# Mild Pitting of Beck **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 12, 2024, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691 "2024-10-12T05:25:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 62
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1221 "2026-06-28T15:44:17Z")
[about **Chela**] Now, add “rank hypocrite” to that descriptor. You really don’t see it, do you? ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1222 "2026-06-28T15:45:30Z")
You’re just the hero this country needs. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1223 "2026-06-28T15:45:48Z")
It’s really _not_ to late to enlist. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1224 "2026-06-28T15:57:31Z")
Oops. (to/too)? (Wow, I apologize that was unnecessary) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1225 "2026-06-28T16:09:58Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Well, since this was already bumped up… > > > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > > > You’re a dumbass. Where the heck did this come from? I think the point many posters have been trying to make is that people aren’t picking on her without cause; they’re bringing up something if there was a legit reason, and then letting the thread go dormant. Just coming in to throw out an insult with no explanation is exactly what her proponents are annoyed over. Did you have a reason for dropping this into the thread? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1226 "2026-06-28T16:15:02Z")
> [@chela](#): > > I’ll push back on any undeserved lopsided pile on in the pit. So what’s your cut-off point for stirring back up settled arguments? We know two weeks is okay. How about two months? Two years? Have you found a twenty year old dispute in a thread that you would like to get going again? ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1227 "2026-06-28T16:26:16Z")
Settled by whom? It was settled last year until it was revived again June 5 for more pile on insults. I guarantee if on June 21 I was also joining in the scrum and issuing denigrating edicts against her it’d be no problemo, righto? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1228 "2026-06-28T16:34:32Z")
I think it is pretty clear that you are just simply too stupid to understand what you are doing here. But as the old saying goes, with friends like you Beck doesn’t need enemies. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1229 "2026-06-28T16:36:57Z")
> [@chela](#): > > I guarantee if on June 21 I was also joining in the scrum How can a person be this willfully stupidly blind? The only scrum on June 21 was people telling you that on June 21 you’d unwittingly (literally) revived a dormant thread. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1230 "2026-06-28T16:37:16Z")
Then take it up with the turds who pit her regularly. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1231 "2026-06-28T16:38:45Z")
Guilty. My mother – visiting from out of town – was readying herself for the airport shuttle to scoop her up. Because I also wanted to participate in this discussion, I typed too quickly. I did something similar yesterday, flagging a post for moderation based on my perception that it was far afoul of the rules of that forum. Except I’d switched threads so often that I was mistaken about which forum it was actually _posted in._ _Mea culpa_ for that one, too (already offered directly to the Mod who first acted on my flag). ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1232 "2026-06-28T16:41:08Z")
That’s the thing with dedicated pit threads by design they are never dormant, ready to go until the next pit pile on happens, which seems to be semi regularly. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1233 "2026-06-28T16:51:00Z")
I’m going to walk you through it, because my genuine sense is that you truly don’t get it. You jump on people _expressly for_ jumping on the Pittee, yet you see neither irony nor hypocrisy in doing so. Quite a few Dopers – generally, those with pretty solid reputations for thoughtful and informed perspectives and well-written posts – have had specific gripes about the Pittee, manifestly based on fairly extensive history, numerous encounters, and more than adequate sample sizes from which to form judgments. You’re essentially Pitting the Pitters for having legitimate complaints – legitimate, whether you agree with them or not – legitimate, articulable, and with citations. I really can’t see how you feel well positioned to _hold_ that position with anything resembling logical consistency. Maybe like the Pittee herself, and a few of the fanboys, you’re proceeding from an assumption of the Pittee’s infallibility, along with a heaping helping of confirmation bias. And, oddly, though most of the aforementioned tribe appears to hate the current President, this behavior is eerily similar to the behavior of his cult of personality. Finally … “soft bigotry of low expectations --” as introduced upthread – definitely applies. I think @Great_Antibob also mentioned it, only in other terms. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1234 "2026-06-28T17:05:18Z")
> [@chela](#): > > That’s the thing with dedicated pit threads by design they are never dormant, ready to go until the next pit pile on happens, Which you started. And the subsequent pile-on was on _you_. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1235 "2026-06-28T17:15:13Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > > [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > > > Well, since this was already bumped up… > > > > > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > > > > > > You’re a dumbass. > > Where the heck did this come from? I think the point many posters have been trying to make is that people aren’t picking on her without cause; they’re bringing up something if there was a legit reason, and then letting the thread go dormant. Just coming in to throw out an insult with no explanation is exactly what her proponents are annoyed over. Did you have a reason for dropping this into the thread? Yes, I had a reason, to call her a dumbass… And a liar and a troll and anything else that I feel I should add while I’m here. I mean it’s a pit thread, right? Shouldn’t that be allowed to pile on this liar? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1236 "2026-06-28T17:16:54Z")
Maybe that was a clever diversionary tactic to make the pittee look good by comparison to chela’s oafishness? ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1237 "2026-06-28T17:20:10Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Quite a few Dopers – generally, those with pretty solid reputations for thoughtful and informed perspectives and well-written posts – have had specific gripes about the Pittee, manifestly based on fairly extensive history, numerous encounters, and more than adequate sample sizes from which to form judgments. I have no doubt they will continue to sit in judgement pondering how best to rein in behavior that offends their delicate sensibilities ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1238 "2026-06-28T17:21:06Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Or have those who have been so irritated by her just learned to scroll past? Yup. I’m only here to LOL at the fanbois, and revel at the stupidity that is chela. I’m simply amazed. Maybe they have such a weird world view because it’s hard to see anything that far up Beck’s ass? I wouldn’t otherwise post, but, you asked. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1239 "2026-06-28T17:22:52Z")
Since you are the best and most forceful advocate for _my positions,_ I’ll step back now and yield the floor to you. Thank you. Truly. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1240 "2026-06-28T17:24:49Z")
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