# Most common reason to be Pitted Appears to be Dishonesty? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 13, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-common-reason-to-be-pitted-appears-to-be-dishonesty/946422 "2021-07-13T20:44:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 323
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-common-reason-to-be-pitted-appears-to-be-dishonesty/946422/323 "2021-07-20T23:54:49Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > **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. Ditto. Do you think the mods just read a pit thread and blindly believe every claim in it? Honestly, I’m insulted. But the consolidation of links to actual posts is sometimes convenient. And sometimes just being alerted that such and such poster bears watching prospectively is also helpful. Note that reporting potential trolls does much the same as the latter, and can also be extremely helpful to the mods. It’s generally preferable, as it doesn’t “poison the well” for other posters. But of course, if you are worried about potential trolls not seeing the accusations against them, it’s far worse. So I’ll go back to asserting that the mods don’t blindly believe everything they are told. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-common-reason-to-be-pitted-appears-to-be-dishonesty/946422)._