AIBU to ask if you post on threads that make your blood boil?

[Flatpackback]

Quite often I read threads that wind me up so much I have to fight my inclination to engage with them. Am I alone in this? I sometimes type out responses but delete before posting because I think it's going to lead to a blood bath. The better person within me tells me to move on & look for lighter content.

Another one who mostly writes a long post and then deletes it. It’s usually not worth the emotional energy.

I try not to but occasionally can’t resist!

& I often delete rather than post too...

I don’t. Mostly people just want to shout the loudest and aren’t interested in learning, debating in a reasonable way. I can’t stand it. I’m all up for differences of opinion but it seems that’s not possible without it descending into viciousness. And no one ever seems to change their mind. There was a great radio 4 programme about people changing their minds about a big topic. I think one was about someone in the IRA. And another was a doctor and expert witness in shaken baby syndrome cases. It was really interesting.

@Flatpackback

Throckmorton when I get too hysterical I move to the gardening thread to calm me down 😂

So do I!

I have a few pet topics, which I usually am happy to engage in and actually, I'm quite knowledge about them, actually. And we all know that there is nothing more convincing than someone using the word actually twice in the same sentence .

But I actually am...actually....so, aaaanyway, sometimes I am happy to engage, but other times, it isn't the rage or boiling blood that puts me off, but just being too tired and a bit bored of the subjects in question. Also, seeing the same 'faces' who I've just had a really in depth conversation with, spouting exactly the same, ignorant, or sometimes just incorrect, bollocks again, on another thread.

*knowledgeable

Damn you autocorrect!

I’ve just posted on a thread now, about face masks. I really shouldn’t have, Ive been dipping in and out of it, but I suddenly needed to vent, as it’s turned a bit nasty.
I find toxic in-ław threads a bit difficult and, as a pp previously mentioned, children and food threads difficult as I know that I’ll vent my spleen and will probably regret it.