# Pit rules have been revised

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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, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-rules-have-been-revised/487256/889 "2009-02-27T07:21:49Z")

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> [@HoboStew](#):
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> Than it should be child’s play for you to find them for me. I’m not searching for evidence for the claims that YOU are making (ie that this rule has been enforced ambiguously). That is your job.

Frankly, I’m not interested in convincing you of anything. You came across as not understanding why other people are upset about what is happening. You have now made it clear that you don’t really care about what is happening. You don’t know what has been happening in the Pit for the past several months and you don’t care to know. You’re just here to poke at other people and try to force them to convince you of their point. You don’t have a point; you’re just trying to denigrate other people’s points.

ETA: And here’s why I like people to have the full range of emotion in the Pit. It’s so that posters who are admittedly lazy in their arguments can be mocked to the full extent so that they either increase the level of their discourse or they get out. For me, that dynamic serves as a self-policing which increases the level of play in the Pit, not decreases it.

> [@HoboStew](#):
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> I actually already addressed this in my previous post. To re-summarize: it looks to me like you are allowed to insult other posters as long as you present your evidence first. If you just say “Way to selectively quote there, cunt.” looks like you get a warning, but if you list a set of facts that (you feel) demonstrate your claim, and then at the end of all that say “Way to selectively quote there, cunt.” then that is OK. In other words, think for a few minutes, present an articulate dissection of their argument(s), THEN call them a cunt. Why is this a bad thing again?

😕  
You didn’t even click on the quote to see it in context, did you? The articulate dissection of the arguments came after the insult. Here’s the post:

> [@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.
> 
> As I said:  
> Other Jews who were ALSO Christians:
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> - the Apostle Paul, a former member of the Sanhedrin.
> - All of the original 12 Disciples;
> - Every member of the early Christian church
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> It’s not like there’s some big rulebook being kept that says “Thou shalt not call thyself both Christian and Jew.” Unless you’re an atheist, religion is a subjective matter.

\*quote after the semi-colon was deleted for brevity

Are you really saying that the order of the insult counts when both had arguments in them?

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