Who has ever been pitted?

I haven’t, to my knowledge. I’ve been here almost nine years. I’ve been jumped on for pit threads I’ve started, but never been pitted. I’m not very controversial, it seems. :wink:

Mods, if this is poll territory, please move it to IMHO.

Thanks!

Moi. Actually, I was kind of pitted twice, since there was one pit thread started about the sign-off, and then other thread hijacked to talk about the sign-off.

Valete,
Vox Imperatoris

Me. I have said it before, but in IMHO, I said,
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Organized religion is worse than organized crime.*

And I got Pitted by that Canadian guy whose name started with a Q that used to be around here. .

I’m not sure if I was pitted, but people who were being nice to me/defending me/what have you were pitted and I was painted as a crazy person or a trollish liar by Diogenes the Cynic back in July or so last year.

I don’t feel controversial. One of the reasons I don’t post a lot is because I have very strong opinions but I don’t want to constantly be in fights with people. And the posts that led to the pitting were not even some of the more “controversial” things I’ve expressed – it was just me telling a story about something I experience. Strange how that works out… :slight_smile:

Sadly, not I.

Which sucks. I’d really enjoy seeing what insults people could dig up about me.

Okay…what was the controversy?

Valete,
Vox Imperatoris

I’ve been pitted by a couple of trolls, one of whom has since mellowed out (I find myself enjoying ivan astikov’s posts these days). Another turned out to be one of SBSO’s socks. It was all pretty transparent throughout.

I think I’ve been pitted for some other things too, but they all managed to blow over. Hey, I didn’t ask to be this charming, but it’s still my cross to bear!

Oh, come on, man, you’ve been here for like two months!

ETA: I don’t mean to call ivan astikov a troll. I think he was a little in over his head at the beginning and has since started flying right.

Hostile Dialect,
Hostile Dialect, Narcissist

I have been pitted four times, to my knowledge:

Randy Seltzer, you’re a damn pompous windbag!
Hey Randy Seltzer, your ideas re Palestinian transgendered literary criticism are totally fucked up
Randy Seltzer’s good looks and charm have pissed me off again
Fucking Randy Seltzer is making the rest of us look bad!

I was pitted specifically once and then mentioned another time in a general pit thread.

You got a pitting that I should have gotten, and I still haven’t forgiven you. :smiley:

I suppose I can count the parody pit going on now.

I think I have only been seriously pitted once. It was actually quite fun as the instigator quite embarrassed himself.

**Liberal **also pitted me twice but they were very mild and in one it was a quick clarification. I believe the other was described as “Liberal MPSIMS Jim”

If I remember correctly, she was pitted for having claimed an ongoing relationship with a ghost from the 1700s, was it? They also see movies.

I think I was pitted once, and I totally deserved it. Someone started a thread about a stupid thing they did on a boat once as a teenager, meaning it to be a lighthearted “heh, I sure did some stupid things as a kid, how 'bout you?” thread, and I misunderstood both the intent and the tone. I went in and threadshat all over the place, a shrieking harpy straight out of a Coast Guard manual. My bad.

Well, it all started with this post in a thread about paranormal experiences. If you don’t want to click through, I told about my experiences being friends with a ghost. Various people responded and I replied. Then, it was transferred to Great Debates, and Diogenes the Cynic decided that people were being too nice to me there so he started this pit thread about how people shouldn’t have been so lenient with me. It went on for like two weeks and got to be like 15 pages.

He was from the very early 1800s, actually. But your gist is correct. We do see movies; I even won the Oscar pool at work with his help/advice. :slight_smile:

I have absolutely no sympathy for you. Diogenes was completely justified. (And I think I remember this a little, now that you’ve jogged my memory.) I’m not sure I really want to know what your “more controversial opinions” are.

Valete,
Vox Imperatoris

Good thing I didn’t ask for it then, right? :slight_smile:

I never asked anyone in the thread I was pitted over for sympathy/money/pocket lint either. But, apparently, my different beliefs were enough for Dio to think I shouldn’t even be treated civilly. It’s too bad you agree with him but no one can stop you from thinking what you want to think. :slight_smile:

I got pitted once, but it was a pretty lame affair. I’ve said and done far worse things on this board without being pitted. I was sort of disappointed that it wasn’t a more creative, or at very least deserved, pitting.

Even worse, i was pitted for something that i said in a Pit thread. That’s got to be the lamest of all, because you can already tell the person what you think of them in that thread.

I pitted myself during the Lost Weekend. Does that count?

I pitted you on Bizarro Dope, but that was completely justified grumble Yankee fans grumble.
(I realize that this might be confusing to relative newcomers. The Lost Weekend was the weekend of the upgrade to the new vBulletin that included a free-for-all pit, and Bizarro Dope was a temporary test site set up when they were moving the site to a new server.)

I’ve never been pitted. I am the sort of person who tries to be as least offensive as possible. There won’t ever be a reason to Pit me (knock on wood, I guess!)

One time someone I know IRL posted a Pit thread sort of on behalf of me, but it was way in to “don’t post about real-life member drama” realm and it got shut down. In that one I was kinda the subject but far from being Pitted.