Almost to the point where I’d rather just avoid it altogether.
But is it my fault is has the curiousity value of a car accident? I’ve read many a topic in here and even printed some out in the past… and I must say, some of the gangpiles and rants members get in here is quite harsh at times, even if they were behaving as much as an ass or jerk to deserve it.
Looking over many past pits…December, DITLD, Wildest Bill, Manhattan…
Even the admins have had it…which proves nobody is safe.
My only hope is that if I ever get pitted, it will be quick and clean.
One question I have…Do you members see having a pit thread dedicated to someone as sort of an initiation? As in “Ohhh, you haven’t been a member here yet, till you’ve been pitted.”?
Come to think of it, this question or topic itself probably doesn’t even belong in the pit, and will thus bring hordes of members wanting my head on a stick al a Lord of the Flies.
Be gentle.
I’ve yet to be pitted, but I’m fairly sure I’m still a member. My wife hasn’t been pitted yet, and she’s a rather well-liked member. Although, really, just give it time for her first pitting…
No, you don’t need a pitting unless you generally make a foolish, ignorant ass out of yourself, and seeing that being a foolish, ignorant ass is not a prerequisite for being a “real Doper”, you can indeed become a member without getting pitted.
Do you know Andre Agassi was said to have said the reason he screams so much was because of the psychology behind making the refs feel stupid. He said if he did that, then there would come a time where a call could go either way, but to avoid the confrontation, they’d give him the good call. I also think sometimes people act the same here. Call someone enough names, they won’t call you on the iffy issues.
I got pitted once, but it was by someone who was in the process of spontaneously combusting, so it kind of backfired on him. (And it was kind of hilarious too.)
A lot of us can go for very long periods of time without getting pitted. Some people get pitted but it turns out that the one who started the pit thread end up being piled on.
Other times it’s just ugly, ugly, ugly. I remember one a while ago (I won’t specify what it was about) that was so awful, so innappropriate, so appalling that I couldn’t fathom that some of the Dopers that I’d admired could stoop so low.
You just never know. And then there are the “pittings” that end up being very civil and good-spirited.
Once again, you never know. I certainly wouldn’t consider getting pitted as a source of pride.
I got pitted once. Well, actually I pitted myself by accident. But either way, it was a soul-cleansing experience.
What made it really interesting was how people started doing searches on my previous posts to see what kind of dirt they could dredge up; and, finding nothing there, they laid into my personal webpage. Which lead to a surreal Cafe Society-like hijack about which Rush album is better than the other.
Yet, I’m still here. Ironically, the moderator I was butting heads with, is not. (Well, he’s still here…but he’s no longer a mod.) And I swear, I had nothing to do with that part. Nothing at all. Unless that psychic brick I threw into the ether really DID come down on that tree in Ohio which knocked loose the power lines that caused the blackout…but, naah. That was someone else’s brick, not mine. (OTOH, Jeff Gordon is suddenly doing very badly in the NASCAR races…bwhahahaha!)
Ah, grow a fucking backbone Idle Thoughts ya wussy wimp. If you think you’re going to get a ‘free pass’ on the board because you pre-empted your first REAL pitting by posting here first, you’ve got another thing coming.
Hey, we could roast you just for this transparent effort ya know!
Idle Thoughts, I tried to think of something “pitworthy” to say to/about you/a relative of your choice…
Unfortunately, I am unwilling/unable to for two reasons:
You became my HERO when you breathed life into my unanswered/unloved thread (which shall remain linkless, 'cause I’m lazy)
and
B. You just-so-happen to have caught me on the “Upswing” of my Bi-Polar cycle, and, I am feeling so friggin’ perky, I just ain’t got it in me to dis ya sweetums.
Cross my heart
Smack me dead
Stick a lobster on my head.
I don’t think I’ve been Pitted yet. But I tend to stay out of GD and other contentious areas. Or I just drive by, toss out a smartass remark, then scurry back to the warm, fluffy land of MPSIMS.
Yeah, well we all know that you are a lazy bastard Bryan, too slack to come back here to check on the flames that arise from your blatantly ignorant posts in the other fora.
I am not intimidimidimidated by this forum. I am a bit by GD though. I get the impression it’s full of religious fundies and conservatives.
huh? I sit here typing this thread and then look up slightly ( :rolleyes: ) hey, there’s my name! And I didn’t even have to vanity search.
No, I don’t know that. Do you have a news article where you have neatly crossed out ‘McEnroe’ or ‘Connors’ and penciled in ‘Agassi’ that you can use as a cite?
As for the OP… you are creaping me out, but I suppose the content is there to be read any way you enjoy reading it.
I love the pit. But I don’t understand people who want to be pitted or are proud of it. Why would you want to have people be horrible to you and/or dislike you? That’s nothing to be proud of.
The secret of success in the Pit is only to attack things that can’t hit back. Kitchen appliances are good - kettles, washing machines, that sort of thing. Works for me, anyway.
