# Revisiting the BBQ Pit- Boon or Bane?

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**Created:** [June 16, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisiting-the-bbq-pit-boon-or-bane/944413 "2021-06-16T17:43:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revisiting-the-bbq-pit-boon-or-bane/944413/96 "2021-06-17T09:16:53Z")

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I don’t really go to the Pit except for a rare post in a Mini-Rant thread. I think it’s a good place for letting off steam about things, big ideas that are real problems, and some prominent dangerous people. We all need to do that sometimes.

But the way that members can get piled on, often with no resolution or changing of minds, doesn’t seem healthy to me. I would hate to be targeted this way, even if I earned it.

So I would shut down the Pit, and replace it with a Rants, with some restrictive guidelines to limit what’s reasonable. I don’t mind the language free-for-all, but the specific targets should not get personal about fellow members, but instead (aggressively) debate the merits, or lack thereof, of their ideas.

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