<p>Threads where people bat their eyes innocently and pretend they are not aware of the subtext in their comments. There is a lot of disingenuousness on certain topics.</p>
<p>One thing you see at times on CC as well as other places is that some people aren’t happy and <em>don’t want others to be.</em> It doesn’t matter what you do or say, they just want somewhere to dump their misery. There are other choices. Sometimes you really can choose to be a little more positive and be a bit happier. Or you can be a cynic at all times and try to make others miserable. It’s up to you. Once in a while, try making a friend instead of an enemy. You might like it. 
Believe it or not, not everyone thinks exactly the same way you do. Sometimes you might learn something if you try to actually understand where they’re coming from instead of assuming the worst.</p>
<p>@Flossy #218</p>
<p>Bingo!</p>
<p>I used to think that certain posters just had severe reading comprehension issues. Now I realize that some people around here just have their own personal narratives, which they like to square peg into as many round hole conversations as possible (with plenty of sarcasm and invective in one frequent poster’s case). May as well be Straw Man generating bots, but harmless if you can recognize what is happening and not engage.</p>
<p>YZ, by definition everyone has a “personal narrative” when they express their opinions in the first person, don’t they? :)</p>
<p>There used to be an election and politics forum on the site, but it was shut down (probably a good thing). A group of posters splintered off and have continued the conversation in another forum. The new one is not that active any more, but some of the posters there are the same people who subtly insert political agendas into current threads on this site.</p>
<p>Are you one of them, Sally? For the record, I’m not. So, I’m really hoping that is not innuendo. But, it’s hard to tell, sometimes.</p>
<p>No, Flossy–it’s not my cup of tea. I wasn’t suggesting you were involved in it. Some of the comments are pretty ugly–not your style or mine.</p>
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That’s true. One poster has posted her kid’s stats so many times, and on such a variety of threads, that I have them memorized. (Her one-size-fits-all admission strategy, too.)</p>
<p>Any thread that discusses the ROI on any degree/field of study/college.</p>
<p>The ones where a student asks a detailed about a particular school’s policy about something, when it would make the most sense just to CALL the school and ask!</p>
<p>Women only threads where there is a lot of discussion about intimate female body functions etc. </p>
<p>Ew, really? I have never seen a thread like that but I wouldn’t want to either.</p>
<p>I’ve seen at least one thread in the Cafe like razor refers to. However, very easy to simply not read…</p>
<p>The flipside of career-bashing threads is, in my opinion, unnecessary defensiveness when any member of one’s profession is criticized. I don’t see lawyers doing that too much, perhaps because we’ve been too beaten down. But somebody complaining about a particular teacher, or doctor, or dog groomer, or whatever, is not automatically bashing every member of that profession.</p>
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<p>Aren’t those threads titled in such a way as to warn you so that you don’t accidentally cruise into something that makes you uncomfortable or grossed out? If so, how is that a problem? I’m not into the investment threads. It’s so easy to avoid them, thanks to clear thread titles.</p>
<p>Annoying threads are ones which have such vague titles. You open it, realize you’re not interested. The next day you see it, but can’t remember what it was about, so you open it again, only to go “Damn! I’m not interested in this.” And same thing again later. Maybe I just have a bad memory, lol.</p>
<p>Along with what Flossy said earlier: threads where someone makes a snarky statement of “fact” to a specific poster and doesn’t have the &**%# to acknowledge it when clear evidence to the contrary is presented.</p>
<p>^^^ Well, there is at least one current thread on the first page that calls out an entire profession, so it’s not always single issue or just mentioning one member. Sometimes, not always but sometimes, it is the the whole profession taken to task.</p>
<p>Ditto on thread titles. </p>
<p>I get annoyed with students who can’t take the time to read the college websites but want us to and give them the information. </p>
<p>Chance has to be the winner, however. Tis yet another season for that. Read the #$%^& (my symbols- just swiped the keyboard with caps on) webpage of the college you are interested in.</p>
<p>But- we are coming up on the impatience of when do I hear when it is clearly stated on the school’s website. Back to statement two.</p>
<p>The threads with hysterical titles about the crisis du jour when you KNOW the poster won’t take a single bit of advice offered…if they ever return to the forum, or if they do, argue with everyone about why their suggestions can’t possibly work.</p>
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Right you are! Here’s a doozy posted very early today. The student is also illegal (their term from another post looking for…of course…FINANCIAL AID).</p>
<p><a href=“Chance Me / Match Me! - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/</a></p>
<p>^^^^Would these things which “hurts someone’s feelings” happen to be against TOS and forum rules? If so, tough. I’ve had a few posts deleted. Touche. You have to follow the rules, and I disagree that they are all that oppressive. And the TOS on this site aren’t that different from those of message forums I’ve been on which were started and run by men. Except for politics beeing taboo, I guess. JMO, of course.</p>