to wonder why people invest in threads titled 'sad. Sorry - long, or triggering'

[ElizabethHoover]

WHY would you want to post on a thread advertised already as SAD?
CHrist alive

Natural curiosity, the off chance the poster isn't a troll and genuinely needs advice about something which is erm...sad?

The same reason people post on any thread, to offer their experience and hopefully help the op out.

To be nice to someone who needs it.

Yeah, what the others said.

You have no urge to be kind, op? ;)

I'm fairly untriggerable, so triggering doesn't trigger me.

ok - how many of you open it then SHUT It when there are NO PARAGRAPHS? makes the sign of the cross

Well I suppose we all have sadness in our lives at some point, you might be able to help someone else having a difficult time.

Long puts me off a bit. No paragraphs would put me off more.

I KNOW YOU DO

Same as this 'lighthearted' thing that happens now. I think people put it because they've seen lots of threads which haven't specified and where the OP has been handed their arse. Also mnhq now edit threads to add triggering.

I don't know really what the point is of putting triggering with no clue as to what it might be. Everything's triggering to someone.

And people click because there are people will always click if it says warning or triggering or sad or upsetting or anything like that. Some to help. Some to look.

even when sad, one can use a paragraph, non?

;)

lol @ 'handed their arse'

I don't close it if there are no paragraphs. I tend to highlight section by section and read it. I figure if someone's typed out in that fast, breathless (iyswim) way then they're more likely to be in a state and need a bit of support.

Gee Fen. You iz nice.
shuffles off

No paragraphs are triggering.

I cba to read great long posts. So I like a sorry long warning in a thread title.

LOl at usual

AGREE no paragraphs is triggering

' my house has burned down and family all dead - no parapgraphs - trigger'

yeah, I am hurtling towards my grave and have 20 years of debauchery to cancel out

Some posters write a bloody essay when a couple of lines would get to their point.

Even when it says "sorry, long" I still click on it, read half the OP and then more often than not give up. I really should stop opening them. But it's a no-win situation if it's a complicated scenario, too long and it's, well, too long. Concise and fill in details in response to questions later - drip feeder!

yeah. sorry about that.

No paragraphs make me sad. I do close threads upon opening them to find the op war and peace-esque in length and totally devoid of paragraphs.

Now, now.

Some people are kind and would like to give comfort and reassurance.

That's to be applauded, isn't it?

So long as they don't get sucked into a ghoulish vampiric sort of thing that stresses them out (or sees them fleeced for money or emotional support) then that's ok.

some hand holding ones go on SO Long, i think LADY MOVE ON

But i am unashamedly mean

@ op. I think I like you.