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[ SECRET POST #3197 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3197 ⌋

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I was reading about a horrific crime, and someone purporting to be the victim's father commented.

Am I the only one who is always dubious when that happens? Not to be cold, but... I feel like if your kid/sibling/etc. was harmed or killed, the last thing you'd do would be go on the internet and read the comments.

Has anyone commented on a crime or other news story that's affected them before?

The only time I'm not dubious about a commenter being related to the article is on Cracked, where 90% of the 'personal experience' articles come from forum members anyway.

Huh, didn't know that, though I don't really pay much attention to cracked outside of the articles and the comments. I always forget there even are forums there.

I don't know how I would react. It's such an unthinkable, fucked up situation that I imagine people might resort to strange coping mechanisms.

idk i wouldnt write it off completely. i cant really see myself doing that, like going onnews articles about it & stuff but other ppl might. i can kinda see myself reading the articles themselves but i wouldnt wanna put myself thru the comments section

when my cousin died of an overdose i would see every comment left on his timeline in my own feed and i really had to resist telling his shitty friends that they enabled and encouraged him so i can see other people not holding back

I saw a thread on TV Tropes once where one of the forum regulars linked an article about a suicide-by-cop and claimed it was his father. He was pretty distraught, and I guess he considered the other posters friends he could lean on.

I did leave a pretty cold comment on the local paper's website.

I had politely asked them to only publish facts if they have to publish anything at all and keep it short. I also suggested they don't contact me again.

Apparently this pissed off the baby reporter and I made the front page and a double spread inside the saturday paper.

It was an epic sob story about my sad family, and how my mum died (but for some reason the same paper that has an archive copy of her obituary got the year she died wrong), and about how devastated I am in particular.

I commented with fact corrections, under my real name.

Wow, what a horrible thing to have to deal with.

That reporter sounds like a real life Rita Skeeter.

I'm so sorry that happened to you though.

I know! I was convinced that surely the local paper wouldn't hire people like that. Most of what they write is like "Mabel Oldladyperson won the show prize for best decorated cake for the fifth year in a row! Go Mabel!".

If anything I am impressed by how little actual information he got for the article. If he tried to talk to people who know me, they obviously didn't give him shit.

A few years ago, my employer was hired onto a short project that generated some media buzz in the area. The TV news station from the nearest city came out and did a pretty nice story on the project, talking directly to the people who had hired us rather than bugging us while we worked and getting their facts straight. The local small-town newspaper reporter, however, repeatedly trespassed on private property without asking, barged into areas where he did not belong acting all important like peopled owed him information, tried to bully random people into talking to him, acted like any kind of locked door, closed gate, or instruction to go talk to certain people first was some kind of crime ("You need to keep this gate open." Uh, no, it's a gate on private property that does not need to be accessed by the public or kept open for any legal reason), and wrote up an article full of errors and that made the entire thing sound like something controversial was going on. Guess there's a reason he works for a small-town paper.

Jesus. Who is hiring these crazies?

I laughed at that guy trying to snoop and find something top secret. Most locked doors in places I've worked were supply rooms. Top secret toilet paper and printer ink. Yup.

I dunno, people can do some weird stuff while grieving. I give them a pass unless they're endangering themselves or someone else.

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