This is great! Thank you so much for compiling these resources. I’ve bookmarked it for reference. Please don’t delete it!

Yeah, I think that’s fine, but some people get super direct or almost aggressive about it. Asking for more details is fine, but often the OP doesn’t have additional details, and people need to be willing to accept that. For instance, this situation sounds a lot like a general observation and not something that’s unique to one particular set of circumstances. It’s also something I’ve experienced, so I guess for me, I understand what he’s talking about exactly.

Some people also don’t read the other comments in a thread before posting theirs – a lot of people – and then it gets super exhausting as the OP to have to respond to each demand for context individually, when they’ve already responded to someone else. I feel like I still have trauma from the time I made a post on reddit that accidentally depicted someone from Australia instead of the US, and I must have had like 50 comments telling me, even though I’d already responded to the first person who told me by admitting my mistake and apologizing for the mixup.

But I got a bit sidetracked there. What I mean is, something like “Does this happen in any specific place or circumstance?” is reasonable and non-confrontative. Saying, “There must be more to the story that you’re not telling us” is unreasonably rude and aggressive. It’s really unkind to make veiled accusations against someone, unfounded and unprovoked – especially in a community that’s expressly about sharing unpopular opinions! Like, wouldn’t you want more people to share their unpopular opinions? That seems like the whole point!

I’m in an American midwestern small town, and people do the same thing here. The more rural the community, the worse it gets.

I’m not sure people here even realize they’re staring – they’re just not very good at interacting with people who aren’t the few individuals they see every day.

I feel like he made it clear in his post:

there are some adults that will just look and look and look at you when you enter a room

These people are just starting unprovoked. He doesn’t say that everyone does this, everywhere he goes. He says that some adults will stare at you.

And guess what? I’ve totally experienced this. Personally, I think part of it for me is living in a small-ish town, but still, it’s unprovoked behavior.

Even if you’re walking into lectures, it’s still not good form for people to stare, and the farting is something you’ve totally conjured out of thin air. None of these details were in OP’s post. We don’t need more details. When he uses the word “just,” that implies this is simple unprovoked behavior.

The idea that “further context is warranted” is absurd. The OP has already made clear in another comment that there is no further context.

Edit: Okay, I’m exhausted now lol. Good luck out there, OP!

Sorry, there’s not more to the story

Oh boy, this is the other thing people do lately, isn’t it? I’m sorry to get sidetracked, but I think they want so badly for something interesting to happen that they imagine there must be some big reveal or twist behind any story.

You could give certain people a detailed and graphic breakdown of one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s murders, and they’d be like, “Well, we haven’t heard the full context. I don’t want to pass judgment.”

The public libraries where I live are exactly as you described. I’ve never heard the kids from the adult section.

Wrong. I did that 6 hours ago when I reported it, and I had to see it again at lunch.

I’m not looking again.

Yeah, I reported it six hours ago, and it had already been up for three hours at that time.

I genuinely thought they’d have removed it and didn’t expect to see it again.

Even if it’s a federation issue, this is inexcusable. They need to get their shit together, but I’m not sticking around for that to happen.

It’s not like this is the first time this has happened. It’s still grossly negligent to not have figured that part out.

It was a few minutes ago when I checked

I’m not looking again, but I think this is how one reports it in the US: https://www.stopitnow.org/ohc-content/when-and-how-to-file

Seems to not be a problem on most instances

See you on the flipside. I’m not putting myself at risk over a shitposting community

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I can hardly wait to “well ackshually” some unsuspecting person with this information

I hate it when I go to meet my Tinder date, and it’s Stalin catfishing me again

Knitting is super fun. I used to do it every day until I started my masters. I keep thinking I should restart this hobby. As long as you don’t buy ridiculously premium yarns, it’s super cheap too. I used to find boxes of yarn at yard sales or thrift stores.

You were born in the United States

There’s probably already a Dollar General on the other side of that mountain

Blocked, reported, and banished to the phantom zone

Every big web site in 2024 looks like the sites people warned you not to visit in the 90s