# This thread should have been moved to the Pit based on the OP alone **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 13, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746 "2013-09-13T04:15:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/1 "2013-09-13T04:15:39Z")
[This thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=701964) ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/2 "2013-09-13T04:17:18Z")
How is it any worse than any of the multiple conservative bashing threads you start? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/3 "2013-09-13T04:18:15Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > How is it any worse than any of the multiple conservative bashing threads you start? In being irrational, and you know it. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/4 "2013-09-13T04:28:19Z")
Yeah, move it. \*\*Marley \*\*is just stifling conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/5 "2013-09-13T04:30:59Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > In being irrational, and you know it. No, I don’t. I see nothing in the OP that would justify a move to the pit. Frankly, it looks to me like **Marley** is calling that one straight down the middle. Good moderation. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/6 "2013-09-13T04:32:05Z")
I just don’t see it. The OP gloated a little about the election results, but that’s not out of the ordinary. It’s a legitimate debate topic, the post was civil, it wasn’t a rant, and there aren’t any insults. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/7 "2013-09-13T04:34:07Z")
Well, instead of moving it, someone could just start a pit thread I guess. I don’t have enough vitriol, but I do like calling gun nutters names. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/8 "2013-09-13T04:35:21Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Well, instead of moving it, someone could just start a pit thread I guess. I don’t have enough vitriol, but I do like calling gun nutters names. Sooooo…yeah…let’s you and him fight. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/9 "2013-09-13T04:36:18Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [This thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=701964) Sorry, man, but you’re wrong. Politically, i see eye-to-eye with you on plenty of things, but there’s nothing in that OP that warrants a move to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/10 "2013-09-13T04:37:06Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Sooooo…yeah…let’s you and him fight. > > :rolleyes: Me and who? Are you even in that thread? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/11 "2013-09-13T04:38:40Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Me and who? Are you even in that thread? My post was a paraphrase/parody of yours. You want someone else to start a fight with the OP of a thread you don’t like. I think that is pretty uncool. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/12 "2013-09-13T04:49:07Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > My post was a paraphrase/parody of yours. You want someone else to start a fight with the OP of a thread you don’t like. I think that is pretty uncool. I don’t know what you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/13 "2013-09-13T04:55:36Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > I don’t know what you’re talking about. “Let’s you and him fight” is a phrase people use to mock people who instigate fights but don’t want to start a fight for themselves. In other words, he is saying, if you want a pit thread, make it yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/14 "2013-09-13T07:10:51Z")
Or maybe stick it in the “Elections” forum? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/15 "2013-09-13T08:02:50Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > My post was a paraphrase/parody of yours. You want someone else to start a fight with the OP of a thread you don’t like. I think that is pretty uncool. He said nothing of the kind. I’m really having a hard time figuring out the backwards way you guys think. All he did was tell the people who are already fighting about it in that thread that they can open a Pit thread, instead of whining about the thread being in the wrong forum. Then he said that he wasn’t mad enough to do it himself. You’ve said the same thing yourself before. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/16 "2013-09-13T08:04:14Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > “Let’s you and him fight” is a phrase people use to mock people who instigate fights but don’t want to start a fight for themselves. In other words, he is saying, if you want a pit thread, make it yourself. No, in other words, “Even though there’s already a fight in the thread in question, I’m going to pretend that you are the one wanting a fight because you said you’d enjoy watching one. That way I can get righteously indignant.” ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/17 "2013-09-13T10:40:16Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [This thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=701964) Wrong. It was a perfectly fine OP, and if you don’t think you can respond to it without following the rules of the Elections forum, then that’s your problem. There is absolutely no reason it should be moved. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/18 "2013-09-13T12:12:38Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I’m really having a hard time figuring out the backwards way you guys think. Yeah, stop it you guys. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/19 "2013-09-13T12:42:45Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [This thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=701964) That’s your idea of a pitting? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746/20 "2013-09-13T12:46:10Z")
Yeah, I think you’re on your own here, **BG**. Not seeing the pittability in the OP. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-should-have-been-moved-to-the-pit-based-on-the-op-alone/668746.md?page=2)