Anyone else wonder why so many "just back" reports?

[aprincessatlast]

I have read here for years and the amount of just back posts seem to have sky rocketed in recent years. As if people are taking mental notes to come back and report it here on the disboards. As if all the highlights must be covered by Joe Shmoe and as if their experience is somehow going to dictated Jane Doe behind them. I mean I can see perhaps a casual observance here and there but a flat out mini just back post or my personal favorite that always had me ...."just ask questions". Most of these "reporters" are the....type who go annually and are the type to notice that the light posts at the transportation center are now red instead of green. Lets face it your view of wdw and trip experience is going to be vastly different than someone who goes every 5 years. So why the details on how things changed since last year?

Why the rant you say? Why be so mean? Well honestly I think that the micro analyzing of Disney by some can have a negative impact on the casual reader here. BTDT..

We get it Disney is not what it once was. Yes many of us experienced the glory days at Disney too and they are at last no more...or so many would have you believe. You see though, we stopped going every year as we noticed we were beginning to be the type to notice the posts were no longer red and now green. So yes we halted our trips.

We went this summer after a big hiatus and had an amazing trip. Stopped looking at things through the "chat board" glasses. We even had crazy things happen. I stepped in poop coming off Space mountain at the top of the elevator. Yes POOP! It was also outside of the gift shop too. Some kids went so much as to put a fortune cookie paper in one. After the complete repulsive grossness of the situation we all giggled about it. Yet still, so gross! I did inform a cast member who had a horrid look on her face and off she went to take car of it. Point being crap happens at Disney (pardon the pun) but there is really no need to run off to the computer to post every detail of ones trip. This is of course outside of the actual "trip reports", if one is going to go so far to post pictures and give a detailed account that is a different than just giving me a rundown of your trip as if we are your mother in law who asked how was your trip.

End of rant! Chew me a knew one. lol

 

[Disneylover99]

I have read here for years and the amount of just back posts seem to have sky rocketed in recent years. As if people are taking mental notes to come back and report it here on the disboards. As if all the highlights must be covered by Joe Shmoe and as if their experience is somehow going to dictated Jane Doe behind them. I mean I can see perhaps a casual observance here and there but a flat out mini just back post or my personal favorite that always had me ...."just ask questions". Most of these "reporters" are the....type who go annually and are the type to notice that the light posts at the transportation center are now red instead of green. Lets face it your view of wdw and trip experience is going to be vastly different than someone who goes every 5 years. So why the details on how things changed since last year?

Why the rant you say? Why be so mean? Well honestly I think that the micro analyzing of Disney by some can have a negative impact on the casual reader here. BTDT..

We get it Disney is not what it once was. Yes many of us experienced the glory days at Disney too and they are at last no more...or so many would have you believe. You see though, we stopped going every year as we noticed we were beginning to be the type to notice the posts were no longer red and now green. So yes we halted our trips.

We went this summer after a big hiatus and had an amazing trip. Stopped looking at things through the "chat board" glasses. We even had crazy things happen. I stepped in poop coming off Space mountain at the top of the elevator. Yes POOP! It was also outside of the gift shop too. Some kids went so much as to put a fortune cookie paper in one. After the complete repulsive grossness of the situation we all giggled about it. Yet still, so gross! I did inform a cast member who had a horrid look on her face and off she went to take car of it. Point being crap happens at Disney (pardon the pun) but there is really no need to run off to the computer to post every detail of ones trip. This is of course outside of the actual "trip reports", if one is going to go so far to post pictures and give a detailed account that is a different than just giving me a rundown of your trip as if we are your mother in law who asked how was your trip.

End of rant! Chew me a knew one. lol

I think you just snuck in a "just back" report in your last long paragraph.

 

[jsbowl16]

I agree with too many just back reports in this forum. There is an entire forum for it and this one isnt it. Why dont they post there or why dont the mods move them. I dont see the point of the Trip Reports forum if there are a bunch in here and I am not sure how they are considered park strategy.

 

[Staarr11]

This was a great trip report even though that was not your intention. Now, I know I should be careful of stepping in poop there and will pay closer attention to the ground.

 

[siskaren]

I agree with too many just back reports in this forum. There is an entire forum for it and this one isnt it. Why dont they post there or why dont the mods move them. I dont see the point of the Trip Reports forum if there are a bunch in here and I am not sure how they are considered park strategy.

I totally agree. There used to be a sticky that said that just back and here now posts would get moved to the trip report forum, but it's been gone for a while now.

 

[aprincessatlast]

This was a great trip report even though that was not your intention. Now, I know I should be careful of stepping in poop there and will pay closer attention to the ground.

