# Soooo...why was my pit thread closed?

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**Created:** [February 24, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soooo-why-was-my-pit-thread-closed/487295 "2009-02-24T23:41:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soooo-why-was-my-pit-thread-closed/487295/21 "2009-02-28T02:38:10Z")

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> [@](#):
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> **Enola Gay** : “Giraffe, I think you’re a “terrific” guy. I also think these new pit rules are “fantastic”.”  
> …was clearly a violation of Rule #4, aka quote tag abuse.
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> Quote:  
> Originally Posted by Ed Zotti  
> 4. Quote tags are for actual quotes only.

**Enola Gay** , I so hope that you are whooshing us. Surely **Ed** is not trying to change the rules of punctuation! I’m assuming that he is referring to quote tags such as

[quote]  
. But that’s just my guess. I’m sure it will be magically clear to me someday…somewhere.

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**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soooo-why-was-my-pit-thread-closed/487295/22 "2009-02-28T02:41:38Z")

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> [@Zoe](#):
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> **Enola Gay** , I so hope that you are whooshing us.

I hope she was too, but if she wasn’t whooshing us, I’m pretty sure she was wrong.

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**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soooo-why-was-my-pit-thread-closed/487295/23 "2009-02-28T03:08:30Z")

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[QUOTE=Zoe]  
Enola Gay, I so hope that you are whooshing us. Surely **Ed** is not trying to change the rules of punctuation! I’m assuming that he is referring to quote tags such as . But that’s just my guess. I’m sure it will be magically clear to me someday…somewhere.  
[/QUOTE]

Whoosh. Sorry, I would have included a ;)…but I thought it was an obvious whoosh…

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