# Pitting Der\_Trihs **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 5, 2026, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214 "2026-03-05T01:20:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/261 "2026-03-24T23:39:42Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > “Free your mind and your ass will follow”, right? > [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Yessir! OK, other way around. But either way, it works out to the same principle: You should dance to funk music. “Don’t fake the funk!” ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/262 "2026-03-25T11:59:57Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > You should dance to funk music. This is definitely my main takeaway from this failed pitting. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/263 "2026-10-04T21:51:35Z")
This seems like the least-bad place to post this observation. @Der_Trihs posted to 4 threads on Aug 25. Which, along with a host of other history on the guy, caused the mods to take action as described in this ATMB thread: > [@Poster Der\_Trihs suspended for 3 days and may extend to more pending Mod Loop discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-der-trihs-suspended-for-3-days-and-may-extend-to-more-pending-mod-loop-discussion/1032572): > > @Der_Trihs is suspended until Aug 28, 2026 at 6:00 pm. He has received 6 warnings in the last year. This is mostly for political hijacks and/or at least pulling focus with extremists rants. Besides the warnings, there were a lot of modnotes that clearly didn’t work to help him. Yesterday’s was way off-topic and a rant. Apr 16 Leave birthrate alone thread: Hijack and a lot of whining after it via PM. Blew through a modnote to get this warning. Mar 16: Nov 30 2025: Sep 10: Aug 31: … There is no evidence I can find that the mods took further action against the guy. And so to my knowledge, the suspension ended on Aug 28 as stated. But his Summary page says he’s not been back even to read since that date. At least not logged in; there’s no tracking we can access of non-logged in visitors. The Mods or more likely Admins probably could track that if they cared to. Anyhow, the early returns here 40-ish days after he was suspended is that he has flounced. In keeping with the spirit of the rule to not beat dead horses, I offer no comment on the merits or lack thereof of the decision he’s seemingly made. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/264 "2026-10-04T21:56:28Z")
I wouldn’t call it a flounce if someone just leaves. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/265 "2026-10-04T21:56:56Z")
I will confirm that there is no current suspension or software based restrictions on his posting here. His choices remain his of course. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/266 "2026-10-04T22:01:19Z")
This is par for his course, isn’t it? I seem to recall the last time he was suspended he was gone for years. He’ll be back. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/267 "2026-10-04T22:08:28Z")
Bounced, not flounced. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/268 "2026-10-05T00:09:25Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > In keeping with the spirit of the rule to not beat dead horses, Too late ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/269 "2026-10-05T00:49:49Z")
Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/270 "2026-10-05T01:17:46Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > This seems like the least-bad place to post this observation. What do you suppose would be the _best_ place to post this update, keeping with the spirit of the rule to not beat dead horses? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/271 "2026-10-05T01:27:45Z")
My purpose was to unjudgmentally report the fact he seems to have left us of his own volition. In a way that other interested Dopers would notice. Nothing more and nothing less. I believe I have done that. His suspension notice thread is, as always, locked. This news doesn’t fit the intent of the “What were you THINKING?” thread. Neither was/is he a troll so the various troll callout threads are also wrong choices. There are no other threads on point. It doesn’t seem worthy of a dedicated thread. So there is no best place. This thread is plenty long enough and plenty dormant enough that the OP and many posts from yesteryear aren’t really the point anymore. Saying something negative here now would have been beating a dead horse and against the rules. Taking this thread as the “About **Der\_Trihs** ” thread, that is in fact the least bad place to _nonjudgementally_ take note of his departure. All the others I mentioned above would have been worse choices. Leaving this as the least bad. As long as later folks who stop by here can avoid the temptation to say something nasty to / about him, this will IMO have worked well. What’s your proposal, since evidently you disagree with my thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/272 "2026-10-05T01:30:45Z")
To leave the horse alone. In other words…not to post at all, instead of finding the least worst place to post. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/273 "2026-10-05T01:44:20Z")
Which you failed to do. 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/274 "2026-10-05T01:45:34Z")
He was not banned. He is not serving a long suspension. He has chosen not to return for now. This was a reasonable place to post the observation. Unless he was being missed, we do have a general thread for that. You’re being kind of a finger wagger @Czarcasm. * * * * * * I also agree, flounce was the wrong term. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/275 "2026-10-05T04:56:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > To leave the horse alone. For some reason, this brought to mind the song by Racing Cars, [They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IqmeyO-vEqc), which is a commentary on a marathon dance, set in the Great Depression. (I believe it comes from a movie of the same name) Basically the main premise, and relevance to our absent friend, are the lyrics: > [@](#): > > Here we go > Round and round the floor > Together in time > Here we sit > It looks like this is it > Whatever > This time > > It’s making no sense > But we’ll stay here till the end > Whatever > This time ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/276 "2026-10-05T05:27:19Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > You’re being kind of a finger wagger @Czarcasm. Naah, I kind of agree with him, this bump had a kind of small-minded curtain-twitchy “Oooh, you’ll never believe who flounced, dearie!” vibe to it. Those of us who give a toss have no doubt already noticed his absence all on our lonesomes (I know I did). Bring him up when it’s relevant to a thread - this one should be for when he inevitably pisses someone off after returning, whenever that is. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/277 "2026-10-05T06:12:52Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Naah, I kind of agree with him, this bump had a kind of small-minded curtain-twitchy “Oooh, you’ll never believe who flounced, dearie!” vibe to it. > > Those of us who give a toss have no doubt already noticed his absence all on our lonesomes Well, FWIW, I didn’t realize he was MIA. I thought @LSLGuy made an informative post. You, OTOH, are behaving as you usually do. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/278 "2026-10-05T06:17:55Z")
Fuck off. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/279 "2026-10-05T07:02:37Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Well, FWIW, I didn’t realize he was MIA. Then I guess you didn’t give a toss. > [@wolfpup](#): > > I thought @LSLGuy made an informative post. Petty gossip usually is a _little_ informative, yes. > [@wolfpup](#): > > You, OTOH, are behaving as you usually do. Maybe stop trying to make every other user’s pit thread about your weird boner for me, asshole. Don’t think I didn’t notice how you’d slunk out of andy’s pitting when it wasn’t turning into the kind of one-sided bullying you seem to enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214/280 "2026-10-05T08:29:17Z")
I like him. Like his posts. Don’t always agree with them, but look forward to those posts. Come back soon, @Der_Trihs . 🙂 🤘 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-der-trihs/1028214.md?page=15)