# Why does anyone bother starting a Pit thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 21, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-anyone-bother-starting-a-pit-thread/478183 "2008-12-21T13:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Racer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@Racer1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Racer1)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-anyone-bother-starting-a-pit-thread/478183/21 "2008-12-22T01:01:01Z")
I was trying to save innocent ears. Or eyes. Or… well, anyway, the point is you don’t win a prize. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-anyone-bother-starting-a-pit-thread/478183/22 "2008-12-22T01:44:06Z")
While I don’t believe that I’ve ever pitted another doper… I have a serious need to express myself, to vent the shit that happens to me, the shit that happens in the real world that bothers me. Better in the Pit than bothering the people around me. No one HAS to read my pit thread, no one has to respond. My personal theory about people who never get upset, never get angry, never let anything bother them is that they’re either too stupid, or too self-absorbed and completely oblivious to the entire freaking world to comprehend what is going on around them. That’s why they’re not bothered; because either they don’t understand it, or because it’s taking place outside their more important inner world. Or maybe it’s just because they’re dead inside. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-anyone-bother-starting-a-pit-thread/478183/23 "2008-12-22T02:50:46Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > For all you Pit thread starters, what do you hope to achieve? Why are you so tightly wound that someone else’s behavior on an anonymous message board inspires you to write critical posts about them? > > At that moment in time the most important thing in your life was how much poster X gives you the shits. How is this possible? > > You have no outside entertainments? > > You are just sitting there fuming about someone else’s post? > > No TV? No radio? Don’t own a book? No hobbies? No loved ones? > > **Are you hoping to create the one Pit thread that changes someones opinion?** > > Can anyone who has started one tell me what they hoped to achieve and what they actually did achieve. FTR, I’ve seen plenty of people’s mind changed after being pitted. I’m one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-anyone-bother-starting-a-pit-thread/478183/24 "2008-12-22T03:24:26Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > Bastard. No need to get snippy-he was just asking a question. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-anyone-bother-starting-a-pit-thread/478183/25 "2008-12-22T05:50:20Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > Bastard. > [@Racer1](#): > > I was trying to save innocent ears. Or eyes. Or… well, anyway, the point is you don’t win a prize. 🙂 Oh. Heh. I guess I need to brush up on my swear words. That one didn’t even occur to me. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-anyone-bother-starting-a-pit-thread/478183.md?page=1)