I post about the use of the phrase "I pit" to lead pit thread titles

[Ludovic]

@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.

[Strainger]

@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.

[AnthonyElite]

@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.

[Kyrie_Eleison]

@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.

[kaylasdad99]

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.

[DMark]

@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.

[guizot]

@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.

[Karen_Lingel]

Resolved: All pit thread titles shall begin “I burning your …”