The hog pit was literally the dog's house on fire meme. "This is fine". Most toxic place anywhere.
And it wasn't like "okay well don't read it." That toxic banter would get into Discord groups, OOC game messages, etc. The shit would start here and then spread far and wide. It was inescapable.
And it wasn't like you could just "not read it." They'd trash talk people not even on the forum. Someone would log into a game and wonder why people were all of a sudden bailing on their plots, or they were suddenly receiving all these messages or pages or mail or whatever.
There'd be some IC notification about something, then people would flock here to just rip it to shreds without any actual input from the people it affected in the game.
Literally just be talking shit to talk shit and about things they aren't even involved in or a part of.
On Arx, things said in the Hogpit would weave their way into the IC journals under the guise of "that's what my character thinks."
Then people would come and be like "oh my mental health!' while they were actively participating in that cesspool of filthy trash talk. lol - so also no wins for self-awareness in that region of the forum.
If you want to call out bad OOC behavior - like stalkerish shit - and you have receipts - fine. But that's not what the hog pit was by a long shot.