Modest proposal for a new major category

[tnetennba]

It’s not a run on sentence, just a long one. It is not ungrammatical. All the clauses are joined by conjunctions.

[tomndebb]

I saw what you did, there.

[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.

[tomndebb]

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.

[Skywatcher]

@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.

@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?

[cerberus]

Got it.

And I haven’t much in the way of gratuitous jackbooting here.

[tomndebb]

@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 opinions 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?

[tnetennba]

As if you were inclined to do so in the first place.

[Arnold_Winkelried]

@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.

[cerberus]

See post #126.

[Irishman]

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.