[duxup]

This is a forum where people share their opinions and experience, not a TV show or news story or narrative.

If people's opinions or thoughts don't fit a narrative you want, a forum likely isn't the place to find it.

Everyone gets to share, there's no rules here about not sharing / having a different experience than others.

[roughly]

You have the right to say or post whatever you want (within the rules of the forum). You will not get thrown out for doing so. You may have other people come along and tell you they didn’t get anything useful from your post, though, which is also their right.

[DetroitThrow]

Everyone gets to share but it's also completely within the forum rules to call out irrelevant anecdotes as uninteresting to the discussion.

I have no idea why you're making a comparison to a TV show; nothing that was described was anything akin to that. I just made examples out of insufferable and clueless forum comments, that very clearly detract from discussion more than they contribute to it.

I don't think you should assume that describing meaningless and unrelated anecdotes as "uninteresting" is equivalent to users calling for a forum ban, which is seemingly what you're doing when you point to forum rules when encountering a critique.

[grayhatter]

> Everyone gets to share, there's no rules here about not sharing / having a different experience than others.

I disagree that this is a fair interpretation of the original objection. But assuming it is a possible interpretation, "that doesn't happen to me" isn't sharing an experience, it's sharing the lack of an experience.

Sure, yes, everyone does get to share, on a public forum, expecting otherwise is dumb. On that, 100% with you!

And yet, I feel like there's an important difference between sharing how your favorite color is blue, after someone said they like red the best, and sharing how you're not being mistreated, when someone is asking for help to stop someone from mistreating them.

You see how one is everyone sharing together, and the other appears to minimize the mistreatment of someone else?