To think the haste that some posters show to create a thread regarding the death of a celebrity is distasteful?

Absolutely - people were falling over themselves to start a post or comment last night, very distasteful.

I was criticised for calling one poster out for creating a thread in AIBU (which actually had voting switched on!), which was already at least the third post about the same thing, with people complaining that I should be more concerned about the fact that someone had died, not what was posted and where!

I can't stand people just trying to jump on the bandwagon - in this case, none of the people were grief stricken, but goulishly speculating about the circumstances, which was unnecessary,

We used to call it Competitive Sadding on here. Can't recall which sleb death prompted that phrase though.

Once something is in the news, I'm really not sure why it matters that there's a thread on here about it 🤷‍♀️

I think it's OK tto see something you find a shock on the news and then start a thread about it.

What I have no sympathy with is the level of self-centredness that means the person does not stop and think that they might not be the only or the first person to see that piece of news and there might already be a thread about it.

I don't mean a couple of threads that are started within a minute or two of each other (that'll be people typing at the same time). I mean when there's a longer gap and a thread already very active.

I remember when it were all green fields around here - and the ridiculously large number of threads about two deaths in particular (Peaches Geldof and Bob Holness)

I agree, it's odd. And it then turns into a competition about who can be the saddest/most outraged.

It's like when people post a link to a news story about someone being sent to jail for murder)abuse etc. - people fall over themselves to froth, call for the persons death, condemn the justice system etc. It's so odd!

I don't care either way but I'm interested to know what sort of time span would be acceptable to you OP?

It's in the public domain and being discussed on thousands of other social media threads so I don't think it makes much difference 🤷‍♂️

Some people like to talk about things to process them. I think it’s normal to want to talk about something that has surprised you or given you a shock. I don’t have a huge circle of friends so I find the chatter here quite comforting

Not if the comment is decent and respectful.

Yeah like those people that update Wikipedia immediately.

Yeah it's weird AF.

I've literally never seen on the news that someone's died and rushed to break the news to MN.