# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 747
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/747 "2021-04-28T18:51:15Z")
If DrDeth hates the pit so much that he refused to even read this thread about himself until he was more or less forced into it (personally I think he’s been reading it all along and loving it) why did he start a big long pit thread over Game of Thrones spoilers? Not only that, but calling someone stupid and illiterate because they don’t want to talk about the books in a TV show thread? > [@Senor Beef and his crusade against knowledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senor-beef-and-his-crusade-against-knowledge/657743): > > Do we really have to have a special rule just for one TV show, just because one poster hasn’t read the books? 80% of the SDMB has read them. The mission of the SDMB is to FIGHT ignorance, not promulgate it. I am sorry if Senor Beef and his ilk are illiterate, but that’s their problem, not everyone else’s. As has been shown, most Dopers have read and enjoyed the books. Dopers are a rather literate crowd, Senor Beef notwithstanding. Yes, we do support “no open spoilers’ in general, but this is t… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971)._