# What were you THINKING? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 **Category:** The BBQ Pit **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5578
### Author: ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison) #### Post date: [August 1, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5578 "2025-08-01T19:54:29Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > It could be a feedback loop as well. Looking back over the last 6 months (no super seekrit mod powers needed) he’s posted almost exclusively in the Pit. Before that, there was more activity elsewhere, but again, 95% Pit posting for SIX MONTHS. He seems to think that the pit is the _safe_ place to post? A while back he posted a long question that I don’t fully remember but was about the movie _Practical Magic_ in the pit. As a first response I asked him if he actually intended to post it in the pit (because it was a Cafe Society question) and he immediately deleted the post and changed the subject line > [@Bad Question. ( Deleted )](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-question-deleted/1009119): > > \< Deleted \> Looking at other threads he’s started in the pit, I see one is a memorial post for a dead musician. Asked why he made the post in the pit, he says he stays out of CS because nobody plays nice there. > [@RIP David Johansen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-johansen/1014991): > > RIP David Johansen. OMG… I sort-of met him. I gambled on the other side of the table from him at Foxwoods back-in-the-day. He laughed, smoked a big cigar, and he won like Crazy. When I left the table, every other table I gambled at that night I was a winner. I liked his music, I liked his acting, I respected him enough not to fan-boy him. His gift to me was Good Luck. #GoneTooSoon --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532)._