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Can I ask a serious question here?
Does anyone want to share their thoughts on why people get so defensive on message boards? It’s like either you are in agreement with the majority or you're wrong. Why can’t you just have a different opinion and call it a day? Why can’t people actually respect that but still disagree. It's like it has to turn into a battle over who can plead their case better, which is not the same as saying your opinion is actually right.
I’m not going to draw attention to the conversation that is annoying me so I won’t go into details. Heck, I may even be over reacting but I posted a thought on CC that people seem to be annoyed with. Part of it is that I think I used one wrong words to say what I meant BECAUSE I was commenting on a subject matter that I am not very knowledgeable on. However, I’m still allowed to comment on it, right? I don't have to take a college course on the subject matter to have a thought about it do I? And my comment was based on what people who are very knowledgeable on the topic told me when I had asked the question myself a year earlier. I believe they told me their honest educated thoughts. It’s not like I was pulling shit out my ass. The conversation I had with these people dates back a whole year so I can’t repeat what I was told verbatim and therefore may have used an incorrect word but the overall thought that I was saying is still the same. And that was the point not if one or two words I used in the whole post were wrong ones.
Sorry but I’m slightly pissed right now so my words about these people aren’t going to be great. I often wonder who these idiots hang out with in real life. Do all their fucking friends agree with them? Is there no diversity in their RL friendships? Do they bully every single one of their friends who do not think *just* like them?
I stopped visiting someones journal on WC for this very reason. They constantly would ask for everyone’s opinion and almost everyone would say the same thing. Well sometimes I didn’t see it like the other 15 posters who seemed to have no individual voice and would say something different. The original person would then go on about why my opinion sucked and why I was all wrong. So you disagree, fine. But when it happened five times I realized they wanted everyone’s opinion who agreed with them. And I promise you, I didn’t disagree with everything they ever said just a few select things. I’ve never been a conformist (that’s the word, right?) so I just stopped posting in their journal. It was disappointing because I liked them but hello, I don’t enjoy getting beat up in public forums.
I am honestly very interested in hearing why people think posters behave like this because maybe if I understand it I won’t be so annoyed by it. Thoughts anyone?
Does anyone want to share their thoughts on why people get so defensive on message boards? It’s like either you are in agreement with the majority or you're wrong. Why can’t you just have a different opinion and call it a day? Why can’t people actually respect that but still disagree. It's like it has to turn into a battle over who can plead their case better, which is not the same as saying your opinion is actually right.
I’m not going to draw attention to the conversation that is annoying me so I won’t go into details. Heck, I may even be over reacting but I posted a thought on CC that people seem to be annoyed with. Part of it is that I think I used one wrong words to say what I meant BECAUSE I was commenting on a subject matter that I am not very knowledgeable on. However, I’m still allowed to comment on it, right? I don't have to take a college course on the subject matter to have a thought about it do I? And my comment was based on what people who are very knowledgeable on the topic told me when I had asked the question myself a year earlier. I believe they told me their honest educated thoughts. It’s not like I was pulling shit out my ass. The conversation I had with these people dates back a whole year so I can’t repeat what I was told verbatim and therefore may have used an incorrect word but the overall thought that I was saying is still the same. And that was the point not if one or two words I used in the whole post were wrong ones.
Sorry but I’m slightly pissed right now so my words about these people aren’t going to be great. I often wonder who these idiots hang out with in real life. Do all their fucking friends agree with them? Is there no diversity in their RL friendships? Do they bully every single one of their friends who do not think *just* like them?
I stopped visiting someones journal on WC for this very reason. They constantly would ask for everyone’s opinion and almost everyone would say the same thing. Well sometimes I didn’t see it like the other 15 posters who seemed to have no individual voice and would say something different. The original person would then go on about why my opinion sucked and why I was all wrong. So you disagree, fine. But when it happened five times I realized they wanted everyone’s opinion who agreed with them. And I promise you, I didn’t disagree with everything they ever said just a few select things. I’ve never been a conformist (that’s the word, right?) so I just stopped posting in their journal. It was disappointing because I liked them but hello, I don’t enjoy getting beat up in public forums.
I am honestly very interested in hearing why people think posters behave like this because maybe if I understand it I won’t be so annoyed by it. Thoughts anyone?