# I PIT isitlegalto **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 27, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065 "2012-09-27T21:55:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065/21 "2012-09-28T00:55:04Z")
Domo arigato, Mister Legalto. Has a nice ring to it. > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Yeah, Rachellelogram, get it straight! The OP isn’t _retarded_, he’s _pretentious_. Why not split the difference with pre-tarded? Perhaps he may eventually graduate from pre-tarded to retentious, but I’m not holding my breath. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065/22 "2012-09-28T01:28:39Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > If there’s one thing more interesting than an internet pissing match, it’s an internet pissing match between two people I’ve never heard of. It’s like [del]reading[/del] watching a [del]train[/del]carwreck, you don’t want to look but can’t help yourself. Unable to refrain from looking, I found the reading list the mod in question admonishes the OP to read to understand law amusing. It starts not so bad, but ends with: [ul] [li]As We Go Marching: A Biting Indictment of the Coming of Domestic Fascism in America[/li][li]Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life[/li][li]The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail[/li][li]A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies[/li][li]Atlas Shrugged[/li][/ul] Novels by Ayn Rand are where I get all of my legal knowledge from too! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065/23 "2012-09-28T01:30:13Z")
> [@lawbuff](#): > > And people lie you hide behind message boards and shoot off thier mouth like thorax. Yeah, I’m hiding behind the clever alias my parents thought up. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065/24 "2012-09-28T01:45:51Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > And now that I have checked out a couple of threads, I think that thorax is seems pretty mistaken about the law (citing the Constitution in a case about a property line?). I’d say you’re better off not associated with his forum. I don’t know anything about the law and I haven’t looked at the forum, but I have every reason to believe you’re correct and that really confuses me - who on earth is trying to run a legal forum without knowing what they’re talking about? And if they do know what they are talking about, why on earth are they inviting those who don’t (and/or not scrutinizing them) to moderate? Seems doomed. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065/25 "2012-09-28T01:51:46Z")
Hello **lawbuff** , and welcome to the Straight Dope! Where we all hope for the best. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065/26 "2012-09-28T01:52:39Z")
Whoa whoa whoa… lawyers who are arrogant, belligerent, and contentious? When did this happen?! ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065/27 "2012-09-28T02:03:23Z")
Yea, you are better off banned. I think they did you a favor. Bunch of ingrates. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065/28 "2012-09-28T02:23:33Z")
That guy is pretty stupid though. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065/29 "2012-09-28T03:46:18Z")
> [@Simple\_Linctus](#): > > I don’t know anything about the law and I haven’t looked at the forum, but I have every reason to believe you’re correct and that really confuses me - who on earth is trying to run a legal forum without knowing what they’re talking about? And if they do know what they are talking about, why on earth are they inviting those who don’t (and/or not scrutinizing them) to moderate? > > Seems doomed. I haven’t looked at it, and will likely never look at it, but I cannot help but think that a name like “is it legal to” is likely to attract people on both sides of the admin/poster divide who ask things like, “Is it legal to blow up live frogs with firecrackers?” I fear that allowing this thread can be seen as an act of war. Many people (me, f’rinstance) might think that a board war would be fun (I missed the one with Stormfront ☹ ), especially when they get **Bricker** ed, but I understand we are to be more adult than that. ETA: Which sucks. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065/30 "2012-09-28T04:16:49Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > It’s never legalto. Sooo…“_legalto_” is a fancy-schmancy word for “lupus?” ---
**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 28, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065/31 "2012-09-28T05:35:21Z")
[Moderating] **lawbuff** , don’t drag your fight with other message boards onto this one. I’m closing this thread. [/Moderating] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065.md?page=1)