Why do (some) people comment on threads that are specifically NOT for them?

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Before someone starts with the ”it’s a free world, anyone can post whatever and wherever they want”.
Yes,yes.

But.
If the post clearly states it’s for example for people who love cats, why do people who hates cats pop-up and tell how much they hate cats, when no one asked?

Like, what is the mentality behind these people?
That’s what I want to know.

If someone asks how their holding up as a single person, soon the thread get filled with people saying how happy they are being married.
Or if op asks how to deal with insomnia, soon many of the comments are people saying they always sleep so well, never had trouble with sleep.

Why do people do that, why?
What is that about?

I think it could be the people who wouldn't say those things in a conversation face to face if the topic came up, but on the internet, they can be anonymous and therefore choose to be obtuse!

I do enjoy reading those thread though, they keep me entertained!

i think some just like to offer their views reguardless

I hate this. I posted a question specifically about single parents and get loads of married women commenting saying they aren’t single parents BUT like just no. I asked for single parents! This wasn’t mumsnet though so happens all over the internet. Also posted another post and asked people not to comment if they weren’t in a similar situation then had people having a go at me for “excluding” people and being passive aggressive apparently! No I’m just sick of people commenting to say they are not in the situation, so why comment?

Some adults have never developed beyond the toddler thing that all attention is good, whether good or bad, grateful or annoyed.

There are also some people who are too dim to understand how a public forum is different from somebody messaging you directly for your input. Like this Viz letter, some people just have to be the authority on everything, even when they clearly do not know the faintest thing about it!

You also get it on the tribute threads about celebrities who have just died. People who have never heard of them can't just think to themselves "No idea who she was" and scroll on by; they feel the need to click on the thread and then go to the trouble of telling everybody that they don't know who the person was, believing that to be somehow helpful to somebody in some kind of way.

Some people are selfish

You see it where people with infertility say they would prefer people not to suggest adoption to them and you get several people (who aren't infertile and who aren't adopted and haven't adopted) pop up absolutely adamant that they should be allowed to say this regardless of how it makes the person with infertility feel

Some people are so adamant that their views are important to the world that they will share them regardless of the impact on the listener

So they see the example mentioned above - asking single parents for advice, know they aren't a single parent but still be absolutely convinced that their words need to be heard by that single parent 🙄