Am I just imagining things? There seem to be an inordinate number of threads lately which are so similar that I am wondering if the same person is creating names and starting these threads. The topics are diverse and appear in several forums. They have the following common elements:
- started by a greenie. Often a first post.
- very long.
- similar word misspellings.
- lacking paragraphs.
- similar verbiage and punctuation styles.
- drama. Stories are long, involved and full of detail.
- situations and problems have elements which are fantastic or border on the unlikely or the implausible, yet, all elements are possible.
- stories contain details which are provocative and illicit a lot of comments and opinions.
- greenie OP creates the topic and then leaves the room.
- OR greenie objects to comments and rejects all advice, often with anger.
- if the greenie does respond to criticism or advice, she/he changes the essential elements of the original posts, or adds details which justify her/his objections to advice. Sometimes the details change the original post profoundly.
What do you say?
The first few posts I made when I joined CoTH were rather short and tentative and were comments on existing threads. I didn’t dive into CoTH with dramatic details of my life and my problems. That does not mean that I am seeing this situation correctly; it could be that the new posters just have a different style.
