While I disagree with the OP and agree with what most of the other posters are saying, it should be noted that there are only 3 Pit threads on the first page right now that are directed at specific posters and at least two of them mostly fizzled.
So don’t go in there. Problem solved!
Works for me. I never go into the Pit, and the SDMB seems like a pretty happy and decent place to me (maybe a bit less happy in some ATMB threads).
You’re not required to go into the Pit.
If someone ever Pits me (or has ever Pitted me), you’ll have to send me a PM or something to let me know because otherwise I’m not going to have a clue that it’s happened.
How do you know what goes on in there? I thought you claimed to never darken its doorstep? Is there some other way to find out what an poster is pitting there?
Seems to work pretty well for that function to me.
I have seen absolutely zero evidence that this is the case. What support do you have for this allegation?
Sounds like time for another poll: What causes the greater decrease in membership: the pit or zombie posts?
I think I disagree with every single thing in this post, up to and including the punctuation.
I agre; additionally I’d have used “an” in place of “a” where warranted.
Yep. So, we make the Pit into Rants, and dont allow personal attacks anywhere. A nice rant does let off steam.
I guess so. On the other hand, it is a form of allowed and legalized abuse.
Sadly many adult Homo Interneticus Humans are more aggressive then Homo Sapiens Junior High Students.
But such is life.
And leave nowhere on the board for us to call out the dips, dinks, dingbats, dorks, dummies, detestables, dopes, dolts, dimwits, ditzes, dastards, dunces, and deplorables that deign to darken our domain?
I dramatically disagree!
D’oh!
What gave you the idea that the internet was friendly, calm, and welcoming?
:dubious:
What if what one wants to Rant about is another member? Do we establish different rules, so that a lowly guest dare not attack a paid member?
Where does the paying vs non-paying come into it? That part confuses me. Anyone who registers, regardless of paying or not, has equal access to the pit. Are paying members supposed to be isolated from pit threads? What if paying members pit other paying members, or non-paying members? Are those scenarios ok?
Sadly USA contains 40 million people with Mental Disability – I have Autism and Depression. There are 10 million with Severe Mental Disability – they are in a much worse situation then me. Many people escape to Social Media to cope with their mental anguish.
Could you please consider their perspective.
But not jerks.
Members can rant about guests; charter members can rant about members; mods can rant about charter members.
Mods can’t start pit threads about other posters - a steep price to pay.
The only way we, as a community, can currently take someone to task for being a raging jerkopotamus is the Pit. Sometimes the mods can’t do it, but we, as a group, can. It works both ways. Sometimes a poster feels fed up, and decides to Pit someone and learns to their shock and dismay that not everyone feels the same way.
That said, I think that many interesting discussions are had in the Pit. It’s certainly not a smoking, crater-filled landscape destitute of all hope or intelligence.
That’d be Mos Eisley