Stay out of The Pit.
There, problem solved.
The Pit apparently has windows too.
#LoopholesROCK
In two ATMB threads now, the female members here have asked for a more friendly and welcoming SDMB.
What the issue is is that the Pit jerks are scaring off paying members and also female members. The Pit turns this board into a unwelcoming place.
“Friendly and welcoming” is an oversimplification of the issue and it did not pertain to the Pit.
That is so totally wrong it’s nigh-on unbelievable. The fact that the SDMB has a place to isolate the flame wars and insults speaks well of its desire to welcome everybody (within reason). Asking everybody to protect the dainty and delicate (of whatever sex, gender, persuasion, inclination or form) and not use rude language or characterizations is ridiculous on its face. If anything, The Pit should have the restraints removed and let it go back to the way it was - the Wild West, where you sacked up or stayed out. Anybody and everybody was fair game, including Mods, and there weren’t any silly language restrictions.
I’ll back up ITD on this. The Pit is not the issue.
Hear, hear!
IMHO the boards slowed down after the Pit was nerfed.
CMC fnord!
They were not referring to Pit threads. They were referring to behavior in other forums.
You dont need to isolate that personal insults & flame wars, just ban them, as most other message boards do.
And you can use rude language in all forums. Just you can’t call names.
Why is is necessary for you to be able to insult other members?
So, the Pit was wonderful and great and never harassed or got all old boys club on any females, but the that behavior occurred everywhere in all the other forums? :dubious::dubious:
Let’s all hold hands in Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood.
Screw that. Follow your path and within 6 months this board would have 5 members, all talking about how wonderful their paper flowers were coming along.
No, this board is about the vigorous give and take of intelligent debate, and TPTB long ago acknowledged that a place to go when feelings ran high would be A Good Thing. And it is. You are so wrong with everything in this thread that I think it breaks some sort of statistical metric. Like you’re actually trying to be as wrong as you can. If that was your goal, good job! You succeeded.
Who said it was wonderful? The Pit is expected to be a rough place and you could directly call someone out for acting like a misogynistic jerk there! The rest of the board is expected to be civilized.
It’s like going into a strip club and getting mad that there was nudity. I don’t like it, I wish strip clubs didn’t exist, but if I want to avoid it I can. Hooters, on the other hand, bugs me more because it’s the casual normalization of using women to sell products in a supposedly mainstream environment.
You can be dubious, but that’s why I said you were oversimplifying the issue.
How do you even come up with these things?
You forgot dotards.
YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE WOMEN OF THIS BOARD.
DO NOT USE US AS AN EXCUSE TO PUSH YOUR PERSONAL AGENDA.
And do remember that many of our most reliable “Pit jerks” are women.
Damn!
Moderator Note
We have already had multiple threads on this topic. We don’t need another one. Let’s not have any more hijacking of this thread.
“Now, now, it’s not the surprise bestiality incest rape hypotheticals that AREN’T IN THE PIT that are making you so hysterical … it’s all the meanies in the Pit!”
CMC fnord!
I think anybody who has decided to invest $14.95 a year into this message board isn’t likely to be scared off easily. But what do I know, I’m just a lowly guest?
/checks “Charter Member” status
/checks girly bits
Yep, I’m both paying and a woman. And nope, not frightened away by the Pit. Indeed, it’s one of the most enjoyable, lively areas of the SDMB. You can call a jerk a jerk, in ways both profound and profane, and it’s actually what first intrigued me about the place. Reading the trainwrecks and soap operas and debates and the gossip… my God, why wouldn’t I wanna sign up to a community with such a rich tapestry of weirdos, nuts and kooks? (Said with affection…)
So the idea is that when someone gets fed up with nasty jerkitude that doesn’t quite break the rules as they stand, we shouldn’t have a place to call it out? We should just leave, perhaps?