What are your thoughts on the complaining?

"SimmerGeorge;c-17698417" wrote:

"Duvelina;c-17698306" wrote:
Your intention is apparently not to help the team be better, so what are you trying to do? That is spreading negativity by definition, isn't it?

@Duvelina Some people want to discuss their opinion with others so they can understand where they come from. It's not always about providing feedback to the team, sometimes it's also about asking other people what they think of things and why they do so while sharing ones own opinion.

I feel like this is rarely the case though. Most threads seem to be started from a venting perspective without any questions asked at all and other people have to jump on the complain train themselves hooking into what OP said. When someone with a differing opinion jumps in, it's completely disregarded because opinion 1 must be right! That doesn't sound like a discussion to me. That sounds like OP needs confirmation of his existing opinion. This would be fine if it was one or two threads, but why do some people feel the need to open their very own thread to put their opinion on blast instead of joining the general complaining thread? I don't mean to be rude here, but I don't think most opinions are so riveting and overwhelmingly clever it'd warrant an entire thread.

This isn't meant towards you though and it's referencing something I said earlier, it also counts for both negative and positive threads. I don't click on any of them. It does seem to happen more often with negative opinions, in my experience, which is probably why some people find the complain threads annoying.