Why do people like to post they haven't played ___ console in months

[MaxwellGT2000]

Onyxmeth said:

Sorcery said:
I don't see anything wrong with lamenting the fact that I haven't had any awesome Wii games to play since early 2008.

It depends on the thread.

Thread title #1: When is the last time you've played your Wii?

Appropriate topic to talk about how long it's been since you've played your Wii or purchased games for it.

Thread title #2: What Wii games are you getting in November?

Not an appropriate topic to talk about how long it's been or your lack of purchases.

I've seen far too many people use #2 as their method of letting it out, and not enough #1.

Indeed Onyx, and yeah I saw your report it post ;P I wasn't really only directing this at VGC but forums all over the net, hell it's gotten so bad "professionals" in the field take the written word of these people as truth and you get statements like "It's a monopoly box in the closet" it's far from the truth. 

As for our site, it used to be heavy with what you described with #2, after many bannings for trolling like that, people decided to keep it to #1 though many are just saying it to troll and get away with it since technically you can't prove one way or the other that they're lying (its the internet, where women are men and boys are feds) they see a topic or create a topic about how long it's been since you played your console and every one of them comes out of the woodwork to say how they haven't played it in years and that there are no good games, only to piss others off.