# People don't use turn signals because... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 23, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-use-turn-signals-because/442409 "2008-03-23T03:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 148
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-use-turn-signals-because/442409/148 "2008-03-26T16:29:52Z")
[QUOTE=CarnalK] I’m sure that everyone here recognizes that Czarcasm was completely inappropriate when he moved the thread so obviously. Just so you know, I truly doubt anyone puts much stock in that thread,Cz. Your moving it was out of the blue and calling someone an asshole kind of spelled it out., [/QUOTE] Yup. When I first responded to this thread, it was in IMHO. If the OP had opened the thread in the Pit, then I probably would have refrained from responding at all because I would have known in advance the OP sought a bitch session instead of a poll or a desire for gaining a better understanding of human behavior. In hindsight, as soon as the thread was moved to the Pit, I should have abandoned it instead of getting sucked into defending against ad homenim attacks and strawmen. No more traffic threads for me, regardless of the forum, unless I don’t engage in offending driving practice that is the subject of the thread. If the thread is started as a valid pursuit of knowledge in some other forum, I can just wait; surely it will end up in the Pit where I can just sit on my perch and throw stones at anyone who admitted engaging in the offending behavior. I guess fighting ignorance sometimes must yield to a mod’s desire to berate a poster for doing something IRL the mod doesn’t like. Thanks to all who came to my defense. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-use-turn-signals-because/442409)._