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pinkwind -> RE: Snarky posts (3/3/2009 5:04:09 PM)
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Some posters attract snarky comments because they have a history of being either a snarky poster themselves, or perhaps not accepting decent but contrary responses to their threads, or perhaps historically post inane or silly OPs and never revisit their threads.
Most of the time it is history driven, sometimes it is the attitude exhibited in the OP, some coming across as the fount of all knowledge, sanctimonious even, or the fact that it is number three in a series of multiple posts asking more or less the same questions in each. Then again it could be just another active topic on the difference between a sub and a slave, no need for another duplicate. You get the drift.
Some responders will always post snarky comments, it's all they know, others do so to be part of the crowd, and some do so on odd occasions because what a thread creator has posted has really pissed them off enough to actually get snarky.
Slow days can do it, boredom can bring out the snarks, a plethora of idiot threads can do it too.
What you also have to remember is that some people are amongst friends in threads where there seems to be an awful lot of snarking, where in fact all it is is good hearted ribbing that people looking in are not a party to, like in jokes between friends.
Snarks are just one type of person who posts here, and exists in the wider world too, web sites are just microcosms, and anonymous ones at that, and people should recognise that they have an off button, a block facility, and the ability to look at post histories and do a bit of research, and if they really are bothered that anyone has crossed the ToS here they can always complain.
Personally i try and just avoid the wrecks and carry on as if they didn't exist, though i have to admit that on a slow day some can be sort of entertaining. Bottom line, don't feed trolls and snarks!
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