Doesn't it madden you...

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

…when you come across someone on the interweb who holds a VERY strong belief that something you KNOW to be true by profession, learning and so on, is just WRONG and you just don't want to have an internet shouting match with them?

I'm not saying that it happens to me all the time, that I have an event in mind or that I can never be wrong, just you know… it has happened and I'm sure it's happened to each and every one of you out there… we just bite our lip and find something more constructive to do online, right? I mean, what's to gain by trying to correct an internet hash tag?

Again, not saying that I am some kind of knowledge deity or that I am never wrong, just on occasion… you know.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Just to add, I can equally be on the wrong end of a "debate". I find myself drawing on an extensive spell in the College of It Stands To Reason and all I can do is either fight a losing battle, go down in a blaze of indignation or apologise and move on...

 

[fla4fun]

…when you come across someone on the interweb who holds a VERY strong belief that something you KNOW to be true by profession, learning and so on, is just WRONG and you just don't want to have an internet shouting match with them?

I'm not saying that it happens to me all the time, that I have an event in mind or that I can never be wrong, just you know… it has happened and I'm sure it's happened to each and every one of you out there… we just bite our lip and find something more constructive to do online, right? I mean, what's to gain by trying to correct an internet hash tag?

Again, not saying that I am some kind of knowledge deity or that I am never wrong, just on occasion… you know.

The thing that makes me angry is when someone online says your personal experience is false, a lie, or didn’t happen. For example, I once got a parking ticket on my car at the Contemporary Resort for “a cast member parking in guest parking” and was advised that my manager was being notified and if it happened again that my car would be towed. I did not, and never have, work for Disney. I just liked the steakhouse at the Contemporary and went there for dinner after work a lot. I mentioned it in a thread on another website where people were talking about whether cars could be towed from resorts and another poster was extremely rude and said I was making the whole thing up. I still have the parking ticket (I think it’s a unique “souvenir”) so no, it wasn’t made up. They started following me around the board from post to post insisting that anything I said about any topic was a lie. Even though I didn’t engage with them, it got so bad I left that board for good.

I didn’t argue with them or call them out on their behavior but I really wanted to, even though I am more of an “agree to disagree” kind of person. Unfortunately at the time that board didn’t have any way for me to post a photo of the parking ticket as proof. That, petty as it might be, I would have done.