What are your thoughts on the complaining?

"SimmerGeorge;c-17698443" wrote:

"Duvelina;c-17698428" wrote:

"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.

@Duvelina Personally I don't think there is a need to add a question in the thread because to me that's self-explanatory. If I post a thread online about something I don't like then I expect people to respond with their own opinion on that topic no matter what opinion that is. I understand where you are coming from and maybe adding a question would be a good idea but so far I thought I didn't need to explain that you are allowed to comment and have a discussion with me about said thing, no matter what your opinion on the topic is.

Also the thing about the complaining thread is just like the unpopular opinions thread. It's too general so people go in, post their compaint and then the next one moves on and posts their own. There is no discussion because people simply go in there to vent and get out.
Making a new thread means that you can voice exactly the part that you don't like and talk specifically about it with other people no matter if they agree or not (because usually in complaining threads people who disagree don't go in to respond so there is a lack of different points of view)

I also understand your point of view. I sometimes even see threads popping up with: 'Don't mind me, I'm just venting.' If you're open to actual discussion and not just complaining then okay, sure, I see. Sometimes the titles of the threads are also so negative it doesn't seem like OP is open to discussion. It also creates this issue we're seeing here where someone doesn't even want to open the thread anymore and feels like a lot of complaining is going on.

I have posted in the unpopular opinions thread before, I understand that concept. I'm sure it's prevented some threads from being created with the 'awesome', 'insightful' and 'like' options to reaffirm someone's feelings. Having said that, both positive and negative opinions are posted in there. It's a mix of things, not plain venting.