Are people deliberately loud and wrong?

[Wrongtwo]

Aibu to think people deliberately give bad advice?

I see terrible advice on mumsnet but also just in general life and wondered if people think people are deliberately giving bad advice or are just ignorant?

Sometimes it's on things that are black and white. Eg a poster will ask something based on knowledge of a specific thing. People without that knowledge will then arrive and shout random advice. Often then people with the knowledge come but people still tell them they are wrong

Sometimes it's things where people might be mistaken eg citing gdpr in circumstances where it definitely doesn't apply. Why are they so confident?

Other times it's bad personal advice. For example people advising things that would definitely ruin a relationship, anger your boss etc. This is particular feels like it's for entertainment value and that people are deliberately sabotaging

You definitely have to take other people's advice with a pinch of salt.

I agree with PP, don't believe everything you read.

Most people are stupid and the most confident people of all are people who don't know what they're on about.

I guess the trick is to ask a professional if you want to be sure. Or Google it if you just want to be slightly more sure.

Some of the legal “advice” I’ve seen on here has been pretty astonishing - not sure why anyone who isn’t a lawyer ever replies to legal questions, I wouldn’t decide I could answer a questions about car mechanics just because I’ve had an MOT.

One of the issues is the lack of context on MN. If I'm offering advice IRL I'm doing so in the context of knowing more about the person I'm advising than the scope of this particular problem and often that broader context has relevance. Also, social norms vary a lot and what I might advise one of my friends to do might be completely inappropriate for someone else with a different family dynamic/ social circle.

Funny you say that.
I once asked in a car group specifically for my make and model car, about a light that had come one with a photo
I got 15 responses of which 10 were talking about a different light, 3 on something I had already said I had tried in the post and only one that was vaguely relevant

It amazed me that people were confident enough to even argue in the comments but were talking about a completely different light

and yet when chatgpt is used to provide answers some people care more about giving wrong answers when its technical or factual questions than they do about actually helping the op with correct answers etc or just want to turn the thread into their own debates or conversations etc and then moan because Ai was attempted to be used to actually try to help answer the ops question etc