Pit rules have been revised

[Knorf]

@Baldwin

I just want to reflect for a moment on what made the Pit-that-was so great.

Some perspective: the Internet is full of message boards, some going back quite a ways. Many of them are strictly moderated, and have no forum similar to the Pit. Others are completely unmoderated, so it’s nothing but a Pit – populated mostly by illiterate idiots.

I’ve never, anywhere else on the WWW, seen a forum that combined the freedom of invective, and (generally) high level of intelligence, logical skills and literacy to be found in our beloved Pit. Yes, sometimes you’d see nothing but simple-minded cursing, but then there’d be a masterpiece of well-deserved brutality by somebody like Cervaise. On a few occasions, it’s been like having Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce on the Board (if those gentlemen came back from the dead and said “fuck” a lot).

I’ll miss it.

Exactly. I totally agree.

[SmartAleq]

@Ro0sh

I think we’re getting somewhere on understanding the new rules.
(Ed’s Clarification slightly)

“Fighting Ignorance, Yer Doin’ It Wrong.”

:rolleyes:

Just when you think it can’t possibly get any dumber…

:smack:

[bup]

So, you’re allowed to have expletives in subject lines outside the pit, and in column names, but not in subject lines in the pit!?

[Fear_Itself]

@bup

So, you’re allowed to have expletives in subject lines outside the pit, and in column names, but not in subject lines in the pit!?

As far as **Cecil’s **weekly columns go, he has never been bound by any rules that exist here on the boards. He is free to use whatever language suits his mood, as well as insult letter writers with colorful opprobrium. I don’t see any inconsistency, because he has never been held to the same rules as mere mortals. His house; his rules.

[ivan_astikov]

@dropzone

No, I’m just another longtime poster expressing my opinion. Note that it is MY opinion, not one fed me by a mod or admin, nor is it intended to improve my status with them, though some people seem to think that the only way somebody could disagree with them is if he were Ed’s sock puppet.

Fair enough, dropzone. But you’ll need to inform those you are supporting where to look for your opinion, because if those against are being ignored, yours wont be noticed.

[ivan_astikov]

@Baldwin

On a few occasions, it’s been like having Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce on the Board (if those gentlemen came back from the dead and said “fuck” a lot).

Or Oscar Wilde with Tourettes.

[Baldwin]

Y’know, between this thread and some of the other threads going on now, I’d almost bet the word “cunt” has appeared on the SDMB more times in the past two days than during the previous two years.

Oh, sure, we’ve had posters calling each other cunts now and again (I remember personally telling Carol Stream she was a witless cunt, and I definitely called Lekatt a useless, pro-ignorance cunt). We’d even occasionally have one of the female posters talking about her cunt in great detail in a “TMI” thread. Wasn’t there a thread once about “Female music stars who put the ‘cunt’ in Country & Western”? Maybe I dreamed that.

But I’ve never seen so much discussion about using the word itself (“cunt”, that is). Can you call someone a cunt? Is it better to be a cunt or an asshole (or a dick)? What if you’re talking about a literal, physiological cunt rather than a metaphorical cunt? Is “cunt” abusive? Should you abuse a cunt? What about self-abuse of one’s own cunt? (I know we had a thread about that recently, because I remember asking about women masturbating with their “off” hands.)

Ed, you’ve really opened things up for “cunt” here. If your intention was to banish cunts, I’d say that cunts have backfired on you. It’s like telling somebody not to think about an elephant. You now preside over a realm dominated by cunt-related thoughts. I’ll never be able to see your name again without the word “cunt” echoing in the back of my mind.

@Paraphrased Shelley

My name is Ozymandias, king of cunts.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

[Knorf]

@Baldwin

Y’know, between this thread and some of the other threads going on now, I’d almost bet the word “cunt” has appeared on the SDMB more times in the past two days than during the previous two years.

I, for one, welcome our new cunt overlords …

…

Oh og, could I get banned for posting this??

