# If You Want A Beat-down Administered, Do It Yourself **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 30, 2002, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-a-beat-down-administered-do-it-yourself/106403 "2002-04-30T02:00:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-a-beat-down-administered-do-it-yourself/106403/1 "2002-04-30T02:00:17Z")
This has happened a couple of times in the past couple of weeks. So . . . Without picking on particular posters, I’d just like to register a mild complaint: Guys, if you think the nimrod _du jour_ needs his/her ass kicked up around his/her shoulders, lace up your jack boots and do it yourself. To drag someone into the Pit and then ask or tell others to do your work for you . . . IMO it’s weak. And it’s a transparent invitation to others to dog pile on your deserved target/hapless victim (take your pick), when you apparently can’t be bothered to administer the discipline you feel is deserved. Personally, I loathe dogpiles. So I’d just like to remind people that here in the Pit, nobody _ever_ needs an express invitation to join in and get a few kicks in; if people feel kicks are deserved, they’ll be right along to give them, under their own steam. So. Not much of a rant, but there it is. ---
**Author:** ![Jojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@Jojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jojo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-a-beat-down-administered-do-it-yourself/106403/2 "2002-04-30T03:41:21Z")
2/10 ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-a-beat-down-administered-do-it-yourself/106403/3 "2002-04-30T03:51:24Z")
Yeah. Fuck you Jodi! Stupid dogpile loather. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-a-beat-down-administered-do-it-yourself/106403/4 "2002-04-30T04:00:50Z")
One more vote here for “do your own ass-kicking”. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-a-beat-down-administered-do-it-yourself/106403/5 "2002-04-30T04:15:47Z")
[aol] Me too, Jodi. [/aol] ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-a-beat-down-administered-do-it-yourself/106403/6 "2002-04-30T04:46:04Z")
I’m in the “Do your own ass-kicking” camp as well. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-a-beat-down-administered-do-it-yourself/106403/7 "2002-04-30T04:56:08Z")
I wrote two separate OP’s about this very topic at various points, and deleted them both before taking the final click for reasons of excessive and unproductive snarling. Glad I did; this thread is a helluva lot more reasonable. Hopefully the ixnay on the lets-you-and-him-fight game that Lynn alluded to in one of those recent threads will be a mod jackboot more firmly ground into the TM’s face from now on. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-a-beat-down-administered-do-it-yourself/106403/8 "2002-04-30T05:39:39Z")
I agree with the OP, but for slightly different reasons. It’s false advertising. If I see a thread by **PosterILike** , calling out **PosterIHate** in the Pit, I’m expecting a rant from **PosterILike**. Instead, I find, “This person bothers me. Somebody do something to him,” I’m left feeling disappointed and cheated. Is there some sort of Better Business Bureau for Internet flame wars? ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-a-beat-down-administered-do-it-yourself/106403/9 "2002-04-30T20:16:56Z")
\>\> Without picking on particular posters, I’d just like to register a mild complaint So you want others to name names and do the beating huh? 😉