(I’m starting way too many threads today - blame it on the bank holiday, I’m bored.)
So, I’ve never been pitted. Yet. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad of this as it means that I’m either generally liked or at least not disliked enough for people to vomit bile on me. I do occasionally check the pit to see if I’ve been pitted though, and I find myself wondering if I was pitted, what would it be for? I don’t generally get involved in GD which is where most of them come from and I tend to stay out of the religion vs atheism debates (and I’m indifferent/ignorant of the Clinton vs Obama ones too), so what would people pit me for?
My thoughts - generally being a smart arse and potentially being flat out dismissive of religion (which I am sometimes, but if I need to have an anti-theistic rant I tend to do it at satannet.com). Anything else? Can people who have some opinion of me give me some suggestions? (I’ll take them as potential self-improvement tips.)
So, if you’ve not been pitted what would it be for? If you’re regularly pitted what is it for?
I’m impulsive, and I’ve got a temper. Sometimes something posted by someone just catches me the wrong way, and I fly off the handle and post something vicious and uncalled for before Mr. Brain catches up with Mr. Keyboard. I’ve woken up the next morning going “I didn’t post that. Did I post that? Did that really come out of my fucking head?!” I really am sorry when that happens, and I remind myself never to post drunk again before remembering that the last time I was actually drunk was when I was stationed in Korea over ten years ago. Hell, I don’t even really touch alcohol anymore, so there goes that excuse.
Another thing I could see myself getting pitted for is the fact that I’m an atheist who really isn’t into atheism. It just happens to be what I [don’t] believe in. In fact, most people who identify themselves primarily with atheism and get all gung-ho about it both IRL and online strike me as a bit . . . flakey, and I’m not shy about saying as much.
If I get pitted, it’s most likely going to be for one of the above reasons.
As far as suggestions for you, we haven’t run into each other often enough for me to have formed an opinion, but you seem OK to me. Hell, man, just be yourself. If other people–myself included–don’t like it, well, fuck 'em if they can’t take a joke.
Probably for drive-by smart-assery. I got pitted once by someone who took something I said, twisted it around and came out smelling his own ass. I’ve started pit threads and been pitted within my own thread before, however.
I have been pitted a bunch of times. Most of it is for breaking the hard truth to the unwashed masses. One of the most notable was commenting that a woman should never order milk in a bar especially on the first date. Several hundred responses later, we came no closer to a resolution on this issue. I stand firm.
I’ve been pitted 3 times that I can recall. Once was as a result of my rather callous reaction to an accident mentioned in a MPSIMS thread. Once was for threadshitting a “Jackass” thread. The third was because someone took exception to my sig.
The first was a bit of an over-reaction by everybody, I thought, although I did apologize. The second was totally deserved. I was a jerk and got called on it. The third was hysterically funny. The Pitter decided that the Terry Pratchett quote I was then using as a sig was emblematic of “all that is wrong with America and Americans.” He got his ass handed to him by everybody in the thread.
There might have been others, but those are the ones I recall.
Arguing past the point of reasonableness. Sometimes people just aren’t going to see what you’re saying. I’ve tried to learn to let it go and walk away.
I’ve never been pitted, but I did have a Pit Thread backfire on me once, because someone thought I was lying about my (admittedly confusing, even to me) past. I wasn’t lying, I was just overwhelmed in that moment and desperate for someone to listen. I think if I had posted the same thing later on in my membership here, it would have been received differently, but I was new and therefore a potential troll. It’s kind of alarming how riled up people can get over basically nothing. But the person who questioned me is someone I respect so it made me examine and improve myself so while I wouldn’t exactly say I’m grateful, I will say that it was an educational experience.
I don’t think I’m terribly likely to get pitted in the future, but if I were, it would probably be for coming off as morally superior, or whining, or both. I don’t think any one single post of mine could really be pitworthy, but I can imagine the cumulative effect of my posts could be annoying for certain personality types. I’m enthusiastic and repetitive.
It’s kind of funny, when people Pit. There are certain people on this board who drive me batshit insane, but I have never actually considered Pitting them. But I how I enjoy it when other people do!
I don’t into GD, and hardly ever take a really strong position that would get me Pitted. Maybe that’s it, that sometimes I just pop into a thread with a basically useless comment.
But Doc Lisa says I oughta maybe quit suppressing, so maybe one day soon I’ll blast on someone and get Pitted.
I could never be pitted. I’m practically perfect in every way.
Yes, I’m Mary Fucking Poppins. Get over it.
Nah, probably like anyone else, it would be because I expressed an opinion that someone else took exception to. Probably Soy related, if the past is any indication.
Or maybe if a present trend continues, a certain unnamed person will pit me because I state a fact, he expresses an OPINION about that fact, then he demands chapter and verse citations from me in order for me to convince him that his opinion is in error. :rolleyes: Yeah…good luck with that. I’m happy to argue facts and information, but I’m not wasting my time worrying about someone’s unsubstantiated opinions.
Two possibilities. I might forget myself and let my temper rule me in a discussion about teachers, teachers unions, and public schools. I’m pretty sure I’ve come close to being Pitted for that in the past.
The other possibility is that I’ll say something incredibly callous to someone complaining about a completely preventable personal tragedy. There’s a time and a place to comment, say, that failing to wear seat belts is a somewhat Darwinian choice. That is not when a parent is grieving about their teen child having just been killed after being ejected during an automobile accident.
Aww, don’t cry beebs! I’m all tuckered out after Pitting someone already, but if you want, I can Pit you when I wake up. And I know just the thing to do it for, too… mysterious grin
I don’t know. I sometimes compose a post that would stir the pot a bit, and possibly lead to a pitting. Then I think about how much I HATE defending my opinions (I never talk about religion or politics, or very nearly never), about how much I don’t want to debate. So I wind up deleting the post.
Some day, I’ll be drunk-posting, and say something stupid, I’m sure…
I got pitted for my views about child support. It got pretty bad, and people assumed I was just a deadbeat who was pissed off about the child support he owes. In reality I’m still married to the mother of my only child, and I’m against the child support system because I honestly think it’s wrong.
I started a pit thread about how much I hate lawyers and the south, and that ended up getting pretty nasty too. I think most people had a lot of fun in that one though.
If I get pitted in the future, it’ll probably be because I have no respect for most women. They choose the biggest pieces of shit to date and marry and have kids with, and then want a bunch of sympathy when it turns out the guy is a big piece of shit. Respect yourself enough to date respectable guys, and then I’ll take back everything I automatically assume about you just because of your gender.
I can imagine being the subject of a Pit thread on customer service occasionally. I would undoubtedly deserve it.
But this would mean a Doper would have to wander into my job on a very bad day. I can’t think of anything I do on the board itself to warrant getting pitted.
