My first Pit thread, and possibly too mild to be pit-worthy, but something annoying keeps happening.
Somebody will post a question (we’re talking GQ here, it’s facts they are after).
Somebody (sometimes me) will answer it (or try to)
The Orignal poster then either:
[li]Disagrees with the answer they were given.[/li][li]Turns out to know the answer anyway, but just wanted to belittle anyone who gave a simplistic answer.[/li]
So you asked a question, but now your an expert eh?
<sound of Mangetout’s blood boiling>
Look, I try to answer questions, sometimes I get it wrong, I don’t mind if somebody corrects me, I might even learn something, but it seriously pisses me off if the person correcting me is the one who asked the bloody question.
What’s with this bloody pretence business?, does this behaviour have a name?
[sup](it’s not quite the same as trolling, is it?)[/sup]
Happened to me just yesterday. Several people, including myself, answered the question correctly. The OP then came back and disagreed, now intent on believing the exact opposite. It would have been different if he had made an argument or introduced new information… but no, he just wanted the other answer. I’ll not link the thread and embarrass the newbie OP. I hopefully I set him straight.
This phenomenon is worthy of a term. How about Dissenting Revelation or Contrary Savant?
Could it be a sub-version of Male Answer Syndrome?
MAS = The inability of a male to NOT answer any question. Just try asking a male if he knows how much candy was imported by Poland last year. He can’t say, “Nope, no idea.”, he will have to try and answer.
from one of the alien flicks, there was a dumb prison guard whos nickname was 85, turned out it was his iq. nice obscure you can say like its an insult and get the eh? in response.
