# Have you ever been pitted? If so . . . ? If not . . . ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 23, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817 "2014-04-23T23:42:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/21 "2014-04-24T03:41:58Z")
I got pitted once, but it seemed like someone adding a pitting notch to their Doper belt. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/22 "2014-04-24T04:03:09Z")
My habit of “fake personas” on other boards got me Pited. I also pointed out that marrying and having kids is pretty typical behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/23 "2014-04-24T04:10:04Z")
Only one serious pit over an off-hand, non-accusatory, but I suppose somewhat opaque comment in another Pit thread. It didn’t get much traction and I found it…more odd than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/24 "2014-04-24T07:24:40Z")
Not that I’m aware of (and I’m not about to search)! I did once start a pity thread expecting to get supportive answers and was rather shocked when I didn’t. But they were right, I was wrong, and I needed to hear it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/25 "2014-04-24T08:52:54Z")
I’ve been pitted a couple of times. Both undeserved IMHO. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/26 "2014-04-24T09:08:37Z")
I think most of my comments are just too dumb to be pit worthy, or I just have not been SDMBing long enough. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/27 "2014-04-24T09:13:15Z")
Although a few posters have occasionally expressed mild annoyance at something I’ve said, and I’ve been called variants of ‘stupid’ every so often, apparently no one has ever wanted to go to the mat over it. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/28 "2014-04-24T10:13:34Z")
I don’t think I’ve been pitted, but I sort of expected it this week. I have a debating style that involves asking earnest questions (sometimes questions that look stupid, naive or childish, occasionally making me look like I occupy the wrong side, or any particular side) that I feel will help to unpick the fundaments of an issue, but this is sometimes misunderstood. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/29 "2014-04-24T10:57:15Z")
Yeah, I’d not been around but a shortish time when **Homebrew** (long gone) tried Pitting me for misogyny or some such. It got about as much traction as if the last car through the Pit had spilled a lot of diesel, but it was kind of fun in its way. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/30 "2014-04-24T11:43:55Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > I don’t remember who it was either, but the thread title LOACH IS A DICKHEAD FUCKING COP is burned in my memory forever. Burned like that thread did right after it crashed. 😛 😃 Thanks for bringing that back up. The title is traumatizing. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/31 "2014-04-24T11:52:54Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Thanks for bringing that back up. The title is traumatizing. If you mean that, I do apologize. I can see how it might not be as funny to the Pittee. :o ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/32 "2014-04-24T11:53:12Z")
No. I’m conflict-averse and avoid heated conversations, on this board and elsewhere. I did spent the first 6-8 years of my time on the Dope appearing and disappearing from the board, getting told I was an idiot, getting my feelings hurt, then eventually coming back. After a while I kind of grew out of it, I guess. The last person who ever did that to me was banned in the interstitial time. Every time I come across an old post of his with the BANNED marker on it, I smile to myself. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2014, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/33 "2014-04-24T12:13:45Z")
Not that I know of. I wouldn’t be surprised though, as I sometimes post drunk and others might miss subtle humor in those posts. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/34 "2014-04-24T12:16:33Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > If you mean that, I do apologize. I can see how it might not be as funny to the Pittee. :o I was kidding. It was probably the best way to get Pitted. Everyone piled on the OP and not me IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/35 "2014-04-24T12:58:22Z")
Not to my knowledge. I have posted to some threads in the Pit, and I do enjoy the action, but I prefer survey the the carnage from a distance. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/36 "2014-04-24T13:08:02Z")
I have been Pitted once (that I know of) for drive-by joking to one racist troll who was getting thoroughly pummelled and tried to pull the “I have lots of supporters you don’t know about ! In [del]Canada[/del]PMs !” shtick that “we know about X”. A few months later X woke up or vanity searched or something and made a “you bastard I’m not a racist and you can’t prove anything !” Pit thread. It backfired spectacularly, as I recall. Which, you know, I was a bit annoyed about. This was _my_ pitting, dammit, and he kept making it about himself by saying stupid racist things! Selfish bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/37 "2014-04-24T13:25:20Z")
Once. It was a couple years ago and I was complaining cuz I got run over while I was riding my bike, and since I was on the sidewalk I got yelled at by the bike enthusiasts. I defended my position (seriously there is NO way to ride in that street) and my stubbornness caused me to be pitted. I never read it other than clicking the link that says I was pitted so I have no idea how long it lasted. I can’t imagine long since I never played in it long. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/38 "2014-04-24T13:26:40Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Have you ever been pitted? Sure. > [@](#): > > If so, what for? [Only one I could find](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=708409&highlight=MrDibble) that mentions me by name in the title, was because I apparently call racists “racists” a bit more often than some people might like, or something (it wasn’t the most coherent pitting). But I’ve been included in other pittings, I think, especially ones about US military invasions and my postings about those. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/39 "2014-04-24T13:35:58Z")
[Seriously, Annie-Xmas, shut up about adoption and serial killers](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=608241&highlight=Annie-Xmas) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/40 "2014-04-24T13:53:26Z")
Three times that I can remember. One was a minor kerfuffle over my sig line at the time, and the OP and I have moved well past it. One was a duly deserved call-out to me being more than a little insensitive in a thread. The last one was a minor melt-down by one of our northern neighbors who took exception to my referring to that big pink splotch as “Canadia.” It did not proceed as he intended. Not bad for 11 years on the Dope. Probably because I’m usually only stupid, not offensive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817.md?page=3)