Drama, why look?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Note the forum, please.

I can understand clicking on a thread to see what's going on and seeing that its a drama thread. Once. But why do it more than once if drama upsets you? I'm seriously at a loss here.

[Mysturji]

I'm sorry, I thought you were asking a serious question.
I clicked here because I wanted to know the answer.
Note past tense.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm sorry, I thought you were asking a serious question.
I clicked here because I wanted to know the answer.
Note past tense.

I am serious.

[Mysturji]

Oh, I thought you were pretending that the thread title was supposed to be a warning that there was drama inside, then the OP was all like "WTF did you click here for?"
I'll go away now.

[Pappa]

Because we're human and drawn to it like flies to shit.

[PsychoSerenity]

I can understand clicking on a thread to see what's going on and seeing that its a drama thread. Once. But why do it more than once if drama upsets you? I'm seriously at a loss here.

Because often I worry and care about about the people involved, and the way the forum functions, and I want to understand what's going on, and hope there's some solution that can be found.

Having said that, I've started to think that any input I might have probably won't help the situation much anyway - so I tend to avoid posting even if I can't stop looking.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Because we're human and drawn to it like flies to shit.

Guy standing on a street corner hitting himself in the head with a hammer. Policeman approaches cautiously and inquires as to the rest for doing that.

"Because it feels so good when I stop."

Is that the logic here?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I can understand clicking on a thread to see what's going on and seeing that its a drama thread. Once. But why do it more than once if drama upsets you? I'm seriously at a loss here.

Because often I worry and care about about the people involved, and the way the forum functions, and I want to understand what's going on, and hope there's some solution that can be found.

Having said that, I've started to think that any input I might have probably won't help the situation much anyway - so I tend to avoid posting even if I can't stop looking.

Another way to support the person(s) you care about would be not aggravate the drama. Support them via PMs or elsewhere in the forum.


To me it's like staying a house with a domestic dispute going on, or in a store where a customer is having a hissy fit with the staff. It's purely optional to stay there. And I've never left a "city" because of a dispute in one "neighborhood".

[Pappa]

Because we're human and drawn to it like flies to shit.

Guy standing on a street corner hitting himself in the head with a hammer. Policeman approaches cautiously and inquires as to the rest for doing that.

"Because it feels so good when I stop."

Is that the logic here?

No. More like when people gawp at horrific car crashes and gossip when their friends/family are up to stuff.

[Mysturji]

WARNING: DRAMA INSIDE! DO NOT CLICK!

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

See?
I knew you'd click.
You know how I knew?
Because you're a twat.
Go on, report me.
Or give me a warning if you're a mod.
That will prove my point.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Because we're human and drawn to it like flies to shit.

Guy standing on a street corner hitting himself in the head with a hammer. Policeman approaches cautiously and inquires as to the rest for doing that.

"Because it feels so good when I stop."

Is that the logic here?

No. More like when people gawp at horrific car crashes and gossip when their friends/family are up to stuff.

Morbid curiosity then? If so, why the frequently flouncing away that follows so many dramas? Do people think they have to leave if they're hero "loses"? I'm perplexed by that more than anything else.

[Pappa]

Because we're human and drawn to it like flies to shit.

Guy standing on a street corner hitting himself in the head with a hammer. Policeman approaches cautiously and inquires as to the rest for doing that.

"Because it feels so good when I stop."

Is that the logic here?

No. More like when people gawp at horrific car crashes and gossip when their friends/family are up to stuff.

Morbid curiosity then? If so, why the frequently flouncing away that follows so many dramas? Do people think they have to leave if they're hero "loses"? I'm perplexed by that more than anything else.

Maybe it's a bit more like family/friend gossip... because we have an emotional involvement here, it means a lot to us. So, the dramas cause divisions, arguments, fallings-out, just like they do offline too.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I've seen people leave because they supported one person in a drama, and the party they supported remained on the forum. Having trouble getting my head around that as well.

[Audley Strange]

I'll tell you why I look. I LOVE the wild spontaneity of Internet Drama as each side gets less and less rational and reasonable and more indignant and vindictive towards each other and then feign shock at each others responses.

Drama is the exact word.

[Gonzo]

Because fairness is not always objective or cut and dry . People are invested in each other and interested in the truth and, or if not that, about being on the right side of an argument. Where there is smoke, there is fire.