[dclowd9901]

Contrarian anecdotes are an ill-conceived method of contributing to a conversation, and doing so in some sort of attention-getting way. They appear to all but undermine the entire premise of the original content, and yet, are based on absolutely nothing but one's individual experience with the matter.

I see this kind of stuff all the time on Reddit, and it's become so numbing that you know, no matter how well you construct an argument or how many facts you cite, someone will always come out of the wood works and tell you how you're wrong because it didn't happen that way for them. It wouldn't be so bad if people didn't take that as a genuine counter-argument.