# Pit rules have been revised

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-rules-have-been-revised/487256>\
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**Created:** [February 24, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-rules-have-been-revised/487256 "2009-02-24T19:34:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-rules-have-been-revised/487256/552 "2009-02-25T21:17:44Z")

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> [@Ed\_Zotti](#):
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> Fine, so we’ve established that after all this huffing and puffing, the rule basically isn’t going to affect you to speak of, and you’ll deal with it, however fucking retarded you may think it is. Works for me.

_politely clearing throat_

This is not the first time you have asserted that you are trying to regulate something that was not really a large problem anyway.

If you had said “From now on, “goose tatooing” is forbidden. There will be NO references to, instructions on, or links to other websites involving the subject of goose tatooing.”

Most posters would be asking “WTF? When was _this_ a problem?”.

Instead, we have, what seems to be, quite a non-significant number of posters claiming that they feel that they are now going to be impacted in their BBQ-Pit posting style. (I don’t feel that I am one of them. My posting history is my cite.)

I don’t think that it is unnatural for people to try to understand the reasoning behind what may be a “new” rule (or at least a return to enforcement of a previously unenforced standard). This understanding may make it easier (on a practical level, not an emotional one) to comply more fully with your wishes.

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