PH lynchings..how to avoid??

[Chestrockwell]

Plot twist - poster on the verge of lynching on an anti lynching thread

[ChilliWhizz]

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Normally I'd agree with that, but last week a woman blew up the Tardis. Totally destroyed it. I loved that police box... since I was a kid. And that was a long time ago... Although not in a galaxy far far away. I mean she'd only been handed the keys 30 seconds before for chrise sake.....

[anonymous-user]

saaby93 said:

What's your worry?

I think it’s that none of the threads you post look like lynchings.

[Jag_luvver]

RDMcG said:

Over the years I have noticed a pattern of response to a number of recurring posts:

- I was speeding
- Had an accident
-had or having an affair
-OH left
-committed a crime

In general, when the unwise come to PH for advice, the response is not advice but a lynch mob that builds up in fury to macerate the OP who then disappears, leaving the PH posse to polish its spurs for having run the miscreant out of town. Let's face it, the idiot deserved an even worse fate than the courts assessed and probably should have been stoned.

I wonder why people do this.

I think the problem is in how other people interpret subjective topics - something from a post gets picked up that provokes an emotional reaction in people replying to the thread that perhaps other people don't see or interpret differently. I don't think there are any rules/reasons to this process, but I've tried to come up with some examples of angles that might be taken by people dishing out lynchings on subjects highlighted by the OP:

- I was speeding
I was caught speeding but don't believe what I was doing was dangerous and hence doesn't deserve punishment - cue emotional reaction pointing out to thread starter that irrespective of what they think, the law is nice and clear.

- Had an accident
There are some details you have left out that mean we cannot rule out you doing something wrong - hence the internet will side against you if you don't acknowledge this as a possibility or can't successfully explain why it isn't possible.

-had or having an affair
I've got myself into a mess doing something I know is wrong but am only bothered by that now there are some negative consequences materialising - original thread seems to lack sincerity, that's always a good one to be judgemental about.

-OH left
There is something you did to drive them away that you are not telling the internet about. - I've not convinced myself this is a legit emotional reaction for someone to start a lynching. I'd be interested to see if anyone's got an example of a thread like this where the OP came in for a lynching.

-committed a crime
As per affair

So someone starts a thread and people in internet-land develop emotional reactions based on their own (subjective) interpretation of the post's subtext. Other people reading the thread may infer other subtexts and not pick up on why someone appears to be getting lynched for no apparent reason.

Ultimately, there's usually no right or wrong for any of this behaviour (some reasons may seem more justifiable than others, e.g. comments about person not paying money to other PH members), however the internet/world would be a better place if people were nicer to each other. So I'm going to try and be nice and hope enough people do too!

edit: forgot to quote my favourite post on this thread (so far):

mybrainhurts said:

Henners said:

The knob-free area seems to be Health, which is nice.

Aye, Health is the right place for advice if you've lost your knob.

Edited by Jag_luvver on Tuesday 2nd January 21:56

Edited by Jag_luvver on Tuesday 2nd January 21:57

[anonymous-user]

• awaits sabby to post the 'rac lost my car thread' as a potential lynching thread*

[saaby93]

BAM225 said:

*awaits sabby to post the 'rac lost my car thread' as a potential lynching thread*

Wouldnt this one come up first
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Anyway theyre not trying hard enough yet

Edited by saaby93 on Thursday 4th January 22:15

[Kuji]

saaby93 said:

BAM225 said:

*awaits sabby to post the 'rac lost my car thread' as a potential lynching thread*

Wouldnt this one come up first
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&...
Anyway theyre not trying hard enough yet

Is that the one about the guy with serious soapbox issues, who doesn't know how to format a link?

Oh, and the link isn't formatted properly.

[saaby93]

Kuji said:

Is that the one about the guy with serious soapbox issues, who doesn't know how to format a link?

Oh, and the link isn't formatted properly.

sorted

[AppleJuice]

PH lynchings...how to avoid?

Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee said:

Nah - back there, if you got a problem, you tell Wally. And he tells everyone in town... brings it out in the open... no more problem.

QED, no?

[saaby93]

BAM225 said:

*awaits sabby to post the 'rac lost my car thread' as a potential lynching thread*

ok it's now become a lynching
the guy is posting up personal stuff to fend off the lynchers
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Who remembers the days PHers would have gone around there to try to help find the car

[Andy 308GTB]

This guy is getting a (well deserved IMO) kicking:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

The humour is very entertaining. The feeding frenzy has kicked & is in full swing.

[4x4Tyke]

Those topics only turn into a lynching when they fail to take fair criticism on the chin.

• Speeding - Only when a multiple of the limit, e.g. 60+ in 30 zone, our loved ones might meet them one day.
• Accident - Only if they seek to shift the blame, they may crash into me one day.
• Affair - If the victim they get sympathy, but If caught they need to take it on the chin like a man and don't cry here like a girl
• Divorce - Generally sympathy and advice
• Crime - OK, if they show some contrition otherwise

Trolls pitching a completely implausible scenario, skip the custard, straight to lynching.

Edited by 4x4Tyke on Friday 2nd February 16:38

[AlexRS2782]

Andy 308GTB said:

This guy is getting a (well deserved IMO) kicking:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

The humour is very entertaining. The feeding frenzy has kicked & is in full swing.

I'm not sure that one counts as a proper lynching thread tbh. Have you seen some of the OP's recent posting history? Sounds very much like either a banned PH'er that returned under another account or one of the many bored PH'ers that have numerous accounts they post from.

The OP's clearly just an attention we and throughout the course of the day various posters have given him exactly what he wanted. He even admits it more than once about referencing being bored at work, nearly home time, back on Monday, etc.

[saaby93]

Andy 308GTB said:

This guy is getting a (well deserved IMO) kicking:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

The humour is very entertaining. The feeding frenzy has kicked & is in full swing.

isnt that one fair?

[Andy 308GTB]

saaby93 said:

Andy 308GTB said:

This guy is getting a (well deserved IMO) kicking:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

The humour is very entertaining. The feeding frenzy has kicked & is in full swing.

isnt that one fair?

I think it is probably fair, it's just the size of the mob that gets me, everyone wants a pop.
Reading the last 3 or so pages (after I posted in this thread), the OP returned and appeared to actively encourage the pack.
I don't think he came on to troll the forum, it didn't go the way he hoped & is taking the response in good spirits. I think if he had been trolling his replies would have been more indignant.

[saaby93]

This one
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Guy worries for 3 says about a Notice of prosecution wrongly received and asks for advice
Some of the advice isnt too helpful

[anonymous-user]

saaby93 said:

This one
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Guy worries for 3 says about a Notice of prosecution wrongly received and asks for advice
Some of the advice isnt too helpful

There is zero lynching, you seem to post any tedious link, I guess to stir the pot...

[Mr2Mike]

Six Figs said:

There is zero lynching, you seem to post any tedious link, I guess to stir the pot...

Saaby's white knighting must take up an awful lot of his time.

[anonymous-user]

Mr2Mike said:

Six Figs said:

There is zero lynching, you seem to post any tedious link, I guess to stir the pot...

Saaby's white knighting must take up an awful lot of his time.

Did suggest this further up the thread and said he needs to find a new hobby, then got accused of trying to turn this thread into a lynch, snowflakes eh, can't beat em.

[Chestrockwell]

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?

I feel sorry for the OP, that thread must be taking up a lot of his time! He should just stop replying!