# Rules questions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-questions/948770>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [August 16, 2021, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-questions/948770 "2021-08-16T04:08:39Z")\
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**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:** [August 16, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-questions/948770/7 "2021-08-16T12:57:30Z")

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Here it is, **DrDeth** was a participant and last poster.

> [@Masking posts linked to the Pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masking-posts-linked-to-the-pit/944471):
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> A while back, I created this thread: [https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-linked-to-pit-threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-linked-to-pit-threads) It didn’t get much traction, but I think this is still an issue, and it has been raised multiple times in the thread about whether we should keep the Pit at all. Nothing changed, and you can still link to a GD thread in a Pit thread, which can cause the GD post to have an insulting thread title at the bottom. This still seems unacceptable to me – basically, it allows posters to call other poste…

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