# Smapti is Pitted **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 21, 2014, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907 "2014-05-21T08:14:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 77
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1521 "2015-03-17T23:22:06Z")
Nothing that I’m aware of (although I don’t monitor the board for examples of him being an ass). Looks like **Acsenray** came in VERY late with an admonishment of Dopers in this thread for letting him troll us. What the hell, **Acsenray**? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1522 "2015-03-17T23:26:55Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Nothing that I’m aware of (although I don’t monitor the board for examples of him being an ass). Looks like **Acsenray** came in VERY late with an admonishment of Dopers in this thread for letting him troll us. > > What the hell, **Acsenray**? Exactly what I was thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1523 "2015-03-17T23:29:12Z")
In astonished that it’s still going on ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1524 "2015-03-17T23:32:50Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > What did he do THIS time? He found [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=751267), barging into the grownups’ conversation about maintaining civil order, regardless of how many people tell him to go to watch his cartoons where the Good Guy beats the Bad Guy over the head with a club and makes everything Happy Ever After. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1525 "2015-03-18T00:16:03Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > In astonished that it’s still going on It wasn’t still going on. The thread was dead for two months before you bumped it just to say: “He be troll’n”. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1526 "2015-03-18T00:18:13Z")
THAT is what is going on, as Steve notes. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1527 "2015-03-18T00:21:13Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > In astonished that it’s still going on 😕 It had been ended\* for two months when you decided to express your astonishment. \*well, _quasi_-ended. The previous record for a gap between posts had been 36 days (June 6 - July 12, 2014). ETA: Now that I see your reference to post 1524, I still wonder why you thought bumping THIS thread was the thing to do. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1528 "2015-03-18T00:34:48Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > 😕 > > It had been ended\* for two months when you decided to express your astonishment. > > \*well, _quasi_-ended. The previous record for a gap between posts had been 36 days (June 6 - July 12, 2014). > > ETA: Now that I see your reference to post 1524, I still wonder why you thought bumping THIS thread was the thing to do. It’s the right thing to do. I’d only encountered Smapti tangentially before, hadn’t really tried to discuss things with him (unless I’ve forgotten something). I was gobsmacked at his gyrations to defend the indefensible. He’s a fucking idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1529 "2015-03-18T00:36:40Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > 😕 > > It had been ended\* for two months when you decided to express your astonishment. > > \*well, _quasi_-ended. The previous record for a gap between posts had been 36 days (June 6 - July 12, 2014). > > ETA: Now that I see your reference to post 1524, I still wonder why you thought bumping THIS thread was the thing to do. Is it that freaking mysterious? I’m observing how he is being treated in these boards right now and I came to the thread about him in the Pit to comment on it. I didn’t realize it would cause so much confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1530 "2015-03-18T00:58:41Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Is it that freaking mysterious? I’m observing how he is being treated in these boards right now and I came to the thread about him in the Pit to comment on it. > > I didn’t realize it would cause so much confusion. Come on dude, you revived the thread with basically a throw away comment. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Why\_Bother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@Doctor\_Why\_Bother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Why_Bother)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1531 "2015-03-18T01:35:25Z")
Should he have created a new thread? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1532 "2015-03-18T01:37:31Z")
Exactly. THIS IS the Smapti thread. If I have a comment about Smapti, there’s no better place to put it. Pit threads aren’t epic stories with a beginning, middle, and end, requiring some kind of elaborate justification for tacking on another comment. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1533 "2015-03-18T01:47:29Z")
> [@Doctor\_Why\_Bother](#): > > Should he have created a new thread? It seems a little dubious to revive a thread that has been dead for two months just to say: “You guys are still falling for this guy’s shtik.” If he had something of more sustenance to say, that would make more sense. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1534 "2015-03-18T01:50:30Z")
You guys are still falling for **Acsenray** ’s schtick. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1535 "2015-03-18T01:56:23Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > It seems a little dubious to revive a thread that has been dead for two months just to say: “You guys are still falling for this guy’s shtik.” > If he had something of more sustenance to say, that would make more sense. Since when do you treat Pit threads as bastions of intellectual discourse? And since when is “reviving” a Pit thread after two months some kind of extraordinary outrageous act? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1536 "2015-03-18T02:07:19Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Since when do you treat Pit threads as bastions of intellectual discourse? Never. > [@](#): > > And since when is “reviving” a Pit thread after two months some kind of extraordinary outrageous act? If you don’t get the difference between: “Look at what this fool is up to now [insert link here]” and what you posted, I see no reason to debate with you on this topic. Look, I’m not burning with the rage of a thousand suns. I wasn’t even going to say anything until someone else brought it up. I just found it to be a little dubious is all. ---
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1537 "2015-03-18T02:10:39Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > You guys are still falling for **Acsenray** ’s schtick. Your Mom is still falling for my…schtick. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1538 "2015-03-18T02:14:05Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > 😕 > > It had been ended\* for two months when you decided to express your astonishment. I believe he meant **Smapti** ’s extended fuckitude, not this Pit thread. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1539 "2015-03-18T02:28:14Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > If you don’t get the difference between: “Look at what this fool is up to now [insert link here]” and what you posted, I see no reason to debate with you on this topic. Oh, I get the difference. I just didn’t expect that the Lords of the Pit would be so persnickety about the quality of every comment in an old pit thread. > [@](#): > > Look, I’m not burning with the rage of a thousand suns. I wasn’t even going to say anything until someone else brought it up. I just found it to be a little dubious is all. Dubious? As in unreliable? You thought I might be lying about something? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1540 "2015-03-18T02:35:22Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Oh, I get the difference. I just didn’t expect that the Lords of the Pit would be so persnickety about the quality of every comment in an old pit thread. > > Dubious? As in unreliable? You thought I might be lying about something? Dubious as in: of doubtful quality or propriety; [Link](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dubious) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907.md?page=76) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907.md?page=78)