@icyedge
You really do have to quantify that assessment. The term a lot is entirely subjective, and fundamentally undebatable for the simple reason that it is most commonly used as a generic place holder. Which means I noticed on more then a single occasion. There is no universally accepted metric for a lot, and it doesn't even support the vague metric. That might be applied to words in the same category as big, large, huge, and titanic. Where it is understood that titanic is reserved for things that are terribly impressive. While big is reserved for more mundane things. A example would be that a Elephant is big, but a Blue Whale is Titanic.
This is what I noticed misinformation and exaggeration accounted for roughly two or three percent of postings. Not only is it the norm for these forums, but it is the norm for the internet. You will always find two or three people out of a hundred that are completely ignorant, or willing to embelish things. This isn't entirely new have you ever heard about the one that got away.
Honestly there wasn't any change at all from the norm. The change was in the tolerance. When people are upset, or frustrated it is easy to see them believing that more bad things are happening then are actually happening. When ever I have a bad day. I always find myself noting every little thing that is wrong. When I normally over look them, or pay them no interest. They seem bad, because I am in a mood that makes me want to see them as bad. What we have here is one very bad thing happened to a lot of people, and then anything that seemed even remotely bad instantly became bad.
Really the terms exaggeration and misinformation have been really abused on these forums as of late. Someone spat them out, and they have been recycled by other members to be applied to things they simply find annoying. I have to say this I didn't read a lot of fish tales, and misinformation wasn't any different from normal. The same basic thing will happen regardless of the topic. Someone is going to misremember a fact, or will have the details wrong.
Anyway it just didn't happen the way some are imagining that it did. You want proof go back four or five pages to read all the threads. Then go back six months, and read another page. Feel free to catalog all the things you find fault with. I bet you that the number will be the same minus or plus five percent. The only thing that has changed is the mentality of the individual that has become frustrated by a topic they dislike.
