People who accuse you of drip feeding

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Does anyone else get annoyed when someone pipes up & accuses you of drip feeding.

You post your thread & respond with additional information depending on peoples opinions or if a question is asked.

Inevitably someone will accuse you of drip feeding. This serves no purpose to the thread, offers no advice & just sounds sarcastic.

AIBU to wish these people would jog on?

I find drip feeders more annoying

Usually giving some important information that completely changes the situation usually because people arent agreeing with them

Making an op doesnt have a rime limit- no excuse not to give all relevant info if you want proper responses

I think it's because generally people tend to drip feed when the thread isn't going their way. Some also leave very vital information out and then when they are being told they ABU then they provide the drip feed, which then just doesn't seem believable.

Yes I've never understood why it's such a crime

Its 50/50 isnt it. Sometimes op adds information as necessary and its tedious when they are accused of drip feeding.

But its also tedious when the op asks a question then drip feedings important info when replies dont go their way.

There’s always two scenarios of a drip feed.

1 - the opening post is already long (waffling), the op lets out more information it/when it’s relevant. Perhaps irritating, but better than reading a huge wall of text.

2 - (the more usual case on here), the op starts off with a rather innocuous post. Something like ‘AIBU unreasonable not to invite my brother’s new girlfriend to our barbecue this weekend? He’s utterly in love with her but the rest of us don’t really like her’. Several posts later of ‘yabu, put up with her for his sake’, the op will shitdrop something like ‘well actually I’ve known her since school, she horrendously bullied me for years and still calls me a fat bitch when no one can hear!’.

Drip feeding is annoying, best to try and get as much of the key information into the first couple of posts, no ‘big revels’ when it’s not going as planned.

Drip feeder is generally a synonym of troll adding to the drama in order to garner more sympathy. If not, a Dripfeeder is someone being so unreasonable that other participants on the thread are all going WTF. So a hefty, if totally made up piece of tragedy is hurled in. Invariably used as a tool when a thread isn't going the way they'd planned or their own personal creative writing/begging enterprise is dropping off the front page.
So, accusations of drip feeding don't bother me. Dripfeeders however, do.

Drip feeding is totally different to additional information. Like the one that's asking for a contribution for looking after her dgc, that's a fecking drip feeding and it's ridiculously annoying as it totally changes the scenario

Sometimes people try to be vague in their OP so they aren't showing too much bias (trying to remove past behaviour/emotion from the issue at hand) or to avoid "outing" themselves, but then once people pile in to say they ABU, they feel the need to clarify with a bit more specific information. Also, sometimes people don't necessarily know what is relevant to comment until someone asks them, then they respond appropriately.

That's how I usually read it anyway, but see an awful lot of accusations of "drip feeding" - then conversely see "TLDR" on "overly-detailed" OP's.
So you can't win. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Drip feeding is incredibly annoying. Long into the thread they admit that the child has learning difficulties/ Possible ASD, or the mum has been abused/anxiety/some other really important detail that would have changed all the responses.

Really really irritating.

Oh that thread running now about the grandparent wanting her DIL to pay her for childcare because she feels it's too much for her son!
Crikey there's a drip feed that changes everything. I'm waiting for another drip feed that he has disabilities or something.

Drip feeding is horrid.

It's not a synonym for providing a bit of extra detail. It's the withholding of a whacking great plank of information that even the dimmest person wouid knew was key. It's the absolute height of shitty manipulation.

And shitty manipulators don't usually like to be called o but it should happen, otherwise they'll keep twisting away.

Theres a difference between drip feeding and adding information. Additional info adds extra context, drip feeding changes the context entirely.

"My neighbours kept me awake all night because they were having a loud party. Aibu to be pissed off?"

A drip feed would be that the OP lives next door to a bar that hosts parties every Wednesday night and has done since before the OP moved in to their house and they were aware of the Wednesday party night.

Additional information would be that the OP has an unwell child that was kept up by the noise and they were exhausted.

Drip feeders drive me insane. It's not additional information at all, a drip feed is content that is needed in the first post for people to be able respond properly.

I'm sure some people "drip feed" when the thread isn't going their way too.