# You and the Pit **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2000, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438 "2000-12-07T05:04:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/1 "2000-12-07T05:04:15Z")
Do you ever check the Pit looking for a thread called: **Hey (your name), get in here, you (insert vile name)!!!** Every once in a while, after I’ve made a potentially inflammatory post (like today’s outburst toward **Danimal** in the boycott thread here) I check over there with half an eye looking for my name in a thread title. But, it hasn’t happened yet. What about anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/2 "2000-12-07T05:11:15Z")
Are you kidding? That would be the highlight of my SD existence! ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/3 "2000-12-07T05:11:31Z")
I do after any night of serious drinking and involving blank spots in the old memory. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/4 "2000-12-07T05:12:37Z")
I check it constantly. I live in mortal dread of the Teeming Millions banding together to excoriate me. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/5 "2000-12-07T05:14:49Z")
Hell, I hust search on my name to see if **anybody** has said **anything** to me. It’s a damn short list. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/6 "2000-12-07T05:20:24Z")
I’m not the only one! (Of course, I do check the Pit for other reasons, but still… I do think there’s a thread there with my name on it waiting for me.) ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/7 "2000-12-07T05:23:51Z")
Shit, I think it’s happened to me twice now. No big deal, really. It’s usually some deluded asshole who got the wrong idea. ---
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/8 "2000-12-07T05:32:41Z")
Yes, and all I can say is I’m damn disappointed! I don’t know what it’s going to take, but I’ve gone after a few of you bastards, and not a one of you has rewarded me! Screw you guys. ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/9 "2000-12-07T05:35:17Z")
One would think Democritus would return the favor you paid in “Democritus: Pucker up, Ass slammer!” A classic post for flames. 10.0 ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/10 "2000-12-07T08:01:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bumbazine \* > \*\*Hell, I hust search on my name to see if **anybody** has said **anything** to me. > > It’s a damn short list. \*\* Well, if you’re going to do this, at least you picked a good name. Not a stupid moniker like DRY, which makes searching impossible (endless rererences to dry cleaning, dry heaves, and, worst of all, **dry spells** ). ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/11 "2000-12-07T16:02:35Z")
Part of my morning ritual is to do a search on my user name, to see if anyone either quoted me or mentioned me in a thread (this is just a part of my attention-whore persona). I’ve yet to see a spontaneously calling out of myself in the Pit. Which I have been thinking about lately. Am I doing something wrong? Why doesn’t anybody hate me? No, I don’t really want anyone to dislike me, what’s a poor attention-whore to do? But I was thinking that I must not be expressing myself to the fullest if at least one other poster disagrees with me so vehemently that I get called out. I don’t even know if I’d welcome it, especially if I had to support a point I made, I’m much better at childish insults. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/12 "2000-12-07T16:17:06Z")
Personally, I try to avoid the Pit as much as possible. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/13 "2000-12-07T16:18:29Z")
Hell, I get excited if someone responds to me in a topic that I’ve posted to. I think I fly to far below the radar to actually be recognized as pittable. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/14 "2000-12-07T16:19:27Z")
Ha, John. Sadly, I have never been the target of a full frontal Pit assault. Lexicon came close to firing up the burner when he took issue with my strong words against customer service reps, but he wasn’t trying to call me out exclusively. Oh well, I’ll just keep waiting… ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/15 "2000-12-07T16:28:25Z")
I have had a few knock-down dragouts with folks here, but I have yet to have a Pit thread named for me, although I think I would thrive on the notoriety. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/16 "2000-12-07T16:36:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Montfort \* > \*\*Do you ever check the Pit looking for a thread called: > > **Hey (your name), get in here, you (insert vile name)!!!** > > Every once in a while, after I’ve made a potentially inflammatory post (like today’s outburst toward **Danimal** in the boycott thread here) I check over there with half an eye looking for my name in a thread title. > > But, it hasn’t happened yet. > > What about anyone else? \*\* As a matter of fact, Montfort, I checked the Pit about 4 times during our little spat yesterday, to see if you or Robin were flaming me over there. If I’ve made an enemy, I want to know about it. The last thing you said over on the boycott thread was a conditional apology and an announcement of your intent to reread the thread. Are we agreed now that this was all just an unfortunate misunderstanding? ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/17 "2000-12-07T18:11:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Danimal \* > \*\*The last thing you said over on the boycott thread was a conditional apology and an announcement of your intent to reread the thread. Are we agreed now that this was all just an unfortunate misunderstanding? \*\* Yeah, it was. I don’t agree with your views about communism, but certainly not enough to flame you for it. Again, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/18 "2000-12-07T18:39:16Z")
I’m with **bumbazine**. I search to see if anybody has said anything at, to, or about me ANYwhere. I guess I’m just a masochist! And **bumba** , smooches right back atya from the other thread! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/19 "2000-12-07T19:10:01Z")
I was mentioned in there once. I defended myself well. Otherwise, I just try to keep from sinking back into the pit of the common posters… ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438/20 "2000-12-07T19:11:08Z")
Montfort: Apology accepted. Consider it forgotten. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-the-pit/44438.md?page=2)