# Problems Arise from Threads Being Moved Out of The Pit

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**Created:** [February 6, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arise-from-threads-being-moved-out-of-the-pit/611940 "2012-02-06T05:08:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arise-from-threads-being-moved-out-of-the-pit/611940/8 "2012-02-06T06:05:00Z")

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> I completely disagree. I have **photographic proof** that the thread was still listed as a Pit thread even several hours later!

The thread was moved at 12:57 a.m. eastern time on Saturday, which is the same minute as **Miller** ’s mod note. If you have a screen grab, it probably shows the thread redirect. The other possibility is that you hadn’t refreshed the page in several hours, like **Musicat** suggests. But the thread was definitely moved at that time and the mod note was posted at that time.

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> The notion that mods be allowed to so casually override a posters’ intention to choose the Pit for a Pitting (in this case, against people who don’t follow the Ten Commandments) is more than a little self-indulgent and peremptory.

She wasn’t Pitting people who didn’t follow the Ten Commandments. This is the OP:

> [@10 Commandments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-commandments/611736/1):
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> (I might still get deleted) Butt..All of you people that think you are so modern, intelligent, informed…don’t you think if the 10 commandments had been obeyed thru out humanity’s existence, there would be hardly any of the troubles we see today?

That’s not a Pitting of anybody. It’s a discussion topic. The OP may have expected some flaming; she seemed kind of indifferent to the possibility. This is the only insult that was posted while the thread was in the Pit:

> [@10 Commandments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-commandments/611736/7):
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> In conclusion, take your sanctimony and dangle.

Which wouldn’t be allowed in GD, but it’s not egregious. If 10 posters had torn the OP a new one, I think the thread probably would not have been moved. Your comments about the attitude the mods take to this sort of thing - that we’re casually ignoring what the OP wants and being self-indulgent and peremptory - is inaccurate and doesn’t add anything to the discussion. The thread wasn’t a Pitting. **Miller** made a very understandable call and did nothing wrong. You happened to overlook his instructions. You weren’t warned for that. You could’ve been, but even if it had happened, it would’ve been small potatoes unless you made a habit of ignoring what forum you were posting in. I don’t think threads get moved out of the Pit all that often, but it’s sometimes appropriate and I think this is one of those times.

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