeness here in this present thread. If so, all I can say it that the old Pit was pretty fucking stupid and I can see why people decided to dispense with it. And if “My life was better when I could call people cunts on the internet” doesn’t count as “mundane pointless shit” (which, _pace_ the forum’s title, does not actually have to be shared with anyone), I don’t know what would. How stupid do you have to be to think this is about one word? If anything the pit died its final death around the time the normal use of butthurt and FOAD got a poster in trouble and suspended. Not the words but the arbitrary punishment for their use out of nowhere. You are conjecturing from ignorance, try this instead as you can search, go back to pit threads over a year old and take a look. You’ll still see mostly garbage but at least you’ll see some interesting gems and some loud debates that were good. > [@The BBQ Pit](#): > > For rants about the world or beefs with another poster. Comments and complaints about SDMB administration should go in About This Message Board. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/119 "2009-07-04T15:30:46Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Also, you’re a loser and I hate you. Why I love posters like **Jye-wrath**! The Pit seems to go up and down. In my two some odd years of not coming here, I have no idea what went on (no, I can’t read old threads, it’s against my religious bay leafs), but lately, I find very little to actually choose sides over, and my main reaction is but a mere “meh.” How I wish someone needed to take a dump in some self righteous person’s house. 😛 I am outraged! OUTRAGED! I hate all y’all! Except for the ones I like, of course. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/120 "2009-07-04T15:59:26Z")
This is actually one for the funniest threads I have read in here for awhile. I have no idea why, except that I plan to start asking people as to how one would mongle a cock. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614.md?page=7)