To get tired of posters making things up

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In any contentious thread, there always seems to be at least one poster,sometimes more,who makes up things that the OP has not actually said, to justify their point of view.

Probably a futile wish, but I want posters to respond to what the OP actually says, and not make things up that better supports their point of view.

YADNBU - There seems to be a spate recently where posters seems to make both massive assumptions and blatantly just quote rubbish that nobody has said.

There has been a few times where I've gone back looking for comments I'd thought I'd missed only to find no such thing was said.

YABU and racist and homophobic

More and more I look at threads, think about replying, and then think why bother (except in this case obviously!) for a multitude of reasons.

Posters who make things up.
Posters who are so polarised and unable to see others views.
The sheer nastiness at times.

So much that just doesn't make for debate but for nothing but slanging matches.

MN is a hotbed of people who read what they want to read, not actually what the OP has said.

They do this because it enables them to give the answer the want to give, and have already thought up before the end of the first sentence of the OP.

wason 😂😂😂

wason Took me a second to get that

YA so NBU. I often see replies to posts and wonder if I'm reading the same thread

Wason, I was and then quickly

YABU. Toilet brushes are disgusting and I've no idea why you are advocating their use quite so aggressively.

YANBU
It drives me mad too. You get 10 people saying RTFT yet they still bang on about something they think was said before they realise they didn't read anything but the ops 1st post and only skin skim read that.

Some people of course will argue black is white even when they are deliberately missing the crucial point in the thread because they cannot contemplate that they could be wrong.

Seems like the world is full of self important, blinkered idiots.

I don't know, I find it amusing to watch someone argue against a point that was never made in the first place. Especially when they get massively up on their high horse and start patronising and insulting other posters.

Actually, not that amusing, I wish the level of reading comprehension on here was higher.

It's odd, isn't it?

Sometimes one forceful reply can completely (unintentionally) derail a thread by misreading an initial comment, which umpteen posters then read the same way, and it takes pages for a corrected version to emerge even though the mistake is quite obvious.

I think it's that thing (I've forgotten the name for it, sorry!) where people get entrenched by disputation, to the point that they ignore even a series of very explicit facts that negate their position. People reply forcefully, and the force of it means they get emotionally invested in their interpretation being 'right'. (In my real life experience, people will generally rather contort their own argument than admit they got it wrong, which has to be testament to the depth of our fears about it).

Yep. Drives me nuts.

As does the total lack of comprehension many posters display.

As does the inability to at least read all of the OP's posts.

As does coming onto a thread 400 posts in and saying something blindingly obvious as if none of the previous 400 posts might have amply covered that.

...it's actually bloody frustrating these days. I have a few ongoing threads I try to stick to, but the bloody 'Discussions of the day' grabs my attention! 😖😂

Wason

Haha, this happened to me on a thread the other day. The bloke kept going on and on about something completely different. It was a bit amazing. It was like me: oranges are a fruit him: you're wrong, apples are fruit. me: ... ok? never said a word about apples, mate. him: your claims of apples not being fruit are ridiculous!!

I left him to it.

There seems to be a lack of reading and comprehension ability, plus a laziness to read the whole thread or even just the OP's updates. 'Cancel the cheque' was the worst example of this but a recent thread about about meals in Morrison's cafe was close, no matter how many times the OP said she had paid for both meals posters still popped up with "the child's meal was free".

I've just hidden a thread based on this.

MN is a hotbed of people who read what they want to read, not actually what the OP has said.

They do this because it enables them to give the answer the want to give, and have already thought up before the end of the first sentence of the OP.

I think @ShotsFired has pretty much hit the nail on the head with this, though I would say that a lot of posters are just giving the answer they thought up as they were clicking on the thread title, so before they've even read the OP's first sentence!

YANBU.

I do remember with awe a poster who ran herself out of town over something she had entirely imagined.

It was someone else's OP about inheritance, a few years back, and Imaginative Poster invented an entire backstory of family members, relationships and lifelong cruelty which not only wasn't suggested by the OP but flatly contradicted most of it. She then wound herself into frenzy repeating her story and finally flounced in tears, denouncing the unspeakable cruelty of the thread-starter and all MN.

It was .

People tried to help her, but she was unshakeable in her belief in her own fiction.

She'd been persistently obnoxious all across the site, so my sympathy at the flouncing was tempered. But yowch! What must it have been like to live inside her head?

Annie
Yes and coming onto a thread 10 pages in and only having read the 1st post and giving advice on that not realising that things had changed/got worse/had happened 2 days ago and they were giving very specific forceful advice on what to do before it happens!

RTFT or at least all the ops posts please!

That does sound weird, Perking and yes ShotsFired has perfectly summed it up. Plus there are those posters who believe they are so clever that no-one else in a 500 post thread could possibly have thought of what they have to say, no need to read and check, so they post this pearl of wisdom which has invariably been covered on page 1.

Always doing laundry at 30 degrees is disgusting and will make your machine smell like drains. I have told you this many a time before ffs.

I wash my towel once a year whether it needs it or not but I replace all duvets in the house monthly and burn the old ones. It's the only way.

I posted a thread about exercise and it was ridiculous what people were making up in response to my original post. It is like some people come on here solely for a fight. Really weird.