To have the opposite opinion to the vast majority of posters on AIBU most of the time.

[Callmemaybebaby]

I read an OP and form an opinion in my head and then read the comments and I'd say a good 7 or 8 times out of 10 my opinion is the stark opposite of the majority of posters. Does anyone else find this and end up thinking I must have a very strange view of the world but in my head it seems so obvious that my view would be the 'normal' view?

I often feel the same but I also think that the first few comments can sometimes ‘set the tone’ of the thread and all following comments seem to agree with the views already posted.
When that does happen, someone coming along with a different view sometimes gets jumped on and shot down too so maybe people
of opposing views just don’t bother commenting.

Yes quite often it's glaringly obvious that in real life some of opinions given, are as they say on here batshit.
MN can be like a parallel universe sometimes.

I think that AIBU often goes in waves : few pages of comments in one direction and then few pages of comments in another.

However it’s possible that you have a strange view of the world. Can you give us some examples of your strange views?
And does it happen in real life as well?

I always reply first to the op. THEN read the replies so I'm not influenced

If the comments seem out of kilter with what I think is ‘normal’, I only have to set my watch and wait until around 2nd page and thankfully the ‘normal’ bus usually arrives to put things straight.

Sometimes I feel if a poster has a different opinion to others then they don’t write anything.
Usually someone ‘brave enough’ comes on and puts in a different perspective and Heypresto, they all come out of the woodwork.

Some posters can be quite rude if you disagree with them especially if your comment is against the general consensus of opinion as they know they’ll get support in hounding you.
Even though this is all anonymous, which I find hilarious.

As soon as someone uses demeaning terms like…..’ you crack on then’. You know they’re just a bully.
I do think my view is the normal view except the world seems to be changing especially when bringing up children issues. These days parents seem to be wrapping them up in cotton wool to avoid the harsh realities of life. I don’t. So am I wrong….no…..clearly the level headed agree.

I totally agree!! I usually give a short personal dig and end it by calling them cupcake as a reply and then ignore them! They hate it, and will continue to reply as you ignore them and keep your position as having the last word. Drives angry people crazy, since they've bothered to rudely respond uninvited and insult you they're up for an argument, and by giving a personal dig, calling them cupcake and walking away with the last word you've basically won. I usually unfollow after reading their meltdown and move onto the next thread.

Just as an aside, don't you have your mumsnet set up so that it rolls continuously rather than showing one page at a time?

I’m just grateful for all the differing opinions.

Loathe the bullies though. A pp mentioned ‘you crack on’ - yep that’s shit. I hate put downs too.

I do love ODFOD when it’s used to answer an obvious arsehole/bully: Never seen it anywhere else but on here.

Yup regularly.

Particularly the ones that involve women sacrificing their well-being on the altar of their kids.

It’s difficult to say without examples. When the voting is close to one hundred per cent one way, I don’t think I’ve ever disagreed with the majority.
When it’s around sixty: forty the comments often don’t reflect the vote, so if there isn’t a vote you just don’t know what the majority think.

I wish the OP wouldn't respond to the goady posters. It's such a distraction - I've read the first post then look at the responses for what people think is the answer - then some eejit puts some critical comment putting them down and the OP wastes ages on trying to make themselves understood - please don't bother.

I agree, OP.

That said, I do enjoy the Knight in Shining Armour posts. These posts go along the lines of "You're getting a bad time on here, OP. Don't listen to those mean old poopy heads; listen to me."

I feel the same way but I've been on mumsnet long enough to know the topics that would happen. I tend to avoid them now because there no point being the lone voice once the hive mind has taken over.

Quite often on friendship ones — but I think that’s entirely down to the disproportionately high number of Mn posters who struggle with friendships and have some deeply weird ideas about them (possibly entirely theoretical ones, as there are also a lot of Mners who describe themselves as ‘friendless’).

There’s a weird preponderance of posters describing frankly insane levels of people-pleasing and doormattery, regarding other people as ‘CFers’, and swinging from craven service to ‘going NC’ and ‘cutting CFers off’.

Probably the other thing I encounter on here that is a real clash with anything I’ve ever encountered in RL, in any country I’ve ever lived, is the idea of ‘being lucky enough to be able to be a SAHM’. I don’t know anyone, of either sex, who would view it as a fortunate situation.

Yes, and it's usually when the OP has been a complete twat not only to someone IRL, but also to posters who have just neutrally disagreed with them.

What boils my piss is when a simple difference of opinion or tactics for handling a situation is pounced on and bullied. Especially when a gleeful cheeky fucker thread is winding the OP up to do something melodramatic that they'd never do themselves in real life.

I've been on here for years and years, and it's all started to go really weird over the last few years!

It's almost like there's a group of people who actively trying to make it a really horrible place.

Or society has changed and trolls are people who aren't scared to post goady, bullying comments and start fights.

I think years ago posters were easier to identify

I am the same OP except it goes beyond AIBU. My general thoughts and feelings about virtually anything in life seem to be in line with a minority rather than the majority of people.

But take the currently trending ‘Is he doing this on purpose?’ @MaterDei and OP. Do you disagree with the majority of comments?

You're not alone, MaterDei! I find that I'm often in the minority when it comes to opinions.

Totally agree - fashions, popular TV progs,music,sports etc all pass me by.
Also the idea that any house for sale is overpriced if it cost more than 10p and outdated and needs millions spending on it unless it looks like a brand new showhome - whilst simultaneously claiming to be worried about climate change.......etc etc

It depends on the topic.
Plus aibu can be quite a bun fight sometimes and some people's views are very different

A lot of the time I don't think posters even agree with what they are posting. I think some people just love kicking an OP so much that they'll say anything in order to do so.

I mean things like why don't you do (insert ridiculously impractical suggestion that no one would do) or the cool wives "I'd be totally ok with my husband randomly eating several weeks of food I'd just batch cooked in a single sitting, don't be so upright"