# Low level "Pit Response" thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-level-pit-response-thread/922284>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 5, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-level-pit-response-thread/922284 "2020-10-05T21:30:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-level-pit-response-thread/922284/13 "2020-10-07T22:04:36Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> > [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> > If people want to sling insults at respected posters for totally innocuous reasons I guess that’s their right, but it’s pretty shitty. I think it will degrade discourse on the board.
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> That sentiment applies with equal force to the entirety of the BBQ Pit. And yet it exists and is popular after all these years.
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> I personally spent very little time in the Pit pre-Discourse for exactly the reason you cite: I’m not looking for a degraded / degrading experience. Slinging one-liner insults at one another is not edifying. Since Discourse I’ve found the Unread & Latest features show me some BBQ threads that turn out to be guiltily entertaining.

There are of course a lot of crappy posts in the Pit, as there are in every forum to some degree, with the added “bonus” of _ **some** _ gratuitous insults. Most of them, though, are deserved. But in general I find the Pit quite an entertaining place. At its best it’s a place of unalloyed honesty plus occasionally some of the funniest posts anywhere on this board. It’s also been home to some serious discussion. [The lengthy thread pitting the now-banned SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420), for example, touched on a number of interesting topics in a fair amount of depth, in between insults. As I said in that thread, “A great thread, like the one dedicated to pitting SamuelA, is like a long, magnificent river. As it meanders the great expanse of its many miles, its nature changes – here a perhaps a rush of rapids, there a vast plain of slow-moving water …”. Only in the Pit could a single thread range across the gamut from debating the computational theory of mind and the physics of deflecting asteroids to the pittee proudly proclaiming that he was a pervert and a pedophile. 😀

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