# Moving my thread to the Pit **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 22, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-my-thread-to-the-pit/852317 "2020-04-22T04:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-my-thread-to-the-pit/852317/21 "2020-04-22T20:55:08Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > [You’ve said that before.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=855009) It’s a minority opinion. Not by any means. Quite a few posters agreed with me, and others just came in to give me a hard time, without actually disagreeing with the idea. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-my-thread-to-the-pit/852317/22 "2020-04-22T20:59:16Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Nobody in the thread was misbehaving of “tussling” with anyone else, including the OP. In fact, everybody was following his lead in ridiculing the people in the photo. Then, why move it? We have had posts dedicated to ridiculing a idea, etc before and not in the Pit, they have been in GD and IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-my-thread-to-the-pit/852317/23 "2020-04-22T21:00:31Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I hope people don’t have the idea that The BBQ Pit is just about flaming and harassing other posters. > > When I think of The Pit, I think first of some of the [great](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=364773) [classic](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=332231) [rants](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=530385) where the vitriol was aimed at some deserving off-board entity. Yeah, that’s true, and a blind squirrel still can find a nut once in a while. But then, why not make insulting posters illegal there, too? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-my-thread-to-the-pit/852317/24 "2020-04-22T21:52:10Z")
The thread description is: > [@](#): > > **The BBQ Pit** > For rants about the world or beefs with another poster. IIUC you think those two functions _shouldn’t_ go together in the same forum. But, as the SDMB is currently organized, and has been for a long time, they do. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-my-thread-to-the-pit/852317/25 "2020-04-23T00:57:09Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > If your thread has been moved to the Pit and you don’t like it, you cam simply no longer read it, creating the same situation for you as if it were instead closed. You are even able to try for a new thread that doesn’t get moved to the Pit. > > Still, saying that, I do sympathize with wishing we had a forum where we could rant about outside things without also opening ourselves up to personal attacks. From what I can tell, that used to be MPSIMS, but no longer. I only see the need for personal attacks in the Pit when Pitting another poster, not when doing rants about outside things. > > But that isn’t this board, same as this isn’t the board to ask for personal advice without people telling you that you’re actually the bad guy or that you’re bad if you disagree with (and thus don’t take) their advice. I disagree with the first paragraph, but agree with the rest. I think the Pit is a really stupid addition to this board. It’s juvenile and has no place in public discourse. No reason to go around insulting anyone and I haven’t participated in it in years. But if I respond to an MPIMS or GD thread, then it gets moved to the Pit where others can take shots at me? Hey, I didn’t sign up for that. I posted in a thread with rules against that. But because a mod decided to move it, now I get flamed? (And even if I don’t read it, others can and it shows up in search results) I disagree with moving any thread to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-my-thread-to-the-pit/852317/26 "2020-04-23T01:11:54Z")
An analogy (not a particularly good one, but I can’t think of any better) is where sometimes some people deliberately take what was meant as a private conversation between 2 individuals and then publish it on the Internet for everyone to see, so that dozens of trolls and brigaders can then go harass one of the individuals in question for the now-publicized messages. The texts or voicemails or whatever were made under one particular set of expectations, not the other. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-my-thread-to-the-pit/852317/27 "2020-04-23T06:58:51Z")
You’re right that it’s not particularly good - every ordinary poster on this board can always see every other ordinary poster’s posts, regardless of which forum they’re posted in. There are no private conversations in threads. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-my-thread-to-the-pit/852317/28 "2020-04-23T14:49:46Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I hope people don’t have the idea that The BBQ Pit is just about flaming and harassing other posters. > > When I think of The Pit, I think first of some of the [great](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=364773) [classic](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=332231) [rants](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=530385) where the vitriol was aimed at some deserving off-board entity. I think I’ve read every Pit thread in the last few years, for precisely this reason. And the % of threads where people just pile on the OP is miniscule. Or so low that I think of it as "Here’s the forum where we make fun of _those_ idiots _out there."_ If you start a thread and your first thought is “Oh, no, what if someone I don’t know says something unkind about me?”, well, you might not be tough enough to be on the world wide web. Especially when you make a post specifically to make fun of a group of people, and your first post insults those people (brilliantly, I must add…\*). \*Why am I being nice? He’s promised not to read the thread, and probably not this either (oooh, that’ll show us!). ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-my-thread-to-the-pit/852317/29 "2020-04-23T16:37:42Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I think I’ve read every Pit thread in the last few years, for precisely this reason. And the % of threads where people just pile on the OP is miniscule. {…} Well, you’re wrong. Clearly the people that “haven’t participated in it in years” know more about the Pit than those of us that do read/participate. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-my-thread-to-the-pit/852317/30 "2020-04-23T19:22:08Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Your intention wasn’t just to point out an iconic photo, it was to ridicule the people in it, as indicated by the rest of your post in the OP: > > Most of the subsequent posts in the thread before I moved it were also ridiculing the people in the photo and were also most appropriate for the Pit. Given the way you started out, and the subsequent posts, the Pit was really the only place for it. This. > [@Chronos](#): > > When someone starts a Pit thread in another forum, the options are to close it or to move it. And this. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-my-thread-to-the-pit/852317/31 "2020-04-23T22:02:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > When someone starts a Pit thread in another forum, the options are to close it or to move it. Are you saying you’d rather it had been closed? I don’t agree with the premise of your question. I don’t believe it was unambiguously a “Pit thread”. However, if I were limited to only those two options, I would definitely prefer the thread be closed. > [@digs](#): > > Especially when you make a post specifically to make fun of a group of people, and your first post insults those people (brilliantly, I must add…\*). > > \*Why am I being nice? He’s promised not to read the thread, and probably not this either (oooh, that’ll show us!). I only unsubscribed from the other thread. I would actually not feel it was right to create a thread and then abandon it in short order if it was not moved. And thanks for the compliment! Much appreciated. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-my-thread-to-the-pit/852317.md?page=1)