I’ve been pitted once by someone who really should have thought through what he was doing first - the pitting completely backfired on him as his point was ridiculous and pretty much dug its own grave.
I’ve pitted someone too and ended up coming to an amicable agreement and apologising at the end of it. Hey, I can accept when I’m wrong.
I’ve been pitted at least three times for what seemed to me very strange reasons.
Once for insisting that it was not ok to use a cell phone in an ICU, when the poster who thought it was ok showed research that cell calls interfered with medical equipment only 5% of the time. The rant went nowhere, everyone supported me.
Once for insisting that some country or other (maybe Saudi Arabia?) had a certain type of money – and the person who pitted me lived in that country yet had never seen it. It didn’t matter that I found all kinds of sources supporting my claim, and had in fact linked to several sources when I first posted. Pretty much the same result, everyone agreed I provided sufficient evidence to make my claim.
And once when I opined that advice to push your child into military service as an alternative to calling the police on him was “batshit crazy”. I stepped on a lot of toes there, and eventually retracted the word “batshit”. This is the only one I could find a link to. I got some mild support, but quite a few posters agreeing with the OP.
I’ve never been pitted. I’m not a very confrontational person in general and I don’t have strong enough opinions on most topics that I would get in the sort of discussion that leads to pittings. The things that I do feel strongly about, most of the Dope agrees with me.
Someone once apologized to me in the Pit, though, and my head practically stopped when I saw my name in a Pit thread title. But it was perfectly innocuous (and a strange place to put an apology thread).
Not that I can recall . . . but then again, some days I’m pretty sure nobody here even knows who the hell I am.
And that’s OK
I’ve never been pitted. On the relatively rare occasions when I post on controversial topics, I make my point and then shut up, rather than engaging in multi-post repartee which is what usually leads to pittings.
No more of this, thanks.
Never been, thank goodness. I’m a total weenie when it comes to insults and stuff, so I know I’d probably go crying to my mother or something and then write about it on MySpace about how so-and-so was a big poopy head for Pitting me.
No, although a phrase I used in casual conversation WAS pitted, and it led to a couple of pages, the Pitter was quite clear that s/he was pitting the phrase only–which I think was very decent and astute of them. I still contend that I should be allowed to use the phrase “mighty white” in a disparaging way, but there are too many Dopers who find this offensive for me to do so here. I would never use it as a compliment, but that didn’t seem to fly. No biggie.
Other than that, I can’t seem to even start Pit threads–I guess I’m past the age where I need to go all out with my anger. Either that, or I have some kind of weird anger ADD. Usually one post of it and I’m done.
I don’t think I’ve ever been Pitted (if I was it was right at the beginning of my time here in the months of lost content). I have started a few Pit threads though.
Nope. I think someone got a little upset and mentioned me in a list of people who bothered him, in a Pitting. I was about twelve posts down, or something. In general I guess I manage to be inoffensive.
Nah. Way too boring here. I think I have only ever got one reprimand from a mod as well.
I was pitted because I kept insisting that ‘atomic bomb’ is a misnomer and ‘nuclear bomb’ or ‘nuclear weapon’ better describes what’s really going on. (To wit: ‘Atomic’ implies atoms and the forces between them (valence shell electrons) are primary, but they are not. In those kinds of weapons, nuclei and nuclear forces are primary and valence shell electrons are completely irrelevant. Electrons are much less substantial than thin smoke to a fast neutron about to impact the nucleus and cause a fission reaction, or to two nuclei about to collide in a fusion reaction.)
I was also mentioned in passing in at least one pitting, but I still don’t quite know why. It was either a mistake or a misunderstanding because I was apparently being pitted for holding ideas I do not hold.
Yup, once that I know of. A series of misunderstandings, mostly on my part, led to stupidity.
Manly head-nod Hey, man. I know you. Unless it turns out you’re female…
I have a vague memory of being mentioned in a Pit thread title once. I think I shared it with two or three other people, and it was only a semi-serious complaint about some specific turn of phrase we’d used that the poster didn’t like, and if I’m remembering right, they hadn’t even understood it correctly. I don’t remember, really.
I was pitted once a few years ago over some comment I made. The guy took it wrongly (in my opinion) and started a pit thread. I was completely surprised by it, and by the vitriol coming from this person who made several wild allegations about my character, mental makeup and lifestyle. He ended up going down in flames, so it was all good.
Geez, Tamerlane, you gotta be the only Doper in captivity whose only “real” Pitting starts out -
Bet that stung. 
And in case I didn’t say so, thanks for taking my Pitting of you in the spirit it was intended.
I’ve been Pitted a time or nine. Mostly, lately, it seems people can’t get over the fact that I sign my posts.
People have funny hot buttons here.
Regards,
Shodan
I thought I was about the only regular poster that has not pitted you. You mean there are others? 
Jim (Added for old time and as a show of occasional solidarity.)
I have been pitted once, not in a separate thread, but in a Pit thread I started. Justin Bailey (who I had never come across before) used it to express his total disgust and hatred of my character and the fact that I spell words like favour and colour in the English way (note my location) with an extraordinary amount of vitriol.
Yes, it did hurt at the time. I was surprised that I could generate such a spectacular display of hatred from someone. But then, seeing the amount of spittle other people receive, perhaps I should count myself lucky.
Not me!
Okay, not my non-mod self. That oughta count for something.
I don’t think I have but for the first several months I was here I never ventured out of Cafe Society so unless someone really disagreed with my opinions on American Idol it’s not likely that I was pitted. The standard etiquette is to let the pittee know they are being pitted, right?