# tomndebb, not a pitting, just a question... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 1, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-not-a-pitting-just-a-question/421171 "2007-10-01T17:50:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-not-a-pitting-just-a-question/421171/21 "2007-10-01T20:18:45Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] But it probably would be a good idea for the mods not to joke about their moderating duties, as it can be disconcerting. [/QUOTE] It’s even more disconcerting when they’re riding in a small car which screeches to a stop, and they all pile out wearing clown suits and big rubber noses. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-not-a-pitting-just-a-question/421171/22 "2007-10-02T02:21:00Z")
[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian] I mean, I regretted and wanted to apologize for using mean language … [/QUOTE] Hentor you are too nice. I mean I have rarely _rarely_ flamed anyone, Pit or no Pit, but these malignant miscreants deserved no niceties. They were like bullies who came in a bar to spit in someone’s face only to get a whuppin in return. Stupid is fine. Even willfully stupid I can live with. Arrogantly and harmfully stupid - that deserves public humiliation. My apologies to all for having questioned the true nature of the unnamed person 🙂 in the first place. That questioning is what brought this pestilence upon us. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-not-a-pitting-just-a-question/421171/23 "2007-10-02T02:26:50Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] As noted, it was an attempt at humor regarding my seeing one more trainwreck initiated in **GD** , particularly on a topic that I suspect has been done to death and which the more recent participants appear to be incapable of discussing without rancor. No one is in trouble. [/QUOTE] The problem is that they _are_ discussing without a [rancor.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancor) If we just had one of those in the Pit, our problems would be solved. ---
**Author:** ![foresam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@foresam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foresam)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-not-a-pitting-just-a-question/421171/24 "2007-10-02T02:31:35Z")
[QUOTE=DSeid] Hentor you are too nice. I mean I have rarely _rarely_ flamed anyone, Pit or no Pit, but these malignant miscreants deserved no niceties. They were like bullies who came in a bar to spit in someone’s face only to get a whuppin in return. Stupid is fine. Even willfully stupid I can live with. Arrogantly and harmfully stupid - that deserves public humiliation. My apologies to all for having questioned the true nature of the unnamed person 🙂 in the first place. That questioning is what brought this pestilence upon us. Sorry. [/QUOTE] "Arrogantly and harmfully stupid - that deserves public humiliation. " That’s why we show up in many places to discuss frauds and Paul Offit. Too bad you didn’t feel like listening. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-not-a-pitting-just-a-question/421171/25 "2007-10-02T13:46:33Z")
[QUOTE=foresam] … Too bad you didn’t feel like listening. [/QUOTE] Let me get this straight. You show up, start spewing off on your favorite topic, never show the least little interest in anything _else_ going on on this message board, and refuse to acknowledge that anyone else has a valid point of view. _Who’s_ not listening? See, I don’t have a dog in the fight that started all this ugliness. I don’t have any religious beliefs or money or ego or whatever riding on just what causes a certain disease and whether certain medical treatments are helpful or not. If a medical treatment is harmful, then scientific studies will show it, no matter who stands to lose how much money, because science doesn’t care who you are or how much money you’ve invested. By way of example I would like to the whole [Vioxx debacle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vioxx). ---
**Author:** ![Lambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lambo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-not-a-pitting-just-a-question/421171/26 "2007-10-02T16:41:31Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] The problem is that they _are_ discussing without a [rancor.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancor) If we just had one of those in the Pit, our problems would be solved. [/QUOTE] I’m a little surprised you used wikipedia, and not [wookieepedia](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Rancor), for that link. It just seems so right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-not-a-pitting-just-a-question/421171.md?page=1)