# Pit rules have been revised **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 24, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-rules-have-been-revised/487256 "2009-02-24T19:34:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 728
**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:** [February 26, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-rules-have-been-revised/487256/728 "2009-02-26T14:30:45Z")
Well now that it’s down to a new catchphrase, I am sNUgGlyPuPpy! > [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > … Well, we knew there’d be over-reaction. … Yeah, you (TPTB) knew. The vocal majority of this board responds very poorly to top down change with no warning or explanation. But you (TPTB) went ahead and did it again anyway. If there had been an announcement that TPTB think that there’s a problem in the Pit and think some changes need to be made. Here are the reasons we want to make the changes and these are the changes we propose. Let’s discuss it before we make any changes. This thread wouldn’t exist. Would it have gone smoothly, of course not, but you would have seen that the vast majority of posters, really interested in this, didn’t have any problems with most of what you wanted to change. We’re up to 700+ posts in this thread and I don’t think I’ve seen one complaint about _Rule 3_ (Which is kinda silly anyway, plenty of thread titles around here are NSFW and don’t have obscenities in them. I really don’t get the purpose of the rule myself.) or _Rule 4_ or _Rule 5_. _Rule 1_ makes sense, and anyway as far as I can tell, most (if not all) of our fine mods had already turned getting pitted into a joke. There was already a rule in place that dealt with the _Rule 2_ problem you see **Ed**. All you or a mod had to do was say “ **PosterX** what you just said about **PosterY** crosses the ‘Don’t be a jerk’ line, your posting privileges are under discussion” and decide on the proper punishment. (The same thing could have dealt with posts that crossed the abuse of mod line.) The really sad thing is, some of the posters who are the targets of the worst real, personal, abuse here (the thing you want to stop) have posted in this thread, and they don’t want to be protected by you **Ed**. CMC fnord! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-rules-have-been-revised/487256)._