Actually, I have fond feelings towards cunts. I wish the word cunt weren’t used so pejoratively so often.

[Baldwin]

@Knorf

Actually, I have fond feelings towards cunts. I wish the word cunt weren’t used so pejoratively so often.

You, me and D.H. Lawrence, brother.

[Cervaise]

@Knorf

I have fond feelings towards cunts. I wish the word cunt weren’t used so pejoratively so often.

Quoted for cunting truth.

[samclem]

@Baldwin

Y’know, between this thread and some of the other threads going on now, I’d almost bet the word “cunt” has appeared on the SDMB more times in the past two days than during the previous two years.

Nah. Less than 150 times the last two days. Over 750 the last two years.

[Frank]

@samclem

Nah. Less than 150 times the last two days. Over 750 the last two years.

Y’know, if I had to put actual real money on which poster would actually be bothered to do the search on this question, my answer would instinctively been samclem.

Go figure.

[Dead_Badger]

So we’ve witnessed a cuntrocketing by a factor of 73?

Blimey.

Edit: actually more like 90 if you don’t include the spike in the former cuntrate.

[dropzone]

@ivan_astikov

Fair enough, dropzone. But you’ll need to inform those you are supporting where to look for your opinion, because if those against are being ignored, yours wont be noticed.

If that is a suggestion that I’m trying to get some nebulous value from what you imagine is me sucking up, no, I am more inclined to want to piss people off than want to make them happy. In this case I tried to place my opinion on the table, and whether anybody cares is irrelevant, though I try to clarify it if some people remark.

If, on the other hand, I misinterpreted your remarks, I apologize.

[Der_Trihs]

@The_Flying_Dutchman

This thread has gone one long enough.

We are acting like a bunch of spoiled kids.

Rule 2 is the biggie, but we can take advantage of it and find the loopholes.

No, we can’t since it’s so vague and undefinable; and apparently, undefined even by the guy pushing it. You can’t find a loophole in something that can be defined however a particular mod feels at the moment.

[Guinastasia]

@Der_Trihs

No, we can’t since it’s so vague and undefinable; and apparently, undefined even by the guy pushing it. You can’t find a loophole in something that can be defined however a particular mod feels at the moment.

Wow-for once I agree with you.

[SciFiSam]

I imagine Ed saying to people ‘and these people left the board just because I asked them to be civil!’ Cue derisive laughter from those around him.

Till someone points out that those people left the board because, on the forum set up specifically so that people didn’t have to be civil, he asked them to be civil. Hey, no fighting in the boxing ring! You, karate dudes! No kicking! Unless it’s funny, like in Karate Kid 3!

[Klaatu]

So, Ed wants to mellow out the Pit. Don’t want to scare away potential advertisers. Cool. What demographic are you looking for, Ed?

Here is a verbatim ad posted online from your own masters, Creative Loafing, Atlanta:

Quote-"CUM FUCK ME…PLEASE!!!

I had a goal of fucking and sucking 100 or more DIFFERENT guys within 12 months and completed my quest within 9 months (I’ve got 177 now and still counting)… learn more about me »"/Quote

Easy enough to look up.

What exactly are you wanting here?

[elfkin477]

@wring

As for the second - the issue that we’re (mostly) taking umbrage with, is the rule number 2. The rule moving all issues about moderation to ATMB wasn’t generally complained about.

I actually dislike #3 more than I dislike #2. Mostly because I find it more pointlessly restrictive that having to tone down insults to other posters. I mean, I once pitted my frost-bitten ass. Frost bitten backside or hiney doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?

[BooBoo316]

@Der_Trihs

No, we can’t since it’s so vague and undefinable; and apparently, undefined even by the guy pushing it. You can’t find a loophole in something that can be defined however a particular mod feels at the moment.

QFT. Until Ed figures out exactly what the hell the rule should be, how can we know what to expect.

Who are you and what have you done with Der Trihs? Seriously, folks, start looking for pods.