Stop with all the bloody reverse threads!

[Itsfab]

I have seen two today and neither needed to be reversed to give an impartial comment. You come across as a bit wet.

[Eeeeekyeeek]

I was just about to start the same thread.

It's pathetic. And wet, I agree.

[Fairenuff]

I think they come across as trouble makers.

[Vitalstatistix]

Amen to that. I could bloody kiss you.
It's a gigantic pain in the fucking arse.
if someone doesn't want to disclose which 'side' they are, instead of a reverse (flawed because you do not know what the other person is thinking, feeling or how they perceive things so you skew it in your favour with your own bias) then just go
person A and person B
or "let's call them Sally and Sam"

not let me set up this ridiculous situation where I am being outrageously unreasonable in every way and you all say so, thus confirming that actually i am totally in the right.

I mean, great way to get the answer you want, but very irritating.

[BackOnlyBriefly]

You should have started a thread called "What's wrong with having reverse threads"

[CherriesAndOtherStuff]

They're just stirring imo. The most recent one came in for a pasting even before she revealed it was a reverse and even moreso afterwards. If she'd just posted the truth from the start people would have been on her side.

[Fairenuff]

Both of those threads were posters new to mn so they are most likely just being goady.

[CherriesAndOtherStuff]

Slightly OT but how can you tell if someone is new? Can you search for someone's posts?

[usualsuspect333]

I haven't seen any lately.

I don't click many threads these days though TBH.

[UncrushedParsley]

Manipulative and annoying. And then people start frothing about people objecting to the reverse, and bam, there's a bunfight!

[Fairenuff]

Cherries yes you can search their posts.

[Vitalstatistix]

You can't tell if someone is new. Unless they have set up their date of joining on their profile and then it only tells you when they joined up with that id, not how many others they've had.

You can only tell how long they've been using a particular username, by ASing it.

I mean, they may tell you either long term mner or newbie, and you can choose to believe that but just cos they say it, doesn't mean it's true

[Vitalstatistix]

I mean, if you were to AS my username, you'd find I'd only been here a couple of months.

Actually, I've been here since 2005.

[Eeeeekyeeek]

Can we have a ODFO smiley please? Just for reverse threads.

[Perfectlypurple]

The recent reverse is a perfect example of why they are a pain. Lots of yabu - then the bug reveal. Then loads of posters who haven't RTFT or even the last few posts and reply to the original op.

Just start a thread with the correct details.

[OttiliaVonBCup]

It's passive aggressive shit.

[Ihatechoosingausername]

Where are these Reverse threads? (can't find any)

[rusticwomble]

Hello, I'm new! Please tell me what a reverse thread is so I can avoid annoying everyone :p

[Fairenuff]

rustic just don't tell any lies and you'll be find

[Fairenuff]

fine!

[TheWitTank]

YANBU. It's funking irritating.

[TheWitTank]

Or fucking.

[Fairenuff]

Wit The Rage hath caused us to have typos

[TheWitTank]

It has!

[TheTravellingLemon]

Agreed. I think it is pointless and manipulative. My radar is crap and I get so frustrated when I invest time in a thread only to find out I've been taken for a ride.