# What's your P.Q. (Pit Quotient)? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 18, 2000, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343 "2000-10-18T00:31:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![User\_10K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@User\_10K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/User_10K)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/41 "2000-10-18T23:57:13Z")
I’m in the zero category. Enough fighting in the polite threads, no desire for swearing as well. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/42 "2000-10-19T01:29:48Z")
Only posted in the Piut twice, once was to start a thread that met with unhappy tiddings. Since then, I refuse to post anything there. You figure out the damn ratio. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/43 "2000-10-19T02:07:25Z")
**1:50**. Eight posts in the Pit and the only one that can be considered a flame would hardly singe the down off a newly-hatched chick. ---
**Author:** ![Poirot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@Poirot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poirot)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/44 "2000-10-19T06:51:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Pit and The Pendulum \* > **I win!** > 21 pit threads out of 27 total. > **1 : 0.7** Hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but your math is wrong. **Your ratio is 1 : 1.2** Close, but no cigar! Then I thought I’d find out if someone spent more time in the pit. I figured someone would have. This guy had the most “last poster” mentions, and it turns out he spent **100%** of his time there: **Pit Meister** ’s ratio is the max, or **1 : 1** (For some reason, the “search” button only found some of his threads, but since there were more showing than it listed, I tried an exact match on “meister” alone, and they were all there. And all Pits.) (My own ratio is a middling 1:12) I guess he’s the champ until someone else turns up with 100% and more posts. (Which will probably happen about…NOW!) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/45 "2000-10-19T07:42:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sailor \* > \*\*I have _never_ posted in the pit. I have posted to some threads which were later moved there but, even then, I did not post to them again. > > I was once alerted by email that someone had started a thread against me in the pit. I never even read it. \*\* Aaaawwww, you’re no fun. ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/46 "2000-10-19T12:58:45Z")
\*Originally posted by Poirot \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Then I thought I’d find out if someone spent more time in the pit. I figured someone would have. > > This guy had the most “last poster” mentions, and it turns out > he spent **100%** of his time there: > > **Pit Meister** ’s ratio is the max, or **1 : 1** \*\* We could ruin that perfect record by getting him to post to this thread… ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/47 "2000-10-19T14:57:34Z")
Never posted in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/48 "2000-10-19T15:05:47Z")
How about bj0rn? He’s been around for a while, and has a 1:1.564 ratio, with over a hundred Pit threads. My 1:6 ratio (as figured by the person quoted in the OP’s quote) pales in comparison. ---
**Author:** ![kiffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@kiffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiffa)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/49 "2000-10-19T16:39:30Z")
Although, as evilbeth pointed out, there is a discrepancy on the total number of your posts. Hey, P’n’P aka The Pit and The Pendulum is back! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/50 "2000-10-19T16:50:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by opus \* > Total posts: 1087 > Pit posts: 21 > Beat that 😃 Beaten. Total posts: 4389 Pit Posts: 16 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/51 "2000-10-19T17:15:44Z")
First of all, the search engine tells the number of THREADS, not the number of posts. You post two times in one thread, it’ll just show up once in the search engine. You would have to click the actual threads to see how many posts of yours (or anyones) are in them. And if anyone wants to look at all of mine, feel free! But it ain’t gonna be me… 😉 Anyway, the results of the threads I have responded to in ALL forums: ```auto Trds Percentage Forum 20 .63816 % About This Message Board 10 .31908 % Comments On Cecil's Columns 1 .03191 % Comments On Mailbag Answers 603 19.24059 % General Questions 525 16.75175 % Great Debates 145 4.62668 % In My Humble Opinion 1479 47.19209 % MPSIMS 351 11.19974 % The Pit ---- ---------- --------------------------- **3134 100 % TOTAL THREADS POSTED IN** ``` Well, that was fun… * * * Yer pal, [Satan](http://www.members.tripod.com/jmspoofe/sdmb/satan.jpg) \*I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR: Six months, one week, three days, 15 hours, 18 minutes and 4 seconds. 7745 cigarettes not smoked, saving $968.19. Extra life with Drain Bead: 3 weeks, 5 days, 21 hours, 25 minutes. **I slept with a moderator!** \* ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/52 "2000-10-19T18:10:39Z")
This is going to blow my image as a mean SOB, but…my actual Pit post to post ratio is 1:556 (0.18% of my posts have been to the pit–one post total). My Pit thread response ratio is 1:337 (0.3%). ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/53 "2000-10-19T18:27:58Z")
0.09? ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/54 "2000-10-19T22:31:32Z")
You have 36:390, or **1 : 11** ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/55 "2000-10-20T06:20:52Z")
750 total threads (incuding this one), divided by 67 Pit threads, equals 1:11.19. I guess I’m only about mid-level mean. ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/56 "2000-10-20T06:24:15Z")
If I’d hit Preview instead of Submit, I wouldn’t have misspelled \*including.[/] Really. ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/57 "2000-10-20T06:28:37Z")
Grrrr…I hate Thursdays. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/58 "2000-10-20T07:18:53Z")
28:545 Or 0.05, rounded. Or approximately 5% Or About 1:20 About what I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/59 "2000-10-21T00:50:23Z")
I’m not sure that I did this right, but I think my score is .0300~ Math isn’t exactly my strong suit. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong. Out of 967 posts, I posted in the pit 31 times. [sub]thank you, DRY![/sub] And I am proud of it, too. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343/60 "2000-10-21T21:54:07Z")
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who’s never posted in the Pit. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-p-q-pit-quotient/37343.md?page=4)