# Modest proposal for a new major category **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 30, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modest-proposal-for-a-new-major-category/526983 "2010-01-30T02:21:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modest-proposal-for-a-new-major-category/526983/121 "2010-02-01T02:28:58Z")
It’s not a run on sentence, just a long one. It is not ungrammatical. All the clauses are joined by conjunctions. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modest-proposal-for-a-new-major-category/526983/122 "2010-02-01T03:58:25Z")
I saw what you did, there. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modest-proposal-for-a-new-major-category/526983/123 "2010-02-01T04:22:05Z")
I find it bit jarring that someone who posted a permitted insult in a thread in The Pit could be citable if that thread were moved later. That stinks a bit like ex post facto to me. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modest-proposal-for-a-new-major-category/526983/124 "2010-02-01T04:30:44Z")
Threads are moved out of the Pit, today, and posts submitted before the move are not subject to _post hoc_ Moderation. (We certainly see them get _Reported_, of course, but when we note the timestamps of the post and the subsequent move out of the Pit, we are pretty good about not stomping anyone with our jackboots.) I’m not expressing an opinion on the OP, but that particular reservation is not a deal breaker. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modest-proposal-for-a-new-major-category/526983/125 "2010-02-01T04:36:04Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Despite the M and the P in MPSIMS, not everything that gets posted there is actually mundane and pointless – it’s also the home of threads about births and deaths and marriages and other life-changing events. Like [the World Trade Center being hit by jets](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=86458). > [@cerberus](#): > > I find it bit jarring that someone who posted a permitted insult in a thread in The Pit could be citable if that thread were moved later. That stinks a bit like ex post facto to me. Did you not notice that this thread was moved in conjunction with the first reply? ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modest-proposal-for-a-new-major-category/526983/126 "2010-02-01T04:52:17Z")
Got it. And I haven’t much in the way of gratuitous jackbooting here. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modest-proposal-for-a-new-major-category/526983/127 "2010-02-01T15:02:39Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > @ Finn: well, you tell me. I’ve seen such arbitrary, fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants modding and such little accountability, nothing would surprise me. Why, immediately after your post laughing at the idea, some mod does spray spittle **because I so carelessly posted to the wrong thread**. > [@cricetus](#): > > Ah, the glorious irony in this is **that I did post this thread to the pit, knowing my opinion** s of the mods and their minions would play in eventually, but it was moved with no input from me and I was chastised for not putting it here in the first place. So, why should we believe that you are being honest in any post and why should we give your views any consideration? ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modest-proposal-for-a-new-major-category/526983/128 "2010-02-01T15:09:17Z")
As if you were inclined to do so in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modest-proposal-for-a-new-major-category/526983/129 "2010-02-01T18:52:24Z")
> [@cerberus](#): > > I find it bit jarring that someone who posted a permitted insult in a thread in The Pit could be citable if that thread were moved later. That stinks a bit like ex post facto to me. Are you referring to the situation in this thread? Because in this thread, that cricetus started in The Pit, he was warned for something that he posted **after** it was moved to ATMB. This thread was moved to ATMB immediately (as the second post shows), cricetus was warned for something he posted on the second page. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modest-proposal-for-a-new-major-category/526983/130 "2010-02-02T07:38:34Z")
See post #126. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modest-proposal-for-a-new-major-category/526983/131 "2010-02-02T23:34:32Z")
**cricetus** , let’s run that again. You started a thread proposing a new forum (i.e. about running this board) in The Pit? Intentionally, because you knew you would be insulting someone at some point? What? Threads about running the board belong in ATMB, and must remain polite, no insults. If you wanted to start a thread complaining and bitching about how you feel, then starting it in the Pit makes sense. But this thread didn’t start that way, it started as a suggestion. 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modest-proposal-for-a-new-major-category/526983.md?page=6)