Most common reason to be Pitted Appears to be Dishonesty?

[DrDeth]

@Atamasama

I’m not saying that the Pit is therefore unnecessary. If it becomes clear that the person is a troll and is just stirring things up, that’s worth discussing. We can only do that in the Pit. But you don’t have to bite your lip every time someone is lying; you can at least point out their falsehoods and correct them as they happen. (And if it becomes clear that they’re making it a habit I expect that reporting them is a great idea as well.)

Good points.

I would be Ok with someone quoting someone in a thread and saying “This is a lie”. I do not know why you have to say someone is a “liar” is it not enough to say "Joe Biden isn’t even eligible to be president, he was born in Russia and moved to China where he lived until he was 42 years old!”= “This is a lie!” Now "That isn’t true, see this link to his biography, and he first became a US Senator when he was 31, read about it here. This is the 10th post in this thread where you’ve posted factual misinformation about the president, can’t you just Google things before you post?” would be better, but I would be Ok with simply stating a quoted portion is a lie.

Most of the times I see someone pitted it is because that PitER really disagrees with the PitEE, and instead of explaining why he thinks the PitER is wrong, wrong wrong, he’d rather call him a “goat-felching fucking asshole”, because of course that works.

Other times it is because the PitER has said something that could be interpreted as racist, so the PitER thinks he has to take him to task for it.

@AHunter3

If lying is the #1 reason that a board member gets Pitted, #2 is probably a tendency to harp on and on about something in a way that others experience as tiresome.

Mea Culpa here.