“Yawn”

[Anonymous]

Hi Jeff,

There is a poster who responds quickly (usually first page) to any post about monkeypox, covid, or any other public health issues with single word posts that say “yawn.” It sometimes ends up derailing the conversation because people then argue about the yawn post, not the substance of the OP. I find it annoying because of course if you are really bored with public health threads, you don’t have to read them.

Is it okay to report these? Would you consider deleting?

Example in this thread:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1073533.page

[Anonymous]

You want the word “yawn” deleted? Is this satire?

[Anonymous]

The example you show has all the other posters ignoring it. Ignore and it will go away.

[Anonymous]

It is the stupidest and most pathetic reply. It translates directly to, "my agenda means I don't want this topic being discussed or seen by many people, so I am going to try to squelch it."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The example you show has all the other posters ignoring it. Ignore and it will go away.

Yes, in that thread it wasn’t picked up. But in many threads, it’s not ignored, and since it’s always on the first page, the chance of it getting picked up and derailing the thread is pretty high as the thread goes on.

One solution could be to just wait for the conversation to be derailed but that seems like more clean-up work for Jeff (but maybe he is fine with that). In any event, I don’t see what “yawn” adds to the conversations, though. It’s clearly just meant to annoy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is the stupidest and most pathetic reply. It translates directly to, "my agenda means I don't want this topic being discussed or seen by many people, so I am going to try to squelch it."

I interpret it as of here we go another post about X. I’ve seen it in places besides health. Just don’t respond to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is the stupidest and most pathetic reply. It translates directly to, "my agenda means I don't want this topic being discussed or seen by many people, so I am going to try to squelch it."

OP here. The thing I do not get is that the response is always on the first page so it boosts visibility. If you were really bored why would you boost the thread? I don’t really get the motivation of the person who does this, but they do it so frequently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The example you show has all the other posters ignoring it. Ignore and it will go away.

Yes, in that thread it wasn’t picked up. But in many threads, it’s not ignored, and since it’s always on the first page, the chance of it getting picked up and derailing the thread is pretty high as the thread goes on.

One solution could be to just wait for the conversation to be derailed but that seems like more clean-up work for Jeff (but maybe he is fine with that). In any event, I don’t see what “yawn” adds to the conversations, though. It’s clearly just meant to annoy.

To clarify I’m OP. Sorry forgot to say that for this post.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Hi Jeff,

There is a poster who responds quickly (usually first page) to any post about monkeypox, covid, or any other public health issues with single word posts that say “yawn.” It sometimes ends up derailing the conversation because people then argue about the yawn post, not the substance of the OP. I find it annoying because of course if you are really bored with public health threads, you don’t have to read them.

Is it okay to report these? Would you consider deleting?

Example in this thread:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1073533.page

Just report the posts. If it is the same poster, I'll figure it out and deal with it then.

It is an obnoxious reply in that it says, "I only care about this topic enough to say that I don't care". That doesn't really add much to the conversation. If the poster really didn't care, they should just move on to a topic about which they did care. Passive aggression is not necessary.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi Jeff,

There is a poster who responds quickly (usually first page) to any post about monkeypox, covid, or any other public health issues with single word posts that say “yawn.” It sometimes ends up derailing the conversation because people then argue about the yawn post, not the substance of the OP. I find it annoying because of course if you are really bored with public health threads, you don’t have to read them.

Is it okay to report these? Would you consider deleting?

Example in this thread:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1073533.page

Just report the posts. If it is the same poster, I'll figure it out and deal with it then.

It is an obnoxious reply in that it says, "I only care about this topic enough to say that I don't care". That doesn't really add much to the conversation. If the poster really didn't care, they should just move on to a topic about which they did care. Passive aggression is not necessary.

Thanks Jeff