# How do you read a Pit Thread?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-read-a-pit-thread/171835>\
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**Created:** [April 29, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-read-a-pit-thread/171835 "2003-04-29T02:36:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-read-a-pit-thread/171835/1 "2003-04-29T02:36:23Z")

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I don’t venture into the Pit a whole lot, but when I see a thread in which one Doper “calls out” another, I will read the OP and not read anything else until the Doper who’s been called out has responded.

Anybody else do this?

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**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-read-a-pit-thread/171835/2 "2003-04-29T02:44:19Z")

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I wear my black cloak of Shar’anart, performing a spell to kill the seraphim high guard, sacrificing several goat felchers in the process, it all being as my satanic lord commands.

I enjoy reading pitted poster threads, because unlike other pittings the pitee gets to defend him/herself. Usually very interesting.

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-read-a-pit-thread/171835/3 "2003-04-29T04:15:36Z")

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You too, Alsan?

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-read-a-pit-thread/171835/4 "2003-04-29T19:22:58Z")

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Don’t be fooled, that’s Tash, just pretending he’s Aslan. Because as we know, there’s only one Aslan, so how could there be “Aslan2”?

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-read-a-pit-thread/171835/5 "2003-04-30T03:42:23Z")

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I usually close my eyes and hold my breath till I get through.

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-read-a-pit-thread/171835/7 "2003-04-30T18:37:25Z")

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Left to right, top to bottom.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-read-a-pit-thread/171835/8 "2003-04-30T21:31:07Z")

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Oh, I don’t read it but I would read it just like any other forum, I do search it sometimes, like once or twice a year just for kicks.