# Will I know if someone 'pits' me? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 26, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-know-if-someone-pits-me/318799 "2005-08-26T21:41:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-know-if-someone-pits-me/318799/21 "2005-08-30T22:00:59Z")
> [@1920s Style "Death Ray"](#): > > That is scary. I have a big, strong firefighter to protect me. 🙂 I reported the call to the mods. Then when he did the pitting, he got banned. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-know-if-someone-pits-me/318799/22 "2005-08-30T22:15:12Z")
> [@glee](#): > > As far as I know, I’ve only been Pitted once. :eek: > And the perpetrator was Banned soon after, anyway. 🆒 Me, too. I snapped at someone in a thread, and he Pitted me for it. Turns out most of the folks thought he was out of line as well, and I probably shouldn’t have called him a jackass in MPSIMS, but the situation he was joking about was near and dear to me and I wasn’t in the mood to put up with it. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-know-if-someone-pits-me/318799/23 "2005-08-30T22:35:57Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > I have a big, strong firefighter to protect me. 🙂 > I reported the call to the mods. Then when he did the pitting, he got banned. No he didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-know-if-someone-pits-me/318799/24 "2005-08-31T03:35:36Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > No he didn’t. No? You know this do you? ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-know-if-someone-pits-me/318799/25 "2005-08-31T03:56:17Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > Usually, it’s good manners for the pitter to leave a note to the pitee in the thread that sparked the pit thread. Otherwise, you can occasionally run vanity searches by putting your name in the keyword section and finding any threads you don’t remember posting in. Wouldn’t “pitee” have two t’s? Pittee. Say it five times fast. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-know-if-someone-pits-me/318799/26 "2005-08-31T04:04:35Z")
> [@1920s Style "Death Ray"](#): > > No? You know this do you? [The thread in question](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=251572). I don’t know if the poster involved was banned or not (see [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=332125)), but it seems to have been the case. What **Silver Fire** thinks he knows that the rest of us don’t is unclear to me. Perhaps he will explain. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-know-if-someone-pits-me/318799/27 "2005-08-31T04:10:54Z")
> [@1920s Style "Death Ray"](#): > > No? You know this do you? Nah, I just like making stuff up… Thread in which **clayton\_e** pits **picunurse** (04-18-2004): [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=251572](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=251572) [A](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6046635&postcount=28) [few](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5845982&postcount=17) [posts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6046586&postcount=11) [he’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6043418&postcount=1) [made](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6043742&postcount=12) [since](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6040319&postcount=37) [then](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6034131&postcount=12). He may have been suspended (I don’t know, I’m not a mod), but it’s pretty clear he wasn’t banned. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-know-if-someone-pits-me/318799/28 "2005-08-31T04:27:23Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > What **Silver Fire** thinks he knows that the rest of us don’t is unclear to me. Perhaps he will explain. A. I’m a chick. B. I don’t “think” I know anything. I don’t know what makes **you** think that “it seems to have been the case”, but a 10 second search would have proven otherwise to you and anybody else who was curious. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-know-if-someone-pits-me/318799/29 "2005-08-31T12:41:15Z")
I think it’s time for this thread to be closed. We always advise people to exercise caution when exchanging real-life information with people they only know through pixels. If you have any situation with someone from the board that you feel needs more attention, you should write us an email and tell us about it privately. Some things should be handled off the boards. your humble TubaDiva [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-know-if-someone-pits-me/318799.md?page=1)