The belief that only ‘badly behaving’ people get pitted is ridiculous.
I don’t generally like posting personal examples, but I will offer one here. I started an op with this, posted in its entirety so I don’t get pitted for selective quoting:
A few points: First of all, that thread devolved into enough personal insults against me that the mods had to shut the thread down. Yet not a single person got an official warning.
The mob, having lost their outlet to attack me there, then had their fun in this pit thread:
That’s just one of many examples. Many of the pittings on this board have absolutely nothing to do with bad behaviour - they have to do woth one side of the political fence using the pit to attack the other side for their supposed gullibility, stupidity, or if they can find the thinnest reed to hang on, racist, sexist, misogynist or transphobic behaviour. If they just restricted it to the arguments, fine. But it always devolves into character attacks, often extremely vile ones, for the crime of being on the other side.