# MPSIMS for serious stuff only? And parody forbidden? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 18, 2013, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-for-serious-stuff-only-and-parody-forbidden/656015 "2013-04-18T06:10:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-for-serious-stuff-only-and-parody-forbidden/656015/1 "2013-04-18T06:10:40Z")
I must have missed something when I read the roolz. Facetious thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=688429) in MPSIMS, suggesting that pressure cookers should be banned now. (Or are they protected by the Second Amendment?) Comes now **Idle Thoughts** at [Post #22](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16205580#post16205580) to advise us: > [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > Since, for one, I doubt you’re being serious and, for two, parody threads should be made in the Pit, I’m going to shut this down. > > Feel free to remake in the Pit, however. Threads shut down in MPSIMS for not being serious? Parody belongs in The Pit? Can somebody give me a link to the rool I missed? ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-for-serious-stuff-only-and-parody-forbidden/656015/2 "2013-04-18T06:12:43Z")
Parody threads going in the pit has been around for a long time, but I think a lot of people don’t know it because it doesn’t come up that often. Though usually the mods will let “good natured” parody threads (rather than mocking ones) stay in MPSIMS or IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-for-serious-stuff-only-and-parody-forbidden/656015/3 "2013-04-18T06:18:55Z")
Well dang! Newz to me! I always pictured the Pit as the place for being angry. Y’know, flaming, mudsligning, mutual insult fests, stuff like that. So silly cutesy parodies go there too? I guess I missed that rule, but I never would have guessed. If I ever have an urge to post a silly harmless parody, I wouldn’t think of the Pit as a place to put it. Now that I know, I probably . . . just . . . wouldn’t. ETA: Is the problem with the “gallows humor” nature of it? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-for-serious-stuff-only-and-parody-forbidden/656015/4 "2013-04-18T08:42:00Z")
I think the large number of parody threads which have not gone in the Pit mean this rule needs to be revised. As far as I can tell, the original idea was that a “parody thread” was a thread parodying another thread on this board, and thus was an attack on the OP of that thread. This does not seem to apply in this case or in many other cases which have been allowed. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-for-serious-stuff-only-and-parody-forbidden/656015/5 "2013-04-18T12:06:40Z")
My recollection agrees with **BigT** ’s, that “parody” meant making fun of other threads (hence indirectly insulting, however humorously, another poster.) However, the mods are now discussing this. (I just wanted to be sure that there is a mod response early so that y’all know that we’re talking behind the scenes.) ---
**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:** [April 18, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-for-serious-stuff-only-and-parody-forbidden/656015/6 "2013-04-18T13:47:04Z")
I’ve reopened the thread and apologize for the error. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-for-serious-stuff-only-and-parody-forbidden/656015/7 "2013-04-18T14:15:54Z")
If the “parody threads only in the Pit” rule is rescinded, will pseudotriton ruber ruber’s banning be reevaluated? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-for-serious-stuff-only-and-parody-forbidden/656015/8 "2013-04-18T14:25:14Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > If the “parody threads only in the Pit” rule is rescinded, will pseudotriton ruber ruber’s banning be reevaluated? No. That wasn’t a parody of anything anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-for-serious-stuff-only-and-parody-forbidden/656015/9 "2013-04-18T14:27:44Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > No. That wasn’t a parody of anything anyway. I thought it was pretty clear it was a parody of the misogyny thread. I’m certainly not going to cry over it though. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-for-serious-stuff-only-and-parody-forbidden/656015/10 "2013-04-18T15:11:20Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I thought it was pretty clear it was a parody of the misogyny thread. I’m certainly not going to cry over it though. **panach45** is (I think) mocking some gun control arguments by applying them to pressure cookers. It looks like **pseudotriton ruber ruber** responded to the ATMB thread about misogyny by starting a thread about beating up a woman. That’s not parody, it’s trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpsims-for-serious-stuff-only-and-parody-forbidden/656015/11 "2013-04-18T18:28:31Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That’s not parody, it’s trolling. Agreed.