# I Pit the Enablers of the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312 "2013-12-02T21:47:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/21 "2013-12-02T23:32:13Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > BTW, strawberry-rhubarb pie is the food of the gods. One little thing can revive a guy . . . ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/22 "2013-12-02T23:38:51Z")
Be-bop-a-re-bop > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > . . . Also, the examples you posted seem pretty small beer. Where the hell were you when [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=630580&highlight=paterno) abomination was racking up the posts? Or one of the circumcision protest threads? No I’m not going to go look for one. I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot stalk of rhubarb. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/23 "2013-12-02T23:51:51Z")
I only get annoyed when somebody collects all the turds, puts them in a bag on my porch, and sets the bag on fire. It draws a crowd and then everybody has to analyze what’s happened. Sorta like the pit. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/24 "2013-12-02T23:59:37Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > One little thing can revive a guy . . . Minnesota has fertile soil, ample rain, an industrious Nordic populace and a six week growing season. Good for corn, wheat, and rhubarb. You can eat any of those, but you can sell the corn and the wheat. So, they eat the rhubarb. Its good for you, it builds character. Essentially, rhubarb is surly celery. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/25 "2013-12-03T01:05:51Z")
Speaking of turds… ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/26 "2013-12-03T01:19:00Z")
I take issue with the OP’s mis-characterization of FX Masterminds thread as “a” turd. FX and Brazil84 have carpet spammed enough ignorant vanity posts in there to at least qualify it for septic tank status… ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/27 "2013-12-03T05:21:20Z")
I mean seriously, who really hates soccer _that_ much? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/28 "2013-12-03T08:20:41Z")
Based on the example threads, I thought his point wasn’t so much “Don’t feed the trolls”, but “Don’t make threads deliberately to bait the trolls.” It’s one thing to feel need to deal with a false statement made by a troll. It’s another thing to create threads that practically have a neon sign saying, “Hey, trolls, come over here and throw your feces.” Although, in **KarlGrenze** ’s defense, he did open it in the right forum. It’s only the mods and their fatalistic attitudes that got it moved where people could shit on it without breaking the rules. But I’m pretty sure FXMastermind was deliberately baiting trolls, even though he did open it in MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/29 "2013-12-03T12:38:54Z")
The problem is that generally speaking, the troll threads are usually the only ones interesting enough to grab my attention. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/30 "2013-12-03T15:21:08Z")
I feel embarrassed about how right the OP is. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16896851#post16896851](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16896851#post16896851) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/31 "2013-12-03T16:10:45Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > The problem is that generally speaking, the troll threads are usually the only ones interesting enough to grab my attention. Right! And really, if a troll doesn’t put the effort in why should I? > [@Lamar Mundane](#): > > No, reasoning with it is a much better strategy. Using logic and questioning will make it go away. No, it won’t. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/32 "2013-12-03T16:12:39Z")
I don’t understand what any of the threads linked by the OP, or anyone else in this thread, have to do with trolling. You can’t throw a rock without hitting a troll thread on this board, and yet all of you have somehow succeeded. ---
**Author:** ![Grapefruit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@Grapefruit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grapefruit)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/33 "2013-12-03T17:39:52Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > Walks outside, sees a bunch of people on my front lawn. > > “What are you doing?” > > “There’s a dog turd on your lawn.” > > “Well, that happens from time to time. Just ignore it and it’ll be gone in a day or two.” > > “Don’t you want to come over and see what it smells like? It really stinks” > > “No. Leave it alone and in a day or two it won’t stink anymore, and in another day the sun will dry it up and it’ll crumble into the soil.” > > “We can’t have that. What will we have to smell after that happens?” > > “And what will we have to poke with a stick?” > > “Or with my finger. It’s not so bad - The side that faces the sun is dry and hard. It’s the other side that is squishy, see? Oh, yuck.” > > "Just leave it alone. Tomorrow you will say, Hey! There’s that turd. The day after you’ll say “That turd is getting old. A week later it’ll be ‘Didn’t something used to be on that lawn? I can’t remember’” > > “Sorry, but we can’t do that. One of us went home to get a stalk of rhubarb. We are going to poke the turd with it and bake it into a pie to memorialize out great battle with the dog turd. Don’t people around here make rhubarb/dog turd pies around Thanksgiving?” > > “No. Now go away.” Why did you post your OP like you’re on notalwaysright? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/34 "2013-12-03T18:37:20Z")
I see the point. Too many people try to debate Magiver on Benghazi or Bricker on voter ID. Both minds are utterly closed to logic, so those threads are a waste of everyone’s time. If only we could let the turd wither and dry op unnoticed. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/35 "2013-12-03T20:44:19Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0zb1qsVqjwg/hqdefault.jpg "Utah Phillips - Moose Turd Pie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zb1qsVqjwg) Utah Phillips sings \*Moose Turd Pie. \* Seems as relevant as the Op.😛 Moreso, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Labor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Labor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labor)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/36 "2013-12-04T17:57:25Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Good thing you included the links as they cleared up nothing and your little story sucked. > > BTW, strawberry-rhubarb pie is the food of the gods. Kimballkid and I are going to visit you and look huffy. That’s what you get for insutling rhubarb. ---
**Author:** ![Dolomite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8491ac/32.png) [@Dolomite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dolomite)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/37 "2013-12-05T00:24:37Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > What have you people got against rhubarb? Never rub another man’s rhubarb. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/38 "2013-12-05T01:18:14Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Are we gods, that we think we can meddle in the affairs of poisonous plants? Do not meddle in the affairs of Rhubarb, for it is subtle and quick to anger. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/39 "2013-12-05T02:10:25Z")
When you gaze long into a rhubarb, the rhubarb also gazes into you. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312/40 "2013-12-05T02:39:44Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Although, in **KarlGrenze** ’s defense, he did open it in the right forum. That’s **KarlGauss** , if you please. And, I am obsessive about picking up my dog’s turds from the yard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-enablers-of-the-sdmb/675312.md?page=3)