# 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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**Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-rules-have-been-revised/487256/885 "2009-02-27T06:47:21Z")

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> [@HoboStew](#):
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> Right now it is a mountain of complaints with a molehill of evidence.

Actually no, there’s already a mountain of evidence which you admit that you’re too lazy to go look for. For those of us who have been posting in the Pit and seeing these inconsistencies for months, there’s already LOTS of evidence.

Your point would be more credible if you were looking at the evidence and telling us why it didn’t apply. But you’re making a claim without even seeing the evidence simply because you’re too lazy to look at it.

> [@HoboStew](#):
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> I’m lazy, and since you are the one making the claim I will put the burden on you. Show me what you feel are the unclear patterns and I will do my best to elucidate them.

Actually, you’re the one making the claim that we should wait and see since it will all become clear in time. But I’ll play for a bit. Here’s one:

> [@Mother sets fire to her daughter's gloating rapist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-sets-fire-to-her-daughters-gloating-rapist/487363/36):
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> AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST…he will never hurt a little girl (or her family and friends or society in general) again, will he, you ignorant asshole?

That last part was directed at **Q.E.D.** (a member of the Dope)  
which is deemed:

> [@Mother sets fire to her daughter's gloating rapist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-sets-fire-to-her-daughters-gloating-rapist/487363/165):
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> Not a problem.

In contrast, this one:

> [@No, old lady, DON'T invite the Jews to church!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-old-lady-dont-invite-the-jews-to-church/485824/90):
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> Way to selectively quote there, cunt.

That last part was directed at **EJsGirl** (a member of the Dope)  
gets this response:

> [@No, old lady, DON'T invite the Jews to church!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-old-lady-dont-invite-the-jews-to-church/485824/92):
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> This was directed at another poster, and definitely qualifies as an abusive remark. Don’t do this again

This is just the first example I found. How do you distinguish between those two?

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