# Where did the "restricted language in the Pit" rules come from? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 6, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246 "2012-06-06T05:24:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/81 "2012-06-09T04:19:45Z")
> [@David42](#): > > Is it permissible for someone to start a thread implying you’re a child molestor? > > I’m not the kind of person who likes stress and want polite and reasonable debate. But this makes me not want to come here. > > I have twice overcome a loss of desire to come here over how rude people are if you don’t agree with them, but this one really sucks. That depends on whether or not someone made a thread implying someone was a child molestor. Which wasn’t the case. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/82 "2012-06-09T04:23:24Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > I said **no comment.** That does not mean “trust me it’s cool.” Sure it does, the way you used it up there. Otherwise, why say anything at all? The only reason to say “I know something about this, and I can’t say anything” from someone with your generally good reputation is to lend the implication that the something you know validates the decision you’re posting about. > [@](#): > > It means **no comment.** Again, I was telling **Fenris** , the only person who matters with respect to that statement as I was quoting him, why I was not addressing his point. I’m sorry, did you somehow mistakenly or accidentally fail to PM this to Fenris? You seem to be unaware you posted it in a visible thread on a public message board. > [@](#): > > I cannot believe I’m being taken to task over such incredibly trivial things. It’s so bizarre and disproportionate that it really makes one wonder. Well, a lot of us can’t believe that a board ostensibly for adults has a banned words list like some kind of kindergarten playground, so there it is. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/83 "2012-06-09T05:57:36Z")
Why are cunts a protected class of genitals while dicks are just left hanging there, softly swaying in the breeze? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/84 "2012-06-09T13:02:32Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > Sure it does, the way you used it up there. No it didn’t. > [@](#): > > I’m sorry, did you somehow mistakenly or accidentally fail to PM this to Fenris? You seem to be unaware you posted it in a visible thread on a public message board. :smack: And _you_ seem to be unaware that **Fenris broached the topic, not me.** As to why you haven’t taken him to task for not making it a PM…I don’t know, why haven’t you? Why don’t you send him a PM and work it out, since that’s your preferred method, right? Follow your own advice. But no, really. You’re suggesting that since he broached the subject in public, I need to limit my replies to PMs. Pursing a line that when **someone else** broaches a subject I’m not allowed to respond to them in public, even if my response is **to try to be polite** and let them know why I can’t respond, seems either to be insanity or an attempt to bait me in ATMB. How unfortunate. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/85 "2012-06-09T13:58:17Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > Well, a lot of us can’t believe that a board ostensibly for adults… One would never know that by reading this thread. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/86 "2012-06-09T14:14:51Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > But no, really. You’re suggesting that since he broached the subject in public, I need to limit my replies to PMs. Well, no, but yelling at other people who have the temerity to respond to the public post you made in a public forum because obviously it was meant just for Fenris seems a little unfair. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/87 "2012-06-09T14:46:47Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Well, no, but yelling at other people who have the temerity to respond to the public post you made in a public forum because obviously it was meant just for Fenris seems a little unfair. You perceived that as “yelling”? It looked like a simple difference of opinion to me. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/88 "2012-06-09T14:52:01Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > You perceived that as “yelling”? It looked like a simple difference of opinion to me. I did, yes. The boldface read to me as yelling. This exchange seems like a simple difference of opinion, though. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/89 "2012-06-09T14:56:23Z")
Some people just don’t fucking get it. It’s bad enough they’re allowed to call each other “shit-guzzling prostate inspectors.” If we let them use “motherfucker” the entire system will collapse. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/90 "2012-06-09T15:06:27Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I did, yes. The boldface read to me as yelling. This exchange seems like a simple difference of opinion, though. My boldface was meant to be emphasis, not yelling. The fact that he wanted me to respond someone else’s public broaching of a subject with a PM, while himself picking on this with a public post instead of a PM, indicates he may have missed some critical facts of the conversation, thus I wanted to emphasize this. BESIDES, I THOUGHT YELLING WAS IN ALL CAPS? Or giant font? Or worst of all, ALL CAPS IN GIANT FONT? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/91 "2012-06-09T16:13:28Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I think it would be entertaining if Ed banned the use of the phrase “super-duper poopypants” in The BBQ Pit, just to see the threads in this forum from posters insisting that they just can’t talk like adults unless they are allowed to use that particular phrase. There would of course be many posts in which that phrase would be used over and over again, just on the off-chance that everyone forgot what the phrase in question was(even though it was in the title and in the previous 20 posts). Again, just because there are ways around it doesn’t make the rule less retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/92 "2012-06-09T16:15:02Z")
I think the the phrase “How unfortunate” should be banned because it is arrogant and condescending. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/93 "2012-06-09T17:17:19Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I think the the phrase “How unfortunate” should be banned because it is arrogant and condescending. Or at least be banned from \*two \*uses in one damn thread. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/94 "2012-06-09T17:29:47Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Again, just because there are ways around it doesn’t make the rule less retarded. We seem to have a difference of opinion about the rule, but I think you calling it “retarded” over and over again doesn’t make it any more so than if you only say it once. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/95 "2012-06-09T17:32:05Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > As to why you haven’t taken him to task for not making it a PM…I don’t know, why haven’t you? Why don’t you send him a PM and work it out, since that’s your preferred method, right? Follow your own advice. Okay. I want public responses, so I’ll post it publicly. And not complain if other people weigh in. Advice followed! 🆒 > [@](#): > > But no, really. You’re suggesting that since he broached the subject in public, I need to limit my replies to PMs. I’m suggesting if you don’t want the public to comment on your post “for Fenris”, then don’t make that post in public. It’s pretty simple, really. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/96 "2012-06-09T20:00:42Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Why are cunts a protected class of genitals while dicks are just left hanging there, softly swaying in the breeze? It’s a hard, cruel world. Sometimes you just have to suck it up. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/97 "2012-06-09T20:30:09Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Why are cunts a protected class of genitals while dicks are just left hanging there, softly swaying in the breeze? Because Ed doesn’t have a hard-on for dicks like he has for cunts. He’s just another tool of the heteronormative elites. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/98 "2012-06-09T23:34:56Z")
> [@akennett](#): > > Because Ed doesn’t have a hard-on for dicks like he has for cunts. He’s just another tool of the heteronormative elites. Uhh, huh huh… You said “tool”… [/Butthead] ---
**Author:** ![srzss05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@srzss05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/srzss05)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/99 "2012-06-10T11:49:22Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > Or giant font? Or worst of all, ALL CAPS IN GIANT FONT? That’s what I like about my browser settings—all those foolish font sizes get displayed exactly the same as “normal”, be they larger or smaller than “normal”. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246/100 "2012-06-10T13:56:06Z")
> [@srzss05](#): > > That’s what I like about my browser settings—all those foolish font sizes get displayed exactly the same as “normal”, be they larger or smaller than “normal”. I wish I could just turn off the big fonts. Sometimes the small font is used for good comedic effect, but the big ones are pretty much always annoying in any context. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-restricted-language-in-the-pit-rules-come-from/624246.md?page=6)