# Have you ever been Pitted? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 21, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334 "2007-08-21T03:58:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/61 "2007-08-21T18:45:04Z")
[QUOTE=Agent Foxtrot] When the time finally comes and I’m called front and center, I want the pitter to be a board heavyweight such as **Airman Doors, USAF** or **Bricker** and it better be a pitting of legendary proportions. 😃 [/QUOTE] Board heavyweight? Surely not I. I have my pet subjects, but compared to most I am but a rank amateur. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/62 "2007-08-21T18:52:23Z")
One time a Guest posted copyrighted material in MPSIMS. Not only was an entire article cut and pasted, it was some lame urban legend. I told her that she shouldn’t have done that and included a Snopes link. Not too long later, a Mod deleted the article and warned the Guest. She pitted the whole incident but didn’t mention me by name. Does that count? ---
**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:** [August 21, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/63 "2007-08-21T19:01:20Z")
Twice. Once for soapboxing (but the thread played to mixed reviews), once for taking the mods at their word and rescuing some old threads by bumping them when they said to do so or forever hold our peace because they were going to nuke threads with no activity since some 199x date. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/64 "2007-08-21T19:01:34Z")
I’ve never been Pitted. Even though I put ketchup on my steak. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/65 "2007-08-21T19:07:39Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] I’ve never been Pitted. Even though I put ketchup on my steak. Go figure. [/QUOTE] As long as you don’t put it on your hotdogs, I think you’re safe. 😉 ---
**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:** [August 21, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/66 "2007-08-21T19:23:13Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] As long as you don’t put it on your hotdogs, I think you’re safe. 😉 [/QUOTE] There are people who don’t put ketchup and mayo on their hotdogs? ---
**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:** [August 21, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/67 "2007-08-21T19:28:42Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] There are people who don’t put ketchup and mayo on their hotdogs? [/QUOTE] You’re really pushing it! But because you are the Pope of Bacon Salt, I must allow this lapse to go un-Pitted. For now. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/68 "2007-08-21T19:32:34Z")
I haven’t been pitted yet to the best of my knowledge. I just searched the Pit for my user name and found only posts I’ve made there. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/69 "2007-08-21T19:57:48Z")
I haven’t been pitted that I’m aware of. I’m not a very incendiary gal. I think if I had the time to get involved in some of the heated discussions in Great Debates then I might find myself getting flamed. I also haven’t pitted anyone. I’ve read some things that have gotten my hackles up but usually it’s by a poster that I consider too much of an idiot to be worth my time and that poster usually gets themselves banned before they can really get my ire up. One time, however, I started a pit thread (not about anyone here) and hoooooo boy did I ever bring down a shitstorm upon myself. I deserved it, ate my crow raw and cold and that was that. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/70 "2007-08-21T20:30:24Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] There are people who don’t put ketchup and mayo on their hotdogs? [/QUOTE] ACK! That _does_ deserve a pitting. The ketchup, I would have let slide. But mayo? You are obviously beyond help. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/71 "2007-08-21T20:31:10Z")
There are people in this thread I want to Pit merely because they think they should be Pitted and don’t deserve it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/72 "2007-08-21T20:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] ACK! That _does_ deserve a pitting. The ketchup, I would have let slide. But mayo? You are obviously beyond help. [/QUOTE] So I take it you’d be opposed to peanut butter on a hamburger then? ---
**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:** [August 21, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/73 "2007-08-21T20:37:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] ACK! That _does_ deserve a pitting. The ketchup, I would have let slide. But mayo? You are obviously beyond help. [/QUOTE] I can only respond with, “Don’t knock it 'til ya try it!” And **silenus** , really: all the baseball games you’ve gone to, and you’ve never tried this? Maybe I ought to be pitting some of you for not being willing to experiment with flavor. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/74 "2007-08-21T20:47:55Z")
Only twice that I can recall as the honest to goodness subject of a pit thread. Both were remarkably lame. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/75 "2007-08-21T20:59:40Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] As long as you don’t put it on your hotdogs, I think you’re safe. 😉 [/QUOTE] OOps! I do put it on my hot dogs. In my defense, I love Chicago-style pizza, however. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/76 "2007-08-21T21:37:46Z")
I was going to say “not to my knowledge,” but I went and checked. Nope. Never been pitted. I guess I fly under the radar 😉 I’ve started a grand total of three pit threads in 4-1/2 years, and none of them pitted a Doper. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/77 "2007-08-21T21:39:23Z")
I’ve never been Pitted, either. Even when harsh words are written about me here and in some other nameless places in the Internets, there are lots of defenders of my posts, too, which is amazing in some of those cases. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/78 "2007-08-21T21:45:00Z")
This thread prompted me to check – just once, two years ago, which I do recall, it brought me to tears. Not at the OP, but later. Rereading it now I can see the chip on my shoulder, I was itching to mouth off and being somewhat of an overbearing asshole. It turned out OK. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/79 "2007-08-21T22:56:13Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] OOps! I do put it on my hot dogs. In my defense, I love Chicago-style pizza, however. [/QUOTE] Well, then, you are forgiven. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334/80 "2007-08-21T23:04:36Z")
No. I contributed to a pit thread once, which caused at least a half dozen people to turn on me. It got really ugly and I was overwhelmed with trying to answer all the accusations and insults, most of which were illogical, and then I gave up. I have no idea what they said about me after I left. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-pitted/416334.md?page=5)