# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/61 "2014-04-24T21:08:12Z")
As far as I can remember, no. I guess I’m just not that noticable. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/62 "2014-04-24T21:09:03Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > The only one I know of happened at least a decade ago and was because I made a joke about kicking a field goal with a poodle and somebody took offense to even joking about hurting animals. Damn, it’s a wonder I haven’t been pitted more often. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/63 "2014-04-25T00:03:43Z")
I was Pitted once for being a “movie snob” which was pretty ridiculous. My favorite movie the year before wasn’t an Oscar winner or nominee, it wasn’t a snooty foreign-language film. It wasn’t an art house avant-garde film. It was a low-budget monsters-from-outer-space movie. The year before that my favorite movie was a low-budget kids-become-fake-superheros movie. I see a lot of movies but I am so not a snob. Maybe it’s because I use too many dashes. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/64 "2014-04-25T00:26:03Z")
I got pitted because I was pretty sharply criticizing a poster’s sexism. So he posted a one-word pitting calling me the c-word. So there’s that. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/65 "2014-04-25T00:57:39Z")
::raises hand:: Twice. (As far as I iknow!) The [first](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=74621), 2001, may require a bit of backstory. The board was planning on pruning out threads that hadn’t been updated since some cutoff date. An announcement was made that we had a week or so to bump any of those really old threads we didn’t want to lose in the pruning. I got pitted because I resurrected some threads some folks found upsetting. The [second](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=362400), from 2006, is more self-explanatory. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/66 "2014-04-25T01:34:19Z")
When I first joined I had an annoying habit of using “sight” for “cite” (edit, not on purpose). I annoyed quite a few people doing that. I’m a little surprised that didn’t get me pitted. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/67 "2014-04-25T01:41:11Z")
Nah, these days I don’t post anywhere near enough to be Pitted. If I ever would’ve been, it probably would have been as a result of my views on entertainment, as expressed in 10±year-old threads that certain posters — despite claims that they don’t pay attention to others’ posting histories — feel compelled to snipe at me about in unrelated threads a decade later. ('Course, if any of those particular posters [not that I’m singling anyone out, mind] care to have at it, I’m certainly game.) ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/68 "2014-04-25T02:03:18Z")
Not that I know of, but I really only posted one completely out of line (and idiotic) post and was mortified when I realized how badly I had mis-read it and apologized profusely. So I wasn’t pitted for that major gaffe. I’m just not an especially polarizing person, at least not on this board. I also never come up in the crush threads, so I kind of ghost along - even though I’ve been here forever. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/69 "2014-04-25T02:38:59Z")
Once or twice. I had a rather, how shall I put it, _abrasive_ beginning to my time here at the Dope. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/70 "2014-04-25T03:27:59Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Yes, 1.5 times. > > Once about a stupid debate I was trying to have over SSM. That was actually a good thing though, it made rethink my views on SSM and I have since did a 180. A large part of that, I give credit to this board. Having said that, I find that thread to be extremely embarrassing and hope like hell it never gets resurrected. I remember that thread because I’m the one who started it, and if it did help you change your views, I’m glad. 🙂 I’ve been Pitted maybe once or twice, but they were pretty half-hearted. Nothing major. > [@Ambivalid](#): > > Once or twice. I had a rather, how shall I put it, _abrasive_ beginning to my time here at the Dope. 😃 No, not YOU! 😛😉 ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/71 "2014-04-25T04:21:48Z")
Once that I know of, I was new here and did not understand the protocal, I was talking out my ass like we do on a lot of forums I visit. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/72 "2014-04-25T04:24:15Z")
I don’t remember ever being pitted. It seems I just don’t piss people off that way. I must not be trying hard enough. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/73 "2014-04-25T04:24:38Z")
I was pitted once (long ago) when I revealed on here that I don’t vote. Apparently it was enough for someone to claim I was “everything wrong with America” (according to the Pit thread title). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/74 "2014-04-25T04:38:39Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I was pitted once (long ago) when I revealed on here that I don’t vote. Apparently it was enough for someone to claim I was “everything wrong with America” (according to the Pit thread title). Don’t sell yourself short. I’m sure there are many reasons you’re everything wrong with America. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/75 "2014-04-25T06:20:12Z")
\*\*Clothahump \*\*tried to pit me once. Didn’t go well for him. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/76 "2014-04-25T13:29:59Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I remember that thread because I’m the one who started it, and if it did help you change your views, I’m glad. 🙂 Thanks for pitting me! 😃 ---
**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 25, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/77 "2014-04-25T15:07:45Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > I don’t remember ever being pitted. It seems I just don’t piss people off that way. I must not be trying hard enough. Is it worse to be pitted, or completely ignored? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817/78 "2014-04-25T15:10:05Z")
> [@Mr.Nylock](#): > > Is it worse to be pitted, or completely ignored? Speaking as someone who is generally the latter on this board, being the former sounds like a lot more fun. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted-if-so-if-not/686817.md?page=3)