Per my post ...that was a casual observance....

Seriously though who looks down? So gross. I so meant to come back and post that story. No...not a detail rundown of my trip just that story alone. I snuck it in my post. I meant it fit ...crap happens at Disney. lol

 

[DaisyDuck001]

I actually enjoy reading "just back" reports as a way to catch up on recent changes and news. YMMV.

 

[disneygrandma]

I also like the "just back" reports. I can pick up many tips from these reports. Granted, many of them are negative, but even those might contain a tip or 2 to help make our trip better.

 

[lolcow]

I have to ask, was is human poop?!

 

[jerseygal]

I also like the "just back" reports. I can pick up many tips from these reports. Granted, many of them are negative, but even those might contain a tip or 2 to help make our trip better.

I actually enjoy quick synopsis of trip reports hitting the highlights. Some trip reports tend to be too long of a read, ad nauseam detail.

 

[jsrj21]

I like the "just back" reports but they should ALL be in the correct thread. I think they should have a "here now" thread too.....

 

[L_MD]

I love the 'just back' threads. I find most 'Trip Report' threads exhausting- the ones that go on for pages and pages and are sometimes updated months after the trip happened. I do agree that maybe there could be a better place for these 'just back' threads, but either way I hope they never stop!

 

[mel&me]

I read an occasional just back report. With a lot of them posted I can choose which ones. Its always a short one. I dont read the ones that are a life story.

 

[jsrj21]

....and I agree with L_MD that some can be exhausting. Short, to the point with pictures are the ones I love to read. On any WDW trip, if not all, there are so many things that we can report on but it can be a tough read for the readers. I love them nonetheless though and hope they never stop.

 

[mikedoyleblogger]

I'll tell you why. Because the TR forum is full of gigantic, epic, multi-page, book-length TRs that can make you feel tired just trying to make it through the tables of contents. It can be very, very off-putting. Just the idea of writing a short TR in the TR forum can make you feel like you're doing it wrong. So some people just leave a single long post in the Theme Parks forum. Maybe it's time to split the TR forum up into short and long report forums? Or make it more explicit that you don't have to write an encyclopedia just to post in the TR forum? I don't know. I do know I just came back from an awesome, pivotal WDW trip, and for the above reasons the last place I feel comfortable writing about it is in the TR forum.

Furthermore, criticizing people's admittedly misplaced TRs for being too short is mean-spirited and totally not welcoming. It's also ludicrous, considering the whole point of the DIS is to talk about Disney. Not to mention hypocritical to throw in your own "just back" report in a rant telling people to stop posting "just back" reports. Seriously.

 

[tsme]

I like the just back reports. I don't see them as negative. It's a person's quick summary thru their eyes of their trip. Plus it's nice to read what's going on at Disney.

 

[cdndisneymum]

It is because our society has become and will continue to be, more and more narcissistic (thanks to social media...this is my only source, no fb, twitter...etc).
However, I enjoy reading accounts of others..especially the positive ones.

 

[Pooh2]

I like the Just Back Reports and think this is a good forum for them.
The trip reports with endless details starting months before the trip and including photos in the airport of the egg mcmuffin, are much too time consuming to read through.

 

[jo-jo]

I do read the just back threads, but I'm amazed at the epic 20 thousand page reports. How people remember on Sept 1 we ate at Casey, hot dog $12.99, soda $3.59 (I making up numbers) total......$ 3 cheaper than dining plan. Then we waited 18 mins to get on Peter Pan, while walking a brisk 3.7 miles per hour, we hit splash mountain at 1:32 pm for our FP. I remember stuff like dinner was around 100 bucks, not $92.32 plus tip.

What does annoy me is the number of posts that say "I'm in", "I'm subscribing", "can't wait"....Sometimes the writer has three posts and the "I'm in" people has 28 posts. I wish there was a way to just read the OP posts and skip the rest.

 

[shh]

What does annoy me is the number of posts that say "I'm in", "I'm subscribing", "can't wait"....Sometimes the writer has three posts and the "I'm in" people has 28 posts. I wish there was a way to just read the OP posts and skip the rest.

I agree it can be tiresome to wade through them, but I think the reason people do it is to encourage the TR author and connect with them personally: to let them know that they have an interested audience - that people are looking fwd to their report. It's a lot of time/work to do a TR - and more motivating if you know you're not speaking to an empty room. Plus many of these folks chiming in have answered questions or helped the person during months of his/her pre-trip planning too.

(Do the DIS tools let you see how many people are watching your thread or following along if no one specifically says anything?)