# Why did handsomeharry's thread get moved to the Pit? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 11, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236 "2014-09-11T21:08:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/81 "2014-09-15T04:24:02Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > And that is relevant how? He’s clearly speaking in his thread about K-9 dogs, i.e. police dogs in the K-9 unit. And the people who go to the funeral of a dog, a dog whose master they don’t know personally. > > What does that have to do with whether or not the thread should have been moved? Or how the moderators could have explained it better, or possibly moderated differently to be more appropriate? Those are the ATMB topics. > > And the tone of **silenus** ’s post was entirely wrong for MPSIMS. Because, just as I elaborated on in the post above yours, it was a rant. The guy was “STUNNED” in his OP. Read **harry’s** OP again. He opens with a link to a death. He then proceeds to argue why that death should not be mourned. I’m sorry, but that’s pit material. It was his intention all along. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/82 "2014-09-15T04:33:27Z")
Also, _fuck this_. How is moving a thread an action against a poster? I don’t think it is. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/83 "2014-09-15T05:49:36Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > Also, _fuck this_. How is moving a thread an action against a poster? > > I don’t think it is. Well certainly not in this case. Harry is having a grand old time in the pit: the complaints have come from other posters. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/84 "2014-09-15T05:50:16Z")
I apologize for the words above. “Fuck this” is not appropriate here. However, though my words were far more combative than they should be, the question still holds: How is moving a thread an action against a poster? ETA: ninja’d a bit by **MTM**. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/85 "2014-09-15T07:36:58Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > He opens with a link to a death. He then proceeds to argue why that death should not be mourned. I’m sorry, but that’s pit material. It was his intention all along. That is an inaccurate representation. He opens to a link about the death of a human cop that had a K-9 partner. He used that as an inspiration point, it reminded him of something he saw in his own life about the death of a K-9 cop, i.e. a dog, and how people he worked with reacted to the news of that dog’s death. Now if you wish to argue that a thread stating that the death of a dog should not be mourned is automatically Pit material, more power to you, but don’t try to represent it as if he said that about a person. The link to the cop’s death was incidental and did not represent the target of his rant. The connection was that the linked dead cop had a K-9 partner, and the incident he witnessed was about a K-9 officer, i.e. a dog. No disrespect was given or intended toward the dead human police officer. I do agree it was a rant. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/86 "2014-09-15T07:47:20Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > I do agree it was a rant. That’s the important thing here isn’t it? If it’s a rant, that’s pit material. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/87 "2014-09-15T07:58:23Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > Also, _fuck this_. How is moving a thread an action against a poster? > > I don’t think it is. If a poster starts a thread hoping to discuss an issue, any issue, and then a mod decides to move that thread to the Pit so that the OP can get what she feels is a deserved pile-on, how is that not an action against the poster? I say it again, if the mod had agreed with the premise of **Handsomeharrys** OP then that thread would not have been moved. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/88 "2014-09-15T08:07:52Z")
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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/89 "2014-09-15T11:30:25Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Being torn a new asshole, which is clearly what you meant, is generally considered to be harmful. Generally, but not always. An [imperforate anus](http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001147.htm) is a congenital birth defect featuring absence of an anal opening. “Being torn a new one” is the surgical correction of this pathology. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/90 "2014-09-15T13:00:29Z")
In retrospect, I should have addressed the fact that people were out of line for MPSIMS before moving the thread, as a general note if I wasn’t going to hand out specific notes or warnings. I’m still fine with having moved the thread to the Pit, though. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/91 "2014-09-15T13:15:02Z")
Proving that there IS nothing so serious or silly that we - as a group - can go all crazy pedantic on it. Plus, I don’t think that counts as ‘torn’, really. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/92 "2014-09-15T13:34:06Z")
[QUOTE=TubaDiva] “Goober” is not a compliment. Unless you’re talking about peas. 😃 [/QUOTE] > [@armedmonkey](#): > > What about if the poster you are talking to is a big fan of George Lindsey? What’s the ruling on that? That’s another whole can of [del]peas[/del] beans. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/93 "2014-09-15T13:55:39Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Plus, I don’t think that counts as ‘torn’, really. Well, **blunt dissection** is used during the procedure. [QUOTE=Glossary of Dissection Terms] Blunt dissection – to separate structures with your fingers, a probe, or scissors by tearing (not cutting) connective tissues. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/94 "2014-09-15T14:22:53Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > If a poster starts a thread hoping to discuss an issue, any issue, and then a mod decides to move that thread to the Pit so that the OP can get what she feels is a deserved pile-on, how is that not an action against the poster? It was not an OP “hoping to discuss an issue.” It was an insult-laced rant, pure and simple as the ashes wafting out of the Pit. Rants belong there. > [@](#): > > I say it again, if the mod had agreed with the premise of **Handsomeharrys** OP then that thread would not have been moved. Rubbish. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/95 "2014-09-15T14:39:06Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > It was not an OP “hoping to discuss an issue.” It was an insult-laced rant, pure and simple as the ashes wafting out of the Pit. Nonsense. It insulted no member of the SDMB, only groups. By your logic, 99% of posts in GD should be moved to the Pit. > [@](#): > > Rubbish. [Oh yeah? Anti-Concealed Carry ‘rant’\* that wasn’t moved from CS](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=734089) \*Rant by the standards you’re setting. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236/96 "2014-09-15T18:04:50Z")
People, people. You know what? This forum is not entitled “Bickering about every hair that can possibly be split, and then throwing some recreational outrage on top of that.” Although it might as well be. You’re all capable of so much better than this. It’s a beautiful almost-autumn day. Why don’t you put the bile away for a few minutes and go outside and play? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-handsomeharrys-thread-get-moved-to-the-pit/698236.md?page=4)