Has anyone else noticed this odd trend lately? Posters simply repeating something the OP has already confirmed as a question - usually to make a dig (at least that’s how it comes across).
I’ve seen it on a few threads lately. There was one from an OP who thought her friends had distanced themselves because her husband had got very drunk at a party they’d hosted. Someone had replied ‘It sounds like quite an evening. Your husband got drunk?’ It was as if she’d never heard the like, and had to repeat it to check she’d read it properly. What part of ‘My husband got very drunk’ needs clarification?
On one of my own threads recently, I’d explained in the first sentence that, where I live, it’s quite common for people to leave things they don’t want on the front wall for others to take. Someone replied ‘So, you live in an area where people just take what they want off other people’s walls…’ I assume she was trying to imply I live in a terrible area, but given that I’d explained right at the start of the post that this happens a lot locally, what did she expect my response to be? ‘No, I made the whole thing up - people never take anything left outside’?
It’s happening again on the hotels thread. Someone admitted to taking toilet rolls from hotel rooms. The number of people who’ve replied ‘You take toilet rolls from hotel rooms?’ makes me despair. Where’s the ambiguity?!
The faux-disbelief of it is so annoying. It’s so superior - and it just feels like a form of troll-hunting without out-and-out accusing a poster of lying (‘Oh no, I never said you were lying; I just can’t imagine anyone doing such a thing’).
Why have people suddenly started doing this?