There are of course a lot of crappy posts in the Pit, as there are in every forum to some degree, with the added “bonus” of some gratuitous insults. Most of them, though, are deserved. But in general I find the Pit quite an entertaining place. At its best it’s a place of unalloyed honesty plus occasionally some of the funniest posts anywhere on this board. It’s also been home to some serious discussion. The lengthy thread pitting the now-banned SamuelA, for example, touched on a number of interesting topics in a fair amount of depth, in between insults. As I said in that thread, “A great thread, like the one dedicated to pitting SamuelA, is like a long, magnificent river. As it meanders the great expanse of its many miles, its nature changes – here a perhaps a rush of rapids, there a vast plain of slow-moving water …”. Only in the Pit could a single thread range across the gamut from debating the computational theory of mind and the physics of deflecting asteroids to the pittee proudly proclaiming that he was a pervert and a pedophile. 