A fair point,
but if you ask a question about negative experiences, you have to assume that you're going to get a lot of negative responses.

This QOTW might as well be "tell us who has pissed you off". Of course it's going to lead to people being outraged about things, especially if the person in question has had a significant impact on your life at some point.
( PMGT -Bacon., Tue 17 Apr 2012, 16:23, 1 reply)

Yeah, I get that
it's just some of it is so outraged, you can't help but think it's the poster who is struggling to control themselves.

Some type as though all this is happening right here, right now, when it's obvious it happened years ago. How do you stay so angry for so long?

We all meet dickheads. Most of us just shrug it off and move on.
(username failed moderation, Tue 17 Apr 2012, 16:31, closed)

Yep, another fair point.

( PMGT -Bacon., Tue 17 Apr 2012, 16:43, closed)

I'm not.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 17 Apr 2012, 16:48, closed)

Yep
You can actually imagine the angry spittle flecks hitting the screen as they rabidly type their answers, some of them.

I call it Daily Mail comments syndrome.
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Tue 17 Apr 2012, 18:41, closed)

The funniest one though
Are the people that get angry at something that didn't even happen to them.

It goes from "I'm angry at what you did/said", to "I don't believe you did/said that" to "You are a twat".

I suppose once they've set themselves on a course, it's hard to backtrack out of a spiral of bitterness. These are the ones that end up with more spittle on their screen than coherent arguments.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Wed 18 Apr 2012, 9:03, closed)

Yes, that's also true.
Sometimes it feels like they weren't actually there.

It begs the question; isn't it rather a big leap to be able to say 99% of people are wrong, all the time? Who really has the problem?
(username failed moderation, Wed 18 Apr 2012, 9:27, closed)

I should think 99% of the people are wrong
when commenting on something 99% of them have no experience about.

Hell, just start a PC/MAC debate, or PS3/XBox and you'll have a 50/50 split of opposing views, and this is for something there are hard and fast facts about. Usually a good percentage of both sides are wrong.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Wed 18 Apr 2012, 11:54, closed)

This is why I said
'all of the time'.

It's quite possible to be the one person in a hundred who is right, occasionally. It's rather improbable that it happens every time.

I'm talking in general. If you're still butthurt about what I said yesterday, it's your problem. You are assuming that because you're a karate instructor, I know nothing about Karate.

That doesn't actually work, does it?
(username failed moderation, Wed 18 Apr 2012, 12:20, closed)

However...
If I think of a number, or watch a film, or anything another 99 people haven't an idea what it was, what are the odds of the 99% being right and 1% wrong?

This is what I'm saying is the case in my original post. Twist the argument to suit your case all you want, you'll still be wrong.

As for assuming you know nothing about karate, it's not from my 36+ years of experience, if from the lack of knowledge displayed in your posts. That does actually work.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Wed 18 Apr 2012, 12:44, closed)

Those debates...
... PS3/XBox, Windows/Linux, PC/Mac, iOS/Android, etc/etc, are even more depressing when thanks to being a techy sort of guy in a techy sort of industry you've quite commonly had to use both, for the same tasks, over an extended period of time. By which I mean months or years, not "I played with it in a shop having decided beforehand that I wasn't going to like it" which is the usual bleated excuse as to why Device X must suck and all the millions of people who bought it are wrong and should have had Device Y instead.

I remember talking to this with a guy who moderated a gaming community once, for him to point out something interesting - the people he most commonly had to pull up for going truly overboard on X-vs-Y console arguments didn't own one or the other... they owned neither. I suppose it makes sense as this group is going to be the most susceptible to believing untruths in either direction about each platform (the lies:truth ratio in a typical iOS vs. Android debate would make a political manifesto look honest).
(Timberwolf, Wed 18 Apr 2012, 22:53, closed)