# I read you can't post in the pit on your first post or you will be banned immediately **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 20, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929 "2000-06-20T02:39:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blanchard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Blanchard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blanchard)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/1 "2000-06-20T02:39:34Z")
Two questions: 1. Why not warn people when they sign up. 2. When can you start? Is it based on # of days, or # of posts? Thanks for the info. ---
**Author:** ![Nodule\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nodule\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nodule_B)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/2 "2000-06-20T02:56:12Z")
Another new guy problem. That’s three for three. I am out of here. I won’t miss this sorry board. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/3 "2000-06-20T03:00:09Z")
1. Because it’s so much more fun to watch them find out the hard way. The rest of us just adore hearing their shrieks of anguished protest as Alphagene torments them with electric cattle prods on their nether regions, and as Lynn and her cousin Vinny then batter them senseless with sawn-off pool cues and Straight Dope coffee mugs. 2. The number of posts required before you can post in the Pit is variable, and is based on the number of chocolate bonbons TubaDiva has consumed within the past 24 hours, multiplied by the dewpoint in Chicago. You just have to guess! Doesn’t that sound exciting? Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Board! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/4 "2000-06-20T03:16:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > The number of posts required is variable, and is based on the number of chocolate bonbons TubaDiva has consumed within the past 24 hours, multiplied by the dewpoint in Chicago. > \*\* LMAO!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/5 "2000-06-20T04:01:41Z")
Funny, there is also this post [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=28104](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=28104) in the pit. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/6 "2000-06-20T05:29:03Z")
Well, there you go. I’m banned. B-A-N-N-E-D? Oh, I’m sorry. I’m not banned, I’m in a band. My mistake ::shuffles out of room, head hung:: ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/7 "2000-06-20T12:36:38Z")
Blanchard : Where did you read this? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/8 "2000-06-20T17:38:53Z")
Other things that will get you immediatly banned. 1. Posting while naked. 2. Putting both mustard and mayonnaise on a liverwurst sandwich. 3. Using a Q-Tip not because your ear needs cleaning, but just because you like the way it feels. 4. Spelling immediately wrong. Hope I was helpful. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/9 "2000-06-20T18:29:57Z")
Also, serious punctuation errors such as not putting “immediately” in quotation marks are cause for immediate banning. Pink Slinky, you are hereby banned! Slink forth into Utter Darkness, where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, where the worm dieth not, where the fire is not quenched, and where the U.S. Postal Service delivereth not chocolate. Get thee hence, foul and useless excuse for a toy, voted “Most Pointless Invention of the 20th Century” by the entire Straight Dope Message Board! I curse thee, O Roseately Wretched Misuser of Punctuation! Expand and contract thyself right back under the sofa, thou illegitimate offspring of a bedspring! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/10 "2000-06-20T19:15:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Another new guy problem. That’s three for three. > I am out of here. I won’t miss this sorry board. > \*\* Believe it, this board won’t miss you either. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/11 "2000-06-20T19:22:11Z")
> [@](#): > > I read you can’t post in the pit on your first post or you will be banned immediately Oh my, is our first ever board Urban Legend? And whatever happened to Nodule B? Gee I miss that guy! _sniff_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/12 "2000-06-20T19:57:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Other things that will get you immediatly banned. > > 1. Posting while naked. > \*\* Uh Oh. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2000, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/13 "2000-06-20T20:50:56Z")
Eutychus55, you’re not posting naked are you? I would hope that at the very least you’re wearing your Disney shorts. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/14 "2000-06-20T22:48:45Z")
It says something about us when we generate urban legends. Not sure exactly WHAT it says, but we have certainly arrived. Before you have to read about it in Snopes, let me say it’s all untrue. Except for that bit about chocolate and dewpoint. The dewpoint in Chicago is currently . … 42. From the fnord side. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![V8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/eb9ed0/32.png) [@V8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/V8)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/15 "2000-06-21T20:22:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Funny, there is also this post [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=28104](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=28104) in the pit. > \*\* That was mine. I saw this thread and figgured “Why guess, when you can know by doing?”. It was instantly closed, so I’d say our Urban Legend has roots in fact, like most others. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/16 "2000-06-21T21:59:18Z")
> [@](#): > > I won’t miss this sorry board. And you are…? ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/17 "2000-06-21T23:32:07Z")
ROFLMAO — I went through my postings, forum by forum, come to find out (from what I can tell) my first post was in the Pit. I had suspicions but had to know the truth. Man I got my butt reamed but appropriately so! Never post your first post in a flame forum… Here I am eight months later addicted to this place! So the thinking is not true. If you post in the Pit on your first post you need to be prepared for a serious butt lashing 😉 You need to have some guts to come out of it alive and prove yourself as a somewhat worthwhile poster. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/18 "2000-06-22T00:12:31Z")
Ya know, if you don’t have anything good to say, then perhaps you shouldn’t say anything at all. Please do not do this again. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-read-you-cant-post-in-the-pit-on-your-first-post-or-you-will-be-banned-immediately/22929/19 "2000-06-23T20:46:06Z")
**Pink Slinky** said: > [@](#): > > Other things that will get you immediatly banned.[…]3. Using a Q-Tip not because your ear needs cleaning, but just because you like the way it feels. \ Er…I just have very dirty ears. That’s it–very dirty ears. Really. \