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Originally Posted by Walt.
Exactly right. When a particular restaurant shows up here (over and over again) for "less than terrific" food or service we get the usual folks jumping in with the line "they're really trying" or "I can't imagine that it actually happened." Somehow the poster is a liar or maybe just confused. Perhaps he's just not as sophisticated as the responders.
When someone posted about their car being vandalized it was implied (if not said outright) that the posting was probably not true... just the work of some trouble maker. Make sense to you?
There is a landscaper that's been beaten up on this sight. I guess all the customers got together and, for no reason whatsoever, decided to attack him. Hmmm... maybe they weren't customers... just competitiors!!
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I understand what you are saying and I well may be guilty of doing just that, i.e. not taking some posters seriously.
I feel that I react in that way when a person who is posting is very negative in her/his post and is not clear about the situation and appears to be really angry. My immediate response is..wait a minute, WHAT happened? How did it happen, and did it happen?
I have said that I think there is an ulterior motive for some negative posts. I really do believe that it must be difficult for other developers around The Villages to sell houses and it is possible they would like to take this place "down" a bit. I also think that some individuals who post once or twice with a very negative content may be "trolls" or people who just kind of enjoy "stirring things up". It has happened before and the administrators have banned them.
But I well could be insensitive and if it is so, I am sorry and will try to listen more with my heart.