# Suggestion: Pit threads without links should be closed. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 5, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618 "2015-10-05T15:50:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/1 "2015-10-05T15:50:29Z")
I’m not going to cite any specific examples because there are always loads floating about. It really gets on my tits when a poster starts a pit thread to rant about something in the news, or something another poster said elsewhere on the boards, and doesn’t link to the thing they’re ranting about. You may have just written the most justified rant ever, but if other posters don’t know what you’re raving about, what’s the point? I submit posters who do this should have their threads closed. Reason: Lack of effort. I’m not saying warn them or anything. Just close the thread and ask them to do another one with a link. Thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/2 "2015-10-05T15:57:33Z")
Cites, verification and facts will only get in the way of a good rant. ---
**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, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/3 "2015-10-05T16:00:39Z")
It’s the Pit - if there’s no link, just turn the Pitting on the Pitter, the problem becomes self-correcting. Oh, and as an aside, the next time someone cries “But there’s no link!” when there’s a perfectly good quote with clickable blue arrow in the OP, they deserve a Pitting of their very own. Learn how the Board software works, FFS. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/4 "2015-10-05T16:37:05Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > I submit posters who do this should have their threads closed. Reason: Lack of effort. I’m not saying warn them or anything. Just close the thread and ask them to do another one with a link. > > Thoughts? It’s a stupid idea and a waste of time. There are enough stupid threads on the board; we don’t need to add to the clutter by making the same thread twice. ---
**Author:** ![Mithras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mithras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithras)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/5 "2015-10-05T18:33:31Z")
I can only get behind such a rule if it applied in ATMB as well. > [@Tithonus](#): > > I’m not going to cite any specific examples because there are always loads floating about. ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/6 "2015-10-05T19:44:03Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > It’s a stupid idea and a waste of time. There are enough stupid threads on the board; we don’t need to add to the clutter by making the same thread twice. Fine. Delete the threads then. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/7 "2015-10-05T20:29:47Z")
You’re not going to give any links in support of the idea of shutting down threads without links? You gotta be kidding… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/8 "2015-10-05T20:35:39Z")
Sometimes people forget and they come back and add them to a subsequent post. Sometimes someone else will add a link. The problem is mostly self-correcting. What’s next, closing threads in Comments on Cecil’s Columns if they don’t have links? 'Cause there’s a ton of them there, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/9 "2015-10-05T20:47:09Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > You’re not going to give any links in support of the idea of shutting down threads without links? You gotta be kidding… Yeah, I get the irony, but I didn’t want to come off like I was picking on anyone. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/10 "2015-10-06T15:58:47Z")
You must be new here ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/11 "2015-10-07T13:44:24Z")
Actually, waaaaaaay back in the day, it _was_ a pit-thread rule that if you were doing a parody pitting, you had to link to the original, so the OP’s suggestion isn’t that far out there. I was in favor of it back then. Nowdays? I doubt I’d support it. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/12 "2015-10-07T16:41:01Z")
If there is a problem at all, it’s with folks who do provide a link… _but nothing else._ And that applies to more forums than just The Pit. ---
**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 9, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/13 "2015-10-09T16:27:54Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > If there is a problem at all, it’s with folks who do provide a link… _but nothing else._ And that applies to more forums than just The Pit. Amen. And we all know who we’re talking about. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/14 "2015-10-09T19:19:30Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > I… It really gets on my tits when a poster … > Thoughts? Pics or it never happened. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Mills](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@Mister\_Mills](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Mills)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/15 "2015-10-09T19:37:55Z")
I will try my best to keep an integrity to my posts, with links, quotes or any other thing that I can think of. I have to do that anyway, or I forget what I a doing. So, I leave a trail of crumbs, so I can find my way home. Hansel and Gretel should have done that…no wait, they did! &%#@$^& OK, I will be a good boy for now…but, it may not last. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-pit-threads-without-links-should-be-closed/733618/16 "2015-10-09T21:17:30Z")
For the record: No.