Originally Posted by
PeteHski
I think that's because there often is on BF. Not always of course and I can spot the difference a mile off.
I think a lot of people start fights with supposed peremptory attacks. I know I've posted that I don't use x in a thread where someone actually asked if we find x necessary, only to see the same post straw-manned into some sort of crazy contentious assertion in another thread with something like "no guess who is going to say...". If you make someone feel they have to point out they never actually said the thing you're accusing them of, you're trolling. That's not aimed at you personally. I just got sick of being on the receiving end of that treatment a zillion times, and the excuse was always "well, people post stuff like that all the time so...."