# 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:** 357
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-common-reason-to-be-pitted-appears-to-be-dishonesty/946422/357 "2021-07-22T16:23:08Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > disagrees with them on anything at all- which of course the habitués will _call_ trolling etc. Pretty well disproved by this thread alone: > [@Rescind this warning, please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rescind-this-warning-please/946668): > > @Hari_Seldon warns @Pinecone for a post where Pinceone says: The artwork does not merit the price. This is to buy influence with the President or fund a political movement - clearly. The donors names are kept secret to protect them from public scrutiny and so that the rest of us can’t quite put 2 and 2 together. Hari calls this threadshitting. It is not threadshitting. Pinecone is expressing an opinion. It’s an opinion I disagree with, to put it mildly, but it doesn’t merit a warning. I’v… I have disagreed with lots of people on this board, for various reasons, in various forums; including long-term posters and including moderators. My first posts on this board were in defense of organic farming, which is a position at best controversial on these boards (and I never did get around to answering the last replies I got there, which would have taken a chunk of time and work.) I’ve been here over two years now. I’ve never been pitted. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-common-reason-to-be-pitted-appears-to-be-dishonesty/946422)._