Backhanded compliments

[ashling]

I bring this up as a result of, what else, my trip to GD.

A OP said he had called Rep. King and made a particular comment.

A response started out with "If you you really did this" and then a complimentary statement about the substance of the remark. They could have just given the compliment, but felt obligated to question the actuality of the OP.

Against my better judgement, I asked the poster about the response


Anyway, why do people do this? (that is a rhetorical question)

[trof]

1. We are suspicious of self-aggrandizement.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. There are people who lie online,

and they assume others do, too.

That's my theory, anyway, and, yes, it's really mine .........................

[CreekDog]

3. Because they really think you know the answer

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