To ask how many people make up OPs?

[BubblesInMyBath]

Surely quite a few are wind ups?

Anyone going to confess?

We all really believe the current AIBU with text speak and the low class ex.

I always bite and don't consider the threads are made up - right until someone suggests it, then it seems obvious

ESP low class ex one

I hope to goodness it's most of them.

I don't mind either way. I love coming on here every evening to see what non-event someone has got their knickers in a twist about. (Either real or not real).

I'm used to getting told off

The ridiculous ones are easy to spot and don't really matter. It's just people fucking about for laughs. But I have been involved in discussion boards where there have been elaborate deceptions conducted over a matter of years, where people got seriously hurt as a result.

I'm not witty or clever enough to make them up but I've been shocked to discover some are made up that I fall for.

After a while they are easier to spot.
New poster/nc
Hi,thenvasttextspelinmistakesnoparagraphsandtextspeakaboutabsoultelynothingthendisappear
Thanks for readingxxx

Bugger, just done a troll masterclass.

Well I've never started a thread before and to be honest I'm feared to!! Most people are shot down in flames and it would seriously make me very unsure of myself.
I think I'll be sticking with reading and commenting and living in my own happy bubble

Some are hilarious though like the dinosaur thread.

I don't mind the funny trolls.

Wouldn't like to say.

In my 20s I would have scoffed at some of these posts as utter bollocks but now a hell of a lot older and more experienced I have key so many people with extrodinary lives and secrets nothing suprised me anymore.

I'm not imaginative enough to make up threads. I'm also incredibly lazy.

I believe that a lot of the bridezilla ones are so exaggerated that they might as well made up. I'm not sure why people can't see through the bull shit.

I think a large number of AIBU are true, but told from a heavily biased and one sided position. If the poster is trying to look like they're being fair they stick in a few half hearted "I know they might feel/do xxxx".

Just the change of prospective, and a few extra details (which the OP may not be aware of) can change the whole post.

If you read AIBU with that attitude it takes a certain amount of posts down to the size they should be.

Well the servants one wasn't about me despite being written in the first person. It was on behalf of a friend's cat.

Some of the outrageous, "you couldn't make it up" type threads, ones that sound like they are a primal scream, are probably attention-seeking if the person is lonely in RL.

and if its Half-Term, you can count on having some strange ones!

I won't mention it but there is one at the moment like that - I can't make head nor tail of it, it is just a jumble of sentences and I don't know if even they know why they are posting (either venting or attention seeking ... who knows).

Pilates - yes know what you mean with the I'm a newby go easy on me and then disappear