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[ SECRET POST #3149 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3149 ⌋

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A thread yesterday got me wondering.

Does anyone else post opinions or thoughts here that aren't their own? I do it a lot with controversial things my friends or family or coworkers say and their arguments for or against certain positions or issues. Not in a trolling way, mind you, all the 'kill yourself' spam is stupid. One or two have become wanky and were accused of being trolls but it wasn't intended.

It's a fun way to gauge everyone's reactions to the positions and compare them to how I reacted and whether I overreacted or underreacted when the real people said them. And to see what arguments I could have or should have made. Or if they were right and I was wrong and someone else can fill in the perspective.

Just me?

Nope.

Everything I post here is 100% me. That's what makes it so fresh and delightful.

Several users on this board have confessed to doing exactly that. It's a very common trolling practice. Yes. It's trolling.

I think trolling implies an element of malice (even just of the shit-stirring variety) and desire to antagonize and/or harass. Which this, on its face, definitely does not.

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fingalsanteater - 2015-08-18 23:21 (UTC) - Expand

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dancing_clown - 2015-08-18 23:38 (UTC) - Expand

It's trolling if you intend to start wank, I'd think. Most of what I post is not inflammatory and if it is, it's by accident.

Hmm, not exactly, but I will play devil's advocate at times.

Kill yourself. The devil needs his advocates in hell with him, not up here on Earth.

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I can't recall ever having posted views that weren't my own here.

No. In the past I have occasionally posted views similar but more extreme than my own on anon to see the reaction, though.

I've pretended to be a woman in the text of a secret just so as to not be attacked for having a controversial opinion AND a dick.

You have a dick? Gross

Eww *points and laughs at the dick*

I've made up entire scenarios just to see what reaction it gets.

But is this post one of them?

No, it's not made up.

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I don't ever present other people's thoughts as my own. If I want to compare my reaction to other people's, I just say "someone told me X today, what do you think?" I don't know what I gain from pretending it's my own argument.

A more honest answer, a lot of the time. If I say "a friend told me this and I'm worried that she might be being harassed," people are primed to already tell me to check it out or ask. If I repeat exactly what my friend said to me, and other people also see warning flags in what she said, I know I'm not only being overly paranoid and overreacting to jokes.

That's a made up example, but that kind of post.

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I've occasionally posted an opinion that's mind but fudged either my explanation or reason because I'm one of those people who hate it when people reply with "hi [user]." Not that I've used my username for a looooooong time but still.

I think I do it, but sort of involuntarily. I never troll or post stuff to be deliberately wanky, and I try to always attack arguments instead of people. But I will do the devil's advocate thing for the sake of an interesting discussion, and I'm definitely sure I'll overreact or act more indignant about things than I actually am.

No, I pretty much post my actual opinion.

I have quite happily paraphrased people I know or opinions I see on tumblr into secrets. I usually then ignore those secrets cause it feels weird arguing with a secret I post myself. Unless I already wrote an angry reply, saved it as a draft, posted the opinion I hated to FS then posted my reply to the secret.

Have yet to do that but think I will now. So many annoyed fandom replies I write where after I type it out I delete it.

yeah, i'll even post stuff that's come from my own mind but don't believe in the slightest too

Sure. It's fun to try and start a little wank every once in awhile to try and get people worked up.

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