Why do you invent issues that aren’t actually happening?
You’ve created a scenario that is not reality here.
That is not how things work here on the SDMB.
The Trolls R Us Thread occasionally picks out socks before we notice them. They often provide links to the actual thread where the trolling is happening. If the Pitting determined policy and established that posters were trolls, then a few of the posters in this thread would be gone. Clearly that is not how things work.
One real problem with the Pitting of posters, especially when it comes often, is it ratchets up general hostility. I think it accelerated Shodan’s and Clothahump’s bannings but they were far from a short leash.
I’m apathetic toward the pit in general, if we did do away with pitting each other, I wouldn’t miss it that much but I also don’t buy into the bullying bit also. If we keep it largely untouched, I’m fine with that also.