I think part of it is that this board allows people to profanely and hurtfully denigrate other posters at will and with little restraint. As long as someone doesn’t use a few banned words and doesn’t use things like racist insults, that person can insult another member as much as they like. Just because it’s fenced off in the Pit doesn’t mean that kind of attitude stays in the Pit. I’m sure some people hang around this board because they are able to denigrate other members and they enjoy doing that. That kind of person is likely to get warnings for bad behavior because they enjoy doing bad behavior. If denigrating other members was not tolerated, then those types of people would drift off to other boards.