# I post about the use of the phrase "I pit" to lead pit thread titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-post-about-the-use-of-the-phrase-i-pit-to-lead-pit-thread-titles/669661 "2013-09-25T17:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-post-about-the-use-of-the-phrase-i-pit-to-lead-pit-thread-titles/669661/21 "2013-09-25T21:17:29Z")
> [@AnthonyElite](#): > > Am I missing something? > > I was just trying to articulate the idea that he was being hypocritical. Was he not? > [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > No, he was trying to underscore the pointlessness of starting a thread with “I pit” by starting his thread with a phrase he feels is as pointless but possibly more obviously so to his audience. To put it another way, _intentially engaging in_ the behavior you dislike in order to make a point is mockery, not hypocrisy. ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-post-about-the-use-of-the-phrase-i-pit-to-lead-pit-thread-titles/669661/22 "2013-09-25T21:18:59Z")
> [@AnthonyElite](#): > > No, this is the post in which you put your foot into your mouth. You see, you are complaining about people putting “I pit” before an obvious Pit thread. In the same thread in which you complain about this you make a similar error: > > Yes, of course you post; aside from private message it is the only form of communication here. Wow, whooshed by the “whoosh.” There’s something meta, or perhaps zen, or definitely something about that. Definitely something. ---
**Author:** ![AnthonyElite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@AnthonyElite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnthonyElite)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-post-about-the-use-of-the-phrase-i-pit-to-lead-pit-thread-titles/669661/23 "2013-09-25T23:12:00Z")
> [@Strainger](#): > > Wow, whooshed by the “whoosh.” There’s something meta, or perhaps zen, or definitely something about that. Definitely something. This truly is meta as you’ve just been whooshed by my whoosh of being whooshed! Imagine! Truly though, the internet should develop an alphabet/language system that incorporates tone. ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-post-about-the-use-of-the-phrase-i-pit-to-lead-pit-thread-titles/669661/24 "2013-09-26T05:08:27Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > To put it another way, _intentially engaging in_ the behavior you dislike in order to make a point is mockery, not hypocrisy. In other words, I’ve just mocked 14% of a sample of 150 active pit thread originators. Oh, crap, maybe I should have thought this through a little better. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-post-about-the-use-of-the-phrase-i-pit-to-lead-pit-thread-titles/669661/25 "2013-09-26T05:32:08Z")
To be fair, sometimes an OP in the Pit can be so poorly written that the reader legitimately _needs_ to be told what the actual object of the Pitting is. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-post-about-the-use-of-the-phrase-i-pit-to-lead-pit-thread-titles/669661/26 "2013-09-26T06:44:47Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > How about starting a GD thread with “Resolved:”? Starting a thread anywhere with the word “resolved” is pointless - anyone who has been around her for five minutes will quickly pick up on the fact that Dopers cannot and will not agree on ANYTHING 100%. Nothing ever is, nor gets, “resolved”, but especially idiots who start threads that are truly insipid such as “Resolved: John Carter is the best film of all time!” or in a similar vein. Might as well paint a target on your back and hand everyone a gun and offer a reward for the best shot. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-post-about-the-use-of-the-phrase-i-pit-to-lead-pit-thread-titles/669661/27 "2013-09-26T06:59:08Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > To put it another way, _intentially engaging in_ the behavior you dislike in order to make a point is mockery, not hypocrisy. > [@DMark](#): > > Nothing ever is, nor gets, “resolved”, but especially idiots who start threads that are truly insipid such as “Resolved: John Carter is the best film of all time!” or in a similar vein. Does anybody in this thread actually think the original fashioning of the term into a metapragmatic verb was anything other than a kind of mild self-mockery in the first place? Or that using _resolved_ in this way isn’t, either? That seems obvious to me. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-post-about-the-use-of-the-phrase-i-pit-to-lead-pit-thread-titles/669661/28 "2013-09-26T20:28:21Z")
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