Honestly, I see a couple of cateogries:
1. People who just want to type something, anywhere. They claim they've read though the solutions, but haven't, otherwise they'd see we give basically the same advice over and over. That gets a little cumbersome. Why I started showing people where the search bar was.
2. People who don't really want help, they just want to vent and because they're angry. I actually get this, because I remember a time when I was under a lot of pressure and wasn't too pleasant either. Eventually came around tho. Retirement helped me not take too much too serious. lol
I'll pass up most of these unless I see someone being totally obnoxious or abusing someone else. I've also learned to pass up on speed complaints - those are just are just a moon door to **bleep**.
Edit: gotta love the bleeps.
Mark, once you wrote something I thought was very insightful -- it was something addressed to a raving eejit, and you admonished them that they didn't know how to negotiate from a position of weakness. That really hit the nail on the head. Yes, they are angry, but they are also full of entitlement, and seem completely incapapable of taking responsibility for anything and of negotiating in a civilized way. (And apparently were raised by monkeys, judging by the way they keep flinging their bleep about).
That's part of it.
One thing I found out a while back was that anger makes people do things they normally wouldn't do. It puts people into positions that are out of character and make decisions that are clouded and personal. It's like the whole premise of how evil attempts to prevail in Star Wars, but nobody gets it.
Social media doesn't help in this regard, because it just makes it easier to unload enmasse. People now think it's normal and acceptable when it really isn't healthy at all. Today, everyone thinks they're Howard Beale. Social media's their drug, and Paddy Chayefsky's rolling in his grave.
Mark, yes, exactly. But it happens in other environments too, like the road, or a queue, or many other places outside the Web. People get their ire up and they're off to the races. Happens to our close cousins too: "When angry, chimpanzees may stand upright, swagger, wave their arms, throw branches or rocks—all with bristling hair and screaming or with lips bunched in ferocious scowls" (Source). So similar to some of the swaggering, bristling individuals that post here, who throw verbal branches and rocks at people, acting out like peevish 2-year-olds.
