To think MN should ban reverses?

[Merryoldgoat]

Just that really. Along with TAAT and the other ones, shouldn’t reverses also be banned as they’re so fucking annoying?

@MNHQ - what do you think?

Or is that what they call Troll Hunting?

Totally agree. Far too obvious and slightly goady

I really don’t understand what the big problem Is or why people find it annoying.
as long as the OP gives all relevant info, I do t think it matters how they present it.
so, no, I don’t think it needs to be banned

Although sometimes still annoying, it's perfectly possible for an OP to say "I won't say who is who yet as I want objective replies - A thinks this but B strongly disagrees, whilst C feels caught in the middle...."

That is playing your cards close to your chest whereas reverses are just deceitful. Plus, people usually go too far with reverses in belittling and criticising 'themselves' (i.e. the object of their disgust) and don't just stick to the facts, e.g.:

THE TRUTH: "I have a colleague at work who has a serious BO problem. She's a nice, friendly person, but it really is unbearable to sit near her for more than five minutes as I start to feel a bit unwell. How can I tactfully raise this with her and help her?"

THE REVERSE: "I've never believed in showers as I'd rather spend longer in the morning eating a double-sized bowl of Sugar Puffs, yawning and scratching my arse instead. I believe that soap and shower gel are the very work of the devil and I'm on a water meter anyway. Some of the snowflakes I work with complain about how I stink - it's true that I do honk like a whole flock of Canada geese, but I think those buttercups just need to suck it up; we're there to WORK, not to sit around chatting about cosmetics and complimenting each other on how 'delightful' we smell. It's inevitable that you're going to sweat buckets in a highly physical industry like mine - we're desk-based data analysts - so all I can assume is that the precious little flowers I have to work with who don't give off a good old honest-to-goodness pong by mid-morning are clearly sitting there doing nothing, cheating our employers and leaving it all up to the real dedicated workers like me who believe in a fair day's back-breaking graft for a fair day's pay. AIBU?"

Thread about a thread

They aren’t. I asked in site stuff.

This is what mnhq replied:

If it's goady, offensive or breaking TGs in any other way then, yes, we are likely to delete a reverse thread. However, there are no 'set in stone' rules for this sort of situation tbh and we'd decide on a case by case basis. Very often, we find that the OP 'fesses up half way through the thread anyway...

😂

You are brilliant😂