One of the traditions of the Pit is that when an OP steps on his/her dick he/she gets roasted in turn. OPs get blasted for all sorts of reasons including being weak.
The OP in question was so weak they withdrew their own post. The resulting posts were the mildest of razzes for the weakest of OPs.
That thread should have remained open. It would have faded away in short order. Miller’s closing of it violated the back-and-forth nature of the Pit. Mod deserves a mild pursing of lips and shake of head for punishment.
Just in case Czarcasm’s post wasn’t clear by now (since he got snippy instead of explaining), he was speaking of jali, the OP of the pit thread not the OP of this one.
I wonder for these “gotta close em” threads, particularly the silly ones, how many people are a bit peeved they are closed vs how many were a bit peeved they wasted time opening them? I don’t ever recall a mod saying something like “this thread is silly and I’ve gotten a couple dozen reports pissed about it so out it goes…”
Maybe the mods oughta edit the title to include something like [ed. silly time wasting thread, get a job you slackers] That way people could still be silly and anal retentive type A personalities could avoid wasting their time.
Oh, and I figure there are X number of posters round these here parts that have Y amount of time to waste here and Z amount of sillyness just waiting to get out. So, IMO silly threads tend to keep the sillyness out of OTHER threads.
I can (maybe) see it as a very mild pitting of the OP. On the other hand,Pit threads have been closed or moved before because they were just too weak ass for the BBQ Pit. I wouldn’t give it 50/50 for either closing or moving, but I would give it 75/25.
To show how much I agree with these sentiments, take a look (perhaps a long look) at The truly great threads in SDMB history which had gotten 124 Posts between 03-01-2009, 09:31 AM and 05-03-2012, 04:24 PM.
Some of us love this type of nonsense, bullshit and craziness.
Sorry for stepping on the fun. I didn’t have any objection to the thread, other than the fact that, the way it was going, it wasn’t Pit material. Normally I’d have moved it to MPSIMS, but the thread had started as a pitting of another poster, and while the OP had scrubbed almost all the content from it, its title and provenance still communicated that Jali was pissed at Walmarticus for some reason. I felt that made moving it to MPSIMS inappropriate - that nascent fight between those two posters belonged either in the thread that originated the dispute, or in the Pit, not in MPSIMS - even if the thread itself had immediately gone off on a tangent.
As much as I enjoyed the frivolity in the Pit thread, I can find no fault with this logic. How would it be in future analogous situations (if there should ever be such) just to change the title to something even sillier than the Walmarticus one to something maybe like “Here’s some nonsense for you to riff on”?
Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense now. Believe it or not, I spaced on the fact that the thread title was a poster here. I assumed it was a bad experience the OP had at the box store. So, good call after all.
I didn’t read the Walmaticus thread till it was linked here, and then enjoyed it and thought it ended too soon. Generally, contentless threads and free association don’t make good reading and are a drag on discussion boards, so I wouldn’t want to see them spread on SDMB. But, there are many things in life and on the internet that are interesting (and harmless) in small doses, but can easily be overdone.
My vote is that the thread should have been left open for another day or two, but eh, that seems a piddling thing. Hours, one day, two days – probably doesn’t matter much. Miller was there and closed it at his convenience.
But seriously, I had something to say, but changed my mind, just like the OP of the thread in question. I didn’t realize I had accidentally made a joke, although, granted, a poor one.
