# Where do thread parodies go? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 21, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-thread-parodies-go/478195 "2008-12-21T16:42:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-thread-parodies-go/478195/1 "2008-12-21T16:42:45Z")
I know they go somewhere, but I can’t find out where in a good two minutes of searching for the rules. I wanted to make fun of someone’s thread, but in doing so I would be posing as someone other than me, and I’m sure that’s a violation, except in the one place where we’re allowed to post parodies. Which is where, again? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-thread-parodies-go/478195/2 "2008-12-21T16:46:15Z")
Parodies go in the Pit. You may want to include a link to the victim thread (so-to-speak) just in case your thread is mistaken for a joke thread or is unrecognizable as a parody (it happens). ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-thread-parodies-go/478195/3 "2008-12-21T16:49:43Z")
Thank you, **Skip**. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-thread-parodies-go/478195/4 "2008-12-21T16:53:07Z")
This is about \*\*Why Not’s \*\*MPSIMS thread about Pit thread starters isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-thread-parodies-go/478195/5 "2008-12-22T15:59:59Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Parodies go in the Pit. You may want to include a link to the victim thread (so-to-speak) just in case your thread is mistaken for a joke thread or is unrecognizable as a parody (it happens). What about friendly parodies that aren’t meant to demean the original at all. Say if I reworked an OP called “Let’s Discuss Cannabis” (even though it’s more a GD topic let’s pretend it’s in MPSIMS, I couldn’t think of a good MPSIMS topic to use) with “Let’s Discuss Cannibals” just to see how well everyone could play along? I’m not harmfully attacking the thread, or the poster, in fact I may participate in the thread in question and like it. Is it just the Pit for organizational purposes, because it’s possible to parody without vitriol? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-thread-parodies-go/478195/6 "2008-12-22T20:30:12Z")
Well, if it doesn’t demean anyone in the other thread, and you think it can live a life of its own (as opposed to just being a one-post thread), I wouldn’t have an issue with it. I think we’ve seen a few like these in the past, in fact.