# I pit DrDeth **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 28, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971 "2021-02-28T19:52:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 60
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1185 "2021-08-19T16:40:54Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > I wonder if there are any examples of posters who were suspended a couple times or more and then actually changed. People who are capable of change probably do so before needing to be suspended. Speaking as a physician who deals with a lot of behavioral issues (my patients and my own), the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1186 "2021-08-19T17:16:40Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Yet he has no problem with the Pit when it suits some point he’s trying to make. Such as this thread? > [@I pit Doc Cathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-doc-cathode/946680): > > Only the most odious of newbies (and trolls trying to be Pitted) get pitted. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1187 "2021-08-19T17:29:47Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Speaking as a physician who deals with a lot of behavioral issues (my patients and my own), the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. That’s heavy! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1188 "2021-08-19T18:00:03Z")
That and his pitting of **SenorBeef** over some _Game of Thrones_ shit. I suspect that thread not going the way he intended jaded his view of the Pit more than this one. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1189 "2021-08-19T18:24:38Z")
I have to admit to a small amount of pride when @TokyoBayer and I forced him to admit the tales of his dad’s service in the South Pacific were bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1190 "2021-08-19T19:46:23Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > The time I had him on ignore was also for similar behavior; he came into a discussion where I had made a mistake, had been corrected, and acknowledged the mistake. He came into the thread much later and started needling me about the mistake. This is exactly my experience as well. He even came into unrelated threads to continue the strange hijack. He won’t “mend his ways”. He can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1191 "2021-08-19T21:31:15Z")
I missed where this happened. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1192 "2021-08-19T21:43:51Z")
He’ll get worse, I suspect. If anything, this suspension will just make him even more obsessed. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1193 "2021-08-19T22:44:43Z")
This topic was automatically closed after 10 hours. New replies are no longer allowed. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1194 "2022-09-11T01:41:44Z")
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**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1195 "2022-09-11T01:46:18Z")
Ooooo, gun ports uncovered, full broadside rolled out port and starboard side. Someone’s coming around to rake! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1196 "2022-09-11T01:58:06Z")
Why was it closed? And why opened back up? ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1197 "2022-09-11T02:01:54Z")
If memory serves it was supposed to be an opportunity for a sort of fresh start after a long suspension when it closed (I’m not 100%—there was also an ATMB thread about it, but I’m not interested enough to review to see if there was a more explicit reason given). But definitely related to the suspension: > [@I pit DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1152): > > This thread will close in 10 hours as DrDeth is suspended for 30 days. @Miller might override this though and reopen it. > [@On the closing of the DrDeth Pit thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-closing-of-the-drdeth-pit-thread/949158): > > I’ll say first of all that this particular thread is not a huge deal to me, though I’ve posted in it a number of times. I’m a bit more bothered by some of the strange directions that the moderation here has been taking recently. Let me express my concerns in terms of a response to the following (from that thread): I appreciate the consideration of the delayed closing, but I note that in the interim there has been revived interest and quite a few constructive posts made in that thread. My o… As for why it’s reopened… maybe he’s up to something in another thread? IDK. I just assume someone must have requested it. Still standing by for that broadside. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1198 "2022-09-11T02:14:50Z")
It was me - I wanted a dedicated place to mock that _of course_ he knows the Wizards of The Coast staff and contributors. > [@D & D got woke and that's good because you should have all been playing that way (or not if you didn't prefer))](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-got-woke-and-thats-good-because-you-should-have-all-been-playing-that-way-or-not-if-you-didnt-prefer/933114/703): > > You do not know any of the Staff or Contributors of WotC? I do. Because Gygax is dead now, so being chummy with him wouldn’t work for _this_ argument. And the smarmy tone of it, too… > [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Still standing by for that broadside. No, nothing devastating. But also nothing worth making a new thread for when this one was sitting in stasis, with its previous examples of him using the same laughable tactic. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1199 "2022-09-11T02:24:12Z")
‘My dad invented 3d6.’ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1200 "2022-09-11T02:47:01Z")
Gary (I used to call him Uncle Gary) originally wanted all random outcomes to be determined by iterative series of coin flips, but dad helped him invent polyhedral dice. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1201 "2022-09-11T02:58:51Z")
This thread if anyone is interested > [@D & D got woke and that's good because you should have all been playing that way (or not if you didn't prefer))](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-got-woke-and-thats-good-because-you-should-have-all-been-playing-that-way-or-not-if-you-didnt-prefer/933114/712): > > I consider Deadlands to be one of the best RPGs from the 1990s, and from the beginning I disliked the continued existence of the CSA. I can swallow a lot of aburdities including magic, weird science, and god-like beings from another dimension that feed on our fears, but I could not buy into the premise that the CSA was still around by 1876. And, honestly, the “cold war” between the USA and CSA never really featured in any game of Deadlands I ran. There are tons of wild west adventures you ca… ---
**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:** [September 11, 2022, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1202 "2022-09-11T03:55:23Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > It was me - I wanted a dedicated place to mock that _of course_ he knows the Wizards of The Coast staff and contributors. I mean, I know a couple of 'em too. Doesn’t mean I’m especially spiffy myself, and I’m sure not going to try to use my friendships to win an irrelevant argument (the argument isn’t even about whether they’re racist, it’s about whether the product has racist notes). It’s kind of weird to pull a YOU DON’T KNOW ME I MEAN THEM about WOTC employees. But DrDeth is kind of weird. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1203 "2022-09-11T19:05:31Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > This thread if anyone is interested Same thread which prompted this one in the first place, BTW. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1204 "2022-09-11T19:40:46Z")
Oh wow, so it is! 1,200 posts, and we’re right back where we began. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=59) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=61)