# What constitutes "hijacking" a Pit Thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 6, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-constitutes-hijacking-a-pit-thread/297989 "2005-04-06T03:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-constitutes-hijacking-a-pit-thread/297989/21 "2005-04-07T06:51:17Z")
> [@zagloba](#): > > Because I’m new around here, I’ll start by saying that I’m firmly pro-choice. > > I agree that the OP was about the tactics being used in the protest. But it does seem logical that someone of **Muad’Dib** ’s views (no matter how misguided and objectionable I may find them) would justify the extreme tactics by the heinousness of what was being protested. Exactly. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-constitutes-hijacking-a-pit-thread/297989/22 "2005-04-07T08:42:12Z")
O.K., I know it’s legal to make a right turn on a red light, but you have to STOP first. You don’t just get to blow through it, rounding the corner at 50 mph and causing the people who _do_ have the right of way to have to slam on their brakes. GET IT RIGHT, PEOPLE! ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-constitutes-hijacking-a-pit-thread/297989/23 "2005-04-07T09:40:47Z")
**blowero** , is your post allegorical, or did you accidentally post in the wrong thread? ---
**Author:** ![PinkMarabou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@PinkMarabou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMarabou)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-constitutes-hijacking-a-pit-thread/297989/24 "2005-04-07T11:58:39Z")
> [@milroyj](#): > > I agree that hijacking is inevitable. Happens all the time, in nearly all the fora. So I guess my OP should have been should have been framed more clearly. > > When does “hijacking” constitute being a “jerk” and possibly deserving of Mod warnings? > > When it’s a “sensitive” subject? Does the forum matter? The number of posts in a particular thread the “hijacker” makes? When the alleged “hijacker” is posting an opinion that is unpopular with the majority of the board, unpoplular with the majority of posters in the specific thread, or just unpopular with the OP? > > My take: a MPSIMS thread about a personal tragedy where someone jumps in with “Well, since s/he didn’t do X, Y, or Z, it’s their own fault” IS a hijack, and being a jerk. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything all, comes to mind. > > OTOH, in a thread in the Pit on a political topic, such as abortion, or animal rights, or what have you, I think there should be a lot more leeway in the diversity of viewpoints tolerated. Just because **Maud’Dib’s** posts are apparently disagreeable or contrary to most of the rest of the posters in that thread, and/or to the OP, does not mean he is “hijacking”, let alone being a “jerk”. > > NB: Not trying to single out **Maud’Dib** in one way or another, nor am I pitting **Jeep’s Phoenix** (sorry **Jeep** 🙂 ); the referenced thread was just the lastest one I read where this whole issue of “hijacking” has popped up. I think you’re spot on here. If you’re posting something in MPSIMS the hijacking should be kept to a minimum. But in the Pit and GD, those forums are more apt for exploring subjects and the nitty gritty. The only difference in my eyes is in GD you have to provide cites to assert your position (as in a normal debate) and in the Pit is where you let the rhetoric fly. At least that’s how I’ve understood the rules and general behavior of posters in each of those forums. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-constitutes-hijacking-a-pit-thread/297989/25 "2005-04-07T12:14:58Z")
I don’t think anti-abortion protestors ought to behave in such a manner as to frighten small children. I also don’t think they ought to be funded out of public money, especially (in the UK at least) the council tax. I mean, my council tax just went up by about twice the rate of inflation, and I think they just put something about an “adjustment” on the bill. A bit like when they upped the fee at the park-n-ride by about 10% and the poster said “Notice of Variation”. What’s this, too mealy-mouthed to use the word “increase”, or just hoping we’re too dim to notice? Fucktards. Anyone else with a pet peeve about how the Government shakes you down more and more with each year that passes? ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-constitutes-hijacking-a-pit-thread/297989/26 "2005-04-07T22:53:54Z")
> [@zagloba](#): > > **blowero** , is your post allegorical, or did you accidentally post in the wrong thread? Can I hijack this thread about hijacking and ask that you make up an interpretation for the allegory? I have no doubt that it would be amusing. As far as the OP is concerned, my take on the referenced thread is that it evolved in a direction not necessarily intended by the OP, but it was not hijacked. There are some topics that really have this as an inevitable consequence, abortion being one of them ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-constitutes-hijacking-a-pit-thread/297989/27 "2005-04-09T14:11:25Z")
> [@fruitbat](#): > > So we have about fifteen replies and not a serious answer to milroyj’s question. Looking for a serious answer? Maybe try a different forum, like ATMB. This here’s the pit, so fuck off. {J/K :D} Anyone have a recipe for key lime pie that uses regular limes in place of key limes? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-constitutes-hijacking-a-pit-thread/297989.md?page=1)