"I think AIBU is a great topic, and the best thing about it is people being told YABU and being outraged because they somehow didn't expect this "
Wellie, well that's partly it with AIBU.
The whole set up is an adversarial one, as compared with Chat titles. It invites a "for or against" adoption of positions.
Having been away, one of the things I didn't miss was the quarrelsomeness of ALOT of threads. I have contributed to it previously, I admit, but I'd like to think over important stuff, not looking ot pick fights, or add to them, on the weakest of reasons. If I have been "difficult and rude with someone, I have apologised almost immediately and profusely, and felt bad about myself for doing it. Too much these days there are insults and the like flying around with impunity. I, for one, am not used to being treated like that.
Francis indicates a feeling that the AIBU experience has been a bad one IN THE SENSE that the adversarial nature of it has had a malign influence beyond their own thread borders (??).
I agree. This place doesn't need any more 'encouragement' to quarrel.
All, in my exceedingly humble opinion....