So are there any Pit threads where you are the subject of the rant? If so how many?
About 20 of them, although I have no idea why.
Czarcasm-Former Moderator
It’s because of that thing you do.
Rock the vote, dude.
Oh, maybe one or two. 
Regards,
Shodan
I’m a pretty infrequent poster, so I was surprised to find one about me. I actually found it by mistake more than 2 years after it occurred – I was doing a Google search on my username to look for something unrelated, and the thread appeared in the search results. (SDMB seems to get a high priority from Google’s spiders or whatever you call them.)
I’d rather not link to it because it was a pretty painful episode regarding questions about autism in my then-2-year-old son. I made a MPSIMS thread to basically vent, and to to discuss my unorthodox views about the whole question of behavioral disorders. Again, I don’t want to inflame the same argument, but let’s just say that some people were convinced that I was ruining my son’s life. (For the record, he’s the happiest kid I’ve ever met and making tons of friends at school).
Reading the pit thread was a very powerful experience. On one level it was shocking and saddening that someone would accuse me of such terrible things. But what really stuck with me were the beautifully-written, absolutely inspiring descriptions of the privileges and responsibilities that parenting entails. I should probably go back to it and PM some of the people who helped me feel proud of my decision. I almost wish I had seen the thread at the time I was going through it, although the emotions were so raw that I may not have been able to focus on the supportive posts.
Negatory, as far as I know.
(I remember that thread, spazurek!)
Not yet. I’ve also only been mentioned as an aside in that other board that cares so deeply about this board.
I’ve never singled out for a pitting, but I was included in a “These posters suck!” pit.
So I went with “other.”
I know of at least one and think there’s been two or three. I can’t find out because I have an egotistical rule about vanity searching (that is, I’m too vain to admit that I want to know if y’all are talking about me :D). And I think that someone once started a thread on my behalf – that is, I was getting some shit in a thread and someone defended me.
I can also recall a pitting of someone (lissener?) I started that, rightly, backfired on me as I was full of shit in the original pitting.
Just the one. Somebody took a comment the wrong way and went on the attack. He got shut down pretty quickly. I’ve said some egregious things, but they’ve pretty much been confined to the pit where other posters can give me a hearty fuck off, if need be.
Technically another poster was the pittee, but I quickly became the subject of the thread because the pittee had been misconstruing my words in a GD thread. It was so much fun that I think I stayed up half the night posting rebuttals to the fool who was the pittee, who accused me of being a racist, an incompetent illiterate who only got into school through Affirmative Action, and other nonsense. And then all these racist jackasses came out of the wood work and other Dopers came to pile on them. Good times, good times.
One day I was doing a google search on my username, not expecting to find anything in relation to the StraightDope, and I found it on a thread on some white supremacy message board. They were talking about me, and it sounded like that guy in the pit thread was doing the most commenting. It was both creepy and fascinating.
Once, and it was basically a misunderstanding. I tend to think of myself as fairly innocuous, so it was a bit of a shock.
Only once so far, since mod complaints got moved to ATMB before I became a mod. (I have, however, been ATMBed a bunch of times. 
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In the one Pit thread, which was about 6 years ago, Liberal chose to misinterpret and take personally an offhand comment I made in a reality TV thread.
A couple. One was a big nothing and the OP and I have no hard feelings towards each other over it. The other that comes to mind was over me being a jackass and people calling me on it.
I remember that thread!
No, and I have mixed feelings. It is kind of like this - I am straight, but if some guy tried to hit on me sometime, it would demonstrate I’m not chopped liver. (I’ve given up on the chance of random women hitting on me decades ago.)
I’ll just sit here in the dark …
The first time I was pitted the person pitting me was attempting to start a “mini pit thread” or something. To start things off he pitted me because I mentioned concentration camps in a joke. 
It was a real honor. He was pretty much teabagged by the rest of the posters.
The second time I was pitted I was sharing the hotseat with Shodan because of our comments on AA. Again the pitter was basically teabagged by other posters.
So I’ve never had to defend myself. 
Other than that I’ve been complained about on many an occasion by many a poster so I know my third is probably coming up.
I checked “Other” because I know for sure I haven’t been Pitted and don’t have to search because I spend most of my time in the Pit.
I thought I was pitted once (and had finally arrived) but it turned out a mod was being pitted (when this was still possible) because I had requested a link that I had included be labeled “NSFW” and that mod complied.
It was actually only a link to a gay sports website that had a picture of two shirtless men standing intimately close together on the homepage. I knew I was possibly giving in to double standards and homophobia, but I honestly felt that, however open I am and perhaps we (SDMB) are, somebody walking by a poster’s computer in the workplace and seeing that picture might jump to the wrong conclusion and make a big stink, and letting those posters know before they clicked was what was more important.
I wanna be Pitted!
Want somebody think of the shirtless?
A quick search reveals one pitting for me. Didn’t go well for the Pit-er. I’ve had other misadventures in the Pit, but that’s the only time I was the Pit-ee.