# Has a Pit thread ever been started about you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 11, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364 "2010-11-11T22:26:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/21 "2010-11-12T00:39:16Z")
I’m pretty sure there was one, once, but the Search is sucking again and I can’t be arsed to remember how to do it on Google. I totally deserved it. I went off like a shrieking harpy on some poor dude who was telling a 20 year old story that involved messing around on a boat or something. What he was recounting wasn’t going to win him any Safety Awards, but you’d have thought he was holding puppies at gunpoint that very minute the way I went off on him. I don’t recall any of the details at this point, just that I was horribly embarrassed “the morning after”, and the Pitting was short and sweet as soon as I came in and apologized profusely (and sincerely.) ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/22 "2010-11-12T00:48:31Z")
I HAVE been Pitted! 😃 I started a Pit thread about people not wanting to do “team-building exercises”. Someone told me to “take a nap”. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/23 "2010-11-12T00:55:02Z")
I put down one because I’m 80% sure it happened once. If I’m wrong on that, then zero. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/24 "2010-11-12T00:58:15Z")
Not me. I’m a harmless nobody. People would have to have heard of me in order to Pit me. I’m kind of sad about it, really! I totally believe in that really reprehensible thing that everyone hates, but I’m too mild-mannered to harp on it. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/25 "2010-11-12T01:02:56Z")
1. At least one of them was justified. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/26 "2010-11-12T01:11:17Z")
I’ve had three pit threads, but in one of them I was a co-pittee, so I guess it’s really 2 1/2. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/27 "2010-11-12T01:15:16Z")
Not that I’m aware of. I don’t usually ever actually enter The Pit as a whole. I just click on the link to specific threads that have been most recently posted in when viewed from the main page. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/28 "2010-11-12T01:15:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > About 20 of them, although I have no idea why. > > Czarcasm-Former Moderator I went searching to see if I had been, and discovered that _I_ had pitted you. What’s more, I convinced you and you reopened the thread. I feel so empowered now. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/29 "2010-11-12T01:20:58Z")
None, but I’m pretty much a white-noise poster. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/30 "2010-11-12T01:25:56Z")
As one of the board’s maybe three vocal conservative posters, I’ve done my time in the Pit. A big one was about **Iluminatiprimus** and DADT. I just wish people would either stick with **Chessic Dense** or **Non Sense**. The other names you people come up with suck! ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/31 "2010-11-12T01:32:31Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > As one of the board’s maybe three vocal conservative posters, I’ve done my time in the Pit. A big one was about **Iluminatiprimus** and DADT. I just wish people would either stick with **Chessic Dense** or **Non Sense**. The other names you people come up with suck! Yeah, whatever, **Messy Fence**. Boom, roasted! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/32 "2010-11-12T01:34:45Z")
No, but someone once _apologized_ to me in the Pit. I almost had a heard attack when I saw my name in the title of the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/33 "2010-11-12T01:44:48Z")
Wow, same here, **Kyla**. I just vanity-searched “Dorkness” in the Pit, and there’s three threads. One of them is by me, discussing a wager that I made with a crazy man. The other two are posters apologizing to me. Weird. I’ve certainly gotten into it with people in the Pit before (not recently, though: having a job that actually requires work cuts down on my time for random vitriol), but not enough to be pitted by name. In five minutes, I’ll search for LHOD. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/34 "2010-11-12T01:57:47Z")
Oops–yep, I was pitted under LHOD last year. Whaddya know. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/35 "2010-11-12T02:10:16Z")
Never been pitted, as far as I know. Hell, I’ve only every been warned once. Gonna have to try harder to piss people off. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/36 "2010-11-12T02:13:10Z")
Not directly, but a few of my GD threads have spun off Pit threads - including a ten-pager started by **ivan astikov** against **xtisme** , which backfired rather badly - the only one referencing me in the Pit when I search ‘Kobayashi’ (the others are about the Kobayashi Maru or some competitive eater I’ve never heard of), one where **wmfellows** pitted **E-Sabbath** and at least one more I can’t remember. Never been pitted myself, although an offhand comment I made about a certain breed of dog got things heated in IMHO, so I said take it to the Pit - instead took it to GD. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/37 "2010-11-12T02:19:17Z")
Not that I’m aware of. I don’t think most people around here know enough about me to bother. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/38 "2010-11-12T02:33:15Z")
I picked “multiple pits”, but only for the value of multiple meaning “one more than one.” To the best of my knowledge, I’ve been pitted twice: 1. Someone was asking in a GQ thread how to do something in Word, and I suggested off the cuff that it would be better to abandon Word and switch to Word Perfect. I think the Pitter thought that was thread-shitting; fair enough; I didn’t bother to respond. 2. I spelt a word with a ligature (I think it was “Pædiatrics” instead of “Pediatrics”). Someone pitted me for my pretentiousness. I just shook my head and didn’t bother responding. It seems a sort of pitiful record, really - for these two things, I get Pitted?!? :dubious: I guess I’m a fairly innocuous poster, but I do have the capacity to irritate on a narrow spectrum. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/39 "2010-11-12T02:37:48Z")
I don’t tend to be controversial, and I generally don’t rise above the level of annoying. But I’ve never searched, either, and I don’t spend much time in The Pit. So, of course, now I’m going to look. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364/40 "2010-11-12T03:06:41Z")
Only once by name (and then along with a group of other posters). Once sort of indirectly when a poster launched into a rant about the subject matter of a thread I’d started. I wasn’t named in the Pit thread, nor was the Pit thread linked in the original thread. Decent record for 11 years of posting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-pit-thread-ever-been-started-about-you/560364.md?page=